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- Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:54 pm
- Forum: General Philosophical Discussion
- Topic: Reading suggestions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2549
- Mon Apr 08, 2013 2:51 pm
- Forum: Political Philosophy
- Topic: Margaret Thatcher, R.I.P.
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9280
Re: Margaret Thatcher, R.I.P.
If you can't say anything nice then don't say anything at all...
- Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:24 am
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: The Darwinian Mob
- Replies: 95
- Views: 34943
Re: The Darwinian Mob
Darwin's claim that all life arose from a primordial single organism into which "life was breathed", is poppycock. There is still no known mechanical or naturalistic explanation as to how life started. The latter is demonstrably false: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_expe...
- Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:04 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Science and philosophy fiction.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3529
Re: Science and philosophy fiction.
Olaf Stapledon wrote two of the greatest sci-fi books ever written and his day job was in a philosophy department.
- Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:02 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
- Replies: 37
- Views: 13588
Re: Vegtarian posses a dilemma for fellow vegetarians
I don't see the dilemma. Nothing about vegetarianism forces you to eat the baby. The fact that vegetarians value other animal life higher than meat-eaters does not mean that they value animal life simpliciter . Questions of respect for human life, societal norms, revulsion, self-loathing would clear...
- Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:24 am
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: New Atheists and Old Atheists
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6559
Re: New Atheists and Old Atheists
I am an atheist but I'm not keen on the new atheists and I certainly agree that their is a whiff of the totalitarian about them, particularly with Dawkins. Advances in science and its ability to explain phenomena previously falling under privileged religious explanations have understandably led them...
- Mon Oct 22, 2012 2:43 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Greetings forum
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2157
Re: Greetings forum
Welcome to the asylum!
- Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:35 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Mary Daly
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3536
Re: Mary Daly
Mainstream theologian dislikes radical theologian. News just in...dog bites man. The most disturbing thing about all of this is that a tenured academic thought it appropriate to offer derogatory views on a former colleague to someone who wrote him a letter. That the colleague in question is no longe...
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:27 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Science
- Topic: Dawkins on "Why we are here"
- Replies: 31
- Views: 12945
Re: Dawkins on "Why we are here"
In Aristotle's taxonomy of explanations in terms of 4 basic kinds of cause, evolution ticks three out of four boxes. It provides a material, formal and efficient cause of why we are here. However, as others have pointed out, it fails to consititute a final cause because it does not explain our aim o...
- Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:26 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Hawking contra Philosophy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5572
Re: Hawking contra Philosophy
Why are scientists dismissive of philosophy? I don't think they are. They are however dismissive of philosophers! It would be easier for scientists to take philosophy seriously if philosophers would take time out to think about issues collaboratively (as scientists are accustomed) to rather than tr...
- Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:47 pm
- Forum: Articles in Philosophy Now
- Topic: Hawking contra Philosophy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5572
Re: Hawking contra Philosophy
This article by Norris includes a disastrous misinterpretation of Thomas Kuhn, as a relativist. For rebuttal, see for instance my book, KUHN. Perhaps. But he is not alone in this reading of Kuhn. One only has to think of his influence on SSK. This is also Rorty's idiosyncratic interpretation of Kuh...
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 3:15 pm
- Forum: Book Club
- Topic: Animals in the Third Reich by Boria Sax
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3421
Re: Animals in the Third Reich by Boria Sax
You think vegetarians are evil!?He was totally evil. That would include being a vegetarian and an animal rights activist to me.
- Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:28 am
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: philosophy of mathematics
- Replies: 82
- Views: 37112
Re: philosophy of mathematics
Lovely stuff.
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:44 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: philosophy of mathematics
- Replies: 82
- Views: 37112
Re: philosophy of mathematics
Toot-and-come-in!
(I'm trying to cheer up Chaz. He seems to be a bit grumpy at the moment and I know he likes jokes about Ancient Egypt.)
(I'm trying to cheer up Chaz. He seems to be a bit grumpy at the moment and I know he likes jokes about Ancient Egypt.)
- Wed Oct 26, 2011 1:50 pm
- Forum: Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics
- Topic: philosophy of mathematics
- Replies: 82
- Views: 37112
Re: philosophy of mathematics
How do you use an Ancient Egyptian doorbell?