# Latest **URL:** https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/latest.md?page=6 [Latest](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/tags.md) **Page:** 7 --- ## [My Argument for Panpsychism(ish?)](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/my-argument-for-panpsychism-ish/1737)
**Author:** [@Existism](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Existism)\ **Replies:** 201\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/my-argument-for-panpsychism-ish/1737 "2026-08-24T18:40:02Z")
First off, my main argument for the mind being physical is simply that we have never observed a mind independent of a physical brain. With that out of the way, here is why I find panpsychism… More tempting than emergenti… --- ## [Old philosophical debates](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/old-philosophical-debates/2632)
**Author:** [@Dobbler](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Dobbler)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/old-philosophical-debates/2632 "2026-08-24T17:49:14Z")
I find I have very little patience with re-litigating well established philosophical debates. I also find that such re-litigation seems so profuse in online spaces as to be the rule rather than the exception. On the one… --- ## [Should citizens be allowed to own semi-automatic firearms?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/should-citizens-be-allowed-to-own-semi-automatic-firearms/2151)
**Author:** [@TheLonelyPhilosopher](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/TheLonelyPhilosopher)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/should-citizens-be-allowed-to-own-semi-automatic-firearms/2151 "2026-08-24T15:45:46Z")
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st century, there have been thousands of mass shootings around the world. A significant proportion of these attacks have involved the use of semi-automatic firearms. From the 20… --- ## [AI is Evolution Succeeding](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/ai-is-evolution-succeeding/2607)
**Author:** [@ucarr](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/ucarr)\ **Replies:** 34\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2026, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/ai-is-evolution-succeeding/2607 "2026-08-23T19:16:13Z")
If I program an AI to find the most efficient and thorough way to achieve a presumably innocent goal, innocently allowing it robust defenses for protecting the stability and persistence of the results and ramifications o… --- ## [Davidson: Truth and Meaning](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/davidson-truth-and-meaning/2113)
**Author:** [@Banno](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Banno)\ **Replies:** 130\ **Last updated:** [August 23, 2026, 7:43am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/davidson-truth-and-meaning/2113 "2026-08-23T07:43:47Z")
Continuing the discussion from Davidson: Actions, Reasons, and Causes, I’d like to move on to Davidson’s ideas concerning meaning. The paper being considered is Truth and Meaning. The pretence is that of building a theo… --- ## [Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026 and Realism](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/solar-eclipse-of-august-12-2026-and-realism/2264)
**Author:** [@Javi](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Javi)\ **Replies:** 156\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/solar-eclipse-of-august-12-2026-and-realism/2264 "2026-08-22T18:47:05Z")
Today it will happen a solar eclipse. I started to wonder what metaphysical implications on this may be. Given the fact that a solar eclipse is an astronomical event, I believe it should be approached by the framework … --- ## [The Inanimate Theory: The Illusion of Life and the Self](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-inanimate-theory-the-illusion-of-life-and-the-self/2532)
**Author:** [@Username.A](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Username.A)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-inanimate-theory-the-illusion-of-life-and-the-self/2532 "2026-08-22T12:17:52Z")
A theory I came up with a few months ago is something I call the Inanimate Theory. The basic idea is that life as we understand it may not be fundamentally alive in the way we intuitively think it is. Instead, living org… --- ## [Chaos - The Law](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/chaos-the-law/2268)
**Author:** [@Googletranslator](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Googletranslator)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [August 22, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/chaos-the-law/2268 "2026-08-22T00:59:58Z")
People often view the world as an order where good people are rewarded and bad people are punished. But simply put, looking deeper, we can only conclude that it’s all chaos. I’m not saying this denies that good people d… --- ## [What is the Difference Between Religion and Spiritual Philosophy?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-religion-and-spiritual-philosophy/2168)
**Author:** [@JACK](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/JACK)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-religion-and-spiritual-philosophy/2168 "2026-08-21T15:54:22Z")
I began my own philosophical journey from the basis of trying to understand religious thinking, especially in the form of Catholicism. However, I was aware of many different perspectives of ‘truth’, ranging from Western … --- ## [To What Extent Are Labels of Positions Useful in Philosophical Understanding?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/to-what-extent-are-labels-of-positions-useful-in-philosophical-understanding/2275)
**Author:** [@JACK](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/JACK)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 21, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/to-what-extent-are-labels-of-positions-useful-in-philosophical-understanding/2275 "2026-08-21T15:53:50Z")
I am writing this specific thread because in many discussions, specific labelled positions ranging from substance dualism, non-dualism, theism and pantheism, consciousness and the subconscious are used as ibasis for disc… --- ## [An argument for the existence of God](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/an-argument-for-the-existence-of-god/1217)
