The model of well-defined pure sets is perfectly suited to a philosophical grounding of the real in terms of the empirical object , and this in turn m...
Let’s see if you agree with this: I dont go along with writers like Nagel who want to establish some sort of self-identical ‘I’ that accompanies every...
That’s where probabilistic description comes into play. ‘Postmodern’ quantum mechanics is different so f ways to model how ‘stuffs’ are made from diff...
Relations between relations. To exist is to make a difference. Deleuze is one of the philosophers articulating this idea: “ Normally we think of diffe...
You do both simultaneously: “Although these two sides can be distinguished conceptually, they cannot be separated. It is not as if the two sides or as...
This thinking is the basis of not only a host of postmodern philosophies but of newer thinking in the cognitive sciences , and perhaps physics. “...th...
This sounds like it’s leading toward a kind of panpsychism in the vein of Chalmers: all matter is composed of stuffs just as the psyche is composed of...
The distinction between stuffs and relations is the root of the problem , and is what is driving the Hard Problem. In order to get past this dualistic...
Doesn’t Dennett believe that a thermometer has a bit of consciousness? That is , that consciousness only makes sense when we take the intentional stan...
I do t think consciousness is an ‘it’, some special facility that some living things happen to have produced. Instead , the basis of consciousness is ...
Wouldnt it be more satisfying to be able to see mind and matter as each in its own right possessing attributes that were formerly only seen in the oth...
The hard problem is due to a seemingly irreparable split between dead matter and subjective consciousness, the ‘feeling of what it is like’ to experie...
As in ‘the really, really real’? Or as in ‘pragmatically useful ways of interacting with the world’? I side with those philosophies of science ( Kuhn ...
Einstein’s work was fully compatible with Kantian Idealism, while Newton was following Descartes. This is what I have in mind. It is indebted to Kant ...
Evolutionary theory can be a step in the direction of dissolving the hard problem , but only if we go beyond classical darwinism and conceive of organ...
I guess it was the implications of the sciences I was first exposed to that bowled me over. First came Einstein , which amazed me when I was 16, then ...
folk descriptions have specific meanings for people just as the technical terms used by eliminativists like the Churchlands . And their empirical jarg...
That’s what Heidegger thought. But philosopher of science Joseph Rouse argues that science frequently does play the kind of role people tend to associ...
Given that the ‘ hows’ get their orientation , sense and coherence from the ‘why’s’, I’m not sure how a philosophy could avoid a stance on the ‘hows’....
If you’re trying to distinguish between something you would want to call scientific method from your conception of the methods of inquiry typifying co...
But it does not eliminate the idea of a single unified space-time totality within which relative reference and position are orientated. What it does i...
Do objects occupy space or do they create it? Is extension a pre-assigned property of an object or is it a qualitative change? ( Courtesy of Gilles De...
I do have a question. You chose to appoint a plurality of gods to take the place of a mono-theism. The idea of god as single unified personality was q...
But you haven’t invented , you have reinvented. I’m not saying your account of the genesis of the physical world from gods is a mere duplication of an...
The article seems to back Chalmer’s panpsychism in that it talks about consciousness as a kind of substantive content to be studied alongside matter. ...
I have a hard time thinking of theories by physicists as philosophy. I know it’s at least a form of applied philosophy. We use models from physics as ...
To produce original ideas there has to be a starting point i. the form of a contrast with and critique of an existing philosophical stance. So typical...
But doesn’t the content of the thought process itself unfold this way? Its not as if how we perceive our thinking phenomenologically has to run counte...
What produces complexity? If we think in terms of the neural connectivity underlying deep thinking, isn’t this a process unfolding over time? A superf...
Both sensation and conception are structured i. terms of a temporal unfolding , so depth in time, not depth as a spatial concept. Conscious awareness ...
I would argue that realness is not mere sensation. Such pure experience does not exist. Sensation itself is a correlation and coordination between my ...
And your loves and hates define the limits of your understanding. One might argue that the feeling of depth is a function of the richness , intricacy ...
It seems to me that the kind of science that offers an alternative to mechanism, panpsychism or animism in explaining the origin and nature of the phy...
There are regions of political stability and hegemony , just as there are paradigmatic communities in the sciences. Most of the time we live within th...
When we think of reasoning we tend to gravitate toward formal systems like logic or mathematics. What doesn't immediately come to mind is the kind rea...
In my reading, Nietzsche is very much a systematic thinker. The eternal return of the same does not refer to a repeating cycle in which the contents o...
You say postmodern thinkers reinterpret his ideas for their postmodern projects. This is precisely what every Nietzsche scholar or non-scholar does. T...
How do the new trends and values relate to those of the eras that precede them? With regard to the sciences in particular, does Einstein add cumulativ...
Until it doesn’t. Reason is playing games within a value frame. All the while the frame itself is ever so subtlety being turned topsy turvey. Until lo...
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