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Yes, and some prominent and perfectly rational neuroscientists think that morality contains kinds of empirical claims that science is suited to examin...

Oh, devastating philosophical argument, I'm sunk, I don't know how I could ever have been so foolish as to not agree with you entirely from the start.

I don't get why you can't see the difference between someone claiming that science can make falsifiable statements about morals and someone claiming t...

This is exactly the kind of gross misrepresentation of nature that justifies the continued destruction of our ecosystems and presides over what is bec...

Yes, we know you maintain that position, we (or I at least) have been asking for some evidence to back up that claim, some quote or activity of 'moder...

What evidence? I'm saying that the whole rest of the universe apart from our personal experience is demonstrably deterministic so the simplest theory ...

I think either you or I have misunderstood the nature of a discussion forum. I wasn't under the impression that this was a space for us to just post "...

I asked how, you've simply re-asserted your belief that it does, not how it does it. How? What is the actual mechanism by which something no-physical ...

I don't really care to discuss my personal circumstances on a public forum, but, yes, suffice to say that I have never told my children what they can ...

I think this is exactly what it does mean. It means that, if my knowledge of the object is exactly the same as your knowledge of the object in some me...

Well I am, what makes you think I'm not?

Fair enough. That sounds an entirely reasonable way to define the existence of a concept and I agree that under that definition a concept can have a e...

Well, I thought I'd try at least one reply, but you've descended into nonsense already so we'll leave it there.

I've been through this in my previous posts. I've not personally heard any scientist make claims about the non-existence of concepts, nor that science...

You're going to breathe, your heart will pump blood round your body, your feels will continue to divide and grow, Microbiology can tell you a huge amo...

Yes, we don't make the world into what we want it to be, we accept the world as it transpires to be.

In what way does Buddha say anything about what matters. Who are you to be the arbiter of what matters?

Yes, that's pretty much the definition of 'objective' and 'subjective' There already is something which can be considered the basis for qualitative ju...

Not that I wouldn't rather cut my own arm off than agree with anything Steven Pinker says, but he specifically says here that science guides moral and...

Absolutely, well said. If a 16 year old can't make at least a reasonably sound decision about their own body then it's us as parents that have failed,...

So, lay out for me exactly how conciousness does this. Lets simplify things and take a simple man, John. John has only three beliefs - that it is cold...

I think that's in Revelations isn't it, or was that a baked-bean monster, I can never remember?

That's what "like" means, isn't it? This, I think, is circular. It is possible that it's only an uncomfortable thought because you are committed to th...

Yes, and magic flying unicorns are asserted by the scientific worldview to be non-existent too. That's what the scientific worldview does and one of t...

Well, we've reach a point where we fundamentally disagree on axiomatic grounds so I don't see we can go any further. You seem to be so unwilling to qu...

No, the person could be said to hold the entirety complementary beliefs 'I am not going to the store right now' and 'I am going to the store at some p...

How do you know this? How do you know this? How are you deriving this? How do you know animals are incapable of love? If you don't want to explain how...

I understand what it is you believe, I'm trying to get at why you believe it in spite of what seems to me to be overwhelming evidence to the contrary....

I thought it was quite a simple question. You said that our instinctual drives contain nothing of substance morally and yet those same drives in anima...

Then how do you explain the fact that literally every act we consider moral has a parallel in the animal kingdom? Are you suggesting this is just coin...

Because the police do generally protect us, being human beings, and any rational person acts on the basis of what they actually have evidence for not ...

Why would we do such a thing? What possible motivation could we have if happiness is not good enough because it's too fleeting?

This is where I think you're going wrong. I don't think anyone is seriously claiming that science is the arbiter of what is meaningful and important. ...

What is it exactly that people believe science 'knows' or 'proves' that it doesn't? Who are these people and what evidence do you have that they belie...

I've already explained how a broken thermostat can have a belief (hold data related to an action), that it is cold, but fail to act on it because it's...

So explain to me how this works then. A human has a belief that it is cold and no other beliefs at all. The human 'decides' nonetheless to ignore the ...

Yes, that is exactly what I'm doing. There is a distinction between my cat and my next door neighbour's cat but not a significant enough one that they...

I doubt you'd have any trouble finding studies which show that unpleasant sexual relationships can be psychologically harmful. What I very much doubt ...

Yes, try having them playing every other Sunday over dinner, even the parts everybody likes get a bit 'samey'. Interesting concept though about art wh...

Yes, sorry that's what I meant, the Nazi association. I've edited to save face. My father is actually something of a Wagner enthusiast, so more than a...

No, but then I don't really hold with phenomenalism in humans either. I wasn't opposed to your coming to this discussion with an existing opinion (I c...

Not at all, there are many perfectly rational people (myself included) who consider consciousness to be an illusion, that we are distinguishable from ...

I'm using 'real' in the sense that you propose. In that sense scientists are about the most faithful group to the idea that maths is real and you're f...

Another point is that I think large corporations and their pet governments are much more concerned about a computer literate populous than an armed on...

Show me a single scientist who doesn't think mathematics is real. They use it every day. You're just trying to set up scientists as some kind of culti...

Firstly read 'Empty Ideas' by Peter Unger. If you still want to do a philosophy course, then I suggest Bertrand Russell 'A History of Western Philosop...

I agree entirely, but it works both ways and that's what I find maintains this unfortunate state. If I like Wagner's ring cycle, then the fact that he...

Agreed, so on what grounds are we deciding that a 17 year old requires protection from exploitation and abuse but an 18 year old does not? Yes, and th...

That's the whole point of my example. What are we defining if we insist that belief requires a concious state (a state which we cannot even reliably i...

Right, so the 75% of philosophers who accept scientific Realism are not just mistaken, they're actually writing jibberish because such a view is not e...