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What are the ethical problems with flipping a coin to decide in the trolley problem?
Apr 25 '18 at 5:03
53
What fallacy in Pascal's Wager allows replacing God with the devil?
Jul 18 '17 at 21:17
24
Is it a fallacy to say that a sane person cannot apply rational thought to the motivations of the insane?
Dec 1 '15 at 18:47
22
Why is Aristotle's objection not considered a resolution to Zeno's paradox?
Aug 11 '15 at 23:30
20
Do “if everybody did it” arguments commit a fallacy?
Aug 24 '17 at 18:00
19
For a utilitarian, is a lie morally equivalent to a mistake?
Dec 25 '18 at 11:49
19
Is it a fallacy, and if so which, to believe we are special because our existence on Earth seems improbable?
Oct 6 '16 at 20:09
18
What was Cantor's philosophical reason for accepting the infinite but rejecting the infinitesimal?
Mar 31 '16 at 2:25
17
What is the difference (if any) between “not true” and “false”?
Oct 20 '16 at 0:20
16
What did Kant say on the invention of new terms?
Feb 11 at 9:51
16
What is the philosophical ground for distinguishing logic and mathematics?
May 9 '16 at 22:32
15
Was Bishop Berkeley part of the Enlightenment and if so - how did it fit his adherence to religion?
Apr 29 '18 at 23:57
15
Do Wittgenstein and Quine give the same criticisms of semantics?
Apr 27 '16 at 20:00
15
What are computable numbers, and what is their philosophical significance?
Apr 22 '16 at 0:56
15
What fallacy infers motivation from mere description?
Jun 12 '17 at 2:21
15
Has quantum mechanics destroyed the fundaments of logical reasoning?
Mar 10 '16 at 3:10
15
Do all epistemologies suffer from the “regress of justifications” problem?
Oct 15 '16 at 0:10
15
How does Quine answer the metaphysician's charge that scientism is self-refuting?
Oct 2 '15 at 22:54
14
Where did Kant say that “happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”?
Aug 18 '18 at 22:47
14
How does Putnam's twin earth thought experiment disprove functionalism?
Jul 19 '15 at 3:24
14
What fallacy dismisses criticism of a bad law with “just don't break it”?
Mar 30 '17 at 20:58
14
What are the philosophical consequences of the undecidability of the spectral gap in quantum theory?
Dec 11 '15 at 20:22
14
What makes something mathematics?
Jul 23 '15 at 20:12
14
Does Nietzsche's rejection of Socrates mean that he is a relativist about ethics?
Oct 30 '16 at 23:26
14
Is there a way to avoid Gödel's incompleteness affecting mathematics as a whole?
Apr 14 '16 at 20:44
14
What is an attribute, as used in Spinoza's Ethics?
Aug 9 '16 at 22:21
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What fallacy dismisses problems by presenting “bigger” problems?
Jun 24 '15 at 21:14
13
Does Quine's dissolution of the Analytic/Synthetic distinction challenge mathematical realism?
May 12 '16 at 4:16
13
Are “if smoke then fire” arguments deductive or inductive?
Sep 18 '17 at 23:39
13
Is music just another language?
Jul 21 '16 at 22:36
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