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Incubator Q&A Is Kant's categorical imperative applicable to Q&A sites like Codidact?

On sites like Codidact, the question often arises about what rules should be imposed on user behavior. What is a good question? What is a good answer? What behaviors are desirable and which are not...

3 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta How do we encourage answerable Philosophy questions?

Philosophy is an academic discipline and also a more informal conversational pursuit. How should the Philosophy community be structured to support and encourage answerable objective questions and ...

4 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A Could a philosophical zombie verify that it is a philosophical zombie?

A philosophical zombie is an entity that is externally, behaviorally indistinguishable from some conscious entity, but lacks inner conscious experience, a.k.a. qualia. See articles “Zombies” and “...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A Do laws determine societal norms, or vice versa?

When society creates laws to govern themselves, do they simply codify what has already been established practice in society? For example, when a law is written that forbids theft, is this because s...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the point of police?

Philosophically, what role does police serve in society? Today, virtually every society has a police force. So, it seems like there must be some compelling reason to have one, i.e. police must ser...

1 answer  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 6mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A Do laws matter without police?

Do laws only matter if there is a police force enforcing them? Police in the modern sense is a recent development. Before the 19th century, police forces as today were very rare. But people have m...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Is there a specification meta-language for logics?

Is there a specification meta-language for logics? A formal language which can express, “a logic with variable symbols, unary predicates, and connectives”?

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Incubator Q&A Can you always interpose an intermediate effect into any causal chain?

Consider the following claim: In any causal relationship X -> Y, it is always possible to find an intermediate effect A such that X -> A -> Y. This is a claim about nature, not our c...

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Peter Taylor‭

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Incubator Q&A How does science generalize local results to global scale?

Science tends to discover knowledge by performing experiments in the lab. For example, suppose we have a hypothesis that a volume V of atmospheric air, when compressed quickly to a certain ratio, ...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How does climate change research establish causality?

How does climate change research establish causality? For example, when it is said that human activity causes global warming, what sort of logic is used to justify this claim? Let's not get into t...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Is the historical method a scientific method?

Is the historical method a scientific method? When I was a child in grade school, I learned that "The Scientific Method" had the following steps: Observe a phenomenon: find things by curious ex...

2 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Conrado‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Can you summarize any explanation?

When explaining a piece of knowledge, sometimes the explanation is short and simple and other times it is long and complex. Some people put the burden on the explainer, and demand that they make i...

2 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Conceptualizations of Race: Essentialism and Constructivism

posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Mithical‭

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Incubator Q&A Has anyone published a definitive argument regarding a "positive correlation fallacy"?

I think there may be a common fallacy which I do not know if it has been given a name and a fully developed, possibly mathematical, argument. The idea is something like a basic fallacy of assuming...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the modern view on the Socratic method?

Socrates was fond of engaging in philosophical discourse where he would simply ask questions and not make any statements or assertions. This created a situation where all the conclusions come from ...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Incubator Q&A What is a common infinite and decidable set of axioms?

a formal system is a system of axioms equipped with rules of inference, which allow one to generate new theorems. The set of axioms is required to be finite or at least decidable, i.e., there mus...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the definition of ‘decidability’?

In order to understand Gödel’s theorems, one must first explain the key concepts essential to it, such as “formal system”, “consistency”, and “completeness”. Roughly, a formal system is a system ...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Incubator Q&A What theoretical frameworks have been proposed to mediate the possible mutual exclusivity of privacy and free knowledge?

From what conceptual framework could one derive self-consistent ethical principles about how to distinguish between situations in which people’s right to privacy enables them to choose what data ot...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Why is Schopenhauer's definition of intentionality not generally accepted by philosophers?

The following is cross-posted from Stack Exchange for catching my eye: Schopenhauer already defined "intentionality". There is a part in his philosophy where he separates representation into subj...

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Incubator Q&A Is colonialism bad?

It is common nowadays for the term “colonialism” to have a default morally negative connotation. But, what really is colonialism, and is it always bad? Why/why not?

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭

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Incubator Q&A When is it ethical to kill?

What are some developed ethical theories and frameworks regarding killing? For example, is it ever ethically justified to kill? When, under what circumstances, and why?

0 answers  ·  posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭

Descriptions Philosophy: the Love of Knowledge

Site Name Philosophy Description Philosophy is a highly general and fundamental subject which often inquires into the nature of intellectual inquiry itself. It addresses life’s “big questions”, ...

posted 10mo ago by Julius H.‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Julius H.‭

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