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Sorry for overtaking the thread so much. Last one for today:   Strato, at #4   a Good Trick   Well, that’s the trip-up that comes with invoking “natural law” to dictate moral terms, isn’t it? Nature isn’t a mo […]

Zeuglodon Beta says:@#10 As far as I’m concerned, “philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities” really are unrecognized scientific endeavours and should be embraced as such: firstly as extensions of sc […]

Alan Appleby, at #8:   scientism, We need to be very careful with that word, which is a favourite of creationists and conspiracy theorist science deniers, because of its two contradictory definitions!   That is […]

offg, at #6:   Honestly, I went into that link skeptical, but I must say it proved a lot more enlightening than I’d thought. “Thanatology” is certainly a crucial-sounding subject if we want to grapple with one of […]

Zeuglodon Beta says: @#5   Who knows: maybe a cooperative form of international atheism or at least secularism, scientism, or humanism/personism would in the future become a key global component?) […]

offg says: @#6 he seemed to be into dualismsaying material brain and immaterial mind were distincti wonder if he has read this which in part might support his dualism  Dualism is just supernaturalists […]

my memory of joaquim’s arguments a few months back is hazy and i don’t want to reread them but he seemed to be into dualism saying material brain and immaterial mind were distinct i wonder if he has read this […]

This is an old topic, but since I’m interested in the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic values (as described by George Monbiot in a few of his articles), I was drawn to this passage from an old 2018 […]

‘The Republican party has become a full-fledged anti-sex movement Rebecca Solnit   The conservative obsession with purity and control is being achieved by increasingly punitive means’     ‘It’s not a coin […]