List of Postings of User chrisw
The laws of nature 9-8
On immortality. 4-1 4-3 4-10
Memes 11-6 11-8 11-10 13-5 24-1 24-9 26-3 35-7 42-8 42-10 43-8 44-6 45-2 45-3
Transhumanism, could it be.... 11-8 18-2 25-10 26-4 26-6 26-8 27-5 35-4 36-6
Do you think 0.9999999~ infinite is exactly equal to 1 62-7
What evidence would make you believe in a God? 91-1 91-7
Is philosophy bullshit? 15-8 16-6 16-8 20-3 20-9
Future: Have humans stopped/slowed/changed evolution? 62-2
The Alpha Argument 3-8
What happens when we die...? 34-2
Something CAN Come From Nothing 4-7 6-4
Would a computer generated universe change the idea of God? 3-6
Turkey's secular wishes! 1-4
What is the meaning of Life? 2-9
Refuting the Omnipotence of God 13-5 18-4
Does consciousness really exist? 7-3 8-9
Violence in contemporary culture 2-6 2-8
Paradox of Nothingness 2-10
Derren Brown "Inverts Woman's Qualia" 3-2 3-7
Free Will, the Law of Disobedience, and Quantum Mechanics 1-9 2-1 3-5 3-7 4-6
Rorty 6-4 7-1
For Dr. O: Materialism: actually true or just a useful tool? 3-10 6-4 6-6 12-5 12-8 14-1 14-5 14-7 14-10 15-6 15-10 16-2 16-4 16-8 16-10 17-2 17-6 17-8 17-10 18-7 18-9 19-3 19-7 19-9 20-6 21-2 21-4 22-2 22-10 23-1 24-1 24-2
Rawls or Nozick? 2-3 2-6
Dawkins is not a atheist! 3-9 4-4 4-9 6-5
The illusion of choice. 8-10 9-4 11-3 11-5 11-7 11-10 12-3 13-10
Rise in Religiosity 1-6
Randomness vs Indeterminism 1-2 1-5 1-6
John Bolton: Europeans are thwarting the Worldbank 1-4
Moral Scepticism Is the Way To Go 2-1 2-3
What Does Dawkins Think Of William James ? 8-10
Is God in here or out there? 1-8 3-3 4-1 4-3 4-7 4-9
A priori anti-supernatural bias 1-7
shh: UE the one trick pony : here it is again 3-1
God and 'outside nature' 2-1
The Differences Between Obscurantism and the Esoteric 2-9 3-5 3-6 4-6 4-8 8-4
The universe is an "accident?" 1-7 1-9 2-5 2-9
What is Enlightenment? 3-1
Persistence of Religion vs. Prolonging of Human Life 1-3
Absurdism and its mixup with Existentialism 1-4 1-7 1-9 2-2
Solipsism Syndrome 1-5
Can we blame people for their actions? 1-10 3-1 3-5 3-9 4-7 4-10 5-3 5-5 5-9 6-2 7-6
What value do we give to the term 'philosopher' 3-10 4-4 4-5
Richard Rorty 1931-2007 1-3
Is this what passes for reason with xians? 1-3
New To Philosophy 4-9
Theological noncognitivism or ignosticism 1-7 2-3 2-9 3-6 4-7 4-9 4-10 6-1 6-5 6-9 7-1 7-3 7-5 7-7 7-9 8-5 9-9 10-1 10-6
Tolerance, conversion and begging the Q 1-4
Atheism and science are based on blind faith assumptions too 20-5 20-7 21-2 21-9 21-10 23-4 23-5 24-4 24-5 24-8 24-10 28-3 29-7 30-3 31-7 32-3 33-3 33-5 34-3 34-7 35-7 35-10 36-2 36-4 36-6 38-6 46-2 46-7 47-1 47-10 48-2 48-4 48-10 49-6 49-10 50-1 50-4 50-6 50-10 51-2 51-5 51-7 52-6 52-7 53-3 53-4 54-4 54-7 54-8 55-2 55-4 55-8 59-1 59-8 60-4 60-7 61-6 62-5 62-9 65-2 67-6 69-10 75-2 75-4 75-6 75-8
The Experience of "I" 2-4 3-5 5-7 8-4 10-10
Arbiter of Truth 3-8 3-10 4-1 4-5 4-8 4-10
Is Time Real? 3-1 6-2 7-10 12-3 12-5 13-2 13-4 14-4 14-9 15-3
In praise of Consumerism:The spiritual fruits of Materialism 1-5 1-7 1-9 2-2 2-10 6-1
The Choice. 1-7
I Am, therefore I think? 2-9
Is the Many-Worlds Hypothesis Vulnerable to Occam's Razor? 3-2 3-10 4-4 5-1 5-3 5-5 5-7
Dinesh D'Souza enters consciousness debate... 1-6
Atheism the Core of Marxism? 3-9
If it is not Materialistic, Is it Real? 1-9 2-3
The Great Divide 3-1 4-8 5-7 5-9 6-1 6-9 7-1 9-6
"Scientism". What exactly is it? 1-3 1-6 2-8
Dawkins' Infinite Regress Error 1-5 2-3 2-5 2-7 2-10 3-4 3-10
The problem of experience/consciousness 3-7
The Nietzsche Challenge 2-1 4-4 4-8 5-3 15-3 17-10
Poll: Consciousness 2-3 3-7 8-5 10-8 11-3 11-9 12-2 23-3 25-1 25-9 26-3 26-7 27-7 28-10 42-9
Essay: Existence, Materialism, and Consciousness 2-1
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Science? ... or just mathematics? 1-5 1-9
Dennett's Consciousness Explained 2-6 2-9 3-2 12-2 12-4 12-7 23-6 24-3 28-6 39-3 40-8 41-4 41-7 42-9 43-7
Jokes Philosophic and Scientific 9-7
Wittgenstein, Cognitive Science and Private Language 1-2 1-6
Was Rand Correct? 2-3 2-5
Kant, anyone? 3-2 3-6 3-9 4-1 4-3 4-9 5-4 5-6 5-10 6-5 6-7 7-1
Philosophical Biographies 1-6
