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@kaay226 @PAHoyeck It’s clearly a question, as indicated by the question mark. Why are you so confrontational? Who hurt you?

@Arth_1981 @PAHoyeck Yo bro, is that a question or a statement?

I've seen so many people seek happiness in all the wrong places: sex, money, drugs, fame. If philosophy has taught me one thing, it's that happiness doesn't come from those thing. Happiness comes from crushing your opponents with logic.

@PAHoyeck @nick_andrws The validest of valid arguments.

Since a lot of people got confused about the argument for the existence of God I posted yesterday, here's one that's even more obviously valid: P1. God exists. P2. If God exists, then God exists. C. Therefore, God exists.

@kaay226 @PAHoyeck Yo, you good bro?

You are making a fool of yourself, and you are not doing it for sex, money drugs or fame. You are not doing it by crushing your opponents with logic, because you are not a very logical person, contrary to what you believe. Do you really teach philosophy? Maybe you should ask your students what they think about your posts on X.

Developing feelings for each other and vowing to spend your lives together reduces your autonomy and is therefore a form of abuse too just btw

@JoshuaLWatson Thank god I was so worried

found my headphones

@JoshuaLWatson As the sort of creature that has an interest in breathing and eating, I’m inclined to agree.

it's pretty good that plants exist

@JoshuaLWatson Compatibilist, sorry.

@JoshuaLWatson She’s basically a compatibility. We compulsorily respond to the world as it presents itself to us but through love (learning to seeing a thing/person for what it is/who they are) we can modulate our perception and thus our response.

again, i fail to see why determinism undermines the existence of genuinely loving relationships. this just seems like a total non sequitur.

@PAHoyeck @KennethLPearce LITERALLY all he did was walk around asking people questions and answering questions with questions. Everyone knows that isn’t how you do philosophy.

We're really not supposed to talk about this, but Socrates was a very bad philosopher. Most scholars agree that he never even read either Plato or Aristotle.

@PAHoyeck Ahhh the metaethics seminar I’m taking currently is using this book for half of the readings. We aren’t really reading any of the commentary though, just the essays.

Just finished Russ Shafer-Landau's The Fundamentals of Ethics. I have some minor gripes about it, but overall, it's quite good as an introduction to moral philosophy. Four out of five, might use it as a textbook in the future.

@jonathanbfine Can confirm.

we disabuse students of this notion on the first day of humanities grad school

@luscofusch Rebecca Tuvel. Sure she’s controversial, but not because her work is bad.

Hard mode: only living ones, publishing in, or published in, good journals, with relevant contributions to their field: 1. Naomi Thompson 2. Elanor Taylor 3. Catherine Elgin 4. Dulith-Novaes 5. Thomasson 6. Rinard 7. J. Lackey 8. A. Snirivasan 9. Z. Parusniková In memoriam: Helen de Cruz.

@luscofusch Yael Loewenstein, metaphysics. Great professor, fantastic writer, I believe Ismael was her advisor. Against the standard solution to the grandfather paradox philpapers.org/rec/LOEATS-2 She’s got a cool essay on phenomenology problems for B-theorists coming out soon I think.

@jonathanbfine What’s shameful about casuistry anyway?

i astound myself too sometimes

It’s logic. Replace the word negative with “not”. All proposition (including mathematical props) are negative or positive (law of bivalence). So not 2 times not 2 is not not 4. And if it’s NOT “not 4” it must be 4 thanks to double negation. Just like someone who is not not hungry is hungry. If it’s not not raining, it’s raining. Same with the multiplication, it’s just numbers instead of words.

I’ve literally had math geniuses try to explain to me how a negative times a negative equals a positive, and I still don’t get it It doesn’t. If you have nothing, and then more nothing, you don’t have something. You have nothing Math is a psyop!

@PAHoyeck Bentham’s Offences Against Oneself

Dear philosophy friends: I'm teaching Introduction to Ethics and Social Issues for the first time in years this summer. What are some important topics and/or papers in applied ethics you'd recommend including?

@Flanders_Putnam @RobertTalisse Honestly I think Undertow is up there with the best rock albums of all time. Certainly not THE, but ONE OF, for sure.

@RobertTalisse A lot of their discography is slightly overrated ill grant that...but Undertow is a great album. As far as debut albums go, Undertow is up there with Facelift for the best debut of that era IMHO

Why are Tool fans?

Galen Strawson called me crazy to my face and I’ve never been prouder.

@PAHoyeck I don’t know if these count as “most rich” but Memento, Donnie Darko, and Inland Empire

Need movie recommendations. What are some of the most philosophically rich films?