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  • #151
    Originally posted by Agathon
    Robert Brandom's inferentialism is pretty cool. Kripke's work on Naming and Necessity revived metaphysics. Those things are still being worked out. And of course you can't forget John Rawls, the leading political philosopher of our age. Those things I have some (perhaps hostile) interest in, but there's a lot of stuff in the Philosophy of Mind that other people like more than I do. Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature is also very interesting and influential.
    Is this a joke?

    Because you're just proving JM's point about nothing coming out of Philosophy in the past 40 years.
    "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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    • #152
      For those of you who, like me, consider inferentialism as a key part of modern society (moreso than any philosophical achievement of the past 30 centuries combined!!!!), here's what he refers to:
      Inferential role semantics (also: conceptual role semantics, functional role semantics, procedural semantics) is an approach to the theory of meaning heavily influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein's later philosophy in that it identifies meaning with use. Some versions focus on the representation's role in the mind of the agent while others acknowledge external factors. Proponents include Robert Brandom, Gilbert Harman, Paul Horwich, and Ned Block.

      Inferential role semantics can be seen as opposed to truth-conditional semantics. Jerry Fodor coined the term "inferential role semantics" in order to attack it as a holistic (i.e. essentially non-compositional) approach to the theory of meaning.

      The approach is related to accounts of proof-theoretic semantics in the semantics of logic which associate meaning with the reasoning process.


      Clearly, this is the best thing ever. If there's one thing historians will remember of the past 40 years, it's this.

      Here's the intellectual who saved us from doom with this discovery:
      "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
      Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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      • #153
        Originally posted by Patroklos
        Or maybe your own extreme perception makes you incapable of impartial jusgement.
        There's probably something to that. Also, I don't know with much certaintly how you would answer some of the questions.

        I took the test, pretending to be a typical right wing Christian poster here, and I recieved a score of..

        Economic Left/Right: 8.88
        Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 4.87

        Some of the easy questions to answer were those that the Bible says something about, or that Christians believe. Also, some questions were obviously easy to answer as a right winger.

        Next I took the test trying to answer as the most authoritarian person that I could imagine actually living today in the US. My score...

        Economic Left/Right: 8.75
        Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: 7.64

        That's actually slightly lower in the economic sphere than you. Also, it's not that close to 10's. So I think that the questions make a person seem more left than they actually are.
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        • #154
          Wow.

          NGR, you and I have almost the same scores.

          I think it's hilarious that the 'right wing' on Poly is all scoring +1-5 econ and all of them are minuses wrt to authoritarianism.

          It seems we are all just libertarians of one stripe or another.
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          • #155
            A real libertarian wouldn't support the Bush administration. I think something is wrong with the test.

            JM
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            • #156
              Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
              Wow.

              NGR, you and I have almost the same scores.

              I think it's hilarious that the 'right wing' on Poly is all scoring +1-5 econ and all of them are minuses wrt to authoritarianism.

              It seems we are all just libertarians of one stripe or another.
              A libertarian who supports banning gay marriage is no libertarian.
              "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
              Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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              • #157
                That's actually slightly lower in the economic sphere than you.
                Lower? Both my numbers were negative.
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                • #158
                  Originally posted by Patroklos


                  Lower? Both my numbers were negative.
                  Not according to me.
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                  • #159
                    Not according to me.


                    Care to clean my bathroom for me too? How about wiping my ass?
                    Last edited by Patroklos; October 10, 2008, 12:20.
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                    • #160
                      Originally posted by Jon Miller
                      The philosophy of 300 years ago I agree was great.

                      Even the philosophy of 150 years ago. Even 100 years ago.

                      I question what great ideas have come about in the last 40 years?

                      JM
                      Simple answer: contemporary philosophers only get studied by specialists. They eventually make their way to the public, but it's longer.
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                      • #161
                        Originally posted by Jon Miller
                        A real libertarian wouldn't support the Bush administration. I think something is wrong with the test.

                        JM
                        There's also a problem with some of the test takers.
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                        • #162
                          Originally posted by Patroklos




                          Care to clean my bathroom for me too? How about whiping my ass?
                          Whipping your ass--fruedian slip for the Navy boy?
                          "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
                          Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "

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                          • #163
                            Originally posted by Oncle Boris


                            Simple answer: contemporary philosophers only get studied by specialists. They eventually make their way to the public, but it's longer.
                            I could beleive that is true. But if true it is a serious problem.

                            JM
                            Jon Miller-
                            I AM.CANADIAN
                            GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                            • #164
                              Originally posted by Asher

                              Whipping your ass--fruedian slip for the Navy boy?
                              No, he consciously wants men to do that for him.
                              I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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                              • #165
                                Anyone who wants other people to wipe their ass should clearly be in possitive territory in regards to the test.
                                I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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