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Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:13 am

Interesting that the article was written some 27 years ago. I wonder how the author would view political correctness now. It certainly hasn't gone away. If anything it has become more entrenched and become mainstream normality.

I'll ask him, if you like.

I can remove threads, and sometimes have. I'm pretty sure I didn't delete that one, though. If I had, that action would probably show up anyway in the log that AMod consulted. (At least, I think it would - not 100% certain about that). Like AMod says, there will probably be a new moderator/ass-kicke...

No relation at all, I'm afraid. :) In the 1990s I had an admin job for a few years in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. One of the lecturers there, Dr Chris Hughes, was on the editorial board of a scholarly journal (Mind, I think) and had been communicating with David Lewis about ...

Hi Luxin, and welcome!

No relation at all, I'm afraid. :) In the 1990s I had an admin job for a few years in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. One of the lecturers there, Dr Chris Hughes, was on the editorial board of a scholarly journal (Mind, I think) and had been communicating with David Lewis about a...

From memory, Bill Bryson in his book "Mother Tongue" speculates that Yankees is derived from the Dutch "Jan Kees" meaning "John Cheese", apparently the name of a sort of stock character in Dutch culture. If correct, this would mean that the word Yankees dates back to the time of the Dutch colonies i...

Not much gender philosophy in here. I mean there is some, but not very much at all. So I'm moving this thread to the Lounge.

Thanks for the colour advice. I would just point out that US news reports about American politics often talk about red states and blue states. The "blue states" are the ones that tend to vote Democrat, while the "red states" are the ones that habitually vote Republican - ie they are the more right w...

Hello Anne,

Welcome to the forum!

Dr. Abimbola, the singular of 'phenomena' is 'phenomenon'. I resent your winning a PhD and not using proper English. I must leap to the defence of the excellent Dr Abimbola. That error may well have been mine. The article in question dates from 1993. Back then, very few people submitted articles to...

Welcome, Iolo. I vaguely recalled that Plato suggested in The Republic that philosophy was only for those over the age of fifty. So I checked the text at http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.mb.txt but this is the nearest I could find to him saying that: And how long is this stage of their lives t...

Yes, it was the Illuminati. Actually no, we didn't spot the problem, partly because the site happened to be going down during the night (UK time). Then our webmaster Bora spotted the very useful posts in this thread, describing the problem. Then the site went down again for a couple of hours today, ...

Some follow-up or closure for those hapless ones of the site (including myself) who could not attend would be nice. A description, maybe a few anecdotes, then some anti-dotes to the anecdotes would be nice. And the speeches, the biggest thing that everyone walked away with. Or not. SOMETHING fer cr...