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Possibly overlooked reasons for the fall
the smaller, maybe overlooked, problems that seem to be rearing its head in society.
:: STARTED BY Opps!!
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:50 31.01.06
Coping with death
discussion on the effectivenes of various coping mechanisms, with specific reference to death
:: STARTED BY c0nflict
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:31 30.01.06
A Magical Stance
Philosophical basis of a magical paradigm. An argument to rationally justify a belief in magic, please critique and attack so it may emerge stronger and mightier, more elegant and refined, like a well made sword.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:51 26.01.06
"Free Speech" and "Telling Lies"
Differences therein.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:37 25.01.06
The problem with charities
not all charities, but the ones with problems.
:: STARTED BY squib
:: 62 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:47 17.01.06
Health
A thread in which we discuss the meaning of health, whether a state can be understood as healthy *objectively,* and what constitutes a disease. In addition, public policy implications are addressed.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 05:44 06.01.06
State of Control
An honest question, which I hope formulated well enough, will be able to convey the essential and real concern that I have for the content of the question. A question that I think, may be the principle question for political philosophy for some time to come. A question that I think may be able to bring together many samples of thought from the recent philosophical movements in Europe to have a renewed significance in global political discourse.
:: STARTED BY multitude.tv
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:16 30.12.05
Capitalism, neoliberalism and democracy
Can the concepts of capitalism, neoliberalism and democracy be seperated - or has the concept of democracy been completed absorbed by technostratum of capital ?
:: STARTED BY sdv (non-human)
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:18 24.12.05
Science and Morality
The evolution of altruism and conscience--does science have something to say about morality?
:: STARTED BY Perfect Tommy
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:56 21.12.05
Tell me about Neoism.
Telephones and telephone bells have always made me uneasy. Do you have any experiences of neoism?
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:29 20.12.05
Bundle Theory
Bundle theory and past lives...
:: STARTED BY mtheory
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:16 19.12.05
Critical Theorists suckered by science hoax
The Social Text hoax: scientist Alan D. Sokal spoofs the liberal arts academy.
:: STARTED BY grant
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:04 19.12.05
Transphobia vs. Cisgenderism
This thread is to define terms relating to prejudice against trans people and failure of social systems to accomodate trans people. Other welcome topics include examples of same, counterexamples, discussion of whether or not there is a problem, and if there is, potential solutions.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 0 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:55 16.12.05
Is Bush the figurehead for Christianity?
When we refer to Christianity, what associations does it bring up and which of these are we justified in taking as a mental shorthand for the bundle of concepts involved in the religion? Do you think of Bush as a figurehead for modern Christianity? And is it always facile to make generalisations of this sort?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 36 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:30 16.12.05
Trans people and queer people: Working together and working apart
Ways to build coalitions; categorization; the T in LGBT; commonalities and differences; gender identity vs. sexual orientation.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 12 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:57 16.12.05
Class, socio-economics, education, liberalism and identity politics.
Taking an article by Walter Benn Michaels as starting point: Is education a neo-liberal scam? And is a respect for the "Other", really a avoidance of the key issues of inequality? Or is Michaels just an old marxist winbag whose own emphasis on class would ignore just as much - racism, sexism and homophobia - as he accuses others of ignoring?
:: STARTED BY Lurid Archive
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:44 16.12.05
Technologies that represent --- WASTE
Often people ask what is the current defining technology of the present, a few years ago it was 'information technology', 'the information society' -- however isn't it important to recognize that the fundamental consequence of postmodern society is 'waste' - not the products you consume with such desire but the package it comes in ?
:: STARTED BY sdv (non-human)
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:34 13.12.05
Homo superior?
A discussion of views of human superiority/inferiority/equality with regards to other lifeforms.
:: STARTED BY Evil Scientist
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:29 04.12.05
The legacy of Karl Marx...
What is your sense of the legacy of Marx? Is his philosphy redeemable? Has it been demonstrably disproven? Is he really the Greatest Philosopher? Is he a philosopher at all?
:: STARTED BY Tom Coates
:: 165 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:00 29.11.05
Why We Disagree
The anatomy of difference.
:: STARTED BY Smoothly
:: 34 REPLIES, LAST AT 11:58 29.11.05
"My beautiful bonsai planet"
Looking at the sociological implications of Google Earth. How could an incredibly detailed 3D Globe affect people's attitudes to ecology or nationalism? How does Google Earth relate to the spectacle, psychogeography .etc
:: STARTED BY Broomvondle
:: 11 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:34 23.11.05
Deleuze & Guattari
Where should I start with them in the way of books? Are they in the same area as Baudrillard and Derrida? One of them, both, or none?
:: STARTED BY ---
:: 71 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:58 21.11.05
A testing question
Animals, alzheimers, logic.
:: STARTED BY Tryphena Absent
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 17:41 16.11.05
Saint Anselm, one of the creators of the ontological argument
Discussing ontological arguments, for and against.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 38 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:39 03.11.05
Australian Aboriginality as Race
What does it mean to "be" Aboriginal in Australia? What theories of Australian Aboriginality exist which can account for the complicated position of someone from a culture/race which has been subjected to attempted genocide? What relationships between culture and 'race' are posited in Aboriginality? And what challenges does Aboriginal experience pose to other theories of cultural/racial transmission?
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 22:30 27.10.05
Knowledge and Social Memes...
... or what we used to call 'Ideology'. A thread to talk about to what extent particular knowledges, and/or practices of knowledge-production, are separable from ideologies, social memes or grand narratives. Science, Intelligent Design, Creationism, conservative Christianity, and suchlike, will probably come into it somewhere (hello search function).
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:26 27.10.05
Intelligent Design, Creationism, And Rightwing Social Memes
How the teaching of non-evolution could affect society.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 127 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:37 26.10.05
Preteens and the sexualizing of our children
A place to discuss a recent(IMHO) phenomenon of children as sexual beings in Western culture.
:: STARTED BY matthew.
:: 60 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:44 26.10.05
Al Qaida is less interested in violence than ethics...
Al Qaida is less interested in violence than ethics...
:: STARTED BY sdv (non-human)
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:24 22.10.05
I'm confused
Questions about the forms anti-Semitism takes in different cultures, and specifically about links between educational systems and anti-Semitism.
:: STARTED BY Elbereth
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:11 21.10.05
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