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Immortality? That would require getting rid of children. Or the colonizing of space. Your reaction is exactly the correct one, but this is basically the impetus behind much of cosmist thought. You are not wrong, but cosmists have entire libraries that go way beyond this line of arguing still. If yo...

Immortality? That would require getting rid of children. Or the colonizing of space. Your reaction is exactly the correct one, but this is basically the impetus behind much of cosmist thought. You are not wrong, but cosmists have entire libraries that go way beyond this line of arguing still. If yo...

I do not know anything about agnotology, but when I Googled it just now I read that it is the systematic study of ignorance. Is that right? This sounds very interesting. I have some familiarity with virtue ethics, and I once had the pleasure of taking tea with Philippa Foot, who was very keen on vi...

Hi! I am a finnish librarian in my 30s. I am always looking for more in depth philosophy forums, so ofcourse this caught my attention. I consider philosophy to be a hobby of mine. I take courses at the local university. At this pace, I might even get a degree in the coming years. Particularly I am l...