I just mean that a brute fact is true for no reason. We can't deduce it from and therefore explain it with a theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bru...
As I see it, scientists and philosophers are both constrained by facts and the way their beliefs and hypotheses are expected to fit together. An exalt...
:up: One way to check the health of a democracy would be to see whether the will of the people is manifest in the laws. Along these lines, we'd want t...
As I understand it, lots of philosophers simply make what is already going on explicit. They foreground what in retrospect was haunting the background...
This might be helpful. In other words, I might be caused to report seeing red by radiation of a certain frequency hitting my retina, but this does not...
I should add that I even leaned in earlier in the thread and suggested that the minds are indivisible in the sense that persons are unified targets fo...
Sure. Since I've been here, it's pretty much @"Bartricks" insisting the mind is indivisible and ignoring all criticisms of his arguments, all the whil...
How would you support your claim about this hermit ? Presumably some public action would be interpreted in terms of a private experience. Also, how ca...
As far as I can tell, you are leaping from 'mind' being a singular noun to some dusty ontological thesis. Do you think boats have ovaries? Can rivers ...
I don't dispute that. It's a big tent. To me we'd look not at the common desire to play lord and master but rather to whether or not human beings are ...
Mostly agreed, but it may become more relevant and therefore apply to the future of the US labor movement and not just its past. If the kids are going...
. My point is that "the mind is indivisible" is (approximately) not even wrong. It's mostly useless hot air, probably religiously motivated. The squar...
Some views are not even wrong, or embedded in frameworks of assumptions so rickety that they are not even worth refuting. I don't want to charge at wi...
It's not 'our reason' but merely a piece of the philosophical tradition (centered on Descartes) that tells you (not us) that souls are immaterial mind...
I agree. It's as if we are programmed to understand more more more. Enlarge the causal nexus, enlarge the domain of familiarity and mastery. Can't rem...
This seems to get things right enough. Far more than beavers, we create the world we study as our study gives us more and more power to shape that wor...
Perhaps we should distinguish between a sense of human entitlement (lords and masters, gifted this garden by god) from the adoption of norms governing...
This reminds me of Feuerbach's interpretation. God is above and distinct from nature, hence the prohibition of (nature-referencing) images of the divi...
I think that's how Sellars sees it too, and I think I agree. But it's convenient to talk about this or that piece or aspect of nature. 'Rational' huma...
I think I know what you mean, and I agree. It's only after evolution has happened that its story can be told. But is this more problematic than theori...
It's a cluster of ideas, but let me give you one, which is not so off-topic. At the moment, the internet lives on giant servers owned by the rich, so ...
We might say that a person thinks with their mind. But whatever we decide, we should (again) be wary of whether we are just teaching some useless idio...
The debate is over whether this is what the debate is over. The deeper issue is your fixation on an obsolete dichotomy. How much phlogiston's in an an...
I'm ambivalent about the 'lords and masters' idea. I think we want access to nutritious food, effective medicine, protection from storms, etc., but we...
I think that's Sellars' explicit goal. If we imagine a species evolving a second-order tradition of norms for establishing beliefs (a way of talking a...
This sounds right, but I don't really see the conflict. We can choose to use 'scientific image' to refer to a set of relatively settled beliefs while ...
Power corrupts. That's the problem. How can we make power fragile and responsive to the people? But we need also worry about the madness of mobs. Let'...
Actually just really read Descartes lately. Of course I was aware of his ideas, but it was useful to see them in context. As you may remember, he also...
Hoffa and mob stuff comes to mind, but then I think we just need unions that are harder to corrupt. We need to keep trying to find corruption-resistan...
What's wrong with this view? Why couldn't chance invent something that thereafter defies chance as much as it can manage the job ? Self-sustaining, du...
Maybe it's best to talk more concretely. Imagine a chaotic soup of items which are capable of being arranged in self-replicating structures. Perhaps s...
For some perhaps, and this might sketch an ideal witnessing, but I can't help but think of the evangelists I tend to see in the world these days...agg...
This is a good description of us fitting ourselves to our own machines, become their obedient robots. It's easy to imagine AI playing larger and large...
It seems we agree on the important of the humanities. A good citizen needs critical thinking and historical awareness. A mere cog in the machine, howe...
As I see it, it is the claims that apply concepts like evolution which are more or less justified in terms of the usual scientific/rational norms. Thi...
Think of 2 representing the height of a mound of dirt and -2 representing the depth of a hole beside it. Perhaps the unit of length is a stick used to...
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