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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 20 December 2012 04:40:09PM 8 points [-]

Thanks for posting this. In the future, please consider adding a paragraph that provides a summary, or at least a snapshot, of the article's contents. In this case, you could have included this one:

For this month’s Carnival, we shall survey a selection of recent posts that are loosely arranged around the theme of existential threats to contemporary philosophy. I focus on four. Pre-theoretic intuitions seem a little less credible as sources of evidence. Talk about possible worlds seems just a bit less scientific. The very idea of rationality looks as though it is being taken over by cognate disciplines, like cognitive science and psychology. And some of the most talented philosophers of the last generation have taken up arms against a scientific theory that enjoys a strong consensus. Some of these threats are disturbing, while others are eminently solvable. All of them deserve wider attention.

Comment author: betterthanwell 21 December 2012 12:35:17PM *  5 points [-]

In the future, please consider adding a paragraph that provides a summary, or at least a snapshot, of the article's contents.

Yes. However, I would suggest not to wait for next time to do it right. Do it right, now.

I will downvote the top post, but I promise to upvote it, if and when benthamite's suggestion is followed.

Sorry for the carrot and stick, but doing so shouldn't take more than a minute.
(Which would be less than was spent on writing this.)

Comment author: alanog 21 December 2012 12:52:36PM 3 points [-]

done now, forgot you could edit these things.

Comment author: betterthanwell 21 December 2012 01:42:44PM 2 points [-]

Neat. Upvote delivered, as promised.