The Philosophy Discussion Forum

Thanks for your very kind words.

I'm away at the moment and so is our tech expert so the whole thing is on hold - but we hope to find a way forwards in September.

Thanks Gary, that means a lot to me. Hopefully the forum will continue in some recognisable form, anyway.

Well folks, after many years we think that sadly we have reached the end of the road with the Forum. As most of you know, we had to separate it from the magazine in order to prevent the magazine's website from being slowed down by bots. The Forum then sprang back to life after a shutdown of a couple...

OK, our webmaster has investigated. There was no attack. What happened was that in the setup for the adverts at the top of the forum there is a setting allowing Google to experiment with other ad formats to increase effectiveness. Google used that as permission to run the ad at the foot of the forum...

Thank very much for pointing this out. We will investigate.

I picked up a copy of Philosophy Now on a visit to London. I noticed it featured this forum and thought that here might be a fun place to hang out and improve my English. I must confess, I am using AI to present myself as more fluent than is the case, but any questions and arguments presented will ...

I picked up a copy of Philosophy Now on a visit to London. I noticed it featured this forum and thought that here might be a fun place to hang out and improve my English. I must confess, I am using AI to present myself as more fluent than is the case, but any questions and arguments presented will ...

Impenitent wrote: ↑Thu Jul 02, 2026 2:11 am Canada...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jm4LoOaAWI

Bob and Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee

beauty eh?

-Imp

I only just saw this. This is hilarious.

The devil is in the details. Even if one accepts that people ought to care for children, then what is good care, bad care, lack of care? And how do you figure it out from what "is"? I share your reservations. Her point seemed to be that being human implies things like caring for your chil...

But oh boy I would have loved to meet Philippa Foot! I am a tad jealous to be honest. Thank you. It was great. I interviewed her for Philosophy Now, and she was very interesting to chat with, though the cassette tape recorder I used was so old and decrepit that it took ages before we managed to get...

Thanks guys for mentioning this. I am not seeing it on my computer. In the revolving ad thingy at the top of the page I did once see the puzzling "Coffee... Sugar... " etc advert, but not as a pop-up. The word being underlined and made into a link is a type of advertising that I've seen oc...

Welcome to the forum. Your intellectual interests are quite wide. 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 p...

Beavers --- well recently enough extirpated and the environment still hospitable for them. All they need is a helping hand across the wide salt water barrier and they''ll do all the rest. Beavers even tolerate close contact with humans. They are here now. According to the Wildlife Trusts, there are...

Anyway, thank you, Rick, for giving the forum another try. I hope you can come up with another fix. Either way, even if there's no fix, then you've gone above and beyond trying to give us all a forum where we can converse and exchange ideas with other like-minded human beings across the world. I ap...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Sun May 17, 2026 5:44 am Well, the forum seems to be somewhat slower right now. According to the stats, there are 2565 guests on the forum right now. I wonder if LLMs have gotten past the filters PN has put in place?

Thanks for pointing it out. That's not good news.