This really cool, huge image of a peasant woman with a chicken in her arms is just around the corner from me.
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Love of wisdom The most general definition of philosophy is ‘the most general and comprehensive type of inquiry’. What is inquiry? Let’s say, ‘the attempt to say what is true and why’; which is to say ‘what is true, must be justified by reasons and/or evidence’. Philosophy leaves nothing out, except for the particulars that […]
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Here is a short essay by Zeynep Direk on some concepts from Simone De Beaviour, please feel free to comment on it here.
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I live in the UK, which is a sort of socialist/capitalist mix, but over recent years, it has started to become more and more capitalist. Work As a child and in my teens, my father and the rest of my family for that matter, would drill the capitalist work ethic into me. I was taught […]
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Sentences have propositions in them but sentences are not identical to propositions. If I say ‘the bottle is on the table’ that is a sentence with a proposition, which can be said in another language, or in a different way – ‘the table is positioned underneath a bottle’. Possible worlds are full of propositions, but propositions […]
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Generally, we explain phenomena as being a ’cause and effect’ system where correlations imply causation. What other alternatives are there to this model? Here are a few I have been exploring recently: Constraint and limitation Response Reaction Emergence Are you aware of any others?
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Do you think these two philosophers have much in common? They both despise Plato and his abstract philosophy, Nietzsche’s story of the madman has elements of the story of Diogenes walking through a marketplace holding a lamp in the day time looking for a honest man. Diogenes was very in touch with the natural world […]
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Unlike in the past, today’s focus is on academic philosophy rather than what I call Socratic philosophy or an authentic quest for truth. This causes me to wonder about the future of meaningful philosophy, a philosophy that changes the life of the inquirer as opposed to playing intellectual gymnastics. Thanks to academic philosophy, most see […]
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Wittgenstein asserts that claims like “here is a hand” or “the world has existed for more than five minutes” have the form of empirical propositions but that in fact they have more in common with logical propositions. That is, these sorts of propositions may seem to say something factual about the world, and hence be […]
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What is game theory? Game theory is the study of mathematical models of conflict and cooperation between intelligent rational decision-makers. Games are used to heuristically (test methods in a controlled environment) expose possible problems in economics, sociology, law and general philosophy. It is part of Logic. Prisoners’ dilemma Prisoners’ dilemma is perhaps the most well […]