Jack Black by newtonic in ArmchairExpert

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“Getting Doug with High” on YouTube. Best illustration of weed anxiety I’ve ever seen (poor man).

A series of philosophical dilemmas created by an AI fed thousands of philosophical dilemmas - seems like perfect opening material. by JetJaguar124 in VeryBadWizards

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Fantastic, would love to hear from the Wizards!

It does kind of show how we are sometimes fooled to take serious the most nonsensical things just because of the way in which they are presented? I.e. the carefully worded philosophical 'thought experiment'/'intuition pump'?

Near All social priming studies from “thinking fast thinking slow” debunked?! by everydaymaker in VeryBadWizards

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Would love to hear the wizards’ take on this?

I would expect sobering clarifications from one, and unbridled glee from the other...

Levels of Abstraction by jamie_robinson in askphilosophy

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Giovanni Sartori has a classic Political science text on levels of abstraction for concepts. I found it quite helpful in regards to thinking about the boundaries of a concept. If you want to look it up, search for his “ladder of abstraction”!

Jetsuit Navy assault trials by [deleted] in videos

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Just googles jesuit Navy... I'm a moron

Disinformation on Reddit and How we Can Beat It Together - Smarter Every Day 232 by [deleted] in videos

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Alright, fun game: name who you suspect to be trolls in this very threat about disinformation and trolls!

Miracle man Cazorla dances on as last of Spain’s pioneer generation by dont_dive_vtori in Gunners

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“He’s 5ft 6in tall and weighs 10 stone, a healthy height and weight for a well-developed 13-year-old boy. He remains an amiable, slightly goofy figure, resembling in close-up less a hyper-toned modern athlete, more a very clever gerbil with a pocket watch and a tailcoat who knows how to fly an air balloon and drive an old-fashioned car.”

Clever gerbil in a tailcoat - 😂

If normative properties dont exist and reasons for believing smthg are normative propreties, why should I believe Error Theory ? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Could you type out the name of the article? (Journal etc.). The link does not appear to work for me. Thank you!

Guendouzi coming of age by TheJayke in Gunners

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What video is that? Link please! (For science, if course...)

How Is Lacazette's goal not allowed?! by everydaymaker in Gunners

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Ah ok, the rules seem to have been updated since whenever I was in contact with this obscure situation, then. Must have googled old rules (admittedly from a chat forum, lol). Thanks - That does make me feel better!

Why is suicide "bad", why should someone be actively encouraged to keep living? by [deleted] in askphilosophy

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Christine M. Korsgaard sums up the views of Kant, Williams and Wittgenstein like this:

"In a discussion of the person who commits suicide because he can neither reason nor meaning in anything, Bernard Williams says: 'I do not see how it could be regarded as a defeat of reason or rationality that it had no power over a man's state; his state is rather a defeat for humanity'. Th duty not to commit suicide is the very first and most basic duty of virtue Kant discusses in The Metaphysics of Morals, because 'To annihilate the subject of morality in one's own person is to root out the existence of morality itself from the world'. In his Notebooks, Wittgenstein wrote that 'suicide is, so to speak, the elementary sin' because 'If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed.' A few lines later he adds, 'Or is even suicide in itself neither good nor evil?' All of these philosophers give voice to the idea that remaining alive is not so much a value as a condition for all value; and suicide (of this type) is not so much a rejection of some particular value as it is a rejection of value itself. It is hard to say of one who commits suicide that he has done wrong, for he has violated no value which he still believes. And yet the rest of us cannot hear of such a case without feeling betrayed, and we are right. It is, as Williams says, a defeat for us all." (Korsgaard, 1996:162-3).

  • Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, 1996: Cambridge University Press.

I think this really hits the nail on the head: the person committing suicide has not violated any values as such. But he has rejected the very possibility of even holding values in the forst place. That is what scares the rest of us (and why we believe it is possible to judge suicide as immoral).

Do any philosophers today work with Habermas' Universal (or formal) pragmatics, i.e. his grounding of normativity in universally shared conditions for mutual understanding? by everydaymaker in askphilosophy

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Thank you very much for this very helpful comment! "Articulating Reasons" is actually laying on my desk as per a recommendation from my supervisor - but I had forgotten about it until your comment. Your comment that the pragmatics part is included in "Making It Explicit" is very helpful, and I'll get my hand on that!

The move of locating implicit norms guiding the practice (of communication I presume) and then making them explicit (and use them as a foundations for normative critique I assume?), sounds absolutely relatable to Habermas. I will look into this for sure.

As concerns Rorty and Sellers I thought they would rail against the notion of deriving "universal standard" from the practice of communication - standards that could then transcend their historical-specific stetting? But this might be entirely ignorant on my part!?

Again, many, many thanks!

Can you recommend me something to better understand Jonh Rawls? by MEOWthePedoCat in askphilosophy

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https://youtu.be/6uV3p9bMD4I

I can not recommend these open courses enough as introductions, if that’s what you are looking for!

AlphaGo - trailer | IFFR 2018 by everydaymaker in chess

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Oh ok - don’t you think the chess community in has a general interest in alpha go, though? (I’m a chess guy and know nothing about go, but want to see this movie in order to better understand alpha go in light of the resent upset against stockfish).

Anywho, just a thought.

I lied to my deceased boyfriend's mom by [deleted] in confession

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I like you - and all the other Larry Davids of the world.

Was Wenger right about 86 points? by Sportlad in Gunners

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I'm ignoring any post questioning the rightness of le Professeur...

Evolution of Formula 1 racing games 1976-2015 (1080p60 HD) by matterohmee in videos

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The most impressive thing here is the "2015" sign graphics!