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| Question posted on August 26, 2010; 1 response |
| Dear philosophers, I am a 23-year-old boy living in a developed country (in my opinion, it is an important detail to underline) and I very often find myself reflecting on this question, never being quite pleased about the answer. Why... |
| Value Show |
| Question posted on August 24, 2010; 1 response |
| I watched an excellent short film the other day which presented the audience with what I thought was an interesting moral problem. I won't give away the title in fear of anyone googling it and finding a 'spoiler', but there... |
| Ethics Show |
| Question posted on August 24, 2010; 1 response |
| In political debate, I often feel that participants on both sides are "unprincipled" or "unscrupulous" - they deliberately downplay inconvenient facts and exaggerate other facts in order to promote their positions. I understand that politicians represent the interests of their... |
| Justice Show |
| Question posted on September 2, 2010; 1 response |
| My mathematics teacher says that a line is an infinite sum of points. I disagree and I think that she must not have thought it through very deeply. I argue that instead that though a line can be theoretically be... |
| Mathematics Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| Are there any logically possible situations in which acting in accord with probability would not be logical? Is probability the ultimate logical guideline?... |
| Rationality Show |
| Question posted on September 2, 2010; 1 response |
| What constitutes "consent" in sexual matters? Is a person who allows themselves to be tortured and humiliated for an extreme pornographic production consenting if that consent comes from a pressing need such as a payment for a surgery or obtainment... |
| Sex Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| Is there a correct formulation of set theory? For example, it's been proven by Gödel and Paul Cohen that the continuum hypothesis can neither be proven nor disproven in ZFC. Should we take from this that there exists... |
| Mathematics Show |
| Question posted on August 19, 2010; 2 responses |
| Suppose there is an infinitely long ladder in front of me. I do not know that this ladder is infinitely long, only that it is either a very long (but finitely long) ladder, or an infinitely long ladder. What kind... |
| Mathematics Show |
| Question posted on September 2, 2010; 2 responses |
| What is the difference between music and an aesthetically interesting grouping of sounds? I ask because I was listening to the opening of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds and I while I found the sounds which were made to resemble a... |
| Music Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| Why is it that, in music, major chords, by themselves, isolated and without any musical context, sound bright and happy, while minor chords are dark and sad? How can arbitrary collections of frequencies elicit distinct emotions from people? ... |
| Emotion, Music Show |
| Question posted on September 2, 2010; 1 response |
| I'm going to be a senior in high school and I've found philosophy podcasts to be a great way to sample the thoughts of famous philosophers without having to drudge through esoteric forests of essays. Between listening to Philosophy Bites... |
| Color, Philosophers Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| I have two questions about hunting and fishing: First, is it is ethical to use powerful machinery and high-technology to find and harvest fish and game? Second, is "professional" fishing ethical? It is unlikely that the human race would... |
| Animals, Ethics, Sport Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| Has there ever been shown to be an effect without a cause? Is it even possible for there to be an effect without a cause? If this is not possible, does that prove determinism is true, at least... |
| Freedom Show |
| Question posted on September 2, 2010; 1 response |
| We're told that all matter in the universe is "expanding", presumably due to residual energy release created by the "big bang". But what (or perhaps more importantly "where") is the universe expanding into? I'm not approaching this from... |
| Physics Show |
| Question posted on August 24, 2010; 1 response |
| When I was a child, I wanted to know what forever was. I would sit and concentrate -- think and think and THINK -- until finally I felt what may have been a glimpse into something infinite. It was jarring,... |
| Mind, Time Show |
| Question posted on August 26, 2010; 1 response |
| Duty, engagement, rules, living a life "conditioned" vs. one free, maybe unconventional, following our own inspiration even if it doesn't seem supported by what we call "common sense". Many of us live a life that often is the result of... |
| Value Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| Is there a correlation between intelligence and morality? I can imagine an intelligent person giving a sophisticated analysis to a complex moral question before acting as warranted by his/her analysis. On the other hand, I can imagine a... |
| Ethics, Mind Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| Does philosophy concerning music have any worth or substance? Or is music simply too abstract for there to be any meaningful philosophical insights gleaned from it?... |
| Music Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| Should we teach philosophy to younger children? Would it help them in anyway, or would it be harmful in later life?... |
| Children, Philosophy Show |
| Question posted on August 31, 2010; 1 response |
| If you alter someone's brain (by surgery, head injury, drugs, etc.) so that their personality changes markedly as a result, is there a sense in which you've effectively killed her?... |
| Identity Show |
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