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cajunguy

Part of the Furniture Now
Jan 22, 2012
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Metairie, LA
"If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
Obviously, the person who offered this question up for debate didn't foresee the advent of audio recording devices.
Seriously, though, good luck on your paper. I was a bit late in finding the topic; I might have suggested the evolution of phenomenology. I'm not sure if your professor would have covered that, though. Phenomenology is a very interesting sub-discipline of philosophy, and about the only philosophical paradigm to which I subscribe.
If interested, here's an article: Phenomenology . It's Wikipedia, so it's not the same as reading the philosophers themselves, but it gives a decent overview.
And I'm with Team Chicken.

 

hobojoe

Can't Leave
Jun 15, 2011
346
1
Well,

Why there is a empty seat between 2 guys in a bar?

Or why does a looker sit next to the Fat guy!

Joe

 

tslex

Lifer
Jun 23, 2011
1,482
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Consider what Epictetus would say about your pipe breaking -- and about you smoking a pipe at all.

 

dburrows

Starting to Get Obsessed
Sep 2, 2011
285
294
How about one on logical fallacies- Circular Reasoning, Straw Man, etc. People in school really need to learn these and it seems no one is out there teaching it.
+1

 

dburrows

Starting to Get Obsessed
Sep 2, 2011
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one big discussion that we covered was is creation science religion in disguise.
These sorts of questions really have to have terms defined before they can proceed. Like what do we mean by creation? Simply YEC or the idea that the universe was created by an intelligent being, or...? And what do we mean by science? The scientific method? But where does that stop and start. Finally what is meant by religion? Simply a system of thought (or worldview) that determines how you live, or an organized religion of some sort, or...?
Without these terms well defined, the discussion can't really go anywhere since everyone would be discussing based on their own definition of terms.

 

brewshooter

Lifer
Jun 2, 2011
1,658
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You should write a paper discussing whether or not philosophy is the talk on a cereal box religion.

 
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