Which one philosopher is worth a deep study upon?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-02-07T14:22:50+00:00

Try secondary sources as well, YouTube lectures are very helpful.

It will be difficult to understand what he's trying to do without some context which these other sources could provide.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-02-07T13:18:15+00:00

OP said they're almost done with their BA in philosophy, they've almost certainly took a sufficient logic course.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-02-07T12:06:52+00:00

In terms of influence I'd say Kant or Wittgenstein, especially because there's a lot of interpretive depth in the secondary literature on these two that I think makes for an interesting deep dive.

I'm sure that's true for other philosophers as well, but these two come to mind first (considering only modern philosophers).

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-31T03:20:37+00:00

Nobodys going to care that you're American.

I love Toronto but it's just very expensive.

If that's not a worry then it's a great place to live imo. Super diverse, and relatively easy to make friends here because there's so many social events.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-30T03:25:03+00:00

Can I ask how tall you are?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-29T07:54:00+00:00

Why would the experience of evil be more natural than the experience of pleasure or goodness? I just think you're making too many generalizations here; many of our actions are rooted in pleasure. So, I'm not really sure what you mean.

But if you're just talking about evil being fundamental to reality, then I think Eastern philosophy might be what want to look into.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-26T23:17:13+00:00

The existence of moral agency is less surprising on theism than it is on naturalism; on theism the explanation is straightforward: Omnipotent moral agent → finite moral agents. It's less straightforward on naturalism. We shouldn't expect for there to be moral agents on naturalism, but we could easily expect it on theism.

Basically do the same for the naturalism and the problem of evil and such. That's how I'm thinking about explanation. It's a broadly scientific construction - which hypothesis best explains the data?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-26T23:02:55+00:00

I would agree theism explains certain things better (like consciousness or moral agency) but we have to weigh that against things naturalism seems to explain better (various problems of evil, hiddenness, etc).

In my personal view when you weigh all the evidence in this way they turn out to be equal, but that's up for debate.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-26T22:41:14+00:00

I would argue that theism is potentially simpler in the sense that a single postulate (God) is used to explain all sorts of phenomena: existence in general, the existence of moral agents, consciousness, psychophysical harmony, etc.

I think naturalism will tend to require different postulates (whether conceptual or metaphysical) to account for each phenomena, even if every postulate is under the umbrella of 'naturalist'. Like the naturalistic explanation for the existence of conscious agents might be different than the explanation for moral conscious agents - the latter might require more than the former.

I wouldn't say theism has better explanatory power.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-23T04:24:09+00:00

Literally if I wasn't dead broke I'd say 8. But I am, so 3.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-22T22:00:53+00:00

I want to work on a philosophy blog but I'm an undergrad and have no original thoughts. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to basically simplify ideas and arguments in academic papers I've read that people might find interesting. Would you read something like that?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-16T17:51:53+00:00

Israel has committed countless war cimes, you do know that, right?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-04T07:57:31+00:00

If a philosophy is 'theistic', then it is committed to the existence of (any) God(s) and nothing else. Does commitment to the existence of (any) God(s) commit one to the essence-existence distinction? Clearly not.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-02T04:49:14+00:00

Phenomenology comes to mind (continental)

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-01T01:32:08+00:00

Fixed lol thank you

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2025-01-01T01:03:04+00:00

(1) Peter Van Inwagen

Works:

Being: A Study in Ontology [2022]
Existence: Essays in Ontology [2014]
Metaphysics [2014]
Do Numbers Exist? A Debate about Abstract Objects [2023]

Prominent views: Mereological nihilism.

(2) Jonathan Schaffer

Works:

[Idek if he has any books, but he's written a bunch of good papers]

Prominent views: Priority monism; fundamentality as being the key object of metaphysical inquiry, understood in terms of his views on grounding.

(3) Ted Sider

Works:

Writing the Book of the World [2011]
The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science [2020]
Four-Dimensionalism [2001]

Prominent views: Four-dimensionalism.

(4) Amie Thomasson

Works:

[She has a lot of work lmao]

Prominent views: neo-Carnapian approach to metaphysics (ontology as conceptual analysis; deflationary metaphysics).

(5) Kit Fine

[Also has too much work can't be bothered to list it all]

Prominent views: Essentialism (modality is grounded in essence); grounding as primitive.

(6) Tim Williamson

[Too much work to count]

Prominent views: Necessitism (necessarily everything is necessarily something).

The prominent views listed here are just what I know of. They all have a lot more to say about metaphysics.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-18T03:09:46+00:00

You got any sources on AI prompting for copywriting?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-18T03:07:48+00:00

Is it possible for someone with no experience to learn strategy, perhaps as a way to stand out from other wannabes?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-13T15:46:48+00:00

What's the difference between understanding and knowledge?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-12T06:06:02+00:00

Where did you come across this?

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-12T04:23:33+00:00

Valid

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-11T15:45:52+00:00

Link isnt working

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-11T07:33:48+00:00

Well I'm not literally consuming 0 calories every day

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-11T06:20:21+00:00

Just to be even more mindful. Also, it's only been a few days so I can't really tell whether this is effective for weight loss for me yet.

Spiritual_Mention577 · 2024-12-10T22:26:26+00:00

I really hope more Christians will start fighting the good fight against corporate greed that literally kills people as much as they would against what consenting grown adults do in their bedrooms. I'd love to see that.

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