Oz ,'First Date'
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.
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.
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.
Hooray for emily
Hooray for Emily!
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.
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.
t hearting Bob Bob and this whole conversation
I so want to go back to school. Razzafrazza having to work for a living.
Work, shmerk! That's what I say!
... oh crap.
I so want to go back to school. Razzafrazza having to work for a living.
I work and I'm in school!!!
Oh, I also want to mention the irony that I was sitting here being impressed about the stuff that regular people know on Cash Cab, while this whole philosophy thing is going on here.