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If you are so poorly trained that you cannot tell the difference between a guy in a lightweight denim jacket and a guy with a waistcoat bomb under a jacket, whilst under pressure, then you should not be let loose on the London Underground with a firearm. If we are to believe his account, Peter...

This would be slightly more credible if the police looked like they were in control of themselves. Channel 4 news ran an interview the other evening with the couple next door: The guy's head had been split open, and the wife had been hauled off and seperated from her baby for several hours. They...

Not sure about this bit: True, they haven't released a record in decades due to Eldritch (who basically is SoM) getting pissy with his record company, but they're still fairly active. I saw them live a couple of weeks ago and they were outstanding: vague figures looming out of smoke playing sort...

As with AP, there is no one goal that CP aims at. In fact, most of the big questions which CP addresses are the same as those of AP (or the Anglo-American tradition at any rate). Here are a few: Is there such a thing as objective reality which we can access? What is truth and can we successfully...

Yes they did. As I pointed out in another thread, the fossil record shows that dinosaurs used to get cancer. Things like the Paleolithic Diet are nonsense. The reaon that not many Paleolithic people died of cancer is because there were lots of other things to kill them first. If this is the...

This is simply defining your term to suit your argument. The 'Hegel stuff' has a long tradition as a form of logic (albeit related to metaphysics), which can be shown to be a direct outgrowth of Kantian logic, which can itself be shown to be, etc. Consequently, if Hegelian logic has value, logic...

That would be great if it was true; unfortunately the reality is rather more prosaic. The French obsession is fuelled by the fact that it was French thinkers who were reading the major German thinkers and producing interesting work on them. This is especially true in the case of Heidegger and...

Complete bullshit. Encourage people to research charitable organisations and donate to those they have sympathy with. Anything else is simply assuaging your conscience as you get get a funky t-Shirt or whatever.

I'm not sure which paper they were taken form, but these letters give a fair indication of the level of hostility in evidence in quite large parts of UK academia. Some do; most don't. However, even when they do, they tend to read AP in a different way to analytic philosophers. The same is...

I think this is far too hasty. Not all AP aims at truths separate from human beings and society (e.g. certain branches of philosophy of language), and there are huge tracts of CP which are concerned with philosophical questions which are claimed to be much more fundamental than human beings and...

Indeed, but that isn't quite what I meant. You will find all too many disagreements within analytic philosophy [AP] which are based on the claim that one's opponents are not intellectually rigorous. This is not unique to AP, but the point is that, many of the arguments about language use...

Except that most of what passes for analytic philosophy is regarded by other anlaytic philosophers as specious (the same is true of continental philosophy infighting). I'm not going to go into detail (you can easily verify this if you can be bothered) but, broadly the only thing that 'analytic...

Just passing through at the moment, so I chuck this point in as for consideration/inflammation before I get really stroppy ;) I agree in the main with D7_bohs, however one of the major distinctions between analytic and continental philosophy is that analytic philosophers think that it is...

Response to confucius I'd need references to these 'FACTS' before I could even begin to take them seriously. Just a couple of points: Really, so why does the fossil record show that dinosaurs got cancer? Unless everybody was a shaman, I'm afraid that you already have division of labour...

Ermm, no. Something may have lived in different ways, but it wasn't 'us'.

Actually, I know loads of people who have done just that. Admittedly, they moved from glue to dope first, but perhaps that just mean that solvents are a gateway drug to the spiritually enlightening ones :p Where your argument rather falls down, is that the majority of people who do [insert...

Apologies to Padraig for the misattribution. To clarify: I fail to see a radical distinction between drug use within a religious/mystical or secular setting because in terms of the drug's actual action on one's neurophysiology, the results are roughly equivalent. However, there is certainly a...

I've had to work bloody hard to keep it going... The worst bit is getting used to people saying "When are you going to grow up, John?"

Sorry Paul, but my comments are based upon close to thirty years of systematic and enthusiastic ingestion of any and every substance that has come my way. This includes a substantial amount of 'ritual and religious usage' with your TOPY buddies and a couple of other groups. I stand by my...

Unless, of course, they take enough to give them a habit or tip them over into psychosis ;) I have a real problem with the distinction being drawn between recreational and spiritual drug use. Whilst I broadly agree with Padraig's claims about drugs and capitalism, I simply don't understand...