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This section allows you to view common questions and answers that have been answered by Oldstillwild in Philosophy. Select an appropriate title from the entries below: Question/Subject: Decriminalisation of Drugs Should drugs (eg marijuana, cocaine etc) be decriminalised?... Question/Subject: "what is it to be human?" That thought gives rise to attitudes, which give rise to acts whi... Question/Subject: Rules of religion I guess a reason I claim no specific religion however I truly wonder how so... ... Question/Subject: What is the worst evil? ...... Question/Subject: What is the "greatest good"? ...... Question/Subject: To what extent is happiness attainable? ...... Question/Subject: To what extent can the mind control the body? ...... Question/Subject: Are we improving or not? What do you think? Since the dawn of man, do you think that we are ev... Question/Subject: Why are moral rules (un)necessary? ............ Question/Subject: The Law Of Equivalency: The intent of the law of retribution was to ensure that the pu... Question/Subject: How did morality originate? ...... Question/Subject: Should a person always be treated as an end? .....(rather than a means to an end?)... Question/Subject: Does Morality Hold Society Together?? Obituary 5-27-05 Chicago Tribune. Donte Thomas, 19 &... Question/Subject: inherent meaning If all humans (B's) are mortal (A), (major) and all Greeks (C's) are h... Question/Subject: What is wrong with atomism? ... (The theory that everything is derived from atomic particles)... Question/Subject: What are the drawbacks of being dishonest? ...... Question/Subject: Which vices (if any) are harmless? ...... Question/Subject: What is character What is it to say, “ones own sense of character” and, is there individual chara... Question/Subject: Why is anger the greatest evil? The gift of justice surpasses all gifts, or does it?... Question/Subject: Anger Where does anger come from? Exactly what makes us get angry? Does it vary from person... Question/Subject: Our concept of the perfect self I have come to ask another quesion. If anger is caused by fear o... Question/Subject: survival of the fittest Psychologist Herbert Spencer coined the term ” survival of the fittest,&#... Question/Subject: Researching a company by it's website address I was trying to find out some info on a company,... Question/Subject: Urgency I'm 32. I walk on the streets , I attract men' eyes and attention. But I'm a sin... Question/Subject: Bad thoughts Dear friends, How to cope with the horrible sensation of feeling observed and the... Question/Subject: Do you agree with the great philosopher............... Yoda, who once said, "There is no 't... Question/Subject: The critic maintains The critic maintains the very notion of a thing with no properties is absurd... Question/Subject: What are your views on this quotation? "Seven Blunders of the World" 1. We... Question/Subject: Love and Selfhood "Is the self that is conscious of being alive in the present meaningfully co... Question/Subject: Love and Selfhood "Is the self that is conscious of being alive in the present meaningfully co... Question/Subject: Where does a personal decision originate? ...... Question/Subject: I am convinced,that the one and only most important talents of mankind is majorly overlooked by most... Question/Subject: How would you justify morality to a sceptic? ...... Question/Subject: reality of evil in the world? How do you conceptualize God’s relationship with the reality of evi... Question/Subject: castles of abstraction… Pseudo-philosophy Nicholas Rescher, in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy... Question/Subject: How far is power based on mental activity? ...... Question/Subject: Does omnipotence entail predestination ?... Question/Subject: Wisdom What is the ultimate source of wisdom? ... Question/Subject: Does 'Consciousness' Exist? To deny plumply that 'consciousness' exists seems so absu... Question/Subject: Is intuition ever reliable? ...... Question/Subject: Christianity versus Philosophy The False Divide Between Religion and Science by Alan Dershowitz.... Question/Subject: Pseudophilosophy and pseudoscience all rolled into one How is it that those least in touch with r... Question/Subject: What is your concept of an ideal society? .........And to what extent do you think it could be im... Question/Subject: paradigm-dependent or theory-dependent If a paradigm is a type of theory, which it seems to be, w... Question/Subject: approximation vs absolutes To reject approximation and replace it with insistence on absolutes ca... Question/Subject: Is any form of knowledge self-validating? ....... Can science, for example, claim to be the most ... Question/Subject: "Quantum Theory"-------------------------- Is it necessary to know "quantum theory" i... Question/Subject: Thought, we are in thought Accordingly, just as we say that a body is in motion, and not that mot... Question/Subject: What, mind you, would be a philosophy that could be expected to be