{"id":2285,"date":"2011-08-08T12:13:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T16:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2011-08-08T12:13:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T16:13:51","slug":"philosophy-carnival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noahgreenstein.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/08\/philosophy-carnival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy Carnival #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s the second philosophy carnival<\/a> I’ve hosted<\/a>.\u00a0 So let’s get started.<\/p>\n

Counterfactuals and time traveling cold-blooded murderers!\u00a0 Why is it we always want to see what happens when we kill ourselves (or others) when time traveling?\u00a0 Does time travel make one murderous?\u00a0 Anyway, besides\u00a0 the weird questions that occur to me, the discussion over at\u00a0Kadri Vihvelin’s philosophy blog does try to tackle Counterfactuals, Indicatives and What Time Travelers Can\u2019t Do<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If that isn’t your cup-o-tea, maybe you like smoking pipes.\u00a0 But apparently not the pipe<\/a> if you are from Utah.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t like smoking pipes, nor counterfactual time travelers, then perhaps you like the movies.\u00a0 Over at Pirates and Revolutionaries we have durationless movies that involve no time flow<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lot’s of YouTube clips — which I did actually watch (most of them at least) and you should too. Because what good is anything without pictures or conversation?<\/p>\n

Well, if you don’t like the movies, pipes or homicidal time travelers, try the news.\u00a0 But not if you read the New York Times’ Stone, apparently, because over at The Consternation of Philosophy, Matt says they got the foundation of human rights wrong<\/a>.\u00a0 He writes that the reasons that are given not only do not show a foundation for secular human rights, they actually lead to dogmatism.<\/p>\n

But maybe you like dogmatism.\u00a0 I bet there are secretly lots of philosophers out there who, while publicly decrying dogmatism, are secretly delighted with their own.\u00a0 I’m probably one of these people.\u00a0 Then, perhaps we should be epistemological anarchists,<\/em> as is suggested over at the Kindly Ones.\u00a0 Paul writes on Feyerabend’s reductio directed at rationalist conceptions of scientific method<\/a>, which concludes with: Anything Goes.\u00a0 You should read this- it’s something I dogmatically recommend.<\/p>\n

Fine, be that way.\u00a0 Don’t do what I recommend.\u00a0 Instead sit around and listen to the radio for all I care.\u00a0 Actually, we’ve got some high quality internet radio going down at the Partially Examined Life: Pat Churchland on the Neurobiology of Morality (Plus Hume’s Ethics)<\/a>.\u00a0 I surprised myself and listened to the whole thing.\u00a0 Good talk.\u00a0 Also, a book for sale.<\/p>\n

If none of this armchair stuff has impressed you, I guess you might be one of those “go out and do stuff types.” [yeah right]\u00a0 If that is the case, go check out some Experimental Philosophy.\u00a0 Justin writes, ask not “what the history of philosophy can do for us, but rather what we can do for the history of philosophy.<\/a>”\u00a0 That’s the attitude!\u00a0 (The post is actually on the place of x-phi in a historical and cultural setting.\u00a0 Good stuff just the same.)<\/p>\n

Or maybe you are just at The Ends of Thought, so frustrated with the difficulties that you’re left wondering where a lot of us went wrong<\/a> (and I’m not saying who has gone wrong; you’ll have to read the post to see who Roman says did).<\/p>\n

Lastly, zombies<\/a>, because philosophers like zombies.<\/p>\n

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