Net cool :)

[tinyjo]

Well, I am now cool - it's official. Finally I can bask in the smug glow of having been the first to do something. Yes, the Philosophy magazine is now being discovered by the net community (see here and here) :) I can proudly announce that I sent this link via email ages ago (ah, if only I'd had a livejournal then :) ), already subscribe to the print version of the mag and playtested the Shakespeare vs Britney Spears game! I know that this is appalling boasting but it just makes me feel cool! My fave bits on the site are the Philosophical Health Check and the logic tests, possibly indicating that logic/consistency is very important to me (surprise, surprise). This was also indicated when I did the Morality play test and came out as basically believing that moral principles should be consistent across scale and geography. See - philosophy is cool after all :)

Comments

assuming annoyance

[liriselei.livejournal.com]

cool test - i'm mildly irritated by the PHC, though, since in each of the three cases where they claimed my answers were (wrongly, as much as anything can be right or wrong) in tension it was due to the test's extrapolation of unwarranted assumptions about the motives and reasoning and extent of scope behind my responses - i'd have expected better from a philosophy magazine !

Re: assuming annoyance

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

That was the problem I had with the test when I did it a while back. It claimed that I had two points of tension (one of them being the "evil" as Jinty above, don't recall the other) but even as I was answering the questions I realized that they (the questions) were inadequate, as they were statements with which I was only mostly inclined with which to agree. The test then presumed to tell me how I might resolve my tensions - when, quite frankly, I had already thought about these issues myself.

Re: assuming annoyance

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I think that the test was only saying that these beliefs could be in conflict, not necessarily that they were. If you'd already thought about the issues they raised then that simply shows that your philosophy is already a well examined one in that you have mentally already been through this process for your beliefs and made sure you can reconcile them.

Re: assuming annoyance -- don't

[jinty]

Yeah, to reiterate what tinyjo says above -- just cos you've thought about these issues doesn't mean that everyone will have. Usually they won't have, in fact.

That's why they used the word 'tension' not the words 'right and wrong'.