whats the point of philosophy? 3-5 4-3
QM and Physicalism 2-4 3-1 3-6
WITTGENSTEIN, Rorty....and Dennett 5-1 5-3 5-4 5-9 6-1 7-8 8-1 8-3 8-7
The Zimbo: How the Problem of Consciousness Evaporates 1-3 2-8 2-10 3-7 7-6 7-8 8-1 8-3 9-5
On the connection between language and thought. 1-3
Is consciousness computable? 1-5
Knowledge begets responsibility which begets guilt 1-7 1-8 2-3
The status of the meme 2-4 2-6 2-9
What is the 'postmodern movement'? 5-2 5-5
what is freedom please 1-9 2-3 2-8 3-1 3-3 3-5 4-3
The leap of faith into absolutes 2-3
Can anyone think of a purely unselfish act? 2-10 3-4 3-7
Does monism depend on the brain being a non-classical system 1-5
Hostile artificial intelligence 2-3 2-5 2-9 3-1 3-4 3-6
Is belief a property of knowledge ? 1-10 2-6 3-3 3-9
Is it ethical to yield to majority in the expense of the few 1-6 1-10 2-7 3-1 3-8 4-1
Sustainable Planet 1-10
"Thou Art That" 1-4
A call for philosophy of science 1-9 2-1 4-3 5-4 7-9 8-10 10-8 11-10 12-2 12-6 15-4 16-9 17-9 18-5
Chinese Room Argument 1-5 1-10 4-10 5-7 6-2 6-8 8-2 9-9 10-6 11-9 12-5 13-10 16-7 17-2 17-3 17-10 18-1 18-7 21-4 27-8 27-9 28-2 31-5 31-8 32-9 32-10 33-8 34-10 35-10 36-10 38-8 38-9 39-2 39-10 40-3 40-6 40-7 42-3 42-6 42-8 44-5 46-4 46-5 46-10
Is time odd or is it just us...? 2-6
Moral Relativism 1-7 2-7 2-8 2-10 3-2 3-4 3-9 4-1 4-3 4-9 5-1 5-9 6-3 17-1 21-5 21-7 23-10 24-4
Neo-Evolution - The second step 1-3
On Morality 1-4
Gödel's incompleteness theorems? 5-3 7-1
Help me analyze "love" in my new blog, "The Selfless Gene" 1-2
Physicalism 2-5 3-4 8-4 10-8 12-10
USA Dogma 1-9
Infinity 6-7
Mind and Brain 2-9
"intelligence" of networks defined as "degree of interlacing 1-8 1-10 2-4
time and the bang 1-8 6-1
A Random Question 1-5
Probability problems (probably) 2-8
What room for artists in a money-less society? 2-2
Science, Reason and Morality 1-9 2-5
complexity v simplicity at the begining 3-7
Determinism 1-2 2-1 2-8 3-4 5-9 6-4 6-6 6-8 6-10 7-7
Do animals have rights? 2-1 2-4 2-9 3-1 3-6 3-8 4-7 4-9
Morality and Law 1-8
Sit quietly for 15 minutes each day 2-8 3-10
No evidence for God could be sufficient? 2-7
Help overcoming solipsism 6-9
Newcomb's Problem 2-5 2-7 3-6 3-9 4-5 5-2 5-4 5-5 5-7 7-2 7-5 7-8 7-10 8-3 8-10
Please Help!! I need disinfection from John Gray's Pessimism 1-3 1-8
Does this prove the existence of God? 2-5 2-9 2-10
Questions about the ME delusion 7-8 10-1 10-10 11-2 11-5 12-3 12-6
Cantor's Transfinite Numbers and the Assumption of Infinity 2-1 2-5
Imagination richer than the universe? 1-8
The Dawkins Confusion (Plantinga) 1-3 5-7 6-1 6-9 8-3 9-4 10-7 10-9 11-4 11-9 12-1 12-3
Complexity and low probability of God 1-7 2-5 2-8 3-5 3-7
Infinity. Is it just as make-belief as God? 3-7
Quick evolutionary morality question 4-4 4-9 7-1 7-3 7-6
Evolutionary Epistemology and Rational Method 1-9 2-5 3-3 3-7 4-1 4-3 4-5 4-7
What's Before Everything? 4-5
Equality versus Liberty . 2-7 2-9 4-8 5-9 6-4 6-6
Is the Brain a digital computer? 1-6 2-1 2-4 2-6 2-9 3-1 3-3 3-8 3-10
Was there always something? 3-6 3-9 4-6 4-7 5-1 5-7 5-9 6-5 6-8 6-10 7-4 7-5 8-4
What are your "irreducible" truths? 7-6 16-10 17-2 20-3
Dualism - refuted? 2-3 3-6 5-10 6-4 6-6 6-9 10-4 11-2 11-7 11-10 13-8 14-1 14-4 14-6 14-8 14-10 16-1 16-3 16-6 18-2 18-5 18-8 19-8 21-7 22-7
Artificial Intelligence. 2-7 3-1 3-4 4-2
What are the problems with existentialism? 1-5
conscious and sensing no thing 4-3
Inconsistent Beliefs? 2-5
Can the universe be conscious? 1-9
My critique of moral objectivism. 4-7 5-1 8-2 8-3 8-7
Which philosopher has most influenced you? 3-4
Will humans ever be able to create life inside a computer 1-9
cognitive closure 1-4 3-3 3-4 3-9 4-1
Logical Positivism 1-6
Science: insight v knowledge 3-9
Defining "zibble" 6-5 8-1 8-7 10-1 11-2 15-4 15-9 17-3
Dawkins sweeps Pantheism under the carpet 1-3
Transporter Thought Experiment 2-1 4-3 4-5 4-8 4-10 5-8 6-1
Are science and logic human inventions 1-4
The Number 3 12-7
Is zero even or odd or neither? 3-8 5-4
Science Wars 1-7 3-8 3-10 4-3 4-5
Dr Rowan Williams on Dawkinsian thinking 54-5 59-4 59-9 63-1 63-8
Is "agnosticism" a more tenable position? 1-8 2-4 2-9
