Not so sure about "logical ideas" (maybe just "ideas"?) but otherwise I agree. At this point we need to make sure it's not just a dispute over terms. ...
Interesting paper, thanks, though I lack the background for some of the science. Still, I think I get the point. But I don't understand how anything A...
Right. "The thermostat is sensitive to the temperature" vs. "I feel warm ". Either is good English, but the philosophical difference is considerable. ...
Yes, and if you "define down" sensing so that it becomes something a thermostat can do, then you're still minus a theory of consciousness, which now h...
I must be missing something. Why do you need a "who" to monitor anything? A thermostat monitors itself just fine. It receives a stimulus and responds ...
But to know that they were "sensors," you'd have to already be importing some idea of what it means to sense, i.e., be conscious. Otherwise, aren't th...
I agree. I took that to be part of asking how a "sense" of stimuli could take place. I don't read "arises" as a type of causation. We need a verb to d...
There's a reason why Chalmers says "arises from" rather than "is caused by." You're assuming causation here, but that's not built into the hard proble...
But this just pushes back the theory of error one step. So these philosophers are offering fairly pained interpolations, trying to rescue nonsense? Bu...
Fair enough, and of course the response of someone like you, who's clearly done his reading, makes me think I've still missed something with Derrida. ...
Good point. My response to @"T Clark", above, is an attempt to mount such a defense, in the spirit of charity. But you're right, it's open to a lot of...
Well, not quite. The response I and others are making is more like, "Keep trying." And the "keep trying" can take many forms, including asking another...
This all makes sense. The separation of realism from conventionalism and nominalism is important, I agree. (Sider speaks about it terms of a “privileg...
And that would be stringent or hardcore physicalism. But I'm trying to be fair to physicalism as a more general thesis (one I don't agree with, but it...
This is a really useful context for exploring physicalism, thanks for posting. One question to start with: We all have an idea what physicalism is, bu...
Actually, I agree with that too. If there's any perplexity here, it has to do with the role language plays in constructing our experience of the world...
I'm not sure whether the Tractatus is quite as common-sense as you're describing it, but I'm no authority on matters Wittian. I agree that the proposi...
This may be getting to the heart of it, especially if we push back, even gently, on the idea that "language" and "world" are easily separable and dist...
I'm happy to drop either "fact" or "state of affairs," as long as it's clear that, whichever one we retain, it's the non-linguistic referent of a stat...
Yikes! But I don't think so. We need to make statements in order to talk about anything, certainly, but that doesn't mean that everything we talk abou...
The statement describes or names a particular situation in the world. This is done using words. What I'm calling a "particular situation in the world"...
Agreed, but just about no one mistakes the statement for the state of affairs. But you know this, so I realize there's something I'm not understanding...
Ok. The statement from @"frank" that I was questioning is "States of affairs have the same form as thoughts." We can be more generous and change it to...
Well gosh, I opened my copy and it all looks like a bunch of words to me. Where's the cat-on-the-mat-looking part? I know that's not what you meant. B...
Agree. I've noticed a tendency for many people to get exercised about the so-called problem of "treating subjectivity as an object." Like you, I can't...
No worries, this is sort of the after-party! Well, but this is what I'm contesting. Even on the most generous interpretation of "form," a cat sitting ...
Glancing at SEP, what I see is "States of affairs are similar to thoughts. Thoughts are true or false; states of affairs obtain or not." That's a litt...
I guess I should "like" your post. :wink: That may be close to it, if by "expression" we include the act of thinking. The new part is Kimhi's confiden...
Really appreciate your thoughts here. What you say about unity vs. duality is, I think, the best shot yet at trying to explicate Kimhi on that topic. ...
Strange indeed. I have a friend who refers to this as "the impossible problem," for the reasons we've just laid out. The good news is that such absolu...
An interesting dilemma follows from the idea of "experiencing what X experiences." Am I having that experience, or is X? If it's me, then it would app...
Just for the record, that isn't the standard way of stating the problem, and it isn't David Chalmers' way (he coined the phrase). You can listen to Ch...
Well, anyway. All this was in aid of investigating whether clarity really is a hallmark of (let's call it) Anglophone philosophy, or whether the "uncl...
OK, I spent a little time with the PhilPapers survey. You did notice that those surveyed were, by a huge majority, English-speaking (mostly US) and id...
Arthur C. Danto is the only name that comes to mind. His early works were certainly Analytic but as he became focused more on aesthetics, his interest...
OK, thanks. It's an interesting take on Rorty's part but I'm not sure it's held by too many others. It makes for some strange groupings -- Husserl is ...
Well, I did say "arguably". :smile: Perhaps it would have better to say something like "In the early 20th century a split in methods and interests occ...
OK, I'll stand up for the Continentals here! Is it possible that what you're calling "unclarity" could better be called "difficulty"? Case in point, p...
To the first point: you'd said "the quality of our lives" so I took you to be referring to something intersubjectivity or semi-universal. But now I se...
I can't help asking: Isn't the above a definitive answer to the question of how to do "proper" philosophy? So when you discovered the answer, were you...
Yes, an excellent piece. That's one of the reasons I appreciate Nagel so much -- he refuses to be doctrinaire about the type of philosophy he was trai...
I understand that the outliers are not the subject of your OP, but I do want to point out that this view of personhood, based as it is on a capacity f...
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