Ok people, am really interested in philosophy but don't know were to start can anyone recommend some titles to read? thanks
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I've looked at a few of his lectures on youtube and what got me into watching him, were the "sort yourself out and clean your room!" snippets of self-help, that had been isolated from some of his lectures where he's diverted on a tangent and tells his audience how to deal with someone who needs structure in their lives to…
Proponents of the theistic fine tuning argument and opponents of the multiverse hypothesis argue that, while the multiverse might explain why some universe is fine tuned, it doesn't explain why this particular universe is fine tuned. The argument goes thus: under naturalism, the probability of (any) universe having…
We have been discussing the possibility of starting a philosophy club at our local library. To discuss philosophies and philosophers with interested community members in our small town. Have you had experience participating in such a club? Any advice?
Forgive the clickbait title, but that's the title I used for the youtube video (apparently it's a rule that you have to put the word "debunking" in video titles). The video outlines the following argument: The Inverse Gambler's Fallacy (IGF) objection, raised by theistic proponents of the fine tuning argument, moves the…
“Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good…
Bill Hicks: "Today, a young man on acid realized all matter is nothing but energy condensed into a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing ourselves subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. We aren't experiencing life, life is…
Please post your short snippet of wisdom here. Preferably something you have learned from personal experience. To start things off, here is my abreviated contribution: Think long term and big picture.
This is the paper I wrote on fine tuning. I figure I'll post it here and if anyone has any feedback, it might be helpful when it comes to trying to get it published. This paper attempts to demonstrate why the theistic Fine Tune Argument (FTA) fails. However, if the key assumption of the FTA is granted, it is possible to…
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