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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.
Now, ...
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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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Science as a counterexample to Hume's ideas on Causality and The Problem of Inference?
Hume seems to believe that inference, which is the derivation of a novel set of facts from a given one, must be based on causality, and that causality cannot be arrived at via propositions that fall ...
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Can consciousness be formalized as the ratio of true beliefs to the total complexity of an object’s description?
The premise is that any object—whether physical, abstract, or social—can be uniquely defined by a minimal set of true statements. This total description has a measurable complexity (in bits, ...
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Is morality falsifiable?
I was having a conversation with a friend and I was trying to argue that there is no point in asking questions that are unfalsifiable. My friend objected that humans constantly ask what the morally ...
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Argument against Necessitarianism from existence in time?
While i tried building an argument for Necessitarianism, I thought that temporal existence makes necessaties imposible by defenition. Necessitarianism claims that everything that is, is necessary, but ...
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Does Nietzsche's concept of overman make any sense whatsoever?
Based on my understanding, Nietzsche's controversial overman is not a biological concept. He does not say that humans will evolve into a new superior biological species with enhanced mental ...
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Where should one start with Carnap?
I recently got interested in Quine, and that in turn made me want to start reading Carnap.
I think he was an extremely arrogant man, just based on the stupidity he said about Heidegger's philosophy, ...
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Which philosopher was the first to come up with the “god brings more questions than answers” retort?
One of the best arguments against god to my eyes is the idea that god doesn’t really answer whatever it is you are trying to explain, but rather just brings more questions as to how or why that god ...
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How, Why do we Experience Time?
The question further is do we experience "Time" or "Passage of Time"?! To move through Time I don't need to move through Space, but even when I am sitting completely still ...
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Argument against Reflective Equilibrium regarding the Problem of the Criterion
I am attempting to write on why reflective equilibrium isn't a solution or proposed alternative to the classical responses to the PoC syllogism of Particularism, Methodism, or Skepticism. I want to ...
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How Quine’s epistemology be both part of psychology and of abstract philosophy?
Quine states that epistemology is part of psychology. It should use the methods and the results of psychology.
Yet at the same time he states that philosophy (which is concerned by both epistemology ...
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What logic is used in statements of fact, and statements of opinion?
The concepts of fact and opinion are the foundations for reasoning. What rules are used in a statement of fact, and what rules are used in a statement of opinion (like opinion on beauty)?
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Can something exist halfway?
Traditionally, either something exists or it does not. But could there exist something that is between existence and non-existence - e.g. if we take an existence function that returns 0 when something ...
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Is there something inauthentic about committed integrity?
How does committed integrity mean having already made up my mind, when faced with challenges, which seems inauthentic?
A person is subject to many conflicting desires. If one simply acted
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Is Nietzsche’s concept of nihilism a form of dialectical thinking, and how does it differ from or relate to Hegelian dialectics?
Nietzsche is widely recognized for his exploration of nihilism, particularly the "death of God" and the resulting collapse of absolute values. While Nietzsche never systematized a ...
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Is consciousness just an illusion?
If consciousness is merely the product of complex brain processes and chemical reactions, can it truly be said to exist independently of the physical brain? If the mind is purely a byproduct of the ...
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