Questions tagged [reference-request]
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The hard problem of consciousness and altered states of consciousness
The hard problem of consciousness, as I understand it, is that, subjectively speaking, it does not appear possible to reduce actual conscious experience into some structure or mechanism, even in ...
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How to avoid radical skepticism?
Whenever I try to solve a problem philosophically, I always end up at radical skepticism, where the solution is unprovable. I understand that skepticism leads nowhere, but I always tend to seek ...
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What has been said about suicide?
Some people decide to end to their lives because they are suffocated by their problems and they are not able to overcome them.
I am firmly convinced that suicide cannot be a solution to the ...
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Books on arguments about God in math
I am fascinated by arguments against the existence of God that use mathematical theorems for example, the claim that an omniscient being is impossible due to the logic of power sets (though I realize ...
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Is there a philosophy "simplifier"?
Since philosophers love writing wordy, long-winded books and I love concise clear books, is there any app that I could paste a book worth of text into and translate it from philosophy into something ...
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Would the word "dog" mean anything if, at some time, it was not being read or thought of?
I am someone who believes that meaning happens only in consciousness. In my view, words would have no meaning in a philosophical zombie world. But my view raises an interesting dilemma. Suppose, at ...
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What are the criteria for "bad faith" questions?
Sometimes we believe that a (more or less philosophical) question is asked "in bad faith". Similarly, we may believe that a proposition or argument is made "in bad faith". I'd like ...
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Has Priest's conjecture about the axiomatization of truth been solved?
In Priest's The Logic of Paradox he introduces a system of logic in which statements can be
only true,
only false, or
both true and false (paradoxical).
He shows how the reasoning applied in Tarski'...
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Why do we say "creating new mathematics" when mathematics already exists?
I thought of putting this in the math stack exchange, but I ended up settling on this stack exchange. Many times, we say that a certain mathematician created new mathematics. Even people who believe ...
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Attention and the "hard problem"
Attention, I'm inclined to say, is the gate and gatekeeper of consciousness. It may be possible to doubt this, but it seems at least a reasonable assumption that there can be no consciousness (say as ...
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Which philosopher is this literary reference referring to?
In his story Animal Fair R. A. Lafferty has one of his characters say this:
The most valid of scenes may be created, or maintained in being, by the forming eyes of no more than seven persons, so one ...
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What is the scope of the appended question 'Generalise your result' in many mathematics questions? [closed]
This post was closed in MSE and MESE for not meeting guidelines. So I conclude this the right site. To easily view the formatted latex please go the MSE query here.
This is not a mathematics question ...
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Where did Kierkegaard say this, regarding speculative/theoretical vs. practical/experiential knowledge?
Where did Kierkegaard this:
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Resources on the philosophy of awards and recognition
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I'm looking for thoughtwork on the philosophy behind awards and recognition, likely related to ethics and/or morality. This could be books, papers, essays, excerpts, or anything else -- I'm ...
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Is it even possible to prove Modus Ponens using more foundational inference rules?
Can the inference rule of Modus Ponens be proven using more foundational inference rules? I don't think it can. Of course, in an axiomatic system, any axiom or inference rule proves itself, in the ...
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