Moral dilemmas 1-10
Does Atheism imply conscious computers? 9-9 10-1 10-8 10-10
What moral doctrine should guide our lives? 4-2
What could convince you materialism is false? 11-5 12-6
The evolutionary advantage of consciousness 4-1 4-10
Debunking NOMA 3-3 6-1 6-5 7-2 7-3 7-7
Evolution theory agnostic on origin of consciousness? 1-10
POLL: Magisteria 1-3
Evolution. Consciousness. Free Will. 19-1
The Fixation of Belief 1-10
Free will and an omniscient God 1-9 2-2 2-4 2-6 4-5 4-7 6-4 6-10 7-4 7-5 8-2 8-5 8-7 9-1 9-6
Implications of Materialism 6-2
The problem of evil 1-9 2-6
What is YOUR 'official' view on the nature of the Universe? 1-4 1-8 2-1 2-3 2-5
Need a Wittgenstein quote 1-2
What class of entities do you believe is conscious? 2-3
Atheism and violence, Dawkins and Nietzsche 2-2 2-5 2-8 2-10 3-2 3-9 4-1 4-4 5-5 5-8 5-10 6-2 6-7 6-8 7-5 7-10 8-5 8-8 8-9 8-10 9-4 9-6 9-9 10-1 10-8 10-10 11-2 11-4 11-7 12-1 12-6 12-8 13-5 13-9
Neurath and physicalism 1-4
Pessimism vs Optimism, UE vs Limbo 2-8 2-10 5-6 6-2
Dualism vs Monism 4-3
Richard Rorty wrote ... 2-6 2-9 3-1
most good 1-4 4-6
Qualia 3-2
Without Morality And Ethics. 2-2 2-5 2-7 3-3
A new approach: the anatomy of the consciousness problem 2-4 2-9
One Life To Save All Lives. 2-1 3-10
Futurism. 1-4 1-10
Did German-Speaking Philosophers Ever Have Any Good Ideas? 2-7 3-10 18-2
Rorty and Lao Tsu 1-5
Solipsism: What does it mean? 4-1 5-3
Philosopher poll 8-1
Scientistic Fundamentalism: Who should address this problem? 8-2 9-9 11-1 11-3 20-3 20-9 23-5 24-5
Should we abort animats/nanobiobots? 1-7
My Challenge To Moral Atheists. 2-9 3-10
The German Philosophy Delusion 4-9 5-10 6-8 7-1 7-7 7-9 8-4 8-6 8-8
Morality, God, and the Euthyphro problem 1-3
Does the Free Will Defense Succeed? 3-5 4-3
Freedom and the View From Nowhere 1-3
An Argument for Determinism 1-1 1-4 1-6 1-10 2-8 3-1 3-5 3-7 3-10 4-1 4-3 4-4 4-9 5-2 5-5 5-10 6-5 6-9 7-1 7-3 7-6 8-4 8-7
Freedom of Speech: Equal dissemination of speech? 1-3
God and Intelligence 1-3 1-5 6-1
The moral argument for the existence of a God 3-9 8-5 9-6 10-7 13-2 13-7
Why am I me? 4-8
What is the supernatural? Is it a coherent concept? 4-10
Substitute of God - Science, 'not-knowing', Aliens? 1-8 3-3
Atheist's take on animal experimentation 4-6
eSkeptic: Consciousness is Nothing but a Word 2-8 4-9 5-9
Theodicy: Religion and the Problem of Evil 4-10 5-7 5-8
Pragmatism and Relativism 1-3 5-2 5-4 5-7 6-2 7-1 7-4
Do people have a right to believe without... 5-9
A Darwinian Ethics? 1-4
Can Someone Please Bring This Guy Down A Notch? 2-6
The mind's inner monologue 3-8 4-1
The question of identity 1-3 1-5
How many chimps is a junkie with AIDS worth? 1-3
A Question for Critics of Philosophy 11-8 12-10
Science...Wittgenstein...Naive Realism 1-4 1-8 1-10 2-1 2-4 3-1 4-1
Could the universe be an isomorph of an mathematical system? 1-9
Are we too good for our own good? 1-8 2-6 2-10 3-3
Moral relativism and the fallacy of "non-judgementalism" 1-10 2-5 3-1 3-3 3-6 4-1 4-5 4-7 5-3 6-4 6-7 6-10 7-5 7-6 7-8 7-9 8-2 8-4 8-7 9-8
Debating "every opinion is deemed equal" type of people. 1-3
Which moral system should we adopt, and why? 2-3 2-6 2-8
How did it all come to this? 3-6 4-5 4-6 4-10 5-3 5-6 6-1 7-3 7-8
Hoping For Some Encouragement 1-8
David Hume and the Existence of Electrons 1-3 1-9
Demarcation Problem: Science Vs Pseudoscience 1-4 1-7 1-10 2-3 5-3 5-5 5-10
Help define my Singularity 2-2
Philosophy booklist 1-10
The physics contradictions of materialism/conscioussnes 21-1 28-6
How do you explain information with pure materialism? 2-7 2-9 3-2 3-4 3-6 3-8 4-3 4-5 4-7 4-9 5-2
Daniel Dennett and ethics 1-3
Aritificial Intelligence 1-3
Origin of universe 2-4 2-6
Are we 'superior'? 5-3
Science has everything to tell us about morality 3-7
To Achieve Immortality... 5-1
The Man Who Mistook His Consciousness For A Brain 1-6 4-6
Debunk this rational argument for god 5-4 10-1 11-7 15-4 17-3 25-7
Is Evolution a Blind Purposeless Process? 2-8
The Cell Theory of Organic Life is a Hoax 17-6
Empathy is the basis of morality 1-6 1-9 2-4 2-6 2-9 4-6
Requesting a Logical "Disproof" of God 2-6 2-9 3-9