transparent to uncultured minds a... Question/Subject: The effect must have existed in some causal state. It has been argued that,” Cause cannot be what... Question/Subject: Back to Quantum Mechanics At the end of the 19th century, physicists were claiming that nothing i... Question/Subject: On which beliefs is science based? ...... Question/Subject: On which facts is religion based? Thanks in advance for your responses. ... Question/Subject: Every premise, in reality, is a conclusion. Isn’t every premise in reality conclusion by previous... Question/Subject: Philosophical expertise? What is your opinion of a member of this board who first resorts to verb... Question/Subject: how how is belief in the real to be distinguished from belief in fiction?... Question/Subject: But what of doubt; what is the role of doubt? Belief, I believe as E. A. Poe claimed that, “Belie... Question/Subject: Crimes against Humanity Saddam Hussein has objected to being put on trial for Crimes against Huma... Question/Subject: There goes my theory Well, that pretty much shoots my theory all to heck. I was wondering if p... Question/Subject: Why are humans more altruistic than chimps? ...... Question/Subject: Logic Can Be Fun - Or Can It? Read the following sentence. "This statement is a lie"... Question/Subject: Reliability of Memory If memory is not to be trusted, what can courts of law rely on? How can the... Question/Subject: WANT SOME WISDOM? Thomas Merton wrote, "I will not permit myself to become emotionally... Question/Subject: Said and Done When all is said and done in one's life, what is your opinion about this, "Wh... Question/Subject: How relevant is size to significance?......... It is often argued that life is insignificant in t... Question/Subject: Secondness of a mode of being. 100% pure doubtlessness is a property of habit and a habit is acqu... Question/Subject: To what extent does language obscure thought? For example, to define is to impose limits where th... Question/Subject: Eastern and Western Thought A Comparative analysis Of Eastern and Western Thought Darkc... Question/Subject: Should drawing, music, and dance be considered language? Dan (roseneds) in a comment on my... Question/Subject: Should drawing, music, and dance be considered language? Dan (roseneds) in a comment on my... Question/Subject: “Knowledge Sir; everyone knows that.” Where was I! Oh yes; the course of events, to which I bear ... Question/Subject: no amount of thought will reveal this knowledge “If a person does not attend to the meaning of t... Question/Subject: in a word, 'crude' hedonism! Well, What to make of that! Should I be the one with that ... Question/Subject: Dying Dying "I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round ... Question/Subject: "person" and "human being" Does the term, "person" and "human being" mean... Question/Subject: Is a "theory of everything" a chimera? ...... Question/Subject: Limits of our understanding...do we know what these are? Keeping the topic of Question/Subject: Language Do men and women experience language differently? I had the media on today, and ... Question/Subject: How does first person experience arise? Peirce seems to ascribe mind and thought even to the phys... Question/Subject: What is the Natural State of Man’? It seems to me to boil down to two Doctrines; the one of Optim... Question/Subject: When and how do minds originate? .... Question/Subject: What are your views on consciousness? .... Question/Subject: What is consciousness?..................... Is it a state of mind? How fundamental is it?... Question/Subject: What is the meaning of hope.... in the lives of human beings. Is hope always positive? Question/Subject: What is Wrong with GodAlmighty Belief.... What is wrong with GodAlmighty belief? ... Question/Subject: What is wrong with atheism?! .... Question/Subject: Why do we have nipples? Males have nipples, an organ which serves a purpose to females but is ent... Question/Subject: Fallacy What is the fallacy of many questions. Thanks.... Question/Subject: miraculous and the providential What is the difference between the terms miraculous and the provi... Question/Subject: What is the evidence that God exists? ........ Amongst the reasons for my own belief are: ... Question/Subject: Leopold Kronecker, German Mathematician "God created the integers, all the rest is the work of... Question/Subject: human knowledge Is all human knowledge is derived from human experience.... Question/Subject: What is the foundation of morality? ...........................I believe human life is valuable b... Question/Subject: What does “meditation” mean to you? What does “meditation” mean to you? If you follow the teachin... Question/Subject: What are your views on equality? ................... Individual lives are so different it is surp... Question/Subject: Science versus Philosophy and Religion? ........."If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity,... Question/Subject: When a Fact Is Not a Fact Ken in the previous post brought up the subject of "Dogmatism" th... Question/Subject: Speaking of Hume- I wonder why anyone would believe there was not, a reality external to a mind. ... Question/Subject: Beauty or Truth John Keats (1795-1821) wrote at the end of "Ode on a Grecian Urn," T... Question/Subject: What is truth?................................... Attempts have been made to explain truth as not... Question/Subject: Creationism(Intelligent Design) I saw a leading Evolutionist interviewed on The Colbert Report, a... Question/Subject: What is mathematics?........................ It has been argued that both logic and mathematics a... Question/Subject: Mathematics Geeks Rule the World ""Math geeks now rule the world -- at least according to B... Question/Subject: Is beauty entirely in the eye of the beholder? It would seem not, given facts like the golden rat... Question/Subject: Bin Laden Makes Truce Offering Bin Laden Makes Truce Offering On Latest Terror Tape 01.19.200... Question/Subject: Morality and Religion Is morality (or the social contract) feasible without religion? Athe... Question/Subject: What are your views on consciousness? ........ My own view is that it is a state of mind and cann... Question/Subject: Hamas: Talks With Israel 'Not a Taboo' A leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas on Mond... Question/Subject: Is there evidence for collective consciousness? ... How could individual consciousness be related... Question/Subject: What is mythology? “Science,” writes Alexander Escobar, “is a mythology — just another way of und... Question/Subject: Consciousness and language .................................What are your views on the theory tha... Question/Subject: What, if anything, can we learn from history? Philosophers like Hegel and Marx have drawn philoso... Question/Subject: Freedom of expression vs. respecting religious beliefs http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/... Question/Subject: Hamas again... Dear all, Apparently this issue has been raised before, but didn't any ... Question/Subject: What is the value of introspection? .................... Recent discussions have highlighted the ... Question/Subject: What are your views on the problem of knowledge? .... In connection with our recent discussions I... Question/Subject: is it wisdom................... "He who is merciful when he should be cruel will in the end be... Question/Subject: Pragmatism as Romantic Polytheism Pragmatism reveals itself to be a romantic utilitarianism; or s... Question/Subject: The Goal of Philosophy Leibniz said, "The goal of philosophy is theology", i.e, to live a l... Question/Subject: Philosophical argument. Does anyone know the circumstances surrounding the first recorded, "Ph... Question/Subject: Is philosophy dead? .... Question/Subject: THE TIME: It's 3 p.m. Central Standard Time in the MidWest over here in America. What time... Question/Subject: What have philosophers achieved? .... Question/Subject: Why is there something rather than nothing? .... Question/Subject: feminized academy Why is Academia so biased toward leftism? Is it perhaps femininity? Are the men... Question/Subject: A SUPER HARD QUESTION TO ANSWER: What would happen to the United States if the Caucasian (whi... Question/Subject: ANOTHER SUPER HARD QUESTION TO ANSWER: What would happen to the United States if ALL minority... Question/Subject: Closing of the American Mind "Closing [The book, The Closing of the American Mind.] touched a ... Question/Subject: Certainty What, if anything, is certain? By certain, I mean a fact or statement that has always ... Question/Subject: "Philosophy" of Suffering How do various religions deal with suffering? Buddhism... Question/Subject: "Philosophy" of Suffering How do various religions deal with suffering? Buddhism... Question/Subject: JUST WONDERING ... ... if Philosophy is useful? HAN... Question/Subject: MY ANNUAL LETTER TO ALL OF YOU: After making a fool of myself for over four years at Answer... Question/Subject: Superiority of the Christian philosophy. And perhaps the truth of that is reflected in St. August... Question/Subject: The Problem of Knowledge (continued).......... What are your views on the following critique: ... Question/Subject: The Problem of Knowledge (continued).......... Taking in knowledge solely for the pleasure of doi... Question/Subject: U.S. ports in the hands of a state-owned Arab company "It is not as if they will fire all the ... Question/Subject: Free at last! “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain, and... Question/Subject: Hegel's Idea of Freedom Can freedom be equated with rational self-determination? Hegel... Question/Subject: Pleasure and happiness. ................................It seems evident that pleasure alone is n... Question/Subject: what we see is so determined The world as immediately given to us is a mixture of sense perceptio... Question/Subject: A Riddle I posted this on the Christianity Board, but was disappointed in the answers, save one. ... Question/Subject: Possibilities “The planet shudders with the force of ten thousand earthquakes. A shock wave of di... Question/Subject: How would you define evil? ......................... In theory there could be as many types of ev... Question/Subject: Ethical Dilemma Say a runaway trolley is heading down some tracks toward five workmen who will be... Question/Subject: Evil (continued)......................... Opinions about evil range from its non-existence to its... Question/Subject: How on Earth? In this day and age, what possible argument can a person make for the opinion that ... Question/Subject: What is your concept of a perfect world? ........ Please indicate how it could be implemented.... Question/Subject: Is tolerance bound to conscience? In the small town of Rengasdengklok, Indonesia, ethnic groups l... Question/Subject: Moral phenomenology. What is the phenomenological difference between the virtuous and the non-vir... Question/Subject: What is your concept of God? ..........................................regardless of belief or di... Question/Subject: How did religion begin? The study of the origin and development of religion is a comparatively ne... Question/Subject: Do we have a Self and do we know what it is? What of people who do not have an original thought i... Question/Subject: When and why should emotion prevail over reason? ..... "Should" is not necessarily moral.... Question/Subject: Where does this desire to self-sacrifice come from? Do you suppose it to be instinctual? Of cours... Question/Subject: First Questions How did it all begin? Not why (a subsequent question), but how? Science ha... Question/Subject: Essentialism “Essentialism a belief in natural, immutable sex differences is anathema to postmo... Question/Subject: in general...................................... Is it the scientist, or, the metaphysician who w... Question/Subject: How plausible is materialism? .............................Where are thoughts, beliefs, desires, ... Question/Subject: Science and metaphysics.......................... Once again science is alleged to be more inform... Question/Subject: Technology and Evolution Is it possible that technology and evolution go hand in hand? Has techno... Question/Subject: Philosophy of Science Sometime ago I was involved in a discussion concerning whether scientists s... Question/Subject: Science and the Origin of the Universe IN view of the conversation recently about science and met... Question/Subject: In what sense do facts, concepts and numbers exist? Are they "real" in some sense other tha... Question/Subject: Human Brain Last night at dinner, we all got into a heated discussion about the capacity of the h... Question/Subject: How do we know we are thinking?............... Is it by inference or direct awareness? ... Question/Subject: How do we know we are thinking?............... Is it by inference or direct awareness? ... Question/Subject: Does motion exist? Suppose you intend to travel from point A to point B on a straight line. In or... Question/Subject: What is the nature of explanation? ............ Are there different types of explanation which ar... Question/Subject: Are we really in an Egocentric predicament? ........ This problem is related to the last question... Question/Subject: Ethics in the Twenty-First Century Is It Ethical to Use Enhancement Technologies to Make Us Bette... Question/Subject: Three Years Ago Three years ago on this Board there was a lot of discussion about what the US pol... Question/Subject: Some things independent of God Spinoza said, I believe, that God exists, but only philosophically... Question/Subject: Science and Ethics ................................ Science and ethics are generally considered t... Question/Subject: Is their a relationship between human nature and war? Thomas Hobbes so says in Leviathan CHAPTER ... Question/Subject: Metaphysics and Ethics...................... Aristotle believed fulfilment and happiness are the ... Question/Subject: Time Dear Sir I would like you to ask you that what is the definition of and duration of p... Question/Subject: Robots Full Members of Society? New York Times International SEOUL, South Korea "So... Question/Subject: music and concentration What is the effect of music, at different levels of dissonance, on the st... Question/Subject: The Argument from Ignorance............... Is any explanation better than none? Provided an expla... Question/Subject: The efficacy of prayer. Science and religion, encore! "CHICAGO (Reuters) - A study of more tha... Question/Subject: Is determinism compatible with the ability to do otherwise? Is it possible that Memes are the ba... Question/Subject: What do you understand by "an act of will"? .... Question/Subject: Mind and Brain............................... How did the mind and brain originate? Three possibi... Question/Subject: Liberty, equality, fraternity?............. "Of the three revolutionary ideas now written up o... Question/Subject: You love golf too? How far can you hit the ball? Do you think I'll be able to hit the ... Question/Subject: How did purposeful activity originate?....... Scientific explanation is retrospective, i.e. backw... Question/Subject: ‘Education is a progressive discovery of ignorance.’ — William Durant What do you think motiva... Question/Subject: Meekness............................... meek = weak? Xenophenon: meek = the wild horse tha... Question/Subject: What is truth? ................................... Instead of saying "It is true we are alive&... Question/Subject: Monotheism and Masochism On Line dictionary of masochism: 1. The deriving of sexual gra... Question/Subject: Nihilism At a dinner party a week ago Saturday, the after dinner conversation drifted to politics... Question/Subject: The Human Brain and Consciousness/Toughts I have a question and it is basically a question of cla... Question/Subject: Argument against Atheism Here is a quote by C. S. Lewis in his book "Mere Christianity"(pag... Question/Subject: how the Universe adapts to its environment. Alfred Korzybski it is said explained: Plants adapt t... Question/Subject: Glaucon- the myth of gyges how does gluacon argue for the claim that the only reason people obey ... Question/Subject: Are we the same persons we were seven years ago? ......... Since we no longer have the same cells... Question/Subject: What is the Difference? What is the difference between: 1. A professor of Political Scienc... Question/Subject: Free Will "I take it that what is meant by 'choice' is free 'choice' for it is obv... Question/Subject: Atomism and holism....... What is the philosophical significance of Aristotle's dictum that &#... Question/Subject: Offshoot of Philosophy "Today is Sigmund Freud's hundred and fiftieth birthday, and the bas... Question/Subject: The Demise of Darwinism?...................... "The past five decades of research in genetics ... Question/Subject: Scientific evidence is as muddled as Religion, and maybe more so. The book Is God the Only Realit... Question/Subject: Just society By what reasoning might one justify that a society in which some people accumulate g... Question/Subject: Proof and verification.................. It is generally accepted that human beings have a right ... Question/Subject: Quandry regarding Anonymous I would like the opinion of expert philosophers about anonymity on th... Question/Subject: Puzzles I was thinking, with the advent of sophisticated language(words for abstract ideas, say) ... Question/Subject: Justifying Can terrorism of any kind ever be justified?... Question/Subject: What are you?................................... "You, your joys and your sorrows, your memori... Question/Subject: Science or Nonsense? ............................................ The other possibility is... Question/Subject: DEATH: Memorial Day is all about sacrifice and death. How WE approach death is goi... Question/Subject: dream i had this dream that my boyfriend was still in love with the mother of his kids. i was try... Question/Subject: in doubt is my boyfriend still in lve with the mother of his kids... Question/Subject: Clarity and rationality "SOME YEARS AGO, being with a camping party in the mountains, I return... Question/Subject: Former Republic and Democracy I tend to agree with Noam Chomsky that America is no longer a democ... Question/Subject: Meaning of a Sanskrit language word Hi! Please send me english word equivalent to Sanskrit... Question/Subject: What is your religion?.......................... Leo Tolstoy proposes that everyone has a religio... Question/Subject: moral justice …………………------===== From whence arose the concept of moral justice?... Question/Subject: non-sexual HIV contact This may sound crazy, but I am concerned because I recently used a toothbr... Question/Subject: How does one prove a negative? Or rather, how does one prove that he/she is NOT what he/she is be... Question/Subject: How do you interpret the term "conscience"? .... Question/Subject: A Question on Morality Good evening, experts, I have been reading various opinions about ... Question/Subject: To what extent is (a)theism intelligible? ..............We do not fully understand the mind but w... Question/Subject: Stephen Hawking Today in the news, there was a story that states that Stephen Hawking thinks huma... Question/Subject: What is an idea? Where does it come from?... Question/Subject: Why you don't know what you're talking about Saw this today and thought some of you may enj... Question/Subject: Why is North Korea doing this now, going to test a long-range missile? On February 10, 200... Question/Subject: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Is English on its way to becoming the world's unofficial int... Question/Subject: Dali on Memories ... ... ... "The difference between false memories and true ones is ... Question/Subject: Not sure whats going on I am wondering if anyone sees anything positive happening in my love life... Question/Subject: What is the solution to this predicament? .........."We know that we are animals, parts of the... Question/Subject: "Goodness" I've decided to tilt at windmills and try to figure out what "goodness"... Question/Subject: Atheists Wonder.... ...whether