But we can be irrational. Cogntiive biases are aplenty. Emotions override reason, often. That doesn't mean we have faculties of reason that are direct...
The most sophisticated accont of God just is the account of God given by the classical theistic faiths: God is Being and Existence Itself, ipsum esse ...
Of course, the only people I see claiming that science is one unified method, and the inarguably superior epistemic method, are online atheists in the...
I just got done with the End of Phenomenology by Tom Sparrow. Interesting read, basically it's a Speculative Realist criticism of the problems of phen...
Definitely. I really think that field is going to gain more and more recognition in the coming years, just as long as scholars get over their phobia o...
Mathematicism wouldn't even lead you to materialism, IMO - because what is the intrinsic connection between mathematicism and matter? Mathematics is a...
Because, information the way scientists tend to use it is an abstract, operationalized notion of information, Shannonian information. This is a measur...
I really disagree that time is eternal and infinite, the arguments against infinite time are fairly solid on all fronts- cosmological, mathematical, m...
Indeed. There is good work showing how biology is fuelled by meaning - rather than sterile abstract information or matter. There is no reason to suppo...
Someone like Aristotle and Aquinas could easily turn around and say you're committing the Parmenidean fallacy of thinking there is only actual being o...
In classical theism, God is not an entity, a thing, an object, or something which may or may not exist. Classical Christian metaphysics understands th...
I agree, and I think this is where we're headed into Christian metaphysics, the realisation that Being in some sense is necessary, there cannot be exi...
Yes, this is the way I see it. That comes at a fairly significant demand, however. I don't believe Newtonian/Cartesian/Comtean/Hobbesian matter or phi...
When you say the universe is inevitable, how do you mean? Do you mean it is non-contingent or metaphysically necessary? Because that's definitely cont...
I'll definitely read it. I had a quick look and it does look interesting. The fact he is different to Aristotle and Quine has my interest piqued alrea...
I still like the term naive realism. I think it is apt since it's not doing justice to any adequate theory of realism. An adequate theory of realism w...
I wonder if there is some way of avoiding the dichotomy of traditional religious God vs the universe as pointless accident theory. TBH, I think the un...
I thought Bohm's idea was just an inelegant and superfluous attempt to retain discrete particles and a purely objective pre or no-collapse reality. Bu...
I can't say I have read it, but I can pick it up and read it in around a week if I apply myself. Although I must confess, I think in my own ideas I've...
Found this thread, I've been a few months now and haven't introduced myself yet. Hello all. Great forum, liking the level of intellectual engagement h...
Animism is actually very misunderstood by modern academia since animism is read through a very Cartesian lens, which is really mistaken. Of course it'...
Logical possibility just means it can be stated in a way that doesn't violate an axiom of logic, but metaphysical possibility requires there is a poss...
Perhaps one object is only logically coherent, but not metaphysically possible in any possible world? Such as infinitely tall unicycle. Not logically ...
I'd recommend Sebeok's book Signs or Deely's introductory text Introducing Semiotic. I'd also recommend once you have the basics down, getting Deely's...
This is why I have recommended the paper Hoffman has jointly co-authored on Eigenforms and Holography. The answer, simply put, is that yes, objects do...
I would like to know if anyone has read the Hoffman paper from Constructivist Foundations, since I think it really does make some good improvement ove...
If you're interested, Hoffman has released a paper which assumes more ontological commitments WRT to his ITP: https://constructivist.info/12/3/265.fie...
Yes, I actually have had correspondence with Hoffman over this. I actually was interested in his work as a possible way to bridge the ecological psych...
I believe consciousness has to be of something, I believe it has to be intentional in its most basal form, but "content" is controversial issue of cou...
Thanks for the reminder to read Signs in the Dust! I found out about that book some time ago, meant to read it, fell by the wayside. Personally, I pre...
To OP, Deely is an absolute gift and his philosophy is incredibly rich. I've met and talked with some of his former colleagues and friends at length. ...
I'll read the entire thread when I get the time, but for me personally, I think the flaw of the simulation argument is the presupposition of the infor...
Although I am in complete agreement that dead, dumb inanimate matter coming to possess a rich, subjective inner life is absurd, I don't agree that pan...
OP, so why think that the LLMs like Chat GPT etc. exhibit actual legitimate intelligence? Consider the following, if you will. People claiming that GP...
I read it years ago, it was so dense and rich I said I would need another re-read at a later time. Going to follow this thread. I'm particularly inter...
But if qualia constitute the self, I see two issues immediately for the view: 1. I can differentiate between the sensation of blue I am seeing, and my...
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