Tuesday, October 27, 2015

/r/philosophy report: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 - Monday, October 26, 2015 subredditreports

Totals: 7 days, 56 posts, 2,436 comments.
Included in this report: The top 56 posts, and 2,236 of the top comments, by 916 distinct authors.
There were 2 gilded posts, and 0 comments were gilded.


See the comments for detailed reports and charts.


Most Popular Posts


Score Author Post Title
3545 /u/Lightfiend The Cold Logic of Drunk People - "At a bar in France, researchers made people answer questions about philosophy. The more intoxicated the subject, the more utilitarian he or she was likely to be."
1283 /u/usrname42 The philosophical problem of killing baby Hitler, explained
507 /u/intARREST Bryan Magee's popular philosophy show "The Great Philosophers" and partial parts of his other show "Men of Ideas" in an organized youtube playlist. Great guest philosophers discuss complex ideas in an accessible and interesting way.
446 /u/Andrew_Sepielli I'm Andrew Sepielli (philosophy, University of Toronto). I'm here to field questions about my work (see my post), and about philosophy generally. AMA.
428 /u/bluebluebluered When Einstein Met Tagore: A Remarkable Meeting of Minds on the Edge of Science and Spirituality
335 /u/ADefiniteDescription Stewart Shapiro - "We Hold These Truths to be Self-Evident: But What do We Mean by That?" Voted one of the 10 best articles in Philosopher's Annual from 2009.
265 /u/vaschr Does metaphor hold the key to explaining consciousness? Radical philosopher Ted Honderich reveals his new theory of what it means to be a thinking, feeling human being.
160 /u/lnfinity Philosopher Peter Singer and physicist Lawrence Krauss have dialogue on altruism, free will and more
104 /u/PhallusInquisitus John Gray and Will Self - is free will an illusion? - The Guardian [70 minutes]
83 /u/Kevin_Scharp Week 16 - Conceptual Engineering
70 /u/dominosci John Locke’s Road to Serfdom
60 /u/ADefiniteDescription Justin Clark-Doane - "Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge". One of 'Philosopher's Annual' 10 best papers from 2012.
59 /u/ADefiniteDescription Wayne Myrvold - "Metaphysics Without Physics"
56 /u/latenightcabdriving Derek Parfit speech and QA session on effective altruism, moral philosophy.
55 /u/ReallyNicole Week 17 - The Epistemological Problem for Robust Moral Realism
54 /u/BookistBook Announcement: Examining Identity Politics and Gender Theory through the works of Judith Butler, an upcoming AMA with Tim Smith-Laing, DPhil Oxford (x-post from r/asksocialscience)
52 /u/ReallyNicole Kerry McKenzie: The Limits of Scientistic Metaphysics
37 /u/nokia86 Bertrand Russell on the Value of Philosophy.
31 /u/wiphiadmin Epistemology: Hume's skepticism and induction
25 /u/wiphiadmin Kant: metaphysical knowledge
25 /u/sunsetsweremocked- "Metaphysics and Meaning" — Richard Taylor (PDF)
20 /u/hldeathmatch A Scholarly Critique of New Atheism
19 /u/Althuraya A short summary of Heidegger's metaphysics
17 /u/nodnarbthenasti Taoism, Anarchism, and the Divergence of Han Feizi
16 /u/wokeupabug Phenomenology and the Natural Attitude (something about Husserl and Schelling)
15 /u/MaceWumpus Events in the Discipline: the Colin McGinn harrasment scandal
15 /u/ADefiniteDescription Japa Pallikkathayil on "Morality and the Market"
14 /u/IIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Wittgenstein His Life and Philosophy - By Wes Cecil
12 /u/nothingnessandbeing The Meaning of "Meaning"
12 /u/RawFeels Rupert Read - "Wittgenstein and Physics" [56:51]
10 /u/Thistleknot The Ship of Theseus and the Question of Identity - Science and Technology
10 /u/kurtgustavwilckens Peter Sloterdijk: The ontological status of information, logic, and a criticism of philosophy
10 /u/RawFeels Richard Rorty - "Phony Science Wars"
10 /u/BookistBook I'm Tim Smith-Laing, DPhil Oxford, with teaching and scholarly experience on Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, a highly relevant book as gender and identity politics dominate the public discourse. AMA! (x-post from r/asksocialscience)
10 /u/SkinnyNerd Butter, Refrigerators, and New Realism
9 /u/123zxcfgh Dr. Gregory Sadler: Martin Heidegger, "What is Metaphysics?"
9 /u/YoungModern Refining or refuting my argument against C.S. Lewis's teleology of the mind
8 /u/PhallusInquisitus Walter Benjamin, the first pop philosopher - Ray Monk, New Statesman
8 /u/HippeHoppe The decisiveness of the intersubjective utility calculus problem
6 /u/sweaty_cunt68 On the Virtue of Self-Rule


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