I understand your preference for Evidentialism, I just don't see how it applies here. Neither Idealism nor Realism have any more reliable source for t...
Sorry, I mean the following; 1. We enter adult life as Realists for whatever reason (evolution or indoctrination). My test with the laptop the if prov...
No, my premise is that no one has yet provided any evidence that materialism causes any harm or can be proven logically impossible. Those two things m...
Yeah, I'm a big fan of both James and Pierce. " What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that notion were true? ...
Exactly. If the lives of the Idealist and the Realist are identical in behaviour then they are not functionally different and the distinction is point...
You have misunderstood what I said. "Courage is when the desire to help out-competes the desire to remain safe.". The two competing desires in that se...
It's not contrary to many, this is the fundamental tenet of analytical philosophy, it quite well supported, but it is the second option I describe. Yo...
Simple, such a belief has been entirely harmless for the (more than I'd care to mention) years of my life so far. Can anyone say the same of Idealism?...
Begging the question is a statement where the conclusion is presumed to some extent in the premise. I haven't provided you with my premise, just my co...
Is there some way you could provide links to these threads, the case for what benefits alternatives to Realism bring is exactly what I've been asking ...
No, I'm asking you if you have a better alternative to Realism, not a better justification for a belief in it. The reason I'm asking is because the qu...
If we define a moral thing as a thing which has some properties (x,y,and z), then (presuming we all still agree it has those properties), it is possib...
Nope, not getting any of that, are you saying it isn't a valid ideology, or it isn't one amongst many? Those are the only two assertions contained wit...
Exactly. We might well conclude that we can't trust our eyes or that materialism might not encompass all there is, I'd entirely agree, but it's a very...
As reliable as any other, that's the point. Your instincts are there already, for whatever reason, call it hardwiring, call it indoctrination, but the...
Care to explain how? How does one avoid ideology? That's the question I've been trying to address here. What does not having an ideology look like. Wh...
What I'm saying is that in order to describe any action as moral we must presume at least the 'goodness' of the outcome and it must be an action which...
"I perceive something" still presupposes realism (that the something exists). "I experience an internal sensation, one I've come to associate with per...
I'm not talking about how he got his job, I'm talking about why there is a movement within epistemology to take his views seriously, but not those of ...
Yes. The question was what's wrong with that? Where's the epistemological or moral error? Dawkins has taken an issue - say contraception - he's decidi...
I think he might be, yes, but let's not dwell on that. You're right it was a poor analogy because what I'm trying to say is that the reason the Pope i...
Great, that's at least tangible, so could you explain why you think the theory that children naturally, instinctively understand the data they receive...
Right, so back to my earlier question of what does skepticism look like then? You seem quite convinced that there's not enough skepticism but I'm lost...
It is that people are harmed (or rather society's well-being is harmed) I completely agree with your definition that immoral behaviour has to produce ...
Yes, that is exactly what I think, the only evidence that has ever been put forward to suggest otherwise is that they make decisions they later regret...
But that's what virtue ethics is. Planning to murder someone would harm your character because the sort of person who would murder someone isn't the s...
Simple - That education is not about sitting in a school room learning History and English Literature, that it can be about working at a rewarding job...
Absolutely, I just doubt your ability to do so better than the general prescription that thousands of years of cultural and biological evolution plus ...
Fine here's one directly on children, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26370881, though I'm not sure why you would think one on adults wouldn't app...
Yes but chess strategies are hardly ever in the form of "when the Queen is here, move you pawn here" they are in the form of generalised strategies ex...
http://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2653704/patterns-sedentary-behavior-mortality-u-s-middle-aged-older-adults. Sitting for too long causes demonst...
So having a child do healthy satisfying, and rewarding outdoor work on, say, a ranch would be a bad thing, but physically imprisoning then in a school...
Firstly, that Dawkins might be hypocritical in his use of morality does not refute the argument, it just dodges it. Let's say Dawkins never wrote the ...
This is basically the case that I'm trying to make against consequentialism. From where did we acquire the crystal ball with which we determine that t...
Yes, I do, but that doesn't cause any problems for the definition of courage if you also accept the point I've made about multiple desires competing, ...
Yes I do mean the whole "default position deal". Earlier put forward Plantinga's rather weak argument in favour of of his theism and seemed to suggest...
I mean that which is typical of it's class, the conventional meaning for the word 'classic', not 'Classical' as in the historical period. I'm sorry if...
I'm not sure how this makes any difference ethically, we can't all have power either so the rich are still taking from the poor, if I extend my list t...
The "action" I'm referring to is that by which others are being judged to be not skeptical enough, the post started by (and I've interpreted many of t...
I agree, and I'm not so sure is is tangential to this discussion. I think it relates to 's second assertion that "we cannot even locate a reliable sou...
I think you'd have to divide the payment into two parts. I'm not an economist, so I wouldn't claim to know the economic implications of such a payment...
I think this is still true of the type of skepticism being discussed here, it's just that one of the "kinds of things that ‘everyone knows’ to be true...
I'm glad you're still interested. As I wrote earlier, I'm a compatibilist which means I don't believe in free will, not I don't believe in any kind of...
The key question is not what we should doubt, but what doubting looks like. How would one tell that I doubted the entirely physical nature of existenc...
I don't deny that adults have non- or anti-realist views, to do so in the face of overwhelming evidence would indeed be absurd. I'm talking entirely a...
I didn't mention anything about sources of wealth, I said that no-one wants just money, they want the stuff money can buy. What's the use of the milli...
I understand the logic of what you're saying, but it isn't very convincing, it's a story that makes sense - realism is like santa claus, we don't ques...
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