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Debate

A thesis, arguments For and Against, the author’s responses and revisions

New topic

The free will defence cannot explain natural evil

Debate Aoife Brennan
The problem of evil Analytic Medieval Christian #free-will-defence #natural-evil

For 3Against 4

9replies

25d
Consciousness is fundamental, not produced by the brain

Debate Arjun Iyer
Consciousness Analytic Indian Vedanta #idealism #panpsychism

For 3Against 4

9replies

Aug 2026
Large language models understand nothing: the Chinese Room still applies

Debate Pieter de Jong
Artificial minds Analytic #chinese-room #large-language-models #understanding

For 3Against 4

9replies

Aug 2026
Voluntary assisted dying should be legal for competent adults

Debate Elin Lindqvist
Bioethics Analytic #assisted-dying #autonomy

For 3Against 3

8replies

Sep 2026
Free speech should protect offensive religious satire

Debate Sana Mir
Rights & liberty #blasphemy #free-speech

For 3Against 4

8replies

Aug 2026
Al-Ghazali was right: causal necessity cannot be demonstrated

Debate Layla Haddad
Causation Islamic Kalam Al-Ghazali David Hume Ibn Rushd #causation #occasionalism

For 3Against 3

8replies

Aug 2026
Mystical experience can count as evidence for what it reveals

Debate Reza Tehrani
Mysticism & spirituality Islamic Persian Sufism #mystical-experience #religious-epistemology

For 3Against 3

7replies

23d
There is no self: the Buddhist and Humean bundle views are basically right

Debate Priya Raghavan
Personal identity Buddhist Modern European David Hume #bundle-theory #no-self

For 2Against 4

7replies

Aug 2026
Testimony is an independent source of knowledge, not reducible to perception or inference

Debate Meera Kulkarni
Evidence & testimony Analytic Indian #pramana #testimony

For 2Against 3

6replies

29d
Existentialism can ground an ethics, and Beauvoir showed how

Debate Claire Dubois
Meta-ethics Continental Existentialism Simone de Beauvoir #existentialist-ethics #freedom

For 2Against 2

6replies

Sep 2026
Beauty is objective

Debate Kavya Menon
Beauty & art Modern European David Hume Immanuel Kant #aesthetics #taste

For 3Against 2

6replies

Sep 2026
Brain death is not death

Debate Omar Farouk
Bioethics Analytic #brain-death #definition-of-death

For 3Against 2

6replies

Aug 2026
Affirmative action is required by justice, not merely permitted

Debate Deepa Nair
Gender, race & identity Analytic #affirmative-action #equality

For 3Against 2

6replies

Aug 2026
Falsifiability is not a good criterion for what counts as science

Debate Emeka Nwosu
Scientific method Analytic #demarcation #falsifiability

For 3Against 2

6replies

Aug 2026
An unjust law is not really law: legal positivism is mistaken

Debate Hamza Qureshi
Law Analytic #legal-positivism #natural-law

For 3Against 2

6replies

Aug 2026
Algorithmic hiring tools are inherently unjust

Debate Nur Aisyah Rahman
Justice Analytic #algorithmic-bias #fairness

For 2Against 3

6replies

Aug 2026
Animals have moral rights, not just interests to be weighed

Debate Anand Pillai
Animals & environment Analytic #animal-rights #moral-status

For 2Against 3

6replies

Aug 2026
Markets are morally neutral tools

Debate Javier Morales
Economy & work Analytic #commodification #markets

For 1Against 3

5replies

16d
The “double truth” doctrine was never Ibn Rushd’s view

Debate Youssef Benali
Faith & reason Islamic Medieval Christian Falsafa Ibn Rushd #averroism #double-truth

For 3Against 1

5replies

17d
Introspection is too unreliable to ground a science of consciousness

Debate Elif Yıldız
Scientific method Analytic #introspection #science-of-mind

For 1Against 3

5replies

18d
The hedonic treadmill shows money can’t buy lasting happiness

Debate Rohan Desai
Happiness & well-being #hedonic-adaptation #money

For 2Against 2

5replies

24d
Aristotle’s account of friendship is still the best one we have

Debate Giulia Ferrante
Love & friendship Greek & Roman Aristotelianism Aristotle #friendship #virtue

For 2Against 2

5replies

25d
Kant was wrong: we can know things as they are in themselves

Debate Henrike Vogel
Reason & experience Modern European Immanuel Kant #things-in-themselves #transcendental-idealism

For 2Against 2

5replies

27d
Political meritocracy is better than electoral democracy

Debate Javier Morales
Power & the state Chinese Confucianism Confucius #democracy #meritocracy

For 1Against 3

5replies

Sep 2026
The actual infinite is a useful fiction, not something real

Debate Vikram Sethi
Philosophy of mathematics Analytic Greek & Roman Aristotle #finitism #infinity

For 1Against 3

5replies

Sep 2026
Numbers exist independently of us: mathematical platonism is true

Debate Tomasz Wójcik
Philosophy of mathematics Analytic Platonism #abstract-objects #mathematical-platonism

For 1Against 3

5replies

Aug 2026
A universal basic income would make people freer, not lazier

Debate Javier Morales
Rights & liberty Analytic #basic-income #freedom

For 2Against 2

5replies

Aug 2026