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In applied ethics, there is perhaps one great question. Why do good people, do bad things? To be clear, the point of the question is not to define "good" or to go down a moral relativistic rabbit hole. Rather, every day there are people who do things that are bad but many of them, if you ...

There are not two times. The mistake is to imagine change and the things that change are truly real. This leads us to reify time and space.

I'll never get this, and I've even read Woit's excellent book about it.

The speed of light is one light year per year. So E=M.

No?

I would suggest reading Hermann Weyl on the continuum, noting in particular his distinction between the 'arithmetical' and 'intuitive' continuum.

I would listen to them unless they start talking nonsense (as usual).

But you do not give me this option.

Some physicists are better philosophers than most philosophers, so the title of the poll could be 'When physicists and philosophers start talking...'

Does this spreadsheet have some purpose?

If so, what?

Here is my summary of the Alan Watts contextual seminar of Do You Do It Or Does It Do You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbcanJOd3sU One has to be unusual stupid in order to take this vid seriously! What he says is pure nonsense and babble, and the really big bomb comes when he says we can't exis...

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I picked up this book at a used book store a while back. Made the mistake of reading the first chapter I sympathise. and then putting it down for a while. So needless to say, I'm back to re-reading the chapter. Well, you've only yourself to blame. Anyone else currently reading this book or already ...

On the other hand, I suppose there are still wild hypothetical scenarios or thought experiments we can concoct in our minds to validate a kind of Cartesian solipsism, regardless. For example, I might think that everyone else around me is some sort of dream I'm having (or maybe a hologram) or perhap...

In order to get to know Western thinking you'd need to read quite a few books, many of which are only worth reading for this reason. In order to get to know philosophy Russell is good for being clear and accessible. His 'Problems' is a helpful summary. But he never understood much. I always recommen...

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:46 pm

vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Tue Feb 18, 2020 5:45 am 'Dialogue'. 'Dialog' looks ridiculous.

To you.

And me.

I personally found it to be rather convoluted and disconnected and as a consequence its central theme is hard to follow And so you would not be missing out on the so called magic whichever language you read it in but thats just my opinion Yes. I'm not sure it has any value, I may have missed the po...

Each of these examples provides a good conversation primer for the material but even the ones that aren't purest bullshit are terrible reading and not very good philosophy. What does it take to get a "popular philosophy" book published that isn't quantum blah-blah checkmate or a middle-sc...

If someone can pay for someone else's sins (much less give them a nature that inevitably results in sin), the idea of responsibility is impossible. If responsibility is impossible, ethics is impossible. If ethics is impossible, the original contention can only be judged useful or not by individuals...