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How do theories of moral luck or determinism challenge the idea of merit-based judgment?
I’ve been thinking about how often people are judged as “better” or “worse” based on what they’ve achieved or how they’ve acted, without much consideration of the circumstances that shaped them.
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Are there "levels" of reality in physics or is everything just reductive and explainable by just appealing to quantum physics? [closed]
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tPqQdLCuxanjhoaNs/reductionism#vM59Y3K2ki6sSvAxu
Simply put the link is suggesting that what we call levels is really just simplified models to help us navigate reality....
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Why do so few humans grasp true stress freedom? [closed]
Complexity of so called modern life is no excuse. Do you enjoy the luxury of a hot shower of a morning? Need I go on?
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Can the whole have regularities represented by physical laws but not the parts?
In science, we seem to have laws that apply to groups of things but not the individual things themselves. Some have used this to suggest that in some sense, the “whole” is more fundamental than the ...
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What are promises, and how do they differ from async/await? [closed]
I've been learning JavaScript for 2 months and have some questions about Promise and Async/Await.
I still wasn't clear on the difference between Promise and Async/Await in asynchronous JavaScript and ...
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Philosophers and Thinkers against Christian morality
I am specifically looking for philosophers who have argued against the Christian doctrines of self-sacrifice, turn the other cheek and 'love your neighbour as thyself' and other such teachings of ...
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What defines the Boundary of a Moment? [closed]
I was thinking about Moment, can a Moment lie in past and present and future. Maybe, but doesn't look that way intuitively, so there must be boundary to Moment. What does that boundary look like? Does ...
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What would be the response to this (epistemological) critic on evolutionary psychology?
The question concerns evolutionary psychology (EP) in the context of evolutionary epistemology. Quine, but also Plantinga and other methodological naturalists stem their justification of knowledge ...
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Does Fitch's knowability paradox weakly support an old-school Platonic theory of knowledge?
The knowability paradox is a simple logical problem whereby if all truths can be known, then all truths are known. So, it seems as if not all truths are knowable, or that is the common refrain.
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Quantitative assessment of the most well-cited philosopher in the Western philosophy canon
The classic quote (citation: Internet) from Alfred North Whitehead states:
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical
tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to ...
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Serious challenges to materialism or physicalism?
I'm a materialist and a physicalist myself, in general and about consciousness in particular. I find both very, very depressing, but frankly uncontestable.
I am, however, wondering whether there are ...
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What philosophies influenced Ayn Rand's Objectivism
What prior philosophies did Ayn Rand build upon to construct Objectivism? I know about aristotelian, and platonism helped make it but I cant find which of their principles did? furthermore I don't ...
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Can more than one attribute be predicated in a syllogism?
Hey guys back again looking for some help. I'm trying to create a syllogism but I'm getting stuck at my minor premises because they seem to be compound propositions. For e.g. in this argument "...
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What is different between Moment and Time? [closed]
I am trying to wrap my head around Time. As I was looking at Time, it can be looked at in two ways:
A "Moment", a point in the flow and
The flow, collection of Moments, Time.
Although both ...
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How'd we know if the speed of time changes? [closed]
I was watching some documentary and in it there was a mention of, "time passes at constant speed 1sec/sec". A Question came to my Mind, can time change speed and how'd we know if it did.
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