23-12-12 I really can't get my head around Berkeleyen idealism, could somebody help me understand how we can have the same experience of something without there being a unique thing to prompt my experience? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-12 Among opponents of just war theory, do any accept jus as bellum (there are just causes) but reject jus in bello (but real wars can never be waged justly)? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-11 My kid said I scratched her legs in an argument but I didn't. I think she's going to tell her therapist that I did. What can I do? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-11 I'm Dr. Jim Ambuske, creator of the podcast Worlds Turned Upside Down, and a historian of the American Revolution. AMA about the coming of the American Revolution! (www.reddit.com)
23-12-11 Jesus is often depicted with a lamb, which is usually white and fluffy. But what did sheep in first century Israel actually look like? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-11 During the years 1906-1975 Sweden had an eugenics program which forcefully sterilized many types of people but what caught my eye was their sterilization of the quote "feebleminded" and "antisocial". What effect did this have on their society? How is someone deemed "antisocial"? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-10 What are your limits or boundaries regarding stripclubs with your SO ? Do you have to be there ? Do you mind if they goes in a private cabin ? What would be your reaction if those personnal limits were crossed? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-11 I am a parent of small children going on a wagon train on the Oregon trail. How do I keep them entertained? Would children of the time have said "Are we there yet?" Or the equivalent. (www.reddit.com)
23-12-11 Why didn't Muslim traders/explorers visit Europe although they visited other non-Muslim regions and continents. What did Muslims think of Europeans in the Middle Ages? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-10 Why did the Jewish people of Algeria after the fall of colonial French Algeria leave for France rather than Israel like most of the other Jewish people of the Middle East and North Africa? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-10 Did Native Americans that didn’t have contact with Europeans yet, but had managed to domesticate horses have any stories or legends to explain where the horses came from? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-10 How does Daniel Dennet think we should go about stopping people from saying we don't have free will and are his views very representative of other compatibilists? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-10 I am interested in the day-to-day of how people lived, ate, cooked, did chores, etc. in different places and periods of history. What is the study of this called, where can I find more of it, and is it history? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 What would happen if I got on a plane to a different English speaking country and claimed I had no memory of where I came from? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-10 People seem to describe every US Presidential election as the most important "in a generation" or "in our lifetime." Were there any elections in the past that were generally regarded as relatively unimportant at the time? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-10 "Personality is an illusion", we all put on an act from the day "you" became you. We are all actors? Are there any good philosophy books that dive into this subject? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 A recent poll claimed that one in five young Americans believe the Holocaust is a myth. How has holocaust denial grown to such an extent given the abundance of evidence and documentation? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 Women who have experienced periods of extremely low energy or "burnout", what do you think was the cause of that period in your life? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 My I girlfriend's cat killed my pet squirrel whom I raised from a baby she was my first ever friend I loved her so much, i always asked my gf not to bring her cat home and 2 days ago this happened and I'm not speaking with her since . It just hurts Am i being wrong ? I'm 21 Male i live far from the (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 Why most philosophers of free will work with the assumption that determinism explains how physical universe works and then try to reconcile it with free will (or not), while we know that quantum theory is fundamentally indeterministic? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-08 In the USA, we have a massive interstate system crossing the entire country that's less than 100 years old. How did the US federal govt get all the land to pull this off and what happened to any opposition efforts that tried to stop it? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 During the European colonization of North America, how come Native Americans died en masse from European diseases, but Europeans did not die en masse from North American diseases? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 The Second World War is probably the most well-documented and widely studied conflict in history. What is an aspect of it that is still not well understood by historians? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 Why did many Japanese POWs (that is, Japanese soldiers that were captured) go into captivity mostly nude or completely naked? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-08 Do any contemporary philosophers take the problem of hard solipsism seriously? I feel like the metaphysics of the past three hundred years has dispelled it as a real "problem" and I only see it come up in silly religious debates between christian presuppositionalists and atheists. (www.reddit.com)
