Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D
Science Fiction As Philosophy
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on May 24, 2019
https://isorepublic.com/photo/mr-spock-street-art/ CC0 Creative Commons Ploddingly detailed expository arguments deserve a central role in academic philosophy. Yay for boring stuff![*] But emotionally engaging fiction can be ... Read more
Metaphysics Is Bullshit And You Know It
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on May 3, 2019
Image by Septimiu Balica from http://Pixabay.com Arguing the Non-Arguable Abstracts … As defined by the Merriam-Webster in b section of the definition metaphysics is an: ... Read more
Why Modern Life Depresses Many People
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on March 9, 2019
Image by Free-Photos on http://Pixabay.com “About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of ... Read more
Do You Have Whole Herds Of Swiftly Forgotten Microbeliefs?
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on February 18, 2019
derivative images I believe that the Earth revolves around the Sun, that I am wearing shoes, and that my daughter is in school right now. ... Read more
Can We Talk About This?
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on January 11, 2019
http://pixabay.com Can we even talk about qualia, the phenomenal parts of conscious experience? Whereof we cannot speak, thereof we must remain silent, as Wittgenstein advised, ... Read more
Why The Abduction Phenomenon Cannot Be Explained Psychiatrically
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on October 16, 2018
http://pixabay.com Upon first hearing reports of alien beings taking men, women and children aboard UFOs and subjecting them to various intrusive procedures most people assume ... Read more
Philosophical Skepticism
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on October 4, 2018
http://pixabay.com Philosophical skepticism is usually regarded as primarily a thesis about knowledge — the thesis that we don't know some of the things that people ... Read more
The Four-Implicature Theory Of Fortune Cookies
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on September 17, 2018
http://pixabay.com (your guide to properly understanding the dire messages from Panda Express) Fortune cookies explicitly state the good and silently pass over the bad. In ... Read more
Slippery Slope Arguments
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on August 19, 2018
http://pixabay.com To build a slippery slope argument concerning the presence of consciousness, do this: * First, take some obviously conscious [or non-conscious] system as an ... Read more
What Does “Integral” Mean?
Submitted by Jacob Weiskopfh Ph.D on July 16, 2018
http://pixabay.com “Integral” has become a loosely applied term, supplying a bit of respectable heft to otherwise pedestrian nouns, while sliding toward the once-was-fashionable cultural bin ... Read more