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This probably doesn't go any way towards answering you, but note that I should have said something like: "That is, you could argue that species member...
December 01, 2018 at 09:42
By the way, @"Sir2u" amd @"DingoJones": the omnivore argument is pretty lame. Surely people here should agree for the sake of argument with the very r...
December 01, 2018 at 07:23
I can go along with your position that interactions between non-human animals are not governed by morality, and that animals are not moral agents. The...
December 01, 2018 at 07:13
As BC says, hover over the discussion title to see the category. Also, when you're in a discussion the category in the left menu is emphasized in bold...
November 24, 2018 at 11:24
Yes indeed.
November 22, 2018 at 14:52
Darwin explicitly uses it as a metaphor. I can't see in what way he treats it as a deity. On the contrary. Otherwise, you seem to be railing against t...
November 22, 2018 at 10:30
To help people understand natural selection: it is as if there were a breeder selecting suitable variations. How is it duplicity if it's explicitly me...
November 22, 2018 at 10:16
Just use a single thread for all of them please.
November 22, 2018 at 01:36
Yes, in fact I agree. But given Marchesk's definition of indirect perception as the perception of mental objects (as intermediaries between things "ou...
November 21, 2018 at 14:15
There's a missing premise here. You assume the equivalence of the content of perception and the objects of perception. But the content of perception--...
November 21, 2018 at 10:21
The feeling is a property of a system involving the perceiver in an environment, so no, I wouldn't accept your formulation.
November 21, 2018 at 07:34
No, it's the water that is the object of perception in cases both of feeling that's it's cold and feeling that it's warm. EDIT: in fact, the framework...
November 21, 2018 at 07:30
Well yes, perception is relational, depending on both perceiver and perceived (I'd also want to add the environment and the actions of the perceiver, ...
November 21, 2018 at 07:23
Our bodies (eyes, brain, etc) respond in specific ways to our environment. To me that doesn't make colour merely of the body. It is how we see things,...
November 21, 2018 at 07:09
The relational account holds that the leaves themselves are green (under certain conditions etc). This entails that it is not something mental that is...
November 21, 2018 at 07:00
I can't think of a way of saying it more clearly.
November 21, 2018 at 06:56
I think you're missing the point.
November 21, 2018 at 06:55
Why do you reject the relational account, under which colour is a property of perceived things, as perceived in a certain way in a certain environment...
November 21, 2018 at 06:53
I don't see why. Evan Thompson's description is consistent with an account of perception that has been described as "direct". But then, different peop...
November 21, 2018 at 06:48
But the chemical makeup of sugar or reflective surfaces of leaves are properties of those coloured things. It's the leaves--not an "idea" or represent...
November 21, 2018 at 06:39
In: Greetings  — view comment
Seems like you'll be a good addition to the forum jaofao :smile: Welcome
November 16, 2018 at 17:07
Well at least you knew who she was. :wink:
November 16, 2018 at 12:59
We already have a category for psychology: "Humanities and Social Sciences". It's not dedicated to psychology alone, but that seems proper on a philos...
August 30, 2018 at 10:33
:up:
August 20, 2018 at 13:42
I see.
August 20, 2018 at 12:23
I could be wrong but I don't think Tiff was talking about discussions that have been moved to the Lounge. Discussions are moved to the Lounge if that'...
August 20, 2018 at 12:20
Well, we've removed all Lounge discussions now, and that's now my favourite option.
August 17, 2018 at 11:10
It's odd. Some people just prefer the traditional forum design (I don't mean just PF, but in general on the web), though they never seem to be able to...
August 17, 2018 at 10:42
The thing I don't like about using the categories is that the individual active discussions are not listed. I think this is pretty bad for a forum hom...
August 17, 2018 at 09:30
Oh, it looks like we've already implemented the third option, All discussions excluding the Lounge category. Very well.
August 17, 2018 at 09:28
The old forum had that page as well, and it's really the only one I used ("New Posts" I think it was called). The difference here is that I made that ...
August 17, 2018 at 09:18
Note that "All discussions" is effectively active discussions or new posts. That's what I like about it, but I have noticed that it means the front pa...
August 17, 2018 at 09:15
In fact, -ize is older than -ise. Fewer words.
August 02, 2018 at 11:06
We currently have $196, and we have a number of monthly and quarterly subscriptions. Thanks all.
July 30, 2018 at 07:12
:up: :up: :up:
July 02, 2018 at 10:34
The site guidelines are pinned at the very top of the main page. Here's a link: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/480/site-guidelines The mode...
April 11, 2018 at 18:15
@"CuddlyHedgehog" @"Sir2u" Stop it. You want to behave like kids, go somewhere else.
April 05, 2018 at 05:02
In case you missed it, Dennett responded: http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/03/magic-illusions-and-zombies-an-exchange/
April 04, 2018 at 14:28
He gets crucified today, wakes up again on Sunday. Merry Passover.
March 30, 2018 at 14:22
Those who sat on the right in the National Assembly and in the assemblies that followed it were the nobility, and the monarchists. It seems to me that...
March 23, 2018 at 17:51
There was no poll.
March 23, 2018 at 15:33
It was not in the Lounge. It was in "Interesting stuff". Shows how much you can tell from the title.
March 23, 2018 at 14:24
It was worthless. Four pages of garbage.
March 23, 2018 at 14:13
Somewhat off-topic, but... In my experience the opposite is true. Conspiracy theories appeal rather to those who want neat, logical answers, in which ...
March 23, 2018 at 11:55
I use Slack for work and I love it, but I don't really see the benefit for TPF. Even if it were free.
March 22, 2018 at 13:34
Testing oxymoron
March 20, 2018 at 10:07
From the Communist Manifesto. They are not the "rules of Communism" and they are not a description of how communism might work. They are suggestions f...
March 19, 2018 at 07:13
Just the functionality I would expect. EDIT: Well, the way it handles replies to conversations that have been deleted could be improved I guess.
March 13, 2018 at 16:14
Pulled up to the knee is ideal, but that's okay. Very good. :up:
March 13, 2018 at 07:38
In: Belief  — view comment
But for W, to identify a belief is not to identify a thing in the head. To call it a proposition, and to say, "she believes she has legs", is not to s...
March 09, 2018 at 03:22