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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...

Philosophy Now Issue 174 is now out. This time, the magazine has a theme of "Life and Death". (We do like a challenge!)

Contents page:
https://philosophynow.org/issues/174

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...

Our current issue (current for another few days, anyway!) is Philosophy Now Issue 173. Its theme is Islam and Philosophy. Several of the major thinkers from the medieval golden age of Islamic philosophy show up – like Al-Farabi and Al-Ghazali – in articles exploring the connection of their ideas to ...

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.

That didn't really work for Khrushchev!

Impenitent wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2026 2:20 am sorry about the tardiness but, I have just determined that bread makers have more kneads than most people...

-Imp

Luckily, they also have more bread.

The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel. (Again).