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Are possible worlds real, or just a bookkeeping device?

Question Tomasz Wójcik
Possibility & necessity Analytic #modal-realism #possible-worlds

Open question

1reply

19h
What’s the difference between deduction, induction and abduction?

Question Vikram Sethi
Scientific method #abduction #inference

Awaiting answer

1reply

1d
What’s the difference between a valid argument and a sound one?

Question Kavya Menon
Logic & argument #soundness #validity

✓ Answered

3replies

1d
Is “Islamic philosophy” a useful label?

Question Layla Haddad
Religions compared Islamic #history-of-philosophy #terminology

Open question

2replies

2d
What did Ibn Sina mean by the “internal senses”?

Question Elif Yıldız
Perception Islamic Falsafa Ibn Sina #internal-senses #perception

Awaiting answer

2replies

3d
What does “intersectionality” mean philosophically, beyond the slogan?

Question Sana Mir
Gender, race & identity Feminist philosophy #discrimination #intersectionality

Awaiting answer

2replies

3d
Can you be religious and a philosophical skeptic at the same time?

Question Aoife Brennan
Skepticism #faith #skepticism

Open question

2replies

4d
What is longtermism, and what’s the main objection to it?

Question Rohan Desai
Technology & the future #future-generations #longtermism

Awaiting answer · newcomer-friendly

2replies

4d
How does Ibn Sina’s proof of the Necessary Existent avoid the infinite regress problem?

Question Omar Farouk
God & the arguments Islamic Falsafa Ibn Sina #contingency #necessary-existent

✓ Answered

2replies

5d
Can a translation of a poem be as beautiful as the original?

Question Kavya Menon
Meaning & language #poetry #translation

Open question

3replies

6d
Is there a coherent left-wing case for private property?

Question Javier Morales
Rights & liberty #property #socialism

Open question

2replies

7d
Teaching the Euthyphro to sixteen-year-olds: what works and what doesn’t?

Question Giulia Ferrante
Meta-ethics Greek & Roman Platonism Plato #divine-command #euthyphro-dilemma

Open question

4replies

7d
What were Mencius and Xunzi arguing about when they disagreed about human nature?

Question Elif Yıldız
Moral theories Chinese Confucianism #human-nature #mencius

✓ Answered

2replies

9d
What’s the difference between “deep ecology” and environmental ethics in general?

Question Anand Pillai
Animals & environment #deep-ecology #environmental-ethics

Awaiting answer

2replies

9d
What does Merleau-Ponty mean by the “lived body”?

Question Claire Dubois
Perception Continental Phenomenology #embodiment #phenomenology

Awaiting answer

3replies

10d
Does an engineer’s training help or hurt in metaphysics?

Question Arjun Iyer
Reason & experience #engineering #metaphysics

Open question

4replies

10d
Did Indian epistemologists anticipate the Gettier problem?

Question Meera Kulkarni
Knowledge & belief Analytic Indian #gettier-problem #knowledge

Open question

2replies

12d
Does a constitution need a shared conception of the good?

Question Hamza Qureshi
Power & the state #constitutionalism #liberalism

Open question

3replies

12d
Is evolution compatible with objective morality?

Question Emeka Nwosu
Biology & evolution Analytic #evolutionary-ethics #moral-realism

Open question

3replies

13d
Rumi and Spinoza: are they describing the same God?

Question Reza Tehrani
Religions compared Modern European Persian Sufism Baruch Spinoza #god #mysticism

Open question

3replies

13d
What is the “alignment problem” in philosophical terms?

Question Nur Aisyah Rahman
AI & computing Analytic #ai-alignment #value-specification

Awaiting answer

3replies

15d
Should judges interpret constitutions by their original meaning?

Question Deepa Nair
Law #constitutional-interpretation #originalism

Open question

2replies

18d
What are the pramāṇas, and how do the schools disagree about them?

Question Rohan Desai
Evidence & testimony Indian #epistemology #pramana

✓ Answered

3replies

19d
Is it irrational to want to be remembered after you die?

Question Rohan Desai
Meaning of life #legacy #mortality

Open question

3replies

19d
Is the fine-tuning of physical constants evidence for design?

Question Omar Farouk
Physics & cosmology Analytic #design-argument #fine-tuning

Open question

4replies

20d
What is functionalism, and why do people think it supports machine consciousness?

Question Pieter de Jong
Consciousness Analytic #functionalism #multiple-realizability

✓ Answered

3replies

21d
Did the Stoics really think all emotions are bad?

Question Elin Lindqvist
Emotions Greek & Roman Stoicism Epictetus Seneca #apatheia #passions

✓ Answered

4replies

23d
Is the liar paradox a problem about language or about truth itself?

Question Tomasz Wójcik
Truth Analytic #liar-paradox #truth

Open question

3replies

23d
Does translating philosophy change the philosophy?

Question Claire Dubois
Meaning & language Continental #terminology #translation

Open question

5replies

24d
Did Indian mathematicians have a philosophy of zero?

Question Vikram Sethi
Philosophy of mathematics Indian #history-of-mathematics #zero

Open question

3replies

25d