**Author:** [@MoK](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/MoK)\ **Replies:** 371\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2026, 9:19pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/an-argument-for-the-existence-of-god/1217 "2026-08-20T21:19:16Z")
In this thread, I provide an argument for the existence of God. This argument is based on the theories of the beginning of the universe. These theories can be divided into two main types: 1) Theories that time has a defi… --- ## [On the purpose of metaphysics, historically and today](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/on-the-purpose-of-metaphysics-historically-and-today/2090)
**Author:** [@Geoff\_Dann](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Geoff_Dann)\ **Replies:** 326\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2026, 8:18am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/on-the-purpose-of-metaphysics-historically-and-today/2090 "2026-08-20T08:18:31Z")
Metaphysics is a broad area of philosophy which has historically ceded ground to science, but which remains very much alive regardless of numerous attempts to finally kill it off. Its purpose must be defined in terms of … --- ## [The Philosophical Law of Self-Interest - in Economics](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-philosophical-law-of-self-interest-in-economics/2601)
**Author:** [@Flying](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Flying)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2026, 12:44am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-philosophical-law-of-self-interest-in-economics/2601 "2026-08-20T00:44:47Z")
Previously, in the “Ethics” category, I published several posts on the negative effects of the law of self-interest in society—as the primary source of injustice and evil on earth—and in “Social Philosophy,” I discussed … --- ## [Could the brain and body anchor consciousness rather than create it?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/could-the-brain-and-body-anchor-consciousness-rather-than-create-it/2526)
**Author:** [@TheBigC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/TheBigC)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [August 19, 2026, 2:19pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/could-the-brain-and-body-anchor-consciousness-rather-than-create-it/2526 "2026-08-19T14:19:58Z")
I’ve been thinking about consciousness and I wanna know where the logic actually falls apart, because I feel like I’m onto something but I also know similar ideas probably already exist. My main thought is that the brai… --- ## [After Postmodernism: OOO, Speculative Realism, and the Metamodern](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/after-postmodernism-ooo-speculative-realism-and-the-metamodern/1360)
**Author:** [@VerticalOntology](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/VerticalOntology)\ **Replies:** 150\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2026, 5:30pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/after-postmodernism-ooo-speculative-realism-and-the-metamodern/1360 "2026-08-18T17:30:42Z")
Harman and OOO Graham Harman’s Object-Oriented Ontology as a Symptom of Philosophical Crisis One of the notable post-postmodern philosophies is Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology. Its key optic is typical of the p… --- ## [The Good Life: Reflections on Philosophical Counseling ](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-good-life-reflections-on-philosophical-counseling/2411)
**Author:** [@Existentialism97](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Existentialism97)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [August 18, 2026, 12:18am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-good-life-reflections-on-philosophical-counseling/2411 "2026-08-18T00:18:19Z")
“For I have this in common with the midwives: I am sterile in point of wisdom, and the reproach which has often been brought against me, that I question others but make no reply myself about anything, because I have no … --- ## [Power and Corruption](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/power-and-corruption/2561)
**Author:** [@invicta](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/invicta)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2026, 9:08pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/power-and-corruption/2561 "2026-08-17T21:08:04Z")
This is an exploratory topic on power and corruption and as such I welcome different takes/views/input on the topic . Give someone some level of responsibility or power and it will reveal their true colour. Let’s say we… --- ## [Is Every Personal Interest Egoism?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/is-every-personal-interest-egoism/1593)
**Author:** [@Flying](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Flying)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [August 17, 2026, 6:44am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/is-every-personal-interest-egoism/1593 "2026-08-17T06:44:52Z")
In discussions about human behavior, I have repeatedly encountered the view that if a person acts in their own interests, this is already egoism. At first glance, this seems logical. But is every personal interest reall… --- ## [What are signs ? What is meaning?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/what-are-signs-what-is-meaning/972)
**Author:** [@j\_j](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/j_j)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2026, 11:22pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/what-are-signs-what-is-meaning/972 "2026-08-16T23:22:17Z")
A dictionary defines ‘meaning’ as the thing one intends to convey especially by language. Note this metaphor (?) of conveyance. The meaning is “carried” by the sentence, for instance. I suggest that this buried metaphor… --- ## [Religionless Christianity: Faith in the Modern Age](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/religionless-christianity-faith-in-the-modern-age/2144)
**Author:** [@Existentialism97](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Existentialism97)\ **Replies:** 62\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2026, 9:33pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/religionless-christianity-faith-in-the-modern-age/2144 "2026-08-16T21:33:17Z")
To give some background, I grew up a very lukewarm Roman Catholic; My dad went to church on Sundays, and my mother stayed home. I grew up knowing the Lord’s Prayer and knowing the moral truths outlined in the Sermon on t… --- ## [Enhanced color vision](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/enhanced-color-vision/1184)
