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AIM: xzJoel

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Location: New Jersey

Occupation: Attorney

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Registration Date: Aug 30, 2005

Usergroup: Sponsors

Rating: 87

Topics Submitted: 51 topics

Total Posts: 1786 (1 per day)

Replies Received: 496

Shouts: 121

Total Time Online: 53 days, 7 hours and 6 minutes

Submission History

Most recent topics:

• On function and science.
  
• Is knowledge compulsion?
  
• Feminism - What's a man to do?
  
• On Gratitude.
  
• What is worthy of worship?
  

Most recent posts:

• C, Perhaps you intend to ask something more than a factual question, but as to at leas that aspect of your question, yes, there is a philosophy of ...
• Markus7, I haven't yet the time to fully respond to each of the posts, but if you haven't read the Cummins article, it covers some good gro...
• Yes, I think it is impossible Without arguing mind/body dualism and the like, suffice it to say that I think intentionality is either an erroneou...
• By the by, without ruining the Cummins article, I point to at least one question that I feel is left unanswered:
• MarchHare, Perhaps you can help a bit further. There is "philosophy of science", "scientists", and "others". If you feel ...

Most recent shouts:

• xzJoel [Aug 18, 2010 - 8:46 PM]: Yay for PF coming back!
• xzJoel [Aug 11, 2010 - 3:47 PM]: Anyone else unable to open threads? I keep getting fatal errors.
• xzJoel [Jul 13, 2010 - 11:45 AM]: There in lies the rub, Sheps. How do you know when someone wants to do something in a way we should respect and when they want to do something in a way that is unacceptable?
• xzJoel [Jul 13, 2010 - 11:25 AM]: Being submissive is different than being subjugated, though I imagine many of those that are subjugated are submissive. Defense mechanisms abound for drawing the shit straw in life.
• xzJoel [Jul 13, 2010 - 11:15 AM]: What is the difference between paternalism and justified interference? Sure, there is some element of cultural superiority to the law, but is there no way to see that outlawing certain oppresive behavior may improve the lives of women who would otherwise have no choice?