/lit/ - Literature

the is-ought "problem"

Free will is an illusion.

I like this guy, especially when he affirms to me that it is logical to hate Muslims. Why don't other fine intellects follow in his tradition in rationalizing Islamophobia. I'd defo subscribe to their podcasts otherwise.

I bet you can't name a single philosopher with more podcast downloads.

Could we please keep this pro versus anti-post modernist/post structuralist/Marxist argument thread going so as plebs like me can assimilate the best of both sides and develop an even more peerless centrist position?

>tfw fell for the hard determinism meme
>tfw I can't bring myself to leave bed because I thought that I don't have any choice in the matter
>tfw I'm failing all of my classes now because "nothing I do matters it's all chemical reactions lmao"

Haha this guy thinks he has free will!!! LoL!!!

>>9421327
umm no sweetie, we won

>>9210795
Listen I think before we continue we have to decide on what we mean by podcast, and maybe even what we mean by listen. I think there's a basic level of listen to which we have to adhere and can't question otherwise we can't even listen to anything at all.

>In 1986, as a student at Stanford University, Harris experimented with MDMA
>Leaving Stanford in his second year, he went to India, where he studied meditation with Buddhist and Hindu religious teachers
>Eleven years later, in 1997, he returned to Stanford, completing a B.A. degree in philosophy in 2000

What was Sam Harris really doing in the early 90s? Am I really supposed to believe he spent 1986 to 1997 in Indian studying meditation? He looks like he is hiding something.

>>9120763
you're thinking of Ben Stiller