Christianity has the resources going forward into the future to pr... Question/Subject: Is God Belief Required for Objective Moral Values? "Moral arguments for theism include attempt... Question/Subject: ART: It’s pretty difficult to come up with a good definition of art. A recent attempt ... Question/Subject: Evil and psychopathy .........................................."A psychopath is defined as hav... Question/Subject: Peace in your life? Do you have true peace in your life? I suppose not everyone would define pea... Question/Subject: To what extent do we make ourselves what we are? "Liberty, in other words, is not indeterminis... Question/Subject: Sociology William Golding wrote "Lord of the Flies " after taking part in the bloody D-Day ... Question/Subject: Inventing an Emotion I have been having a discussion with my wife, Susan, who insists that romant... Question/Subject: Origins Do you think that Art and religion come from the same human yearnings? Is religion a off-... Question/Subject: Quality of Philosophical Arguments The following quotation is taken from Russell's "Histor... Question/Subject: What keeps criminals under control in a society? What keeps criminals under control in a society?... Question/Subject: Is a persons appearance a symbol of a persons moral character? Is a persons appearance a symbol o... Question/Subject: What was the origin of the genetic code?...... "One half of the modern system of coded chemist... Question/Subject: Who is benefiting from the Middle East conflict? ...... Question/Subject: How can nuclear conflict be prevented? ............... Question/Subject: Why is Christian Fundamentalism Better than Islamic Fundamentalism? Is Fundementalism in and of i... Question/Subject: Talking Points: World War III So the Right Wing agenda is couching the current fiasco in the Midd... Question/Subject: Media Bias and the Problem with Talk Show Hosts I listen to both Right Wing and Left Wing radio t... Question/Subject: "War against Terrorism"........................... It appears obvious that America, the UK ... Question/Subject: Does moral subjectivism correspond to reality? There are frequently discussions about moral i... Question/Subject: Meaning of Life "On the time scale of the history of the Earth an individual human lifetime is... Question/Subject: What is a Palestinian?............. What makes a Palestinian a Palestinian and not a Syrian, Iran... Question/Subject: Why bother to discuss moral issues? If goodness and justice exist only in the mind why bother to ... Question/Subject: Why is it normally wrong to kill a person? Would killing a person in normal circumstances cease t... Question/Subject: Is infinity relevant to human life? If so, how? It is often argued that the immensity of time and... Question/Subject: What would be your reaction to the following? "I cannot refute your argument but I know you ar... Question/Subject: What is our best hope for a final explanation? "Perhaps our best hope for a final explanation ... Question/Subject: Are mental events reducible to physical events? "At the present time the status of physicalism... Question/Subject: MINIMUM WAGE: "These unhappy times call for the building of plans ... that build f... Question/Subject: RATIONALE: Epictetus, a Roman Stoic, relates, " In order to live in a manner befitt... Question/Subject: When should homicide by neglect be punished? ... If I see a person collapse in the street would i... Question/Subject: What are your views on secular humanism? ..... To what extent is man "the measure of all thing... Question/Subject: Gut feelings Keifer Sutherland's character in the movie "Sentinel" has a great line. In... Question/Subject: When, if ever, is assassination morally justified? Would you have supported the plot to kill Hitl... Question/Subject: Are we good or bad? Should all laws, from the Constitution down to the lowest level municipal... Question/Subject: To what extent is Islam a threat to peace? "Islamism is a reactionary ideology which kills equ... Question/Subject: my best friend is very rude She is my only best friend .We have ben friends for the last 5 yrs.Bu... Question/Subject: LIFE: Is all of life philosophical? (You might wish to include science and mathematics,... Question/Subject: Why distinguish between "right" and "wrong"? ... If all our mental activity has physi... Question/Subject: MINDBOGGLING: Tell me somethin', guys and gals. Everything has a beginning and an e... Question/Subject: DREAMSCAPE: Is life a DREAM? Is death a DREAM? Are we living an ILLUSION? ... Question/Subject: PETER SINGER: Peter Singer may be the most controversial Philosopher alive! His belief... Question/Subject: What is the source of voluntary behaviour? .... Question/Subject: Where is cultural superiority to be found? "In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published i... Question/Subject: How would you evaluate cumulative arguments? Interpretations of reality such as materialism, idea... Question/Subject: IQ and Personality 'People who are grouchy, grumpy, feisty and difficult to get along with in ... Question/Subject: Science v Religion "The true essence of 'science' as a particular activity is systematic... Question/Subject: In what circumstances would you choose to die? .... Question/Subject: mens health what is the best way to stop smoking? ... Question/Subject: STATE OF EMERGENCY "PAT BUCHANAN is finally hip after all these years. The man who is l... Question/Subject: Nature's way What are your opinions on the (sp) homeopathic way of living and healing? One of... Question/Subject: Can there be science without evidence? ...........