David Bain has the five baddest philosophy questions, with a couple of attempted answers, at the BBC’s site. Bain is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Glasgow.
How hard does one have to think to get a full professorship at Glasgow? Ponder that.
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(The Life of Reason, vol. 1: Reason in Common Sense)
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Or, until that account is unsuspended by the forces supporting Donald Trump:
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One URL shouldn’t cause a comment to go into the spam filter. I was out for the evening, freed your comment as soon as I could.
Thanks for dropping by.
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Pfui.
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Is that it? Does a URL in a comment cause it to be directed to a black hole? It would be nice to know this sort of thing rather than waste time trying to post something.
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[Second try, sorry if it’s a duplicate, but experiment suggests another attempt – or will wordpress simply block anything that looks like a URL?]
Well, already BBC question #1 forces me to cite the funniest web page in the world:
http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/Tissues.htm
This is the ultimate Brain in a Vat paradox as well as all possible Would You Kill A if P problems. Tiny sample:
“One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things.” And that’s the least of it.
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Was my comment supposed to appear after I submitted it? I don’t see any notice about waiting for moderation or anything.
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Well, already BBC question #1 forces me to cite the funniest web page in the world:
http://www.mindspring.com/~mfpatton/Tissues.htm
This is the ultimate Brain in a Vat paradox as well as all possible Would You Kill A if P problems. Tiny sample:
“One of the orphans that will be killed would have grown up to become a tyrant who would make good utilitarian men do bad things.” And that’s the least of it.
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[…] of deep philosophical questions, Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub links to an interesting article where some basic philosophical questions are thrown out. Here is […]
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Comicus needs no introduction: Oh, a … artist (NSFW!)
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