Two Dogmas of Empiricism 1-2
Free Will 33-1 33-4 35-9 40-3 42-8 49-10 50-2 54-3
Platonic Reality and Simulation 1-5 1-7
limited by our nature 2-3
Implications of determinism. 2-3 2-9 3-2 3-8
Philosophy and Science 1-8 2-2
God-as-hypothesis 2-1
rationality 1-6
Is science absolutely secular? 3-2
Human memory - Capacity 2-3
When will we have Artificial Consciousness? 3-7 3-10 4-9 5-7 5-8 5-10 6-1 7-9 8-4
Predicting the Future? 1-4 2-1 2-6 2-8 2-10
Existence as an "idea" or a "thought" 1-6 1-9
Do you own your genetic code? 5-2 6-9 7-1 7-3 7-6 7-8 7-10
What on earth is a why question - Dawkins 4-5
Test your knowledge of philosophy. 2-9
The Problem With Scientists 7-5 11-7
Non-biological consciousness 5-5 5-10 7-2 7-3
A question that we could never answer, supporting an I.D. 5-8 6-3 6-5 6-8 7-1 8-7 9-10
What's wrong with empiricism? 1-8 2-3 2-10
Does Science Presuppose Philosophical Materialism? 1-7
What do you believe about belief? 2-5 2-9 3-3 3-6 3-9 4-2 4-4 4-9 5-1 5-3 5-5 6-1
Identity, properties; space and time 2-5
Visions of the Future - Biotechnology.. 1-3 1-5 1-10
Gaia. What's your latest thoughts on this? 2-7
When the penny drops 4-8
Helen Keller's insight into Names 1-2
What's the point of experimenting, then? 1-2
Dan Dennett and Evitability 2-9 3-7
The Reason Driven Life 1-7
(the illusory?) existence of math 3-3 4-5 4-7 5-9 6-1 7-1 7-5 7-7 7-10 8-3 11-2
Why should'nt I steal 3-6 12-8
Moral relativism 3-7
The Dark Void of Nihilism 2-1 2-3 3-1
Questioning Secular Humanism 1-3 2-4
Why some questions are forever outside the realm of science 27-5 27-6 34-4 34-6 35-4
What is "NOW?" 2-6 3-2
Objective Morality 1-10 2-2 3-6 3-9 4-2 4-9 5-1 9-6 11-8 16-3
Perception and reality 1-7
What is Science For? 2-4 2-6 2-7
We're the only species... 2-3
Fear/Anger in Response to Criticism 4-8
Beauty 1-3 5-3
Why is metaphysics is bullshit? 24-8
Sartre's Atheistic Existentialism 2-6 3-6 3-8
Einstein Did Not Simply Falisify F = MA 2-6
Remember hawks and doves: Humanity might need religion 1-7
Is Monism always theistic? 1-2
The Source of Existence 2-2
An Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism 1-6
Can a universe infinite in time exist? 1-10 2-8 2-9 3-1 3-5 3-7
Question for materialists 3-7 4-8 5-9 15-6 16-3 30-2 31-4 31-5 33-7 34-1 37-8 38-9 39-1 39-4 39-8 39-9 40-3
God is a solipsist 1-2
Limitations of formal thought (law of indentity) 1-3 1-9
POLL: Philosophy of Language 1-3
The Age of Enlightenment? 1-10 2-8 3-2
Doesn't the self-defeating-omnipotence thing end the debate? 2-5
Slavery To Men 2-2
Why Is Eternal Life A Good Thing? 3-9
Pragmatism Vs. Realism 1-7
Why are bad Memes so successful? 1-4
the time-lag argument for indirect realism 1-8 3-1 3-9 4-7 5-3
Hilbert Hotel with just one room and infinte amount of guest 1-3 2-10 3-2 3-5 5-1 5-8 6-8 7-10 8-4
I finally met my match in a debate 1-10
Anti-Humanism, comments anyone? 2-2
Intolerable Skepticism 1-5
Occam's Razor & Scientific Values 1-2 1-6
Probability 4-6
On the hard problem of consciousness 3-10
The Singularity - The Universe Wakes Up 2-2 3-7 3-10 4-4 4-5 4-7 5-2 5-5 6-1
Why is truth so important? 1-10 2-3 2-10 3-8
Hitler and Darwinism 1-10
Reductionism 1-2 1-8 2-7 4-7
Is the death penalty ethical? Part 1 5-2 5-8
Popper, Falsifiability, silly philosophical questions... 15-6 15-9 15-10 16-2 23-7 23-9 24-5 24-6 24-10 26-8 26-10 27-7 28-1 28-6 29-4 30-3 30-6 31-3 32-8 32-10 34-9
Nietzsche contra Dawkins...I support Nietzsche. 2-3 2-6 3-3
Consciousness again! Bastard offspring of Genius of Darwin.. 4-1
Is mathematics based on belief? 2-9
God Can’t Save Objective Morality 1-3 4-6 4-8 5-2 7-5 8-4 8-10 9-4 10-1 10-4
The elusiveness of qualia 2-9 3-8 4-5
Is changing my moral view on this situation wrong? 1-3 2-4
Human knowledge is finite, its limits defined by our genes 1-2 2-1 2-6
Destroy All Humans 3-5
Re-run. UE the one trick pony up to his old trick again 19-6 81-1 81-6 84-4
Abortion and Mitchondria 4-10
Dawkins and the establishment of intellectual superiority 1-9 5-10 6-6 8-2
Scientific language games and definitions 5-1
Religious vs. nonreligious ethics 7-2 7-6
Hypocrisy: irrational as well as unpleasant? 2-10