“Even if there were no actual evidence in favor... Question/Subject: What is the significance of natural selection? .... Question/Subject: Genocide, again. Reprise to last month, and whether philosophers should be interested in (mere) w... Question/Subject: What are the merits and demerits of pantheism? .... Question/Subject: possible new roommate hello my name is mary m. born 3/10/55 I am having to get a roommate Question/Subject: BUSH: President Bush made a statement at his news conference this a.m. that went some... Question/Subject: What rights do animals have? .... Question/Subject: What is morality? Is it limited to human beings? .... Question/Subject: What is intelligence and how did it originate? .... Question/Subject: The Cave man I wonder, how where they really? Did they beat the logs on the heads of a woman whe... Question/Subject: What would constitute evidence for a miracle? .... Question/Subject: INTELLECTUALS INTIMIDATE ME HI, ANY ADVICE ON THIS. WHENEVER, I AM AROUND EXTREMELY INTELL... Question/Subject: Metaphysical Naturalism Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism <... Question/Subject: TOE The purpose of science is to understand reality. The ultimate goal of physics is to understan... Question/Subject: Can a person transcend natural causes? If so how? .... Question/Subject: Giant Human Brain Proves There is No God "...consider the size of the human brain. If God exis... Question/Subject: What is the self? How does it control itself? .... Question/Subject: self reaching into the body... sage.. love.... really feeling. minus food/but notwanting to eat.... Question/Subject: Sexual Harrassment dilemma A friend of mine works as an associate minister at a church. She l... Question/Subject: What are the criteria of insanity? .... Question/Subject: Should you ever decide to act unreasonably? If so when? If not why not?... Question/Subject: Should you ever act against your conscience? If so when? If not why not? ... Question/Subject: Is there a war between the sexes in society? "One cannot understand the psychology of women, a... Question/Subject: What are the causes of sex inequality? .... Question/Subject: THANKS, GUYS & GALS! I'd like to THANK YOU for being the people you are and I hop... Question/Subject: Loosing Grace ... I have always been known for my kindness, however with deep problems you loose ... Question/Subject: Education, Darwinism, and Indoctrination... Is it right to indoctrinate children with Darwin's... Question/Subject: I love you thank you. Is that not what we should say more often? You wonder how people can... Question/Subject: Should the state intervene in family life? .... Question/Subject: What are the effects of false beliefs? .... Question/Subject: Different Forms for the Mystery of God From Salon dot com books Nov. 27, 2006 \| "The debate be... Question/Subject: What facts can be confirmed by introspection? .... Question/Subject: What is a good site for English to French translation? Can anyone recommend a good site for Engli... Question/Subject: Need Opinions on using AVG versus Bit Defender antivirus I am currently running WIN XP using IE... Question/Subject: The PHILOSOPHY of a FRUITCAKE: According to "The Joy of Cooking," by Irma Rombauer and... Question/Subject: What are your views on the rights of robots? Research compiled by the Outsights-Ipsos Mori partne... Question/Subject: A Christmas thunderbolt for Richard Dawkins! I’ve read your book, The God Delusion, which calls f... Question/Subject: How can the risk of nuclear war be reduced? .... Question/Subject: right angle:90`.why? why a 90` angle is known as right angle? I mean why not any other angle(like... Question/Subject: Can I reason support my claim? my claim: strategic planning does not create rigidity. <... Question/Subject: PHILOSOPHY; "The word â€˜philosophyâ€™ must mean something which stands above or bel... Question/Subject: What do we know for sure about consciousness? .... Question/Subject: God: The Failed Hypothesis I know there are some Atheists who frequent this Board, so I would lik... Question/Subject: Literature At a time when films were made in color,Truman Capote required that the first film of ... Question/Subject: Is the scientific study of religion possible? If so, then is it worthwhile to pursue such a study... Question/Subject: How far do your beliefs affect what you do? . ... Question/Subject: Can we assess whether beliefs are reasonable? If so how?... 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