Philosophy Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, January 28, 2016

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Top new questions this week: What epistemic principle allows us to be certain that highly improbable events will never occur in real life? Consider the following scenario: I am alone at home and I accidentally spill a bottle of ketchup on my kitchen floor, and the ketchup splatters across the floor in such a way as to form the words ... epistemology skepticism   asked by Alexander S King 7 votes answered by Nelson Alexander 5 votes Does 'to believe that P' imply 'to believe that P is true'? Williams (1973) casually asserts that to believe that P is to believe that P is true. He explains what he means by that: To believe that so and so is one and the same as to believe that ... epistemology reference-request   asked by DBK 6 votes answered by Cort Ammon 1 vote 'metaphysical asymmetry between past and future' : Meaning? Source: pp 114-115, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (1 ed, 1999) by Simon Blackburn. See page 15 of 18. Please advise if I should reproduce two pictures omitted below (which I omitted ... free-will   asked by LePressentiment 4 votes answered by virmaior 1 vote Did Kant come to believe that we have access to things-in-themselves after all? Kant's position on things-in-themselves is often described Socratically, of them we know only one thing, that they are. However, in an old but apparently still popular history of philosophy book I ... epistemology ontology kant knowledge   asked by Conifold 3 votes answered by Philip Klöcking 5 votes Can a materialist theory of mind be anything other than a bundle theory of self? The physicalist/materialist (going forward I'll use the two interchangeably) position on the mind body problem is the following: Nothing exits besides the physical and therefore the mind is just a ... philosophy-of-mind mind-body self   asked by Alexander S King 2 votes answered by Conifold 3 votes Why does Nietzsche call Plato a bore? There is this quote attributed to Nietzsche saying 'Plato was a bore', though I do not seem to be able to find the source for this at this moment. Assuming he did say this, why was this? A few ... plato nietzsche   asked by Dylan Meeus 2 votes answered by Jo Wehler 3 votes Granted Hume's psychological perspective regarding impressions and ideas, doesn't this make his epistemology obscure? Hume held that all that was meaningfully present to the mind consisted in matters of fact (impressions) and relations of ideas. But even ideas were faint impressions themselves, formed over time by ... epistemology truth psychology hume   asked by Chosen One 2 votes answered by Conifold 1 vote Greatest hits from previous weeks: If you have won the trust of an illegal immigrant, is it ethical to turn him/her over to the authorities? My question is NOT about the problems associated with secondary consequences of illegal immigration, such as unemployment of the native workforce. Nor is it about the causes of illegal immigration, ... ethics political-philosophy duty   asked by Krishnaraj Rao 13 votes answered by Nelson Alexander 12 votes Could 'cogito ergo sum' possibly be false? I've heard it postulated by some people that "we can't truly know anything". While that does seem to apply to the vast majority of things, I can't see how 'cogito ergo sum' can possibly be false. ... epistemology knowledge existence descartes skepticism   asked by Jez 54 votes answered by Wooble 47 votes Can you answer this? Did Adorno retain anything from Heidegger's Being and Time? I've read a little of Adorno, it's particularly slow work though. I had a look at (the poet) Rilke's elegies, which Wikipedia added the following to [from Adorno's book The Jargon of Authenticity] ... heidegger critical-theory authenticity adorno being-and-time   asked by MATHEMETICIAN 1 vote

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