Why? I think you're assuming a bit much to perform your reductio. One pretty important aspect of personhood is being a separate entity developing with...
I think that you and I simply differ on where said decision should be made, then. Birth works well enough for me because it's far before the gray zone...
Oh, certainly not. I don't want Trump to win at all. I wasn't speaking in terms of my desire, but attempting a description of American's behavior. I'm...
If you believe in ensoulment, perhaps. But I am not one of them. Morally speaking the question hinges on personhood, I would say, and how you approach...
Perhaps after he wins and we get to see him in action. Otherwise. . . I think people will say "If only he had won". I'm thinking primarily of Bush II ...
This is a bit easier for me -- less argument, more sharing. :) I tend to have a divided mind on how I'd answer just because some of my beliefs aren't ...
I share your interest in meta-philosophy. But I find it hard to respond to this because it seems like you are brainstorming and chewing more than look...
I'm not quite sure about that part either, now that you mention it. For one, I don't know if it's possible for philosophy to replace religion even in ...
That seems too general to me. And it wouldn't make sense of the difference between philosophical periods, either. The Canon, even, was certainly alway...
http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/JC03folder/ZardozJameson.html I'm trying to track down if this essay is by *the* Frederic Jameson. It fits...
For those interested -- a good follow-up paper: http://www.hist-analytic.com/Gricestrawson.pdf EDIT: My mistake. I was just excited to have found this...
Yes, in some sense that's true, but I would also say that the phenomena of modern philosophy differs from what Plato was doing. Insofar that I underst...
Well, based off of the Quine paper at least, it seems to me that talk of conceptual schemes involves a sort of epistemic primacy of the subject, where...
The latter point is what I mean, yes. I don't know if I'd say it can be translated, but it can be described in purely physicalist terms -- and vice-ve...
The reason I thought you were reifying truth is because actuality is thing-like . . . or at least contains things in it. So my thinking was that if tr...
The first thing that pops to mind, at least, is that in saying "Truth is actuality" you're just reifying truth -- treating the concept of truth as if ...
I didn't claim you didn't have a consistency problem. I opened by saying "You can consistently hold an institutional theory" What it would mean is tha...
Your theory of institutionalization has some peculiar drawbacks. It can be self-consistent, but this would mean that the theory of relativity only bec...
The key in my post is "in the same way" -- I agree with you that a strict physicalism couldn't be wed to a strict idealism. But I don't think adding a...
I think physicalism could be wedded to idealism in the same way that conceptual scheme could be wedded to the other's, at least. Kant's project is som...
These aren't even in the same category. One can do philosophy as a hobby, just like literature, art, and science. If something is a hobby that doesn't...
(part 1) I think we must mean different things by social practice, then. I don't think that because something is a social practice that it depends on ...
People may flock to whatever it is they're drawn to -- but what people flock do isn't a criteria of science anymore than prediction is. Why would that...
Of course it does. But I didn't mean who did you read, but rather what your reasoning is. I disagree with your assertion. Prediction is just a part of...
I prefer to use "asses and elbows" to mean a hustle and bustle which is disorganized due to a mixture of incompetence and a lack of resources. Often u...
True. :D But having occupied public space before, and having no real qualms with firearms, it's not the tactic that bothers me. Just the end-goal. It ...
Ok, that makes sense. That's why I was confused I suppose. I didn't expect Quine to propose that irrational numbers can be "discovered" in some discre...
I mean the very notion of 'conceptual scheme' is not ontologically neutral. And while it could be wedded to any old ontology I don't think that's sing...
While I have a higher opinion of academia than yourself -- and given that I enjoy art for the sake of art, etc, that may be of no surprise -- I found ...
There's an interesting argument that was just made in the Atlantic which I share some sympathies with, too. And, yeah, I could care less that they occ...
I didn't just allude to Ferguson, I said it in my first post. Along with Tamir Rice. I said these because of how close they are in time. There are alw...
I don't believe the complaint is that SWAT should greet the white people, but that it'd be nice to be treated equitably -- and this is just another ex...
YNF :D -- that's a good one. Also something I saw was that the group claimed 150 militiamen, while other sources claimed seeing 15. If my experience s...
Physics is inseparable from calculus -- and much of physics is like this where an understanding of the subject matter depends upon an understanding of...
That's true. But on the latter I think that you're equivocating. Because at the beginning of this paragraph you're talking about beliefs about ontolog...
Wow! I'm glad to have returned to this essay. It meant a lot more to me this time through than I had remembered. Also, I was more able to pick out why...
Just some more bumblings that are going around in my head: Physicists are not guiltless in this matter, either. By way of example: After Heisenberg ha...
I think this is more cultural than anything. Physicists are given a wider berth of respect than psychologists are. So, when a physicist says such and ...
I wouldn't call a belief a bias -- but I would say that beliefs about what is are ontological beliefs. So one does not need to explicitly state that s...
Is Origin of the Species about the state of knowledge, or is it about how species come to be? I take Darwin to be a thorough naturalist, at least late...
Gotcha. I know that Chalmer's in A Conscious Mind points out that work still needs to be done in this region. I wouldn't be surprised if there were so...
Yeah, as far as the science is concerned that sounds like SUAC to me. As far as philosophy is concerned then that's different. I don't think that the ...
Oh OK, my bad. Yes, I would say the CI is making an ontological claim. So if you're saying otherwise then I misunderstood you. To me it sounds like yo...
Is it philosophy or is it science? I think that this problem straddles the line in a similar manner to consciousness. That's probably why people put t...
That's a good refinement. I agree with you. But even then -- how do you determine the realm of possibility? Even in a vague way? Obviously you can't d...
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