Angelo Cannata

What is supposed to be non metaphysical in your reasoning, what makes it non metaphysical? Saying that you don't want to be metaphysical, or that you ...

It depends on your definition of metaphysics. There isn't a simple and universally agreed definition, so I will give you my definition: metaphysics is...

This is a metaphysical statement. As such, it is exposed to the problems and criticism that metaphysics is exposed to.

You cannot escape metaphysics, with all of its problems, just by acknowledging an unknown World 1. You have already built a metaphysical view, because...

On the contrary, your brain is doing everything: it interprets the presence of the eggs, it counts them, it calculates them, draws conclusions and, fi...

Who establishes that it is not an opinion? Saying that logic is not an opinion implies that you can validate its correctness without using your brain....

The psychologist's perspective is limited inside the field of science. Philosophy wants to understand ultimate questions: that's why philosophy tries ...

If accepting logic is ultimately up to you, then logic is just an opinion. Since you get from logic the hypothesis of the existence of an external wor...

You don't need to be dishonest to mistrust reason and logic. The problem is that the only way we have to check the reliability of reason and logic is ...

What makes you trust reason and logic?

Yes, it is very similar to Berkeley. I think that your point shows again the essential importance of taking perspectives into account. I agree that, u...

I don’t think so: I think that, at that point, an infinite number of questions, perspectives, horizons, hypotheses, come up, waiting for us to explore...

I think that you are right from your own perspective. Actually, what makes a lot of confusion in these discussions about external reality, metaphysics...

You have touched such a lot of the deepest questions that have been faced for thousands of years by all human beings. The specialists in these questio...

One of the main latest phenomenons in philosophy has been the distinction between “continental” and “analytical” philosophy. More specifically, I thin...

We cannot conclude that not everything is relative, because this actually brings us to the contradictory consequence that everything is relative. Let ...

I know this objection. I'm going to explain you the question. If we say that everything is relative, we are forced, by the content of the statement, t...

My conclusion is that, since we cannot think without using our mind, therefore whatever we think cannot claim any truth, any reality, any objectivity.

It is, but I cannot understand how you get the conclusion "therefore one cannot think".

Can you give any evidence that in what you said there is anything, even just a tiny bit, free from any conditioning of your mind?

I cannot know why I am barking loud: it is like wanting to explain why we do philosophy. We just do it, we don’t know the reason. We don’t even know w...

It cannot work. Thinking that it works, even just a little, means that we have some ability get access to the truth, to reality, to how the world real...

You do not directly experience even your mind, because even the very concepts of “direct”, “experience” and “mind” are all constructions of our mind. ...

Honesty does not exist, it never existed. Let’s go to the very roots of the question. Maths is not honest when it tells you that 2+2=4, because that m...

I think most philosophers failed in dealing with the topic of love, either by ignoring it or by dealing with it in a wrong way, like the examples you ...

As a postmodern, as a follower of Vattimo’s weak thought, I see all of this as the nth temptation of philosophy to establish a good ground to support ...

So, why do you see disagreement as a problem? Why should philosophers agree about something?

It looks like you identify philosophy with rationality, but they are not the same thing.

You can't say anything about the nature of the world, because in that case you are just making metaphysics, which is self contradictory, because metap...

Haven't you said this from your own perspective?

I agree, but we should be careful not to turn perspectives into objective realities. This mistake can be avoided by considering that, by talking about...

There's no way of being sure that we are both believing about the same Jones.

You are trying to build a system that includes freedom. This is contradictory. Why do you want to introduce freedom in a system? We introduce elements...

Saying that we are perspectives implies that the idea that "we are perspectives" has a meaning only inside the perspective of those who say it. This i...

If this is true, it means, as a consequence, that what you said has a meaning exclusively inside your narrative, you are inside your narrative as soon...

Even when you tell yourself your internal story, you cannot deduce that you exist, because, whenever you make use of the idea of existence, you are ma...

I completely agree, that’s why I said that, after our work, we need to keep in mind that the very concept of perspective is completely unreliable, bec...

It seems to me that you would like to build a non-dualist philosophy, but actually, at the end, you are still dualist. You wrote Thinking that whateve...

This is what happens in science, but science is liable to be exploited for violence. This is the problem with the concept of “universal”: it is just a...

I think the situation you described has already been happening in nature since the world existed. What you have described doesn’t apply to philosophy ...

Actually I agree with Gadamer's idea that, in interpreting something, there isn't much point in looking for the intention of the author. Once it has b...

As I said, art is infinite, so “aesthetic experience” can have a lot of meanings. As a human, I don’t want to waste my time with low quality aesthetic...

I think you misinterpreted what I wrote, as if I was talking about one single thing and nothing else, while actually I have been talking about degrees...

I think this is an important point to get clarifications. Art can be analyzed critically, trying to define objective elements that witness its value, ...

I think I can add a further explanation about what I consider a misunderstanding of subjectivity, that makes possible the OOO. OOO wants to make, as i...

It seems to me the nth attempt to bring back to life metaphysics, realism, objectivity, by using a false interpretation of subjectivism to support it....

We can consider that what is light and what is darkness can be very subjective from a psychological, emotional point of view. As you hinted, a harsh a...

Saying that evil is inevitable is equivalent to say that it is good. Inevitable means that our world is the best possible, so, the kind of good we can...

There is a generic widespread mistake in most people who try to face the problem of theodicy. The mistake is in dealing with the problem by making use...

It is not by chance that the Enlightenment was a movement that considered rationality the main reference point for humanity. Rationality is a tremendo...