Latest Updated Threads

 | Latest Created Threads


The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    88 Replies

Sci, 2017-08-29, 03:23 PM

The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will


[quote]
[i][color=#141414][size=small]"....the attempt to reconcile human autonomy with the complete randomness of human actions is surely hopeless

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen?


Connected philosophy forum (metaphysics, ontology, theology, ethics)    47 Replies

Sci, 2017-08-29, 03:13 PM

Do Physical Laws Make Things Happen?

[quote]
[color=#141414][size=small][i]The conviction that laws somehow give us a full accounting of events seems often to be based on the idea that they govern the world's substance or matter from ou

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

ORCH OR


Consciousness science forum    No Replies

laborde, 2017-08-29, 06:18 AM

With deep bows to K9 who has just shared this in another space time location (thank god for entanglement). My peculiar interest is stirred @ 19:50 when the discussion turns to the backward time effect. 

More particularly, and to perhaps provoke discussion in this thread, I have long been f

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

Cognitive scientist's comments regarding New Atheist Dennett's book


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    No Replies

Sci, 2017-08-29, 01:04 AM

Cognitive scientist Armin W. Geertz's comments regarding Dennett's supposedly scientific claims about religion

[quote]
[i]"....A recent book by philosopher Daniel C. Dennett, called Breaking the

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

It was raining stones - for 6 years


Skeptic vs. proponent discussion    3 Replies

Pollux, 2017-08-29, 12:03 AM

A case of apport that is really strange - (because of the effort made by the police force involved to find the root of this phenomenon, but to no to no avail) - is the following one:

The incident of stones bombarding a couple

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

Should we scrape Anti Matters?


Feedback and announcements    3 Replies

Sci, 2017-08-28, 07:29 PM

Talking about this site:

http://anti-matters.org

I am one degree removed from Morhroff so I can pose the question to him indirectly....might even get an interview out of it.


  Open Thread

An Empirical Case Against Materialism


Philosophy of mind forum    No Replies

Sci, 2017-08-28, 07:28 PM

An Empirical Case Against Materialism


[quote]
Empirical arguments for materialism are highly circumstantial — based, as they are, upon inductions from our knowledge of the physical

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

Gnosticism & Hermeticism Redux


Spirituality and magic forum: science and practice    23 Replies

Sci, 2017-08-28, 07:22 PM

So this thread is juxtaposed with the Gnosticism Thread on Skeptiko by which I mean there'll probably be some overlap but going to try and further the conversat

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

A poll on the Themes


Feedback and announcements    5 Replies

Pollux, 2017-08-28, 06:06 PM

I dont know if you've noticed but we have installed a few new themes for the forum. Some of them might need some configurations, editing, adjusting etc. to work correctly, but I thought we make a poll to see if people are even interested in any of these 7 themes, that makes it worth the effort to ad

» READ MORE


  Open Thread

Dreams


General paranormal phenomena forum    No Replies

Stan Woolley, 2017-08-28, 03:19 PM

I usually have quite predictable dreams, I remember them quite well as long as I'm not too tired when getting to sleep, and under no time pressure getting up. This one was unusual and interesting:

I was with others, who I didn't recognise but know they were there. I was scribbling on a blank shee

» READ MORE


  Open Thread