End Times archive

Here he discusses Heidegger and his analogy of Being and Beings of Reason, holes, Heidegger’s distinction between present-at-hand and ready-to-hand objects, Van Inwagen on Heidegger's understanding of Being, whether existence is a property, whether Being can come in degrees, ontological pluralism, and ontological monism, composition, why whole's aren't identical with their parts, carving nature at the joints, whether parts of reality are eternal, and whether we can decide whether a metaphysical system is right or not. Kris McDaniel Published on: Apr 7, 2018 @ 03:00

Here he discusses why study philosophy, the parochialism of the history of philosophy, in particular medieval philosophy, after certainty and the lively domain of epistemology, the epistemic ideal and skepticism. Robert Pasnau Published on: Apr 3, 2018 @ 00:05

Here she discusses why we need a theory of meaning, Davidson, why this isn't linguistics, whether philosophy of language is an applied discipline, whether there are grounds for selecting a correct theory of meaning, intentions and meaning, mirror neutrons, minimalism, the importance of Grice, local pragmatic effects, saying, implying, asserting, and internalism and externalism. Emma Borg Published on: Mar 31, 2018 @ 08:00

Here he discusses Quantization, Hilbert space conservative and Algebraic Imperialists, Bohm's interpretation, the ontological models framework, what Bell’s theorem and classical probability spaces are, why these alternative probability theories fail for quantum mechanics, the role of algebra in quantum theory, how we get out of quantum physics the actual stuff we seem to have, continuity between classical and quantum physics, how to use infinite idealizations, Nagel’s treatment of reduction, geometry, and whether we can make sense of saying physics is fundamental. Benjamin H Feintzeig Published on: Mar 24, 2018 @ 12:13

I don't think that equality in itself is valuable. We should care about inequalities, but we shouldn't try to deal with them by making people more equal; rather, we should help those who are worse off. In philosophical terms, that makes me a prioritarian rather than an egalitarian. A prioritarian holds that a unit of benefit has more value when it goes to a worse off person, and the worse off the person is, the greater its value; but she does not think it's worth pursuing equality for its own sake. Greg Bognar Published on: Mar 17, 2018 @ 09:30

Here she discusses social ontology, social power, the narrowness of current conceptions of deontic power, four ways of understanding social power, power as an ability, power to do and power over and why conflict of interest is not a necessary condition of power. Åsa Burman Published on: Mar 15, 2018 @ 22:14

Here he discusses McTaggart's causation and Idealism, action at a temporal distance, McTaggart's paradox of time, how it has been misunderstood, whether it's one of the great paradoxes, whether the appearance of time supports a metaphysics of time and McTaggart's correspondence theory of truth. Then he discusses the metaphysics of powers, qualities and properties and ends by saying why we should heed the philosopher. Rognvaldur Ingthorsson Published on: Mar 9, 2018 @ 20:31

Here she discusses ordinary language philosophy, its link with philosophy of mind, Donald Davidson and his theory of meaning, his indeterminacy thesis, radical skepticism, why we shouldn't abandon Davidson's approach, why meaning holism and compositionality don't threaten Davidson's approach, puzzles and facts about meaning, and responses to meaning skepticism. Arpy Khatchirian Published on: Mar 3, 2018 @ 08:02

Here he discusses Ramchandra Gandhi, Gandhi's early work on Grice and the distinction between ‘eliciting’ and ‘soliciting’, the Self and the Other, Gandhi's attitude to religion and art, Gandhi's break from the analytic tradition, Gandhi's non-sectarianism and anti communalism, Vivekananda and contemporary Indian philosophy, Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya and Akeel Bilgrami, Daya Krishna and Satchidananda Murty,absorbing Buddhism into Hinduism, whether Indian philosophy could interface with Islamic philosophy as well and the dominant structures and paradigms of philosophy as currently practiced in India. A. Raghuramaraju Published on: Feb 24, 2018 @ 08:58

Here he discusses the metaphysics of technology, Heidegger, why we need a metaphysics of technology, the cognitive and epistemological conflict of interest that arises in this area, four key issues and what such a metaphysics looks like. He then discusses to panpsychism in the west, why he agrees with Galen Strawson’s claim that panpsychism obliges us to accept some version as theoretically primary, it's early origins, Italian naturalists, Spinoza and Leibniz, resistance to the mechanistic view of nature, contemporary views, and the arguments for and against it that promise a bright future for a panpsychist paradigm shift. David Skrbina Published on: Feb 16, 2018 @ 17:27

Here he discusses possible and impossible worlds, paraconsistency and dialetheism, the logic of the imagination, whether conceivability entails possibility, fictionalism, noneism and Meinongianism, Quine vs Meinong, whether reality is digital or analogue, and whether the concept of identity can fail to apply to somethings even when we can count them. Franz Berto Published on: Feb 10, 2018 @ 09:00

Here he discusses Foucault and desire from a genealogical perspective, why ours is a civilisation of desire, aesthetics after metaphysics, metaphor, the hypersensible, the philosophical Proust, Deleuze and immanence, and Delueze and Heidegger. Miguel de Beistegui Published on: Feb 3, 2018 @ 09:51