Category: Philosophy
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News and Other Interesting Things
by Jason Stotts 1. Would the Candiru Fish Really Eat Your Genitals? We’ve all heard the stories of “that fish” in the amazon that can even swim up your stream of urine and lodge itself in your urethra. But, is it true? 2. Are You Guilty of “Virtue-Signaling?” Some people use moral outrage as a signal…
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Aporia: Pleasure
by Jason Stotts Aporia (ἀπορɛία): an impasse, puzzlement, doubt, or confusion; a difficulty encountered in establishing the theoretical truth of a proposition, created by the presence of evidence both for and against it. In this Aporia, I want to inquire into the nature of pleasure. In Eros and Ethos, I made the claim that: Now, I want to explicitly make the…
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Assisted Suicide Now Legal in California
by Jason Stotts The governor of California, Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, has recently made the right choice to sign into law a bill that makes it legal for physicians to prescribe lethal doses of drugs for people who are terminally ill and still mentally competent to make the choice to die (LA Times). This is a…
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News and Other Interesting Things
by Jason Stotts 1. Scientists Celebrate the Weird World of Animal Genitalia Have you ever wondered what penises look like throughout the animal kingdom? Well, it’s your lucky day. (NSFW? Article on WaPo; more on Twitter) 2. How Many Scientists Does It Take to Write a Paper? Apparently, Thousands In less than a decade, Dr. Aad,…
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Intelligence in the Animal World
by Jason Stotts We’ve long known crows are very intelligent, but the level of intelligence in this demonstration is really surprising.
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Women and Sexuality
by Jason Stotts In our culture today, we are inundated by the idea that men are nearly incontrollable sex-monsters who will stop at nothing to satisfy their needs, while women do not enjoy sex and have it merely to achieve some end. Yet, this is a relatively new development as until recently, women were considered…
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Mature Love
by Jason Stotts I saw this series of illustrations earlier and I think it makes a very powerful point: mature love isn’t desperate, mature love is creating a life together through little moments and many choices. While in our culture we are very entrenched in the paradigm of desperate longing (a la Romeo and Juliet),…
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Misquoting Aristotle
by Jason Stotts We’re about one third of the way through editing the penultimate draft of Eros and Ethos and one thing I’m doing is cleaning up some of the quotes that I want to include. With most of the quotes, I already had references, since they came from my own research. However, there were…