time and space 1-10 2-3 2-5 2-8 3-1
Difference in a created universe? 2-7 2-10 3-5 4-1
A question for non-materialists. 34-9 59-1 61-2
Good and bad objections to Dennett 28-1 28-4 28-8 29-7 30-5 33-1 34-6 46-3 46-5 46-8 46-10 47-2 47-5 47-7 47-9 48-1 48-5 48-7
The Devils Advocate 2-1
Why Do People Vote At All? 1-2 4-1 4-3
Poll: Criminalizing 'Offensive' Behavior 1-7 2-2 2-6 3-9 4-1 4-3 4-5
Intellectual Modesty 2-2 2-4
Stump the materialists 1-10 10-2
the rational universe 2-10
Hate 2-8
No truths 2-3 2-8 3-1 3-6 5-2 5-4 22-7 22-9 23-6 23-8 24-1 24-3
Moral relativism: unconvinced 7-4
One government? 3-9
I have a question of Free Will 2-6 3-8 4-9 7-1
Conservative vs Liberal Philosophy 1-8 1-10 2-10
Atheists Won't Save Europe 1-5
The Psychology of Philosophy 1-7 2-1 2-2 2-4 3-1
Ideal Society(?).Nietzche and Plato agree.. 2-7
What does it mean to be conscious? 2-1 2-8
Epistemology - Dawkins the truth and phenomenology 1-8
Time = Existence? 1-2 1-6 1-8 3-10 4-2
Language games, NOMA, reality: Why do we need philosophy? 1-4 2-2 2-5 3-3 3-5 3-6
Essentialist vs. Existentialist "Free Will" 1-4
Can Philanthropy Create Poverty? 1-2
Logic And Interpretation 1-3
For Lifegazer: on assumptions. 1-5
Evolution of Human Intelligence 13-2
What is materialism? 1-9 3-9 13-9 13-10 14-3 32-10 33-8 33-10
Ruling out the supernatural 1-7 3-7
Kant's evidence 1-6 2-2 2-4 2-7 2-9 3-1
Neuroplasticity 1-9 2-2 2-4 2-7 3-2 3-9 4-2 4-5 5-3 5-7 5-8 6-3
Constitutional Democracy, Rights, and Atheism 3-2
Quantum Questions 1-3 8-9 9-9 10-2 10-4
There are objective truths 1-6 2-2
The hard problem of consciousness 13-9 14-9 15-4 15-5 16-2 16-3 18-2
The Simulation Argument 8-5 8-7 8-9 9-6 10-8 10-10 11-4 12-1 12-3 12-5 12-7 13-2 13-3 13-6 13-8 14-1 14-3 14-5 14-7 14-8 15-2 15-6 15-8 16-1 16-3 16-5 16-10 17-3 17-5 17-7 17-9
To do good or to do what must be done? 1-2 1-7 1-9
Why I am a materialist. 4-6 4-10 5-7 11-1
Robots Vs Philosophers 1-5 2-3
The Danger of Pseudoscepticism to Rationality 3-1 3-2
Science "vs." Humanities 1-6 1-8
Dawkins contradictions 1-4 2-6
Are thoughts material? 21-6 23-6 25-6 51-2 51-5 53-2 53-6 53-9 54-1 54-4
So racism isn't a bad thing? 2-4
Science: natural or unnatural? 3-7
"Necessary Evil" " : My Ass 1-4 3-4 3-5
Which consciousness collapses the waveform? 2-5 2-8 4-8 6-1 6-5 7-9
Are we all hypocrites? 1-9 2-4 2-8
What is matter? 1-4 3-3 4-8 5-3 5-9
Open question: Evolution and Ontology 2-10 3-5 6-2 6-6 7-3 11-7
Der Geist in der Maschine - Wo Richard Dawkins irrt 1-4
So it appears you don't need a brain to be conscious 2-10
Atheist / Materialist response to Charles Birch 1-4
Free Will II 8-1 20-1 20-7 21-1 21-2 24-10 25-1 25-4 77-4 77-7 77-9 78-7
do rocks possess consciousness? 2-6 2-8 3-1
What is Primary Reality (do we live in the Matrix)? 1-1 2-2 3-2 3-7 4-2 4-4 4-10 5-4 5-5 5-8 6-2 6-5 6-8 6-9 7-3 7-7 7-9 8-1 8-3 8-5
Agnostic About Objective Reality? 1-10 2-5 2-7 3-2 3-4
What is art worth? 4-1 5-8 6-2 9-5 9-9 9-10 10-6 11-6 13-8 13-10
Determinism and Randomness 1-4
How can we understand the claim that selves are fictions? 3-1 3-6 4-1 4-6
US Presidential Election 2008 - General Discussion III 28-6
Any Political Realists??? 2-2
Draco's Law 1-9
How do we define real? 2-1 2-3 2-6
Is meaning discoverable? 1-6
THE Answer 1-10 2-7
Quantum Mechanics implies an observer outside the universe? 1-5
Socialism and Communisim 1-2
The Democratic Way 1-3
What is the meaning of words based on? 2-1
Where do YOU get your morals from? 4-1
The origin of Our Morality is naturalistic 1-6 2-4 2-8
Truth - a simple definition 2-10 5-2
Possible impossiblity 2-1
Brian Greene - elegant universe 3-10
We should never insult each other 3-9
complexity of the universe 1-4
Why is identity theory insuficient? 7-9 8-3
The Philosophy of Atheism 4-4 4-8
How different ideologies deal with the problem of suffering 2-5
Scientism 1-8 11-8 12-3
Feynman: "A satisfactory philosophy of ignorance" 1-5
Morality of Piracy? (Poll) 3-10 8-1 9-6 11-6
Are meanings in the head? 1-6 2-2 2-5 3-1
Soldiers, Civilians, Killing, Ethics? 2-6
What Is the Highest State of knowledge? 1-2 1-4
Homosexuality 30-1
