Philosophy Now Forum

I write to permeate my thoughts and writing here on this forum helps me knowing someone is reading it As I suspected, your motives are entirely selfish. People might be reading it but they ain't understanding a word of it - and you don't even care. Another thing, how does other people reading it he...

Barbara, the sport of fantastic and lawless visions. Your writings are lawless, they are - lawlessness is the exact thing I charge you with. Now I have no doubt that you are noble and passionate, poetic and beautiful of spirit- I even enjoy the Delphic wildness of your ecstatic pronouncements on the...

Barbara, Koy asked you a fairly straightforward question. He is interested why you consider study to be a noble activity, and whether nobility is an inherent or emergent property of study. All interesting ground to cover. You replied thus: The noble person subjects the beast to the gentleperson; the...

I agree SGR, also the UV ends of the spectrum are preferentially absorbed by space particles. Therefore, the further the distance, the more matter in between here and there, the more UV is absorbed, the more IR is represented. In other words, red shift has nothing to do with the Doppler effect and t...

I thought he'd caught the plague but my wife thought he was shot on the beach. There does seem to be a lot of mystery surrounding this man

Mark,

I agree with you on this, but do you think our ability to perceive Truth transcends incomsurability on must we always search under lamp posts?

Nick

the rationale for the consumer is to get what they need/want at the lowest price - not at the highest ethical standard. Not true. Ethical standards is a good example of a value that can be attached to a commodity even within a capitalist system. In my family we pay a premium for organic fairly trad...

He was found with a train ticket for the exact same journey he was making by road. This fact would have become famous in itself because it just shows the fateful decisions we all make.

1) The reason the technologies didn't get applied is because the consumer didn't recognise the value of them. The reason they didn't realsie the value is because there was only little urgency regarding the depletion of oil. Had the been an urgency then R&D would have commenced. 2) I referred to ...

The essence of my thoughts are being expressed in a different thread with PP, but in essence I am saying: 1) Capitalist systems entail the production and consumption of commodities deemed valuable by society. Capitalism doesn't make some things more valuable than others, we do. 2) Not all these comm...

Mark, In response to your three objections to capitalism: 1) Sustainability requires that opportunities be foregone. This assumes that capitalism of necessity brings about a dimunition of resources. Yet what, if with rising domestic fuel bills, I decide it would be more cost effective to buy a solar...

All your scientific ideas and techniques for sustainable living could easily be disseminated by capitalists looking to make a quick buck. Yes the consumer would have to be convinced, through advertising, to spend their cash on such things but that is already happening with the organic food movement....

It's very difficult in the circumstances to know what to credit as worthwhile information and what is twisted to the ends of some group interest. All information is twisted towards interest groups, and these exist no less within 'scientific' fraternities than anywhere else. You seem to want to priv...

Mark To me all this post demonstrates is the equivocal nature of the scientific evidence, yet you want to use this evidence as the founding justification for your scientific society. I think this subject is very interesting because human caused climate change is a subject that began in empirical sci...

Fantastic idea!

I think we would need a separate thread for each book review, otherwise discussion about different books will get all intermingled

If we don't start a whole new topic section called Book Reviews, thread titles will have to make it clear that it is a review and what book