/lit/ - Literature

>>2529869
No there isn't. But is more complicated than previously thought. Typical scenario in science.

Obviously I'm an atheist. The brightest people are. That is another reason to be an atheist.

There are generally 4 approaches that somewhat overlap.

Historical approach. Start with the oldest and read. One can also read secondary literature e.g. Russell's history of western philosophy.

Topical approach. Read about stuff that interests you. A good idea is using Wikipedia, SEP, IEP and various papers on the subject, or lastly, entire books.

Textbook approach. Find a general introduction to philosophy textbook. E.g. Quine et al's The Web of Belief or Russell's Problem of Philosophy.

Book approach. Start with some large book written by a particular philosopher that the person recommending likes.

I think the first approach is immensely boring and tend to just make people quit. Unfortunately, many people here recommend it with the predictable results.

The second approach that people here generally recommend is the 4th which is by far the worst idea. No one should ever start philosophy with reading e.g. Kant's Critique of whatever. Pretty much no one should ever read Hegel or the likes.

As for the 2nd and 3rd approaches. I don't know what is the best. Pick whatever suits you.

Pretty good analogy to the paper morons. Ebooks superior.

I looked a bit but can't find any actual survey data. Does anyone know of any? I want to know how common student teacher sex relationships are. I'm thinking that they are more common than is normally thought. I'm fairly sure it is mostly male teacher female student. Women are hypergamous, and it is not particularly hard to hide such a relationship, and people have good reason to hide them.

Also, this made me think of: Wonder Boys (2000), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185014/

>>2525836
Yes. That's the general theory. It doesn't work well for people living in the polar region as they are less smart than the Caucasians and East Asians, but the theory predicts that they are smarter (their climate is colder/more harsh). So something has to be added to make it work. I'm thinking inbreed depression due to small population size, but nobody knows AFAIK.

See e.g.: Temperature, skin color, per capita income, and IQ: An international perspective
www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~rs1/sdarticle-3.pdf

>>2525800
Normally, one is referring to sub-Saharan Africans. Those in upper Africa are much smarter and also had great cultures etc.

>>2525701
Dawkins didn't change his mind. He just said that he isn't 100% certain. He wrote the same thing in TGD. If that is what one means with "agnostic", then he is an agnostic atheist.

Depends on what level material you want. Dawkins is fine for science minded people, but not particularly good for philosophically minded people. For more philosophical material, see the texts in the libraries here:
http://www.infidels.org/library/
Lots of good stuff in there. For a more general treatment, I've heard good things about Atheism: A Philosophical Justification by Michael Martin, but haven't read it myself.
The most impressive and detailed atheist book ever must be Sobel's Logic and Theism. It is very technical. One needs to be really good at logic to understand much of it.

Hume is quite readable without secondary literature, though I still recommend using secondary literature or at least a primary with some commentary. Also start with his Enquiries, not the Treatise.

Kant is not very readable. I suggest sticking with secondary literature.

I don't know about Locke.

>>2522163
Writing style, respect for the natural sciences, etc.

See e.g.: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/824-postmodernism-disrobed

>Suppose you are an intellectual impostor with nothing to say, but with strong ambitions to succeed in academic life, collect a coterie of reverent disciples and have students around the world anoint your pages with respectful yellow highlighter. What kind of literary style would you cultivate? Not a lucid one, surely, for clarity would expose your lack of content. The chances are that you would produce something like the following:

[continental philosophy/psychoanalytics]

Never to all of them.

Presuming this is about meta-ethics, the answer is obviously 'objectivism' (not Ayn Rand kind).

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Q: But I can't write in the right alphabet.
A: Use the internet to find the characters. Copy them on a one by one basis to from the words you need. Otherwise, if using windows, use charmap (run→"charmap").

>>2519562
No idea what this post means.

>>2519566
No one said they were identical. But they correlate pretty well.

>>2519558
Because I am right and it is interesting. The data from previous studies on IQ per major are interesting.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/01/classicists-are-smart/

duolingo.com

>>2519229
Those aren't that strange. Pick some that shares no history with European languages, at least, as far as we know. Pick something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirah%C3%A3_language

Looks useful. Thanks.

>Because /lit/ is the most intelligent board on 4chan, I decided to post this here.

I think /sci/ may be smarter. Does anyone actually have any data? It should be relatively easy to set up a system to measure IQ and ask users to select a primary board.

>>2519529
Of course they are. Impossible to understand a lot of stuff without understanding stats.

>>2518092

This is the best post I've seen in a long while on /lit/. I'm not surprised at all it came from a math students. I love applied math. :)

Everybody should know about confidence intervals, p-values, (Pearson) correlations, standard deviations, and for a more broad touch, publication bias.

>>2518114
Freud is outdated trash. Get over it.

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The picture, btw, is surely correct. God damn lit students and teachers. >_< Fucking text analysis is useless. The history of why we have it in our schools is pretty interesting.

>>2513330
D also works.>>2513177 is correct.

>>2513133
C, although B would be fine as well, they seem to want to repeat "his" every time.

>>2513309
I think that we should just continue to use the current terms while recognizing that they have changed their meaning over time.

>>2513321
Wiki lists him as: School Continental philosophy, post-structuralism, discourse analysis.

No thanks.