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Is there a philosophical value placed on the experience of deja vu? Does it work towards one philosophy's standpoint?
February 25, 2010
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Is it possible for two people to have a different "worldview" while not disagreeing on any particular fact?
January 28, 2010
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I'm puzzled whenever people say things such as, "I have a high tolerance for pain." How would you ever know whether your "tolerance" for pain were actually a form of ...
January 4, 2010
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Obviously, some academic fields are considered more difficult than others - for instance, physics might be considered more difficult than geology. However, there must be people who find geology (and ...
December 24, 2009
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Can we imagine a being who genuinely believes a bald-faced, explicit contradiction (such as that "murder is right, and murder is not right")? Or is there something in the very ...
December 9, 2009
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In the later 1700's, many famous philosophers (Locke, Berkeley, Hume) held the 'transparency thesis', the view that all important mental contents could only be conscious. Is this position still defensible? ...
December 3, 2009
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Is it logically possible to have a dream within a dream? Or is there, as it were, only one "level" of dreaming?
November 26, 2009
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When we deliberate, we often make note of pertinent constraints as we form our opinion. For instance, a jury member might arrive at a different recommendation than she would have ...
November 19, 2009
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What is the difference between sensation and perception? Can you have perception without a sensation?
November 12, 2009
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As someone who is clinically depressed, I have often wondered: philosophically speaking, is trying to treat depression wrong? People are depressed for a reason, possibly because life's pretty damned depressing ...
November 17, 2009
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