Heh. I like that movie a lot too. Trying to remember . . . doesn't the main character co-inhabit JM's body along with JM? (Though neither can "speak" ...
Yes. In fact, maybe we should say, not that the object now has the properties, but rather that those properties (which were always there) are now made...
The subjectivity/circularity issue is perhaps even clearer in what Kripke goes on to say here: Pretty clearly, you can't cite the fact that you refer ...
You have indeed. And it makes it clear that my question arises around what you call a possible third level "where we seek to understand what we are do...
OK. So this harks back to the idea that there might be something constitutive of the experience itself which allows us to ID it as a purported memory....
Yes, the quoted passage shows him doing the former. He's trying to lay out the requirements for a consistent picture, not choosing among pictures -- t...
This makes the issue much more precise, thanks. I agree that my question may be, in part, a question about syntax and semantics, about what can be sai...
The informal style of N&N does leave this somewhat open, I agree. Kripke certainly talks as if he means not just how we think, but what is in fact the...
Kripke asks (of Queen Elizabeth): And at several other places he's clear that what makes a person that person is being born of certain parents. Whethe...
That's fair. I was agreeing with Kripke's view here. EDIT: and it raises the interesting question of whether the cogito generates a personal identity....
Yes. See the exchange above about "If I were Barack Obama . . . " Taken literally, it can only mean "If I were not I . . . " which can't get off the g...
This is fine. I don't think we're disagreeing. That's what I was trying to get at by talking about a "seeming image." All we can do is report what it ...
And phenomenology was initially meant as a corrective to this tendency. But as many philosophers have argued since, this is very hard to do. In the ac...
I would divide this into "the subjective experience," described as neutrally as possible, and "the explanation," in this case a purported direct commu...
You know nicer atheists than I do! :smile: I don't think this is the heart of the problem. We routinely accept subjective testimony about all sorts of...
Good post, and like you I think epiphenomenalism has to be wrong. The possible descriptions of the psychophysical nexus, however, need to give a clear...
I don't reject it, in fact such empathy is very important. I just believe it doesn't count as a genuine possible world for philosophical purposes. Loo...
That's a very good way of putting it. Not so sure about this. First of all, I don't take "If I were Barack Obama . . . " as a genuine reference to a p...
Right, this is the same question I'm raising about whether something about reference needs to be included in a list of X's properties. (I'm going to s...
This, I think, deserves attention. You're saying that, because phenomenology et al. are at least "quasi-empirical," we can reasonably abstract from th...
Yes, but let's not forget indexicals. These are rigid designators as well. This seems a little puzzling. Do we want to consider "the fact that I am 'I...
This caught my eye. Could you tighten up a couple of things? First, what would strictly empirical evidence be? Do you mean, say, physical evidence tha...
No, that's clear. The relevant question is: We can do it by talking about how tigers seem, and how we use that seeming to fix the reference. It's a ki...
Depends what counts as part of "everything we know" about X. Does it include "how to fix the reference of X"? If it does, then no, we can't discover t...
Yes, this highlights an important fact about memory, which is its peculiar status as both present and past. We can bracket "a memory" or we can bracke...
Thanks for this thoughtful answer. I understand better what you mean now. But I'm going to take issue with it. It's possible that I haven't succeeded ...
I'm using that term to describe an image that doesn't come to me as a memory -- the snark would be a good example -- but which, as you point out, stil...
I do. When we interrogate "memory" in this way, all the questions you raise are important. Are they phenomenological questions, though? I think the ac...
Yes. I'm getting a lot from what you and @"Richard B" and your interlocutors are discussing. I'm plucking this phrase out of its context because of wh...
I'm going to stay with my simple-minded question, because I genuinely don't understand what this means. When an image of my bedroom as a 5-year-old co...
That's what I want to say too, intuitively. And what this thread is showing is that this idea encounters (at least) two major problems: 1. Whatever th...
This is really interesting. Could I ask a simple-minded question? When you say: are you denying that there is any mental representation at all? Or onl...
Rhetoric aside, and sorry for mine, this comes down to how you think of racism. If "objective racism" means "espouses/acts on consciously held racist ...
I like Gallagher's perspective, and what you write in your post is reasonable and interesting. It falls under the category that both @"Srap Tasmaner" ...
Your posts overlap nicely, and are both extremely interesting. I'll just select a few things to highlight. Yes, and this is what you'd expect to be th...
Kubrick undoubtedly knew that the music he selected for the monolith's appearance was from "Also Sprach Zarathustra", Strauss's tone-poem based on Nie...
Yeah, that was the direction of my wondering, but I'm definitely out of my depth when it comes to how chemists and mathematicians regard questions of ...
This is fascinating, because it's so contrary to my own experience. Yes, I'm familiar with the idea of a conscious "remembering" when we try to rememb...
Pardon my math deficiencies, but I assume this means we can isolate T on the right side of the equation, giving a description of temperature in terms ...
Great. I'll watch for any comments you may post to that thread. I don't really understand that. It's a metaphor, yes? So, truth is "in" the intellect,...
Fair enough. The difference I'm seeing between "yellow," on the one hand, and "self" or "past" or "true event" may not be genuine. But shouldn't the f...
OK. If there is a "sense" of recollection, though, the philosophical/phenomenological part would be: What is it? What does this actually mean, experie...
Wow. You describe this very well. If you don't mind my asking into it some more: Has this created problems for you in your interactions with people, o...
He unquestionably will. And I'll bet good money that he'll have the parade route lined with large portraits of himself (held by "private individuals,"...
Very good. You're right to press me on this. Let me see if I can respond. My question here would be: If this is already a theory, could there ever be ...
But that's just what I'm questioning. It's precisely our interpretation of what "Jill" is going to encompass that will tell us what the "real thing" i...
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