On this upcoming Thursday I will be presenting a paper I wrote on Moral Error Theory to the Philosophy Forum at my college. To let people know about the presentation I sent out the following e-mail announcement to the group’s e-mail ListServe which includes present members, past members, the current philosophy faculty, etc.

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On my YouTube account I have a video of V.S. Ramachandran talking about the neural basis for synesthesia. I just received the following comment on that video:

"I have found videos that deal with seeing colors on numbers, colors for letters, colors for taste and colors for sound for synesthesia, but not fir sight and touch or hearing and touch. That ( Read more... )

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The wish, that of the living whole
No life may fail beyond the grave,
Derives it not from what we have
The likest God within the soul?

Are God and Nature then at strife,
That Nature lends such evil dreams?
So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life;

That I, considering everywhere
Her secret meaning in her deeds,
And finding that of ( Read more... )

The Nietzsche Family Circus pairs a randomized Family Circus
cartoon with a randomized Friedrich Nietzsche quote.

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These excepts come from the following article: http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP2/

Children sometimes die or become disabled when they fail to receive medical treatment because of the strongly held religious views of their parents... [T]he following are some specific cases that have come to recent attention:

(1) A 4-year old girl in Sacramento ( Read more... )

#1)
Original Post: “You are such a self-righteous, myopically close-minded religious fundamentalist fool. I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU.”
Response: “i feel sorry than yer gonna burn in hell!”

#2)
“Hello, I'm from Europe and, obviously, here we study only continental philosophy. We think that analytic philosophy is a matter for stupid people wich can´t learn to ( Read more... )

The other day I attended the “Body Worlds 2” exhibit at the Maryland Science Center with my girlfriend. “Body Worlds” is a traveling exhibition of human bodies that are preserved using a technique called “plastination” and are then positioned artistically to reveal their inner anatomical structures. The objective of the exhibit is to increase the ( Read more... )

Next semester I’m enrolled in an independent study course under the guidance of one of my philosophy department’s faculty members. In order for me to take the course I need to propose the course topic, description, and assigned readings to the department chairperson and get it approved. If anyone reading this has some knowledge of Philosophy of ( Read more... )