**Author:** [@jkop](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/jkop)\ **Replies:** 94\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/enhanced-color-vision/1184 "2026-08-16T12:51:17Z")
Here’s an image display technology promising to elicit full trichromatic color vision in a red-green colorblind person, or tetrachromacy in a human trichromat. At least it can evoke the experience of a new colour called o… --- ## [Excellence of Brain Power](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/excellence-of-brain-power/2544)
**Author:** [@Garon](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Garon)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2026, 12:48pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/excellence-of-brain-power/2544 "2026-08-16T12:48:39Z")
Science seeks facts about things, but in some cases science cannot find a fact. Sometimes it’s good to submit thinking with science’s rate, but other times it is good to regard excellence of brain power. Science has no… --- ## [An Immaterial Philosophy of Mind](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/an-immaterial-philosophy-of-mind/492)
**Author:** [@Wayfarer](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Wayfarer)\ **Replies:** 543\ **Last updated:** [August 16, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/an-immaterial-philosophy-of-mind/492 "2026-08-16T11:08:03Z")
In Plato’s dialogue The Phaedo, the philosopher Socrates spends the final hours before his execution discussing philosophy with his friends in a prison cell in Athens. This essay looks at one of his arguments. Today’s s… --- ## [On the nature of God](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/on-the-nature-of-god/1143)
**Author:** [@MoK](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/MoK)\ **Replies:** 218\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/on-the-nature-of-god/1143 "2026-08-15T21:24:35Z")
Good and Evil are two fundamental features of any reality that are important when discussing the nature of God and existence in general. God is mostly considered to be Good or Benevolent. It is not clear why humans have … --- ## [The Death of God: Alternative Conceptions of the Almighty](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-death-of-god-alternative-conceptions-of-the-almighty/2192)
**Author:** [@Existentialism97](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Existentialism97)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/the-death-of-god-alternative-conceptions-of-the-almighty/2192 "2026-08-15T13:54:02Z")
Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly: “I seek God! I seek God!”—As many of those who did not believe in God were standing around… --- ## [Declassification of cannabis in some countries](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/declassification-of-cannabis-in-some-countries/2165)
**Author:** [@invicta](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/invicta)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2026, 7:53am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/declassification-of-cannabis-in-some-countries/2165 "2026-08-15T07:53:51Z")
Depending on the legislation of certain countries cannabis has a different legal status. Yet some countries have justified law to penalise those that manufacture it. I don’t know the full reasoning behind it. there’s pu… --- ## [Kant for beginners?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/kant-for-beginners/2250)
**Author:** [@yzz](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/yzz)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [August 15, 2026, 4:23am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/kant-for-beginners/2250 "2026-08-15T04:23:47Z")
I’m currently in university, and I am very interested in taking at least one philosophy class (I am an engineering major). However, the only class that is currently available for me is a class about Kant’s Critique of Pu… --- ## [Realism and its Discontents](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/realism-and-its-discontents/2198)
**Author:** [@Wayfarer](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/Wayfarer)\ **Replies:** 43\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2026, 9:27am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/realism-and-its-discontents/2198 "2026-08-14T09:27:45Z")
I’ve created a new thread based on the discussion below as it outgrew the ‘Favourite Philosophical Ideas’ thread in which it originated. The Bent Stick The ‘bent stick’ objection is easily dealt with. The objection w… --- ## [Are most/all of the common negatives railed at communism just capitalist propaganda?](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/are-most-all-of-the-common-negatives-railed-at-communism-just-capitalist-propaganda/408)
**Author:** [@unimportant](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/unimportant)\ **Replies:** 346\ **Last updated:** [August 14, 2026, 6:11am UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/are-most-all-of-the-common-negatives-railed-at-communism-just-capitalist-propaganda/408 "2026-08-14T06:11:51Z")
The usual couple off the top of my head are: -communism killed 100/x million people. -communism will inevitably become corrupt when a single or several dictators/bureaucrats take over power. I have been listening to a… --- ## [Marxist Labor Theory of Value](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/marxist-labor-theory-of-value/2054)
**Author:** [@TheEudemian](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/u/TheEudemian)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 13, 2026, 5:45pm UTC](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/t/marxist-labor-theory-of-value/2054 "2026-08-13T17:45:53Z")
I am not that familiar with marxism and would like to learn about it more through dialogue; so, in an effort to do so, I would like to elucidate my issues with Marx’s Labor Theory of Value (LTV) and hear everyone’s thoug… [Previous page](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/latest.md?page=5) [Next page](https://www.thephilosophyforum.com/latest.md?page=7)