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Nietzsche and Spinoza

11/22/2014

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Is there an absolute Truth?
Is there a moral fact?
What do you think of Spinoza's parallelism doctrine?

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Daoism

11/22/2014

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What's Your Intuition About Intuitions?

10/24/2014

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What do you think of experimental philosophy?
What do you think intuition is?
What do you think we should do after knowing the results presented by Stich?
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General Discussion: Phil of Mind and Religion & the Sleeping Beauty Problem

10/10/2014

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Questions:
Do we (or can we) really understand God?
Are "God-talks" meaningful?
What is the difference between understanding and knowing?
What is consciousness?

What do you think about the Sleeping Beauty Problem (SBP) or the Newcomb's paradox?
Here is a link to the Sean Carroll's post on SBP and how it is connected to quantum mechanics (it has a very nice diagram of the problem):
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2014/07/28/quantum-sleeping-beauty-and-the-multiverse/

The Monty Hall Problem (the issue is pretty much settled today [you should change your door]), but do you agree with the solution?
Here is the wikipedia link for those who are not familiar with the problem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem
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Grounding and Monism

10/3/2014

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Q & A and Comments

Please feel free to post any questions or comments from the discussion!
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Knowing Oneself Is Not An Epistemic Privilege-Peter Klein

9/30/2014

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Lewis-Truth in Fiction

9/22/2014

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Discussion Questions:
Why should we care about defining truths in fictions? 
What counts as fictions?
Is modality (possible worlds) the best way to ground truths in fictions?
David Lewis' modal realism.

Feel free to add questions or comments to the discussion!

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First Meeting Discussion Questions

9/12/2014

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Here are some of the questions that came up during the meeting. Feel free to comment or add more questions!

Is life better than death?

Should we trust our intuition?

What is morality? (Temkin vs Parfit's View)

Does human life have intrinsic value?

Consequentialism vs Deontology Debate.
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General Questions (Ask anything because that's what we do!)

9/12/2014

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