spirit-salamander

If that should be the case, I still believe that a definition of ontological naturalism, must necessarily include causality explicitly. This was your ...

I had forgotten to say here that it is not only about the exercise of causality, but also about the undergoing of causality. So to act and to be acted...

As my Oppy quote above shows, the concept of naturalism definitely has to do with causality. And this seems to be mainstream, which is not to say that...

You're not completely wrong, since, as I said, it's philosophically controversial. So, your point is certainly worth discussing.

This is controversial in the philosophy debate. Descartes himself did not consider the "Therefore I am" as a logical conclusion.

@"Herg" @"T Clark" I found something that everyone could be happy with: "There is a widely accepted distinction between ontological naturalism and met...

I think it is not so much a proof but rather the result of some reasoning steps. Since the "I think, therefore I am" is neither scientific nor merely ...

Here is a model of time that I find quite convincing, by the German philosopher Gerold Prauss from his paper The Problem of Time in Kant. In: Kant’s L...

It would be as you say merely theoretical, that is non-empirical, philosophical from almost pure concepts. The question is whether or not you are pers...

@"Bartricks" Or do you mean that idealism is opposed to naturalism? Because the idealist sees himself as immaterialist, but the panpsychist sees himse...

We seem to distinguish between things on the basis of their actualities rather than on the basis of their potentialities. Aquinas thought the other wa...

This is a good starting point. Because you can see from these definitions that they do not give a criterion for how I can distinguish the natural from...

I think the panpsychist would disagree with that. Because: "Panpsychists believe that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the phy...

Okay, you may be right in that I am taking something for granted that is not so the case in philosophy. Nevertheless, I find your definition of natura...

Maybe it's just a kind of definitional game, but I would distinguish materialism, physicalism, and naturalism, with naturalism being the most general ...

Exactly

Since Aquinas thinks neoplatonically, he excludes from the outset that something extended can exist in itself. Kant thinks in principle the same way (...

Monads, at least according to Kant's interpretation, are something extensionless with an extended effect. Therein I saw the similarity to the point pa...

I described only extended particles towards the end of my original post, but there are also point-like particles in physics that have similarities to ...

Here you can find the whole article https://philpapers.org/archive/JONETO.pdf

Thanks for the tips. Most here seem somewhat "hostile" to the idea that consciousness or the mental might be related to a physical field in perhaps on...

I have found another paper on the subject here, from which I quote the abstract and the conclusion. Mostyn W. Jones – Electromagnetic-Field Theories o...

My problem with Aquinas or the Thomist school is that I do not find its synthesis of emanationistic or Neoplatonic pantheism, of Late Jewish/Early Chr...

@"Gregory" @"Metaphysician Undercover" Potentiality and actuality are at least useful words to describe change. In themselves, they are mere empty wor...

I think that if one is in the role of a philosopher, one should refrain from judgment, at least as far as the theoretical of science is concerned. If ...

Philosophers of science may mainly discuss merely among themselves. The normal scientist does not know so much what is going on, except what is said i...

Exactly, Paul Feyerabend even said that the older a tradition (and still in use) is like acupuncture the more truth value it should be given over anyt...

The representatives of ID see themselves as scientific. There is an interview between ID proponent Wendy Wright and Richard Dawkins, in which Dawkins ...

So something like a referee function (role) for the scientific community. That would be reasonable.

It is said that only if there is at least one ought in the premises, then the ought in the conclusion is justified. My point was, one can extend this....

There is a review of this book by a certain Daniel H. Chew that comes to a similar conclusion: "In conclusion, while Feser has in fact written a great...

Thank you for the reference. But my question would be whether every logically structured argument must have an Aristotelian structure to be valid?

Okay, this would be another premise, that there needs to be a strong interest in what is wanted. It must be such that the absence of it would be a neg...

I guess you have to commit to cases where it's a matter of life and death. Thus, the ought always becomes binding when the other person will soon die ...

@"javi2541997" (1) a must (necessary condition) do x for y to happen. (2) That y happens is something a wants. The conclusion is then: (3) So a must (...

One can quote Walter Kaufmann on Aquinas' proof of God from movement or causation to what you have said: "What at first seemed to be a simple proof is...

Thanks for the advice. Actually, I've already left a lot out. I have, of course, detached the quotes from their context, but incorporated them into my...

@"180 Proof" There you go.

So let's wait and see what future research reveals.

Maybe you are right. However, if the law of conservation of energy is violated in the process, is it so bad that this law is violated? Is the law real...

Yes, I agree with you, if there is no way to detect a mental field by experiment, it is all no longer an empirical thing, but just purely philosophica...

Good questions, I have not reached that stage to be able to answer all this satisfactorily. I was primarily interested in a basic modeling of consciou...

Yes I agree, a panpsychic conception makes it even more believable.

What do you think physicists today consider to be the stuff of the world? I always thought they made a matter/field distinction, that is, assume the e...

Thanks for the tip.

No, I must have expressed myself in a misleading way. The fields are dynamic insofar as with them an absolute coming into being and passing away preva...

Yes, without a solid core, you pop away in an instant.

But fields are not static, are they? I think they are completely dynamic.

Okay, consciousness, could still be attributed to quantum stuff as a third possibility or to something else entirely as a fourth possibility, as in th...