philosophy

My MSc thesis from 2016 critically evaluating the solution to the Ship of Thesis problem which denies that there ever was a ship to begin with (mereological nihilism). (drive.google.com)

TW: Undergraduate Essay on Edgy Topic

Hi all, I wrote this a few days ago for , and had my initial line of argument rejected by the professor, so this is the second attempt. I struggled to write it, because if I don’t really believe something it is extremely difficult to write convincingly about it. After a long afternoon of revising though, my feelings are mixed....

Heidegger in ruins? Grappling with an anti-semitic philosopher and his troubling rebirth today (theconversation.com)

Daniel Dennett (1942-2024) (dailynous.com)

Not as deep?

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Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays (lemmy.ca)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/18659491...

Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell? (arstechnica.com)

Some words

Attack on Titan and existentialism

This post contains spoilers from the finale....

How Alan Watts Re-imagined Religion Desire and Life Itself (aeon.co)

“Informing them … that the ideals into which their parents and teachers had indoctrinated them were, by comparison, empty. Life did not have to be ‘about’ something or ‘going’ somewhere, any more than the point of playing or listening to a Bach prelude was to get to the end as quickly and efficiently as possible.”

Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt (www.middleeasteye.net)

If Morality Exists Everything Is Permitted (www.youtube.com)

Philosophy professor Hans-Georg Moeller, author of The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality and other works.

Is there any good book (or online resources ) to learn about determinism or fatalism?

Whether you like this idea or not, do you have any recommendations? I’m kind of believer of those two ideas but I’m willing to be corrected. That’s why I need some resources.

Is the matter in question good, or bad? Ponderings (ia800204.us.archive.org) Dutch

A statslist after one dies would be cool

I so.etimes think it would be cool to get detailed stats on what a person did in his or her whole life. Like what effect the butterfly effect had....

Does Intrinsic Value Exist?

I’m new in this community. Anyone interested in engaging with these sorts of questions? If so, share your thoughts....

Western Philosophy vs Eastern Philosophy

How wrong am i if i say western philosophy strips man from nature and eastern philosophy encourage man to live with nature? Wrong or absolutely wrong or Absurd ?

Alexandr Dugin's absurd mysticism, or why sounding deep does not make you wise (criticalresist.substack.com)

Is the Hard Problem Really So Hard? (nautil.us)

with artistic training or brain stimulation we could look beneath the intrinsic nature of qualia to see the raw associations that make them up, just as a musician hears the individual components in what, to most fans, is a wall of sound. “It should be possible to experience parts of those underlying structures directly, just...