Leontiskos

How about: 1. Mental states are identical to brain states. 2. From (1), talk of mental states is the same as talk of brain states. 3. Ancient peoples ...

Yes, these are good points. The givenness of nature lends itself to wonder and precludes perfect comprehension. There is certainly an interesting way ...

Yes, quite right.

- Your analysis above is somewhat complicated by the fact that for Judaism and Christianity magic is a crime, no? Magic has to do with the manipulatio...

What is your definition of 'magic'?

- What if the desire for coldness is just a way to mask the unappealing flavor of one's drink, as some Europeans would say with respect to American be...

Pascal's Wager would include the premise that one has no way of knowing whether exists. Is this part of your argument?

Superstition goes hand in hand with ignorance, and because our age is wildly ignorant there is a high potential for superstition. For example, suppose...

I literally just explained why that's false. Superstition is a kind of religious excess, and that is why a secular age struggles to wield the word wit...

I'm not sure you're grasping how bad your definition is. According to your definition someone is superstitious if they get a haircut, or buy their gir...

Michael's unedited post: I did see you make this strange argument earlier. As it turns out, we experience objects in various ways. But I'm not really ...

For Locke a primary property belongs to the object, and it seems obvious that one can interact with the same spatial property via both sight and touch...

As I recall, the problem is that Assange professed innocence while utterly failing to comply with the investigation, and this in turn led to something...

Which must of course be defined if indirect realism is to have any content. Remaining at 30,000 feet for the moment, Locke distinguished primary from ...

If you are arguing against bent paddles then I don't think any of us would disagree. My form of realism differs from the indirect realisms on offer by...

Superstition is hard to define, but I think we all know that this is not the definition of superstition. Someone who has thought patterns and behavior...

I think the problem is that you are constantly building your own conclusions into your premises. For example, one of the cruxes of this whole debate i...

What it means is that you are the one required to give a clear argument for your position, and I do not believe you have done so. If we were to do thi...

Can you cite your source? The "epistemological problem of perception." That phrase may capture the problem. As I see it the realism dispute is an epis...

Hence the sentence that followed the one you quoted.

Good post. I agree. And the distinction between physical and phenomenal mediation is useful. This quote seems to identify the method, which is a kind ...

Is that the telos of the press? Advocacy? I think the argument behind much of this is that the telos of the press is to present citizens with accurate...

Good. I was going to lump you with Michael, so I'm glad you agree. I think the reason this seems appropriate to many is because they assume that human...

- In theory scientism should not be a problem on a philosophy forum, but it always seems to be creeping in.

That's why I think this is a cultural and/or philosophical problem. Is there really a great deal of demand for unbiased reporting in the U.S.? The "co...

- :up:

You claim that there is a primacy of the sound over the word or the story, but is this what is happening when we hear a word? For example, if someone ...

Right, and they might also question the rest of your analysis. They might say, for example, that the meaningful story is not posterior to the sounds. ...

So you believe the direct realist would hold that the layer of sensory experience does not exist and therefore the computer layer is most "direct"? Wh...

See: I think there is a general failure to consider a counterfactual understanding of either position. For example, if the indirect realist says that ...

Some are getting close, although I don't think everyone has the same distinction in mind between direct realism and indirect realism. I think the star...

Yeah, it's good stuff. Truth always limps without beauty, poise, and form, and Vervaeke manifests a remarkable beauty and poise when he engages his to...

Yep. I think viewpoint neutrality is important, and objectivity with respect to important stories is important; but on the other hand is the fact that...

I don't think I would use the word "pertinence." If a speaker knows that someone is not listening, then he will not speak; and if a listener knows tha...

Awhile back I downloaded a video from Vervaeke to try to acquaint myself with him, and tonight I finally got around to watching the first hour. It tur...

Well, it seems to me that the speaker is trying to communicate something to the listener, and the listener is trying to understand something from the ...

Suppose you are standing with someone from the Middle East and you notice a man looking towards the two of you. The man flashes the sign, " :up: ". Yo...

Once we hit page 20 we will surely be able to say what it is we are arguing about. :grin:

Regarding this objection, it strikes me as a subtle ignoratio elenchus. The OP was not speaking about "the work environment" in a purely abstract mann...

We're all replying to replies. I am agreeing with Moliere. I think his argument is approximately a million times better than yours.

Right. This should be obvious. Of course, the merry-go-round will now require you to explain what money is. Occasionally it is very useful to pretend ...

True. --- And that is the key to the OP: you don't believe morality exists. I would suggest using more scare quotes.

In other words: Well then what does the "morality" in your phrase, "morality as cooperation" mean? Or when you speak about "moral norms" in the senten...

These are good, concise points. The difficulty for me is that the "Freudian psychologizing" can occur at each stage. Egoists will claim that altruists...

According to who? Certainly not those who practice them. What is the "scientist" even supposed to be doing in such a case? "You say you abstain from p...

What then can descriptive science do? It can study the practices of cultures or people, including their strategies for cooperation. It can study their...

Put differently, to say that morality is for cooperation is a teleological claim, and according to your understanding of science this is not a scienti...

There are fallacies at play here. "A moral norm aids cooperation, therefore the moral norm exists for the sake of cooperation." Not only is this falla...

This is simply confused. Horses are not humans, nor do they approximate humans. Sorry.

I do. We don't educate children the way we train horses, and this is for more or less the reasons you gave. When a 4th grader is taught math, or is ta...