My impression of it being like that is largely due to the split between analytic and continental philosophy. Anglophone universities tend to focus on the former and then the latter has a larger body of work from mainland Europe; the many French existentialist philosophers would be a good example.
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I've got two philosophy degrees, an undergrad and a masters.
My friend's father transitioned to a woman but she kept calling her "Dad". Not to invalidate her identity just that they were both happy to continue describing their relationship with that term.
Philosophers tend to avoid that question and argue about extremely niche things like Ship of Theseus problems.
This post is very specific to your anecdotal experiences
I had a different post that didn't really answer your question. A real answer is that it might not be as much of a problem as you might imagine. Biometric verification is really insecure: something like a 1% false positive rate for fingerprints.
Ideally people would just use passwords like back in the olden days. Longer strings are more secure than random characters.
Edit: should clarify this was for fingerprints unlocking an iphone
I think it's exactly this. My Scottish brain took a while to parse it.
Yeah when I spoke to various folks a lot of them had only met him once before.
This phrase is currently running riot at my work. Leadership have just created a new "North Star" so that they can Kingdom Build and leave their mark; years of progress on other projects are being thrown on a mini-bonfire of the vanities.
Their logic is that women are a historically oppressed group and that certain rights are a zero-sum game. They would say someone who has been born a man has forfeited male privilege and therefore don't have a right to anything which "belongs" to women.
If our discourse wasn't so polarised people wouldn't become entrenched like that but social media has made ration/empathetic discussion impossible.
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Philosophy of science was big when I was still studying it. Stuff like whether the Linean System of classifying species were still fit for purpose or the gaps in our knowledge that modern physics leave.