That might be too strong. The cogito does tell me that an aspect of myself manifests itself in the act of thinking. I may not be a "thinking thing" in...
Paul Ricoeur also raises this question of the nature of the "I" of the cogito -- whether what it is is self-evident as a consequence of the cogito. Sa...
Consider the likelihood that human males are hard-wired to find girls (and often boys) sexually attractive from puberty on. What would the ethical con...
Sorry, this might be a silly query but . . . which is "the very point" here? And by "put in question," do you mean "call questionable" or "offer it as...
No, I do not. I think it completely misses the point of ethical thought. But we have to be able to say why, without invoking doubtful premises like "E...
I think this is true, but the "why not be selfish?" question goes further. A version of rational egoism says, "I don't believe 'the good of society' o...
We "need to"? Why? Why in the world should I care about what happened millions of years in the past, or what will happen thousands of years in the fut...
I want to emphasize this point. It’s a big fork in the road for ethical theory. You can try to define ethical words like “ought” and “good” and “right...
I think there's a fourth, which also finesses the knowledge problem: 4. There's the person who has a mystical experience, which is life-changing and w...
Yes, in the sense that we're wondering whether explanation can ever stop, and if so, on what grounds. But the difference I see between arithmetic and ...
No problem, I'll watch for @"Baden"'s reply. FWIW, in mainstream publishing, any previous publication in any form, regardless of how accessible it may...
I think we need to go even deeper, in order to reach a classical idealist understanding of causality and laws. The above statement speaks about a "con...
I think you've now answered my question, but let me explain why the guidelines do not. I have published a number of short stories in print magazines o...
With respect: I have read the guidelines carefully. They don't answer my question. Publishing is not limited to online forums. I'm asking whether any ...
Yes. One of those other ways is what some call "whiggish" -- when we make moral judgments about people in the past as if they should have had the same...
Another possibility: Some (not all) of those who make arguments using the past, want to persuade us of a narrative in which society (almost always Wes...
Thank you for your patience. I'll have to reread AV. Your engagement with it is deeper than mine, and I suspect more accurate as to the arguments. I l...
Yes, this is a good corrective to my somewhat peremptory rejection of MacIntyre's claim, as I understand it. But at the same time, isn't his whole arg...
I think After Virtue is essential reading, but here again we see that one person's "history of philosophy" is another's "tendentious sour-cherry-picki...
Oh, I do. I was trained in classical music theory, and the assumption that complexity equates to quality was nearly unquestioned. Why is Bach better t...
What if we returned to one kind of common talk about reality, where "real" means something like "vivid," "solid," "experientially impressive" -- that ...
The Kimhi connection is interesting. Are you thinking of the passage starting on p. 100 about "Socrates is wise / Diotima is wise"? So associating a p...
Husserl and Frege seem quite similar to me, re psychologism. They both reject the idea that thoughts can only be said to be “caused,” rather than expl...
True, and I admit to a lifelong dislike of the term "real". But when you say that you want to see if "I might have any use for saying something has a ...
Here’s a suggestion I don’t usually make: Do a classic ordinary-language investigation of the word “real.” After you list and explain the 986 differen...
God, no. We tolerate every species of fool in my country; dunno about yours. But tolerate them we do, because freedom of speech is a rights-based equa...
I wonder which respects. I'm assuming you mean "liberalism" as a political philosophy, not the conventional, rather crude binary of liberal vs. conser...
Well, I open my eyes and see a bird, and think, "Huh, a bird" and then I close them and the experience has ended. I know this isn't what you mean, but...
:lol: I appreciate Bloom's scholarship while deploring his politics. Clearly we're differing on how straightforward a reading we should give to the Re...
Your answers are interesting because they help me realize that I'm not speaking precisely enough. Sorry. I wasn't asking about the 1st person thing/so...
Well, but it is. Unless you believe that the description of the divided line itself given in Book VI is mere image or opinion, on the grounds that we ...
Yes, but it does feel like a "move," and I wasn't suggesting it seriously. Good observation. I think that philosophers who are hostile to phenomenolog...
By "actual thoughts" I meant real-time brain events, not the content of those thoughts. It's very plausible that the thought "2+2 = 4", understood as ...
My question for both Descartes and Sartre is this: Are you offering a psychological story -- that is, a story about actual thoughts -- in which case i...
We must have different passages in mind. I'm thinking of Books VI and VII. If the divided line isn't for would-be philosophers, I can't imagine who el...
See above in my reply to @"joshs" concerning my careless use of "most philosophers." Indeed, and in many Platonic cases it did not. As was said by Cou...
You're quite right. Rather than "most philosophers," I should have talked about "a continuing engagement with this question among philosophers who are...
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