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always with the 'ought' ...... surely by definition 'wrong' means 'things that you shouldn't do'? so i don't really see what this step does the problem is that you can't get from fact to value unless you smuggle in a value at the very beginning...

Ok - I guess I meant that to support my initial 'that is wrong' would involve things like ' it is socially unacceptable' 'it will damage the child, make her afraid and distrustful' 'it makes society a worse place for everyone if things like this happen' and so on; all of which demand that you...

That's quite a complex question with relation to the Frankfurt School; for Adorno - who is the only figure from that milieu I know well enough to talk about - there was a clear distinction between his philosophical work and his social theory. There's an often overlooked Nietzchean edge -as well...

I think you can reason without logic; which is not the same thing as reasoning 'illogically' - obviously if i claim to have seen a square circle then i am being illogical, since the concept of the predicate excludes the subject of the proposition, but if I see you beating a child and i say...

Not sure how to quote from two previous posts, so this is in reply to slothrop and idle rich, respectively. The minute you bring the idea of the 'real world' into things you open a whole philosophical can of worms - indeed the original can of worms. For many - maybe most - philosophers from...

good point - think it's fair to say too that 19th/ early 20th c american philosophy was a great deal more 'German' than in later incarnations

half new best i could afford, half junk shop (and better) Project turntable - 6 years old, ortofon cartridge, could be better Garrard turntable - '60s marvel, but needs some work Cambridge CD player - never use it anymore Sansui Amp - early 70s absolutely fabulous 20 quid in a market Goodman...

Yeah, I've heard stuff about certain depts. that backs this up. Perhaps a model that would explain the difference between the two appraoches to the discipline would be something like this; old- time jazzers had great difficulty seeing anything in Rock n' Roll beyond cretinous repetition and...

its a point Simon Critchley is fond of making - AP actually has a much sturdier tradition of leftist political engagement than CP, and I can't - off- hand - think of any AP philosophers for whom their commentators are continually called upon to apologise for in the manner of Heideggerians. The...

Just finished Bernhard's Extinction - mordantly funny and with a tone, instantly recognisible as Bernhard, which, while easy to parody,is impossible to reproduce. Irish people here might like to insert the word 'Ireland' where 'Austria' occurs in the following passage; 'The whole of Austria has...

Weirdly had a conversation about this yesterday with someone who teaches in an art college and is doing a philosophy PhD; we both agreed that artists generally make an appalling mess of philosophy simply to spice up their catalogues, and further, that art educators are culpable, since they teach...

there are also 'anti- gateway' bands - bands who don't lead anywhere very much except to paler and less interseting versions of themselves; think of all of Morrissey's picks - Raymonde, Easterhouse, Sack ...... or Metal, which just leads to more metal

proof again that philosophers should never talk about science..(well, unless they're philosophers of science, i guess)

Quine's comment is based on the thought that philosophy if it is real philosophy produces insights that are 'true' the way Newton's laws are 'true' - in other words, independently of the situation in which you hold it to be true, whereas he would think that philosophers - or 'philosophers' -...

The divide definitely exists, and while, in a lot of philosophy departments there are people doing both, and therefore enforcing a modicum of politeness, it is undoubtedly true that many people on each side have a low opinion of the other. Firstly, though, 'continental philosophy' is about as...

The point I'm trying to make has to do with the structure of the arrangement, not the motives of the actors; we don't but new Nikes in order to prolong the exploitation of child labour in Vietnam, but it is a fact that countless such acts do have this effect. Similarly, I don't think people in...

I'm not objecting to adoption if the only alternative is an orphanage, obviously; I object to the idea that transcultural/ trans- national adoption is somehow better for the child - the 'all the advantages' argument - than a solution within her own country, and I'm objecting to the creation of...

also a feature - not in a good way - of Climate of Hunter

god yes; the 70s had DSOTM, the 80s the Joshua Tree, the 90s OK Computer as the mirrors of their respective self- regard - all unlistenable.

Whilke looking for the original piece that sparked the discussion on k- punk and dope i was struck by the end of the piece above it - on overpopulation - where he says 'the ethical choice is to adopt or foster'; surprised at that; thought someone that acute could fail to see adoption as the...