All right, yes, date and shop and hang out and go to school and save the world from unspeakable demons. You know, I wanna do girlie stuff!

Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Topic!Cindy - Jun 02, 2006 1:44:15 pm PDT #364 of 10002
What is even happening?

Bob loves Plantinga.

Then Bob may very well like carrots, bon bon.

At the same time, while Plantinga is an elegant writer, much of what he discusses is at quite a high level of abstraction, so Morris might have refrained from mentioning him for that reason.
I think I need Plantinga for Dummies.

Have you read any Sider?


Bob Bob - Jun 02, 2006 1:45:01 pm PDT #365 of 10002

This is an interesting bit, and the roommate & I were discussing it recently.

This is one of the main questions meta-ethicists discuss. One philosopher who gives a fairly readable account of this, from what I remember, is Peter Railton, in his Facts, Values, and Norms: Essays toward a Morality of Consequence. The essay I'm particularly thinking of is: "Aesthetic Value, Moral Value, and the Ambitions of Naturalism".


Bob Bob - Jun 02, 2006 1:47:15 pm PDT #366 of 10002

Have you read any Sider?

I have read some Sider: his essay, "Hell and Vagueness" was good, and his new introduction to philosophy, Riddles of Existence: A Guided Tour of Metaphysics seems, from what I have read of it, to be solid and clear. There's no doubt he's a good philosopher, although I've heard that he's kind of a tool. I hope he doesn't read this board. Anyway, it's just hearsay. But it's true.


Emily - Jun 02, 2006 1:48:29 pm PDT #367 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

It's a little embarrassing to pop this into a conversation in which I'm feeling outclassed and outeducated, but I just graduated again.

Also? Barack Obama is hot shit. Man, what a speaker. Although... I suppose it helps that I'm already in agreement with what he was saying. Still, I liked him.


beth b - Jun 02, 2006 1:50:18 pm PDT #368 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

Hooray for emily


Jesse - Jun 02, 2006 1:50:40 pm PDT #369 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Hooray for Emily!


bon bon - Jun 02, 2006 1:52:02 pm PDT #370 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

Congrats, Emily!

although I've heard that he's kind of a tool. I hope he doesn't read this board. Anyway, it's just hearsay. But it's true.

How could you not love him? Honestly.


Bob Bob - Jun 02, 2006 1:52:04 pm PDT #371 of 10002

I think I need Plantinga for Dummies.

There are three books that might fit that bill. There's Alvin Plantinga's God, Freedom, and Evil, which is his take, for educated laypeople, on the problem of evil. There's James Sennett's Modality, Probability, and Rationality: A Critical Examination of Alvin Plantinga's Philosophy, which places Plantinga's early and middle work in relation to each other (though it's not really for "dummies"; more like advanced philosophy undergrads and beginning philosophy grads). Finally, there's a collection of Plantinga essays, The Analytic Theist, written (of course) by Alvin Plantinga but edited by James Sennett. Nicely, it distinguishes which essays in the book are difficult and which are easy.


Pix - Jun 02, 2006 1:53:23 pm PDT #372 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

t hearting Bob Bob and this whole conversation

I so want to go back to school. Razzafrazza having to work for a living.


Jesse - Jun 02, 2006 1:54:22 pm PDT #373 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Work, shmerk! That's what I say!

... oh crap.