Philosophy Now Forum

Everything is derivative. Nothing is original. Not art, not garbage, not ideas. Despite Diogenes.

I regard my death at any age as premature.

While Hemingway had some disagreeable - and today, politically incorrect - views and behaviors, he was a major major author with keen observations about people, a great storyteller and a philosophy of existence that brooked no mediocrity. Denigrating him does little to diminish his accomplishments, ...

Loathe as I am to provide any data that buttress or detract from words I may spew, greetings from the Midwest, that vast dank part of the tectonic plate below the Great Lakes where there is little aspiration to wisdom and insight. I'll just borrow from Joe Heller - reckless levity and ideological no...

As others have written, the arguments Mr. Anderson provides are falsely predicated and specious. The highlights include: 1. Conflating knowledge with belief. Belief pre-empts the need for knowledge whereas knowledge investigates until there is cause to believe. 2. It is not on atheists (or agnostics...