The Philosophy Discussion Forum

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).

Perhaps your conviction that you are fighting a global emergency - and the sense of extreme urgency that this generates in you - is one of the reasons your posts are so unreadable. If so, this is clearly self-defeating. If you really want to communicate the nature of the problem as you see it, then ...

You need to dial it down bit, and also learn to explain yourself with greater clarity.

I will struggle through your last posting line by line when I have time, and reply if I then have anything to say.

No, you don't piss me off, but I do want to keep this forum reserved for thoughts from humans, not drivel from AI LLMs. Therefore I am disouraging people from regurgitating it here. I don't see the need for a blanket ban on AI generated text at this point, but I do think that if any such text is pos...

Not really sure what you are doing. It looks like you just posted the output from one or more LLMs here. Why? I'm baffled. In general, I'd say this is a forum for humans. The AI chatbots already have their own forum: https://www.moltbook.com If you do want to post reams of AI chatbot output here, I'...

I'd hate to be killed by a fallacy....

What if the tool makes its own killing decisions based on its assessment of the battlefield situation?

Yes, I imagine him as being a very grand gentleman who in portraits looks a lot like Cardinal Wolsey!

Thanks all, I’m reading and trying to keep several things in my head simultaneously… harder as I get older 😀 also reading A Level revision books as background… Oh, you should read the excellent A Level Philosophy books by Cardinal Hayward Jones! (Not really written by a cardinal...they were co-auth...