23-12-08 Why are drum magazines on the Thompson submachine gun commonly associated with organised crime in the 20s/30s? Is this just a trope? If not, is there a reason they were favoured, as opposed to box magazines used by the military, or is it simply due to different eras? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-08 If "traditional men" want their partners to be tradwives but also make money, then what kind of job does he expect her to have? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-09 Why were hijackings all the rage in the 1970s? What caused them to seemingly stop being the go-to thing to do for terrorists in the 80s? Why weren’t there post-9/11-style safety regulations implemented after the first hijacking? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-08 How did bloodletting remain such a common medical procedure from antiquity to the 19th century when it was not beneficial and even harmful? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-08 In the 1960s through 1970s the “Indian Health Service” forcefully or manipulatively sterilized 25% to 50% of Native American women as young as 11 years old. Why? Was there any Native resistance? Whatever happened to the survivors? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-08 Is there a name in ethical philosophy for actions that may not be immoral on an individual level, but are problematic on a social level? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-07 HP Lovecraft was notoriously racist, even compared to his contemporaries. Is that because writers of his era were less racist than average? Or would HP Lovecraft’s racism be appalling to even an average person? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-07 Medieval knights were trained from childhood, usually age 7-8, spent most of their youth riding horses, and had to maintain a high degree of athleticism for combat throughout their lives. Is there textual or archaeological evidence of knights having physical issues due to this, such as arthritis? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-07 Are there any notable examples of arguments in the history of philosophy that are generally regarded to be highly valuable but worded *terribly*? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-07 Uranium ore is 40x more common than Silver, and 500x more common than gold. Has there been any historical uses of Uranium Ore before the discovery of Radioactivity? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-07 If Donald Trump is openly telling people he will become a dictator if elected why do the polls have him in a dead heat with Joe Biden? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-06 Why did Arabic numbers and mathematical notation see such quick and universal adoption while no common alphabet made traction? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-07 Is it appropriate for me to pursue Philosophy formally? (Is it wise for a Youtube philosophy fan to actually go into the field?) (www.reddit.com)
23-12-06 Hi I’m Paul, an interpreter at President Lincoln’s Cottage, Lincoln’s summer home where he developed the Emancipation Proclamation. From 12:45- 2:45 pm today I'll be answering questions about “the Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home” and how this place and the people he met here influenced his presidency. (www.reddit.com)
23-12-06 I read somewhere that "women are bourgeois beings", without commenting on this sentence, can you tell me which book it might come from? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-05 Purchased an expensive computer. The merchant cancelled the charge according my credit card company, but the item was shipped and I received it. What can happen in this situation? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-05 In 1976 10 year old Brooke Shields did a number of nude photoshoots for Playboy. How in the world was this legal? Was there any public outrage? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-04 Katanga seemed to be a state created solely by the will of the people. Both poor and rich Whites and Blacks fought alongside one another to protect the land and ensure it's independence from the Congo. If this is true, why exactly did the UN fight so hard to bring Katanga down? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-04 What made 1848 such a big year? Did something specifically happen that caused like half of Europe to make new constitutions that year? Is it the biggest year in the 19th century? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-04 I started my period when I was 10 years old. Does this mean in caveman times I would've started getting pregnant and giving birth at only 10? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-03 How is it that Hinduism is still practiced as a major religion today but not ancient Greek, Egyptian or Persian (Zoroastrian) religions? What factors determine why adherents convert vs. hold on to certain faiths? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-03 Who were the Troglodytae people, why have they been so maligned in history, why is it; even in modern times, to be called a Troglodytae such an insult? By all accounts Cleopatra was able to speak and understand their language so they must have been an advanced enough civilisation to trade with? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-03 Noodles are pretty universal in different cultures across the world, but did they ever develop in the americas? Why or why not? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-03 What would be your thoughts if you discovered someone you were dating purchased sex work from Thailand before being with you? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-03 Was their any truth to the theory that the American revolution happened because of fear that Britain would enforce Somerset vs Stewart (banning slavery on English soil) on it's colonies? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-03 My university's textbook on collective bargaining claims that the term "strike" comes from the 1700s "when sailors enforced their demands for pay raises by striking the topsails, which made ships immovable." Was this actually effective in immobilizing a ship? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-02 How have theist philosophers thought about the possibility of physically repairing dead bodies? How does this work with notions of the afterlife? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-02 In the 1992 track ‘Baby Got Back’ Sir Mix-a-Lot raps, “I’m tired of magazines Sayin’ flat butts are the thing” Was there a time in history when flat bottoms were seen as the ideal form, and what led to the change? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-02 In this video, Simon Blackburn seems to think that we are entering an era of post-analytic-philosophy. How common is this view among analytic philosophers today? Are there any good counter arguments to this view? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-02 Popular culture is full of stories of "lost arts" that actually aren't (we do know how to make damascus steel, for example). Are there technologies or techniques superior to modern ones that actually were, and remain lost? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-02 Women who have been raised by absolutely emotionally unavailable and emotionally abusive parents, how did you cope up with that? (www.reddit.com)
23-12-02 Currently watching Band of Brothers and I'm struck by how often soldiers were receiving mail and sending large packages home (E.G. a full set of silverware). Logistically I'd imagine this posed some challenges; how did post work in the US armed forces during WW2? (www.reddit.com)