What does precede Big Bang? 2-1 2-4
How to provide hope 1-2
What defines moral law 2-9
Communism + evolution = bad 1-9 2-4 2-5 2-8 2-10 3-9 4-1 4-4 4-6 7-6 7-7 7-9
The Human Mind is Fallable 2-6 2-8
The purpose of X 1-9
Why there is only human civilization on Earth? 1-6
Is Materialism Bunk? 1-6 5-7 6-6 7-1 7-3 7-5 9-9
Simplistic geological answers to cultual questions 1-2 1-4
The Riddle of Epicurus 23-2 23-4
My fellow determinists 2-9 3-5 6-1
Is There Best Philosopher or Is it.. Me? 1-3 3-7 4-3
Multiple Types of Causation 21-5 23-3
Science is Unreasonable 1-6 2-1 2-10
The incoherence of God 2-8
Laws of Logic - proof of (a) god? 1-2 2-8 3-2
"I don't have a self" 3-4
truth 3-6 7-10 8-2
Why do genes reproduce? 14-7
I want some imput on this "argument" please 2-1
how can the advent or origin of DNA be called an 'accident'? 1-8
Relativism 3-10 4-4 4-5 8-2 8-4 8-8 8-9 9-2 9-9
Epiphenomenalism 4-10 10-1
Why I believe... and why I think Richard Dawkins is wrong... 1-7
Zombies in philosophy... 1-10 2-4 3-2 3-4 3-6 5-3 19-4 20-4 22-2
A Modal Argument that God is Impossible 2-9 5-3 9-9 14-3 24-5
Universe Conundrums & Speculation 1-5
Dimensionless Constants 1-7 1-9 2-6 2-8 3-2 3-4 3-5 4-1 4-7 5-2
Relationships/identity 1-6 1-9 2-8
2+2=4: an empirical statement 2-2 3-9 3-10 4-3 5-7 5-8 7-7 8-1 10-4 12-5 13-1 14-7
Have we figured everything out yet? 1-8
why is collateral damage acceptable, but guatanamo bay not? 1-4
Is there necessary value? 2-6 3-6
Should men be allowed to 'abort' their unborn children? II 2-8 3-4 3-7 4-5
Consciousness and Experience have no Ontological Depth 8-5
A C Grayling: Mad foremost British philosopher 1-6
Lessons from Evolution to guide my life... 2-7 3-10
Math Co-Processor Brain Implants 1-3
If there are an infinite amout of parallel universes... 1-10 2-2 3-4
Defining Science 3-4
The Difference between Living and Surviving 1-10 2-5
Why there is certainly no god 1-4 2-1 2-2
What is the best automobile sold today? 9-4 15-1 16-2
Advice for New "Introduction to Philosophy" Webpage 1-9
Self-defense 2-4
The Incompatibility of Science and Religion 2-4 2-9 3-8 4-4 5-3 5-7
Civilisation and the Sophistication of Deity 2-3 2-9
The Subject of Subjects and Relations 1-6
Holding others to an impossible standard for definitions 1-8
Eupythro's dillema 9-4 9-7 9-9
Derrida and Dawkins 1-5 1-10
Is Science the only reliable method of truth/ proof 1-4 4-1 4-8
Fine-tuning and belief in unobservable entities 3-2
Anthropic Principle - Why does Dawkins approve? 2-1
"Relativism is Self-Refuting" — commentary thread 2 70-3 78-4 83-10 86-3
Logical absolutes -- conceptual or not-conceptual 3-2
The future is a failure 1-7 1-10 2-2 2-4 2-8 2-9 3-3 3-4 3-6 3-8 3-10 4-4 4-6 4-8 4-10 5-8 5-9 5-10 6-2 6-5
What's the time? 2-6 2-9
Is God A Mathematician Mario Levio 2-1 3-7
Atheism and the Negative Proof Fallacy 1-8 4-3
Determinism And Mechanism 1-3
Alvin Plantinga vs Daniel Dennett debate 1-6
darwins dangerous idea tonight @ 9:00 BBC2 10-1 11-3
Do p-zombies discus Qualia? 3-3
Materialism Poll 9-5 10-8
Determinism needs faith 8-6 9-5 9-8 10-4 10-6 10-7 10-10 11-1 11-5 11-6 12-1 12-2
Why do theists insist on a SINGLE god ? 15-9 21-1
Marquis de Sade 2-6 4-4 4-6 5-2 5-9 6-2 6-10 8-2 8-5 9-9 10-9
John Locke and his belief in God 1-3
If there was no longer death... 1-10
Free markets and money 1-2 1-5
Dawkins Ignores Death Study! 6-9
Eternity. 1-8 2-4 2-7 2-8 3-3 3-6
The meaning of physics 1-5 1-10 2-5
Objective Reality 1-4 1-6 1-10 2-3 2-6 2-8 2-10 5-2 6-2 12-10
THe Implications of science. 1-3
Is Morality Based On Reason? 1-2 1-4
Sam Harris 1-8
Pleasure and Satiated Desire 1-7
Where is the logical fallacy? 1-2 3-3 3-6
Talking with objectivists 2-10 6-4 6-6 6-8
Science Poll 1-10 2-3 2-5 2-7 3-2
'Scientism' infects Darwinian debates 2-4 5-10
Does only the present time exist? 1-9 2-4 2-6 3-2 3-3 3-8 5-2 5-4 6-1 6-3 6-7 7-2 7-6 7-9 8-1 9-4
NY Times on Peter Singer 1-10
Even if there was no1stcause can you live again? 1-8
Poll - Is true AI possible? 3-1
"Relativism is Self-Refuting" — commentary thread 3 1-3 2-10
Let's try this with Zeno 1-5
Advanced Philosophy Books (Text books etc...) 2-7
The Given 2-1 2-7
