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Why are humans risk-averse? [closed]
The economic theory and much of the decision theory are based on the assumption that we are risk-averse creatures; in the sense that we are more sensitive to bad outcomes than the good ones and so ...
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Difference between subject and individual by Marx
I would like to know the difference of the concepts of subject and individual philosophically speaking, I'm studying subjectivity theory in Marx and I have doubts about the difference between these ...
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Does a higher level of education result in a stronger believe in determinism and a decrease of free-will? [closed]
As classic education is mostly the study of cause and effects, does it affect the subconscious in the long run to adopt a stronger believe in determinism in comparison to less educated people? Does it ...
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Which philosophers talk about social power structures?
Can anyone recommend philosophers that are concerned with what structures power relationships in society, particularly in workplaces?
I know that Foucault's work was concerned with this in ...
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Are we actually in control of what we want?
Are we really in control of what we want? What might be the most significant philosophical theories or works discussing this problem?
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Foucault's views on biopower
Concepts of biopower is how Foucault analyzes events. So is Foucalt just analyzing events or does he give opinions regarding biopower - for example, whether good establishment of biopower is good or ...
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How to answer this interview question [closed]
My friend is an artist and she has to answer this question but is not sure of the meaning. What does it mean, do you think?
I find you to be incredibly productive and driven, as someone who as Rilke ...
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Relation between intelligence and the ability to experience [closed]
Is the brilliance of a person and his/her ability to experience/enjoy the moment (time and place) related?
For example: Would people with very high scores in SAT, GMAT, CAT etc. be able to ...
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What is Suicide to the Unconscious?
Sigmeund Freud beckoned the importance of the civilized man's unconscious incapability of acknowledging death.
We cannot, indeed, imagine our own death; whenever we try to do so we
find that we ...
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Do different branches of philosophy correlate with different dispositions to psychological attitudes? [closed]
Speaking anecdotally, it's been my experience that logicians have the best senses of humor, metaphysicians tend to a little pomposity and lot of wine, philosophy-of-language types are a little ...
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How to open a closed mind that refers to scientific, logical reasoning as conspiracy theorizing? [closed]
I know someone who swears that (his preferred) academics and the people at Popular Mechanics are more credible than "conspiracy theorists", which is to say anyone who says something he doesn't like. ...
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How does Foucault argue that 'scientia sexualis' is utilised to support state racism?
In his History of Sexuality, Part III: Scientia Sexualis Foucault explores the development of the scientific study of sex, the attempt to unearth the "truth" of sex, a phenomenon which he argues is ...
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Is schizophrenia evidence for doxastic involuntarism? [closed]
doxastic involantarism, states we are not free to chose our beliefs; schizophenics often talk of thoughts being forced upon them, they often have beliefs that are not normative in his society. And ...
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Why does everyone think that it was better “in the good old days”? [closed]
Everyone seems to think that everything was better back when they were doing it, and now everything is much worse. It's mostly not true, when it comes down to facts, yet people never say that things ...
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The problem is choice, (paradox) Or is enhancing choice the solution to increasing free will [closed]
While reading Incognito by David Eagleman, there was a chapter about justice and the neural plasticity of the brain. The ability (or in some cases inability) to regulate "moral" functioning. The legal ...
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Why do scientists get bent out of shape when mystical interpretations of physics are brought up? [closed]
Science typically refers people to Philosophy when such subjects are brought up. But yet they know that there are profound metaphysical implications of the physics of the last century, and since the ...
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Is the opponent process theory of emotion an example of Hegelian synthesis?
http://gettingstronger.org/2010/05/opponent-process-theory/
One basic tenet of the opponent process theory is that there is a gradual unbalancing of the relation between an emotion and its own ...
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Why do we naturally regard the unfamiliar as ridiculous?
(Since there is no Psychology.SE, Ph.SE seemed like the best place to ask this question.)
I have noticed that when a person is presented with an unfamiliar idea, the default reaction is often to ...
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Cognitive science/brain sciences and their impact on philosophy of mathematics
How does/did cognitive science influence philosophy of mathematics? I saw somewhere (Wikipedia, "Cognitive science") that it helped to create new perspective on philosophy of mathematics, but it did ...
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Rationality of Suicide?
I came across a story about a kid who committed suicide after carefully calculating the benefits of life and deciding it was not worth living.
I am wondering if any philosopher has considered the ...
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Should philosophers care about the existence of emotions?
Cody Gray recently asked "Why should philosophers feel any different about the existence of emotions than they do about the color of the sky?" as a rhetoric question. But both physics and psychology ...
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What is Hofstadter's ontology for symbols?
I really liked GEB a few years ago, and have been following up with "I am a Strange Loop" recently. In the book, Douglas Hofstadter tries to better explain his concept of symbols and in particular the ...
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What is morally wrong about altering someone's behavior using psychological conditioning techniques?
I am reading the novel A Clockwork Orange. The priest is very angry at the behavior-altering technique being used on criminals to make them "good" and feels as though it is not right to take away free ...
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Altruistic acts lead to an erosion of motivation. A word to describe this?
Is there perhaps a word or phrase that describes negative selfless behavior?
Generic Behavior:
If a person looks after the needs of others to such an extent that
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The eternal return, as thought experiment: what are the consequences?
Nietsche, as others before and after him (its roots, I am told, are in the West Asian tradition) , espoused the idea of an ever repeating clockwork universe, in which all lives are led over and over; ...
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What's the most enlightening book that you have ever read? [closed]
We don't want to be ignorant. There are so many books out there. Are there any great books that reveal the fundamental laws/principles in an understandable way?
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What is the Special Flower problem? [closed]
I feel like this came to me in a dream, but I remember reading something about something called the Special Flower Paradox, where everyone thinks that since they are subtly subverting from the norm ...
