Bradley, Ben. “How Bad is Death?”. Canadian Journal of Philosophy., 2007. Vol. 37-1 Print. p. 111-128 .Print
My research post deals a topic that has puzzled me for most of my life. This article is not about whether or not your mind survives after death. The author of the article argues that there are two lives [...]
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You are not required to do a weekly 200 over Spring Break. However, if you write 200 words on someone’s research post, you can make up one that you missed or build up reserve credit so that you can miss a weekly 200 sometime during the latter half of the semester.
Have a great break.
In recent classes we’ve been talking about the point of philosophy. A big problem that people have with philosophy is that there are no definitive answers. This stems from the idea that all answers fail. Our answer in class was that you answered a philosophical question: “Are there any answers in philosophy?” You answered this [...]
I’m sick of the abortion debate. The only person who should decide whether abortion is okay for them is the woman who has to give birth. Someone quoted this Marquis guy on his pro-life argument which says that murder is the destruction of a potential life. I don’t think that he is wrong in this [...]
According to BLACK AND WHITE AND THE INVERTED SPECTRUM by Justin Broackes, it is impossible to have a world where black is white and white is black. The author describes two different worlds. One being the Normal World where you see grass as green and fire trucks as red. The other world being the Inverted [...]
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It was tough looking through these multiple philosophy articles to try and find one suitable for my research. Most of them seemed like they were written for only geniuses and people from the descent of Einstein. And I am not either of those. I can across a topic about bodily awareness. This was an [...]
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The last topic we discussed was about Free Will and weather or not it exists and in what context it exists. In class we have compared both of these ideas and how they relate to one another. From looking at my research and my notes I have found different points and arguments for each of [...]
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Let me start out by saying that i love nearly all the animals on the planet. Mosquitoes and Sharks are the exception. I am totally against the production and wearing of exotic animal furs that were obtained by murdering them. If you looked at the number of animals that we kill in order to sustain [...]
Numbers, letters and colors just do not make sense to me. Such a simple idea has had a change in course and now drives me insane all day thinking about it. Orange could technically not be orange. It could be blue and someone- while developing each name for each shade of a color wrote it [...]
I recently became a vegetarian, and tonight I was thinking over my reasons for doing so. Aside from improving my health, the main motivation was that I have a gut feeling about using animals for human advantage. I have the belief that animals, who are just as capable of love,fear,pain,sadness, and hate as we are, [...]
I am really happy that we talked about what the point of philosophy was yesterday in class. I am not going to lie, I did have some philosophical angst. I did not understand why we were studying philosophy and what the answers were to all the questions and theories we were discussing throughout the semester. [...]
Statistically, it seems like we shouldn’t be the only life in our galaxy/universe. Both are so uncharted and undetermined, that it seems that at least some form of life should be out there. Even though this is is the case, through science research and telescopes, we unfortunately haven’t been able to find any form of life.
Is this [...]
When I first started reading about soft determinism I thought that this was clearly the best argument among the three. In fact, my first thought was that many of its arguments were related to things that I was told growing up, that libertarianism and determinism can exist together. However, this was also taking the existence [...]
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Today at the young philosophers talk, Dennis Whitcomb came to discuss his theory that there are two branches of wisdom. First off, he explained why it is good to have wisdom. He stated simply that wisdom is the opposite of foolishness, and no one wants to be foolish. We then went over how “philosophy” literally [...]
During the talk today for young philosophers Dennis Witcomb brought up a very interesting point that i think should be brought up. He said ” Truth grounds Knowledge,” and i find this a very strong statement that can bring up some thoughts that i find to be very interesting. So afterwords i tried to sit [...]