First Cause (something from nothing) 2-5
Victor J Stenger vs William Lane Craig Q's... 1-2
Science does not prove the absolute existence of matter 4-8 5-2 5-4 5-7 9-4 9-5 9-10
Skepticism 2-1
Reason is exquisitely beautiful 1-3 1-8 2-1 2-6
Language is Bullshit? 1-7 1-9 2-3 2-6
A Thought Experiment Regarding Morality 2-10
yet another consciousness thread 3-2 4-4 4-6 5-5 6-3 7-1 7-6 9-6 9-8 10-3 10-4 10-7 11-5 16-5
Future 1-6
How many of you agree with the following: 2-3 2-10
Pornography and sexual abuse of women 7-5 7-7 7-10 9-6
Knowledge? 2-3 2-5 3-2 3-4 3-8
Has science ever supported materialism, and not just monism? 1-2 1-4 1-9 1-10 2-3 2-5 2-8 3-2
Huge pet peeve "I smell a tautology" 1-9
Is Data Human? 1-9
Self Awareness & Conciousness 1-10 2-2
All Boundaries are illusory 2-5 3-6 5-1 5-4
Objective Moral Values 7-9 8-8 9-5 10-8 11-7 11-10 12-6 12-8 13-4 13-10 14-9
Does Being a Darwinist Make One Lean Left or Right? 1-6 1-9 2-1 5-8
Consciousness Survives Death 1-7 2-1 6-1 9-1 9-4 10-2 10-4 10-7 10-9 11-5 15-5 15-6 15-7 15-9 16-5 17-3 17-5 17-7 18-7 47-1 48-1 49-1 49-4
What inherently exists? 2-8 3-3
Transhumanism the loss of many! 2-6
epiphenomenalism & time 1-2
The simulation argument 1-9 2-1 2-4 2-6 3-7 4-1 4-5 4-6 4-7 5-4 5-9 6-1 6-5 6-8 6-10 7-2 7-4 7-6 7-8 8-2 8-5 8-7 9-1 9-6 9-10 10-8 10-9 11-1 11-3 11-5 11-10 12-3 12-6 12-8 12-10 13-3 13-6 14-1 14-3 14-4 14-7 14-8 15-1
When is something "supernatural"? 4-6
"1-argument-debate" between nonmaterialists and materialists 4-5 5-4 6-1
Why does anything exist at all? 2-8 3-8
Consciousness question 1-5 1-7
Knowing about Knowing 1-8
Unclear-Thinking Desert For Ever? 1-4
Predetermination – philosophically puzzling? 1-6 2-5 2-7 2-9 3-1
Science or scientism 8-3 12-6 16-5
Does Human Nature even exist? 2-4 3-5 3-7
Atheism vs. Agnosticism III 15-7
Suffering in nature 1-10
Modern Day Atheists on Nietzsche- opinions 2-2 2-9
Democracy the best system? 2-9
Scientific Realism: Yay or Nay (and why)? 2-5 3-5 3-9 4-2 4-9 4-10 5-4 5-9 5-10 6-5 6-8 6-10 7-2 8-2 8-4 8-5 8-9 9-1 9-2 9-6 9-7 9-9 10-1 10-2 10-4 10-6 13-1
The Wisdom of our Species. A book we need to write. 6-2 6-3 6-6 6-9 7-2
Brain causes mind? 1-10
Thomas Kuhn 1-4
Would you cut off your good hand, if it ended poverty? 2-2
Is time an abstract idea? 1-3
Pain in my toe, worry in my brain? 1-5
Are there things that exist, independently of the Universe? 3-3
Complexity Argument Question 3-7
Inductive Reasoning: Epistemologically Sound? 2-5
Is taxation immoral? 6-2 6-6 6-10 10-1
Would you live your life again? 1-3
Real Reality? 4-3
Is positivism like trimming all fat from bacon? 1-5 1-7
Unstoppable argument refuting omnipotent+benevolent god 3-4
Mathematics, logic, ... 9-5 9-7 9-10 10-3 10-5
Simplified Daoism (Taoism) 6-6
Is the belief in the matterial world without evidence? 2-2 4-10 5-8 7-8 10-10 13-9 19-5
Do we need philosophers? 2-9
Cartesian Mind/Body Dualism 5-5
Is pacifism the morally correct stance? 1-3
Test Your Belief in a Mind-Independent Reality 3-2
Jean-Paul Sartre 1-5
The arrival of Superhuman 1-5
What do people have against Bertrand Russell? 1-4
Augustine had the answer, but I have a question 1-8
Humanism & Naturalism: Destined to Conflict? 1-2
Modern Theory of Perception Entails Realism 5-8
...Then, Who Created The Creator? 1-10
All knowing= lack of free will 2-5 2-6 2-7 2-8 2-10
O Ye of little faith 4-2
Thomas Hobbes / Monarchism 1-2
Democracy versus Monarchy 1-8
Existentialist Criticisms of Science 1-2 1-4 1-6
Personal Identity Thought Experiment 2-3 2-6 2-7 3-3 3-6 6-5 6-8 6-10 7-9 9-8 11-10 12-2 12-4 12-6 12-8 13-1 13-2 13-4 13-8 13-10 14-2 14-9 18-6 18-10 19-10 21-3 22-10 24-2 24-7 25-5 25-7 26-10 27-1 27-9 28-6 28-7 29-3 29-8 29-10 30-3 30-7 34-1 42-2 42-10 44-5 45-4 45-7 46-1 46-4 46-5 46-7 48-1 48-3 48-5
Sources of Knowledge - Questions for Realists 1-4 8-9 9-1 9-3 9-5 9-7 9-10 10-2
The Theory of Everything and the Argument from Contingency 1-6 2-1 2-3 2-5 2-8
Refuting Solipsism 3-4
Science or philosophy...? 2-6 2-9 3-1 3-4 3-9 4-1 4-5 7-7 7-9 8-9 9-2
Problem with Dawkins' "Crane"? 4-2
