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What are the arguments for maximising total utility as opposed to average utility?
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Does modern philosophy believe in solipsism?
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What is the difference between epistemic and ontological when it comes to special relativity?
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How do I start studying Mathematical Logic?
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Is it possible to define ‘left’ and ‘right’ (spatial direction) without referring to human beings or animals?
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Can free will exist in principle if one can return to a past moment and choose otherwise?
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Can AI be a philosopher? [closed]
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Does Nietsche discuss the greek notion of hubris in any of his works?
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Is there any tradition to stay without God (not about atheism)? [closed]
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Do we have the same duty to future generations?
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What is the point of knowing whether we are in a simulation or not?
Awarded Apr 7 at 4:07
What does "pre-predicative" mean in the context of Husserl's Cartesian Meditations <52>?
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What would a possible solution to the hard problem of consciousness look like?
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Does something being causal require that it be the sole cause?
Awarded Apr 5 at 14:03
Is Plato contradicting himself in the Republic?
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Fundamental equations in Philosophy and Logic
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“Give something a name, and it becomes a thing.”
Awarded Apr 4 at 7:48
Is instantaneous causation logically possible?
Awarded Apr 3 at 17:38
In the "philosophy of action" what is the difference between an "intention" and a "volition"
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Is it necessary/possible to prove that facts exist?
Awarded Apr 3 at 16:28
How was Edmund Husserl viewed among the mathematical community in the late 19th/early 20th centuries?
Awarded Apr 2 at 21:48
Does fallibilism extend to logic?
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Name for "P → (Q→P)"
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Flaw in Wittgenstein's "Big Book" experiment?
Awarded Apr 1 at 8:19
Churchill said that democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the rest. So if democracy is the least worst, how can it be improved? [closed]
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Art of War: Do not criticize your enemies? [closed]
Awarded Mar 31 at 20:13
According to Kant, Is it ethical to prevent someone acting unethically against ones self?
Awarded Mar 31 at 18:40
Master morality vs slave morality
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Are there better terms to translate Present-at-hand and Ready-to-hand?
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Was Socrates of the belief that knowledge was attainable after death?
Awarded Mar 31 at 11:37
Is Human Moral Responsibility Arbitrary If We’re Part of Nature Like Other Animals?
Awarded Mar 30 at 4:56
If the death penalty is wrong because "what if the convicted was innocent", then isn't any punishment wrong? [closed]
Awarded Mar 29 at 21:06
Hume and the notion of causation
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Has Spinoza been disproved by modern physics?
Awarded Mar 29 at 2:49
Is there a term for the position "no determinism but no free will"?
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Even if god exists, why would it be possible to establish existence by argument? [closed]
Awarded Mar 28 at 17:27
Does omniscience necessarily entail omnipotence?
Awarded Mar 28 at 13:36
Please explain Wittgenstein's views on ethics?
Awarded Mar 28 at 5:02
Why are non-logical predicates of 0-arity treated as logical variables?
Awarded Mar 27 at 21:43
If a person maintains health and vitality over an above-average time span, what about the human psyche, does it track outward vitality?
Awarded Mar 26 at 22:08
name and validity of argument that observing (P & Q) implies there is evidence of (P implies Q)?
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What is the difference between "Continental liberalism", "English liberalism", and "Old Whiggism"?
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What changes constantly but always stays the same? [closed]
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Are there any philosophers who clearly define the word "consciousness" in their arguments?
Awarded Mar 24 at 17:08
Trying to understand koan, Buddhist philosophy
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What do I need to know before I can read Categories by Aristotle?
Awarded Mar 22 at 10:38
Scientists do not know why speed of light is the same for all observers? [closed]
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Heidegger - how does the present-at-hand become ready-to-hand?
Awarded Mar 21 at 18:11
What are the relations between externalism (Kripke, Putnam) and holism (Quine) about meaning?
Awarded Mar 21 at 17:45
Why can't we just say the Liar Sentence doesn't express a proposition?
Awarded Mar 20 at 21:20
Ontic structural realism: what's the difference between 'structures are all there is' and 'all there is are structures'?
Awarded Mar 20 at 15:06
Why do people dislike being deceived?
Awarded Mar 19 at 15:03
What is the difference between non existence and existence outside of space and time?
Awarded Mar 19 at 11:56
Is consciousness (as we perceive it) what really separates us from animals?
Awarded Mar 19 at 10:57
What does "A violent man does not die a natural death" mean?
Awarded Mar 19 at 6:08
The Notion of Objectivity
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What is the difference between missing the point and the false cause fallacy?
Awarded Mar 18 at 22:52
Is there any reason to believe that there are things which science cannot tell us?
Awarded Mar 18 at 22:10
Did Malebranche believe both the idea in the mind and the movement in the body are caused by God?
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What are the philosophical consequences of the undecidability of the spectral gap in quantum theory?
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