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One mode of exclusion knows another (anti-immigration article in the Advocate)
About the politics of recognition and rights. and the anti-immigration article in the advocate, supporting gay rights before open borders.
:: STARTED BY Disco is My Class War
:: 5 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:24 14.04.06
Foundation of philosophy
This thread is for discussing the various possibilities of what could stand as the foundation (epistemology, ontology, etc), what the strengths and weaknesses are of these possibilities, and which approach is right.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 4 REPLIES, LAST AT 03:24 08.04.06
Femme identity discussion
Femme identity. What's the meaning of this?
:: STARTED BY *
:: 54 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:06 05.04.06
Conservative/Liberal psychology
What is psychology that makes a person a conservative? or a liberal?
:: STARTED BY enrieb
:: 23 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:20 04.04.06
First and Second-Generation Immigrant Relations
How do first and second-generation immigrants get along?
:: STARTED BY sibyline, beating Qalyn to a Q
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 13:45 29.03.06
Feminism, Discourse, Rationality, Debate
Is Barbelith's default mode of interacting preventing other, equally valid, modes of discourse?
:: STARTED BY iconoplast
:: 29 REPLIES, LAST AT 01:13 29.03.06
Things that have been worrying me [2]-Muslim Imam refuses to condemn the stoning of female adulterers
Intrinsic wrong or cultural opinion?
:: STARTED BY hoatzin
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:20 26.03.06
VMemes 101
An examination of first teir value memes, holons of Spiral Dynamics, and conflict between woldviews. A reference station with pictures and links. Keywords: Clare Graves, human history, evolution, memetic theory, Grant Morrison
:: STARTED BY Aertho
:: 60 REPLIES, LAST AT 16:49 23.03.06
Religion
I've been thinking recently about religion. It seems a terrible shame that no one can agree on it. I'm an atheist, but if people want to join a group of some kind with some common interest which gives them strength, I say good for them.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 151 REPLIES, LAST AT 08:51 22.03.06
Women as perpetrators of sexual violence
Violation, violence and control in the "gentle sex" - In the "Rape vs Rejection" thread, I opined that rape is violence using the penis as a weapon. To which Spyder quite sensibly asked, "What about women who rape?" To which question I had no real answers.
:: STARTED BY Jack Fear
:: 76 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:07 21.03.06
Multilating Barbie- why?
Research has shown that young girls display ""rejection, hatred and violence" towards the beloved fashion doll. But what does it <i>mean</i>?
:: STARTED BY Phex: Dorset Doom
:: 26 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:32 17.03.06
Beyond Anti-Psychiatry
We don't think we're ill, just 'stressed'. We approach a doctor for help. We're pissed off when our problems are 'medicalised'. We're pissed off that we're given/not given pills when we know we don't need/need pills. Doctors are just as unhappy. What's the solution? Stop whining and suggest...
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 55 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:53 16.03.06
Fantasy Curriculum
What should be taught in schools? A thread designed not only to address this fairly simple question, but to unpick the much more complex considerations that make such a question possible in the first place: what is the purpose of compulsory education? Should there be a national curriculum? What knowledges and skills should be available to young people (and does this question have anything to do with 'school', which as any fule kno is a baby-sitting mechanism to keep employment numbers up)? What is the function of school as against church, the family or peer groups as educators? Is there a distinction between knowledges, values and skills? Should children be streamed on ability?
:: STARTED BY Cat Chant
:: 66 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:40 12.03.06
Extreme forms of prejudice considered as mental illness
Keywords: prejudice, psychosis, mental health, society's to blame, personal responsibility, paranoia.
:: STARTED BY *
:: 60 REPLIES, LAST AT 15:24 04.03.06
Health and Illness
Deceptively tricky to define
:: STARTED BY Ganesh
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 21:15 03.03.06
True Knowledge...
As seen in a series of sci fi novels by Ken Macleod.
:: STARTED BY toughest, fastest, fatest
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 18:26 02.03.06
RIP P F Strawson
Influential philosopher who died on Monday
:: STARTED BY bergkamp clec
:: 9 REPLIES, LAST AT 10:09 23.02.06
How many of our actions are necessary?
How many of the things we act out/create/destroy/simply do in the physical, corporeal world are merely manifestations of inner needs that could be handled through understanding ourselves?
:: STARTED BY Andrue
:: 17 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:33 22.02.06
Those incredible invisible bisexuals
Do those Pesky Fence Sitters need to establish a clear identity of their own? How on earth would this be established?
:: STARTED BY BlueMeanie
:: 53 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:49 19.02.06
Let's all rally round the flag...
A thread about flags and flag burning...
:: STARTED BY sleazenation
:: 18 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:53 19.02.06
Addiction, the myth of Virginal Purity, and the Rules
How do we pass judgement on one another's preoccupations, and when does a governing party step in?
:: STARTED BY YNH
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:22 16.02.06
Schisms in the isms - the comparison and use as analogous of different forms of bigotry
Sorry for the silly title. Basically, lets discuss the ways in which racism and homophobia, sexism and racism etc are compared and conflated. Are we talking about one big struggle, or is it important to differentiate?
:: STARTED BY Goodness Gracious Meme
:: 22 REPLIES, LAST AT 12:02 01.02.06
Possibly overlooked reasons for the fall
the smaller, maybe overlooked, problems that seem to be rearing its head in society.
:: STARTED BY Opps!!
:: 35 REPLIES, LAST AT 19:50 31.01.06
Coping with death
discussion on the effectivenes of various coping mechanisms, with specific reference to death
:: STARTED BY c0nstant
:: 10 REPLIES, LAST AT 09:31 30.01.06
A Magical Stance
Philosophical basis of a magical paradigm. An argument to rationally justify a belief in magic, please critique and attack so it may emerge stronger and mightier, more elegant and refined, like a well made sword.
:: STARTED BY Quantum
:: 42 REPLIES, LAST AT 14:51 26.01.06
"Free Speech" and "Telling Lies"
Differences therein.
:: STARTED BY All Acting Regiment
:: 6 REPLIES, LAST AT 23:37 24.01.06
Health
A thread in which we discuss the meaning of health, whether a state can be understood as healthy *objectively,* and what constitutes a disease. In addition, public policy implications are addressed.
:: STARTED BY SMS
:: 7 REPLIES, LAST AT 02:44 06.01.06
State of Control
An honest question, which I hope formulated well enough, will be able to convey the essential and real concern that I have for the content of the question. A question that I think, may be the principle question for political philosophy for some time to come. A question that I think may be able to bring together many samples of thought from the recent philosophical movements in Europe to have a renewed significance in global political discourse.
:: STARTED BY multitude.tv
:: 14 REPLIES, LAST AT 20:16 30.12.05
Capitalism, neoliberalism and democracy
Can the concepts of capitalism, neoliberalism and democracy be seperated - or has the concept of democracy been completed absorbed by technostratum of capital ?
:: STARTED BY sdv (non-human)
:: 15 REPLIES, LAST AT 00:18 24.12.05
Tell me about Neoism.
Telephones and telephone bells have always made me uneasy. Do you have any experiences of neoism?
:: STARTED BY Sax
:: 8 REPLIES, LAST AT 07:29 20.12.05
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