A category for information? 1-8 2-2 2-4 2-6 2-7 2-10 3-2 3-6 3-8 4-2 4-4 4-6 5-7 5-9 6-1 6-7 7-2 7-3 7-5 7-9 8-2 8-10 9-7 9-9 10-1 10-3 10-8 13-8 14-9 15-2 15-4 15-9 16-1 16-7 17-7 18-6 22-6 22-9 25-3 25-10
Physicalist about the mind 13-3 14-1 15-5 18-5 18-8 18-10 24-6 25-6 26-6 28-9 29-2 29-6 29-9 30-2 30-6
I am not the Solipsist (and neither are you) 1-8
Free Will and Determinism 5-7 7-2 14-6 14-9 16-1 17-9 18-2
Immoral Gene 2-2
Human thinking is fundamentally binary 2-10 3-10 4-4 4-8 5-2
What would Wittgenstein say? 1-2 1-7 2-2
Perception: does it limit science? 2-4 2-5 2-10 3-7 3-8 4-1 4-4 5-4
Have we even properly defined consciousness? 1-6
99%? 2-8 3-9
The Perfect form of Government 6-4
Good-Seeking Nature, collocation of universe- a proof? 1-3
"What is 'High' about?" 1-3
Dualism or Monism 1-7 2-1
Philosophers of Evolution 1-5
What is more important: humanity or the environment? 4-6
To infinity and beyond? 1-4 1-10
Is capitalism compatible with humanism? 1-2 1-9 2-6 2-7 2-9
Philosophy, Darwin and chance 1-5
Changing the world 1-8
Help with Basics of Free-Will Debate? 1-9
Why is logic true? 4-8 5-3 5-5
Faith is Not Bad. 2-9
A-theory of time vs. B- Theory of time? 1-5 1-7 1-9 2-1
Ontological Argument Parody 1-3
Non-Physical Cause of the Physical Universe 2-2 3-1 3-3 3-6 3-8 4-2 4-5
Lawrence Krauss, a Quibble if I May 2-2 3-2 3-6 4-9 5-9 6-1 6-10
Is beauty truth? 2-5
Existential nihilism and utilitarianism can be friends? 2-10 3-5
Summa Theologia Response 1-4 1-7
Science of the Soul 3-3
Philosophy and Language 1-2
What is up with ∞? 1-3
What does the Humanist Utopia look like? 2-1
How many RDF Members read Philosophy Now? 1-4
Earthly health and over population 1-5 1-10 3-1 3-2
The Question of Evil 1-5
Bloody Mary 2-9 3-3 3-4 3-7 3-8 4-2 4-3 4-9 4-10 5-2 6-1 6-3 6-4 6-9 7-6
Shocking Pre-Soviet Research Video - Post-Death Reanimation 2-3
Marxism from the perspective of critical theory 1-3 1-5
Definition of a Genius 1-4
Why Are Polar Bears White? 4-9 5-5 6-7
The Impossibility of Ultimate Moral Responsibility 1-2 1-7 1-9 2-1
The Granite Universe 1-2
Interview with Keith Stanovich on Rationality 1-2
Omniscience vs. Determinism 1-2 2-1 2-5 2-8 3-6 3-10 4-6 4-8 5-1 5-8
Multiverse evidence for God? 1-5
Would you allow a random murder for $1m? 5-8
Is this the "Age of Fanaticism"? 1-5
Can it suffer? 2-2 3-7
What Philosophers Believe: PhilPapers Survey 1-3
What does it mean to objectify women? 1-10
What can one learn from pure logic? 1-3 1-4
Dawkins' God (the complex creator) 5-7
The Flaws in Empiricism? 2-9
Doesn't the extreme materialists picture of things... 11-5 12-5 12-8
My Problem with Evolution. 1-5
Why is philosophy so difficult to understand? 3-5 3-6 3-9 4-2 4-3 4-6 4-7
Absolute versus Necessary 1-6
Infinity-What does it mean to you? 3-2
Should men be allowed to 'abort' their unborn children ? 33-2 33-5 33-6 33-10 37-3 40-1 40-2 40-5
The Meaning of Life. 5-9
Does Dawkins' Main Argument Necessitate an Uncaused Cause? 3-2 3-8 3-9 4-2
On the nature of intention 2-9
Intelligence (Revisited) 11-4 11-6
Is Intelligent life self-sustaining? 1-9
The Past, The Future 1-9
Is consciousness observable? 19-4 19-8 32-10 34-9 35-1 35-10 36-3 36-9 37-4 37-7 37-9
A solution to the Gettier problem in theory of knowledge. 1-2
Epiphenomenon 3-6 3-7
Dawkins/God? 1-9 2-7 3-1
Is The Will To Survive Irrational For The Suffering? 1-6
The Truth of Logic 3-1 3-4
Consciousness Survives Death Part 2 1-1 7-3 7-10 11-7 12-10 14-8 14-10 18-6 18-9 19-1 19-6 19-9 20-1 20-6 21-2 22-3 22-5
Is consciousness observable? Part 3 9-8 17-6 18-6 19-10 20-4 21-2 38-3 40-6 40-8
Life span of 200,000 years? 5-6 5-10 6-4 6-5 6-8 6-9 7-4 7-8 9-10 10-1 10-6 10-7 10-8 10-9 10-10 11-9 11-10 12-4 12-8 12-10 13-2 13-5 13-9 14-1 14-3 14-4 14-7 14-9
Is consciousness observable? Part 4 19-10 20-6 20-10 22-10 25-8 29-3 30-4 30-5 30-7 31-8 32-1 32-7 33-6 35-8 36-2 36-3 36-10 37-1 39-1 42-3
Surely Ayn Rand didn't actually believe what she said. 1-5
Uncaused events 3-4 3-7
Metaphysics as an Error 26-9
Duality 2-2 6-9 8-9 13-3 16-8 19-2
why you are not your brain 2-3
Are you a p-zombie? 1-6 2-8 3-1 3-8 4-2 4-3 4-6 5-9 15-6 16-5 17-3
Rationality--What's It Good For? 4-9