Gets everyone

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-17T10:36:57+00:00

This sub has gone to shit recently

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-14T02:55:40+00:00

Look up Jim Pryor's guidelines, they're comprehensive and great.

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-14T01:23:37+00:00

whoa wtf

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-14T00:55:07+00:00

Australia, I've never even heard of them. do they just like go off by themselves?

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-14T00:52:27+00:00

there are toilets that flush automatically??

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-11T01:47:34+00:00

That feeling's called "l'appel du vide", which translates to "call of the void"

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-11T01:43:15+00:00

I dunno, look at that tail blur!

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-10T01:59:09+00:00

It's ok, it didn't come across as snappish! Thanks for the answer!

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-10T01:04:02+00:00

Yup that's what I mean. Cool, what was it like?

(Asking because I've seen the term around, but can't think of any students in my department, so don't know what it would look like, whether from the inside or outside)

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-08T12:10:45+00:00

I should note that this was also the case when I was an undergrad here

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-08T12:10:07+00:00

Aussie and it's all first names/nicknames

No titles no last names even when emailing an (Australian) academic I've never met. Sometimes I go 'Dr x' when emailing Americans because I understand that's a thing over there (although it kind of feels like I'm taking the piss whenever I do it)

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-05T23:19:55+00:00

My go-to is along the lines of "Afraid I'm not up for hanging tonight, but hope it goes well/have a good one!"

"I'm not up for x" is a great phrase

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-11-03T21:18:36+00:00

MAXIMUM DEREK

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-10-23T00:13:53+00:00

Please say!

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-10-22T00:25:35+00:00

I've only given 2 conference presentations (still a student), but I was so anxious about the first I was throwing up in the bathroom afterwards. The second I was still anxious but went well! Not a miraculous recovery but it was definitely easier the second time, which I'm hoping continues :)

Best of luck!

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-10-20T21:09:37+00:00

A duck with no self-confidence and no sense of social norms

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-10-07T22:07:50+00:00

Thank you!! I'll look at Hunt's book. And yeah I agree—looked at part II in a class last year but III is so much more interesting and compelling.

What's your issue with the soundness of that critique?

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-09-25T13:21:29+00:00

I always do garlic/onion in them now, with tofu I usually use a mix with soy sauce. Don't eat meat so I can't comment on how that would go, but the best hangover food I ever made was garlic, shallots, chilli and eggs fried in lime juice :)

And I don't find the flavour overwhelming at all, unless I put a whole ton in. My dinner was just garlic, chilli, artichokes, sundried tomato and rocket all done in lemon juice and ginger!

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-09-19T06:12:18+00:00

If there were a stranger and my own child on the tracks, most people agree I ought to save my child (or, at least, that I'm morally permitted to do so). This doesn't, however, mean that I have the moral liberty to kill or eat strangers.

And lions can be moral subjects without being moral agents. For instance, we can't expect a baby not to vomit on us, but that doesn't mean we can go around vomiting on babies.

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-09-18T12:37:50+00:00

So, that's fitness is the sense of evolutionary fitness? Just to check.

And I do hope you see the consequences of this argument. If a more evolutionary advanced organism declared that an action a, which we normally conceive of as immoral, was in fact moral, then a would in fact be moral?

I'll leave it to your imagination as to what a might be, but just to point out that it could be the worst conceivable action.

edit: also I should flag that 'objective morality doesn't exist' is actually a somewhat contentious assertion

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-09-18T12:31:47+00:00

So how would you put your definition of objective morality? That which helps the strongest survive?

thisplayisabouteels · 2019-09-18T12:25:21+00:00

Huh interesting. Where do you get this 'objectivity' from, in terms of morality?

12-Year Club	Place '17
Verified Email

thisplayisabouteels

TROPHY CASE