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Hay, Colin. "What is Politics? Four Views from the Social Sciences." OUPblog, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Leftwich, Adrian. "What is Politics? The Activity and Its Study." Perspectives on Politics, vol. 2, no. 1, 2004, pp. 9–23. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3684282
Miller, David. "Concepts of... (more) |
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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 because a positive correlation can be drawn between some things, that this is sufficient to establish... (more) |
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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”? (more) |
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A: Is Kant's categorical imperative applicable to Q&A sites like Codidact? I think the categorical imperative is often trivialized as “basically the age-old adage of ‘the Golden Rule’”, whereas it is a more nuanced idea, especially in the context of related philosophical theories. Pending further study, I myself would not really know what it is about, and I would honestly r... (more) |
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A: What is the modern view on the Socratic method? I am still in the throes of learning this myself, but I would say logical empiricism comes close, or more broadly, analytic philosophy. It is common to hear nowadays that “logical positivism has been widely refuted”, but I am at this moment trying to learn more about why. As discussed here and her... (more) |
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A: How do we encourage answerable Philosophy questions? I have slowly been influenced by this question as a new perspective has crept into my mind. It could be interesting if Codidact had higher standards for “answerability” than Philosophy SE. It would take time and experience to codify new moderation principles, but working with a few specific examples ... (more) |
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In case this post is not to your liking, I personally claim it contributes to opening a discussion about having a more clearly defined format for what an "article" post is supposed to be like. (more) |
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Trademark laws regarding when you can name a company or product similarly to a pre-existing one. All of the following information is paraphrased by me or excerpted from content from AI assistants (Gemini 1.5 and GPT-4). I do not know if it is true. There are situations where you can have a company or product with the same name as another entity. Trademarks are words, phrases, symbols, or ... (more) |
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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 “Consciousness - Objection 4: Zombies”. A common idea in thought experiments involving a p-zombie, s... (more) |
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Conceptualizations of Race: Essentialism and Constructivism > Demonstrating how race is socially constructed has been a core sociological objective, yet many individuals continue to hold essentialist and other concepts of what races are and how to account for group differences. These conceptualizations have crucial consequences for intergroup attitudes, suppo... (more) |
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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 of axioms equipped with rules of inference, which allow one to generate new theorems. The set of axioms ... (more) |
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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 must be an algorithm (an effective method) which enables one to mechanically decide whether a given sta... (more) |
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Comcast internet went down for small business. Can we have our losses offset? In a small call center which handles many calls, the internet suddenly went down. This led to major workplace disruptions the entire day, lost business, and stress. A small business depends on their internet subscription. Would Comcast, or a different internet provider if we changed in the future, of... (more) |
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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 other people can have about them, vs. situations in which the freedom to discover, retain, and share knowl... (more) |
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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 subject and object and says that neither can exist without the other. No object without a subject. "T... (more) |
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Is there an explicit law that you can reject being elected President (in the US)? If so, which law? In the following scenario: > A person is not running for President of the U.S. Somehow, they receive a large number of votes as a write-in candidate, and secure the election victory. They decline to accept the position. How does the American legal framework handle the situation? Does the el... (more) |
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I would really appreciate if anyone could reach out to any users on Philosophy Stack Exchange and alert them, perhaps via comments or even a Meta post, about this new site. I believe there are others who would more than happily migrate the nearly torrential amount of original thinking and discussion ... (more) |
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Perhaps I'll leave off for now. i have spent a lot of time on Philosophy SE, so maybe I can benefit the question by trying to distill my thoughts into a compact and clear form. All I would like to say for now is...
Philosophy is in some ways more like mathematics than people might realize... after... (more) |
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This was in a way to responded to some time later by one of my favorite SE Philosophy contributers, a person who goes by the username JD: https://philosophy.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5194/friends-are-we-not-philosophers-is-this-place-a-bazaar-or-a-cathedral
While both of these posts go over... (more) |
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Regarding what you touch upon when you propose reformulating a question about good and evil with, perhaps, a more scholastic spin: "What does theory X say about good and evil?"
On the one hand, this reminds me of a very early and I think influential post on Philosophy Meta SE in which one of the e... (more) |
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- "Objective, not subjective". This is something I would like to think more about. On Philosophy SE, there has been some discussion about how these terms' meaning, while commonly used, are sometimes not very clear when one pries deeper. (For example, if someone asks, as in your example, "What is the ... (more) |
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These are some notes I will make use of in an answer.
On a general level, has anybody articulated what it means for a question to be "answerable", on Codidact? Even if it is just an informal verbal description. Have any characteristics or synonyms been put forward, for example? If not, perhaps tha... (more) |
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I’m currently tired, and sketching some thoughts in response, to stimulate further discussion, while wanting to make a better long answer later. (Side note, comments on SE do not garner rep points. Yet comments on Cd are long-form. In this case, I can imagine liking that a long-form comment could sti... (more) |
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On both Politics SE and Philosophy SE, I have encountered the rude awakening that some ideas are simply too taboo for some people to accept. Then let us try to at least define, on principle, and explicitly, where we draw a ‘boundary’, if any, *and why*. Will we, as a site, have a commitment to sancti... (more) |
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I will be more active on Philosophy.cd, most likely, but would want to poke in here to help stimulate a particular moderation culture, hopefully. (more) |
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