Like other artists and devotees of truth. In my view that's close to the heart of it, sorting out or untangling conceptual confusion. Not only in one ...
There's something clearly right about this. I wouldn't go so far as to say there's no such thing as an individual mind. I'd rather say... no human min...
What light does this shed on the point in question? Or is this more "skating"? The law of identity merely expresses the logical form of judgments of i...
I don't think the two views conflict. They seem compatible to me, but one seems supported by experience and the other doesn't. We can imagine a wide v...
I would say the world "as we inhabit it", or "as we experience it" is only here while we're here. But there's no reason to suppose that the world as w...
I'm often struck dumb at the way most theists seem to neglect this aspect of theology where it counts. They use it as a charm to wave off doubts in th...
It's an apt turn of phrase from a skilled rhetor. McDowell is a warm and fuzzy naturalist compared to Dennett. My impression is McDowell intentionally...
I still don't see what difference you're suggesting. So far it seems perhaps you're mistaking an abstract mathematical representation of some interact...
I'm not sure I understand your way of framing the principle as an auction. I suppose the simplest explanations would explain everything in terms of a ...
Good to see the second-person perspective getting some play in that de Quincey essay. I hope to give it a look sometime. Meanwhile: I think it's a gre...
How does this issue have implications for our thoughts about "what does and does not count as alive"? It's not news that organisms like us need oxygen...
I'm not sure what you're talking about. What sort of melancholy is evident in the philosophical work of Wittgenstein and in Aristotelian logic? For th...
I was never assaulted in a workplace and I was never sexually harassed by a superior in a workplace. I'm not sure whether I've been sexually harassed ...
I'm not sure such dismissals are motivated merely by practical concerns about the utility we might expect from pursuing such questions. I think it's w...
Well put. I strongly agree about the political and cultural value of the art. That justification makes it entirely practical, and also gives a standar...
A rhetorical call to radically reform the practice of philosophy sounds like philosophy to me. What a social practice "used to be" is not an authorita...
I agree with your stronger formulation of hiring policies. I also agree that our decisions here about what discourses to exclude are most definitive o...
One day when I was still a boy, I went to see a professor in his office to ask for an extension on a Hegel paper. By way of reply he told me, "Philoso...
Glad I'm not beating a dead horse. I've said before, I think the moderators do a fair job, and I'm personally satisfied with the balance in applicatio...
I recall seeing two or three such exchanges on the previous site. I'm sure the unruly way we carry on in these spaces is a prima facie deterrent to th...
"Constituted by exclusion", now there's a turn of phrase. I might call a speaker's discourse more "inclusive" if it's arranged to account for a greate...
I agree. Our community reflects a wider range of philosophical biases than any philosophy department I'm aware of. I think that's for the best. I hope...
The point you took issue with was the point that our thoughts don't have to be "identical" but only sufficiently "similar" to support communication an...
I'm inclined to say fairness and compassion are more basic than a conception of "rights". I might also say that compassion is more basic than fairness...
Perhaps a solipsist may find some way to argue consistently with his principles that the world disappears when he sleeps. I'm a skeptic, not a solipsi...
Can you support your claim that there's equal reason to take the opposite sort of alternative seriously? I've been unable to find a satisfying argumen...
I've read a little feminist philosophy here and there, and I've had philosophical conversations with many people who call themselves feminist. Cultiva...
I'd say the moderation is about right. It's hard to assess, since I'm unaware of most of the cases of censorship. Perhaps the moderators could maintai...
It seems perhaps extravagant to suppose that there's a finite list of clearly distinguished human values that belong to human nature, or to suppose th...
Perhaps there's no contemporary philosopher whose work I've enjoyed more than McDowell's. I see he's got a response to Wiggins on akrasia in essay fou...
Can you support your bold claim that we must "have the same thought" in order to communicate, instead of merely "similar thoughts" as I suggested? Mus...
By "inadvertent self-deception", I mean to suggest that the self-deceiver has not clearly acknowledged for himself that he is deceiving himself. In th...
What does it mean to say "practical wisdom and virtue go hand in hand"? I take it one who is virtuous has practical wisdom, but some agents with pract...
I don't think it's a mistake to recognize a significant opposition in experiences of pleasure and pain or in their roles as motives. But it is a mista...
What is a "mental world"? How many mental worlds are there? What does it mean to say an idea or concept or fictional object "exists in the mental worl...
This seems like the same type/token distinction we've encountered together before. I suppose the answer depends in part on what we mean by "informatio...
Do I understand correctly: The problem is that one or more forum members, including one or more moderators, have told you that your OP doesn't belong ...
The dichotomy of pleasure and pain is slippery. The coordination of pleasure and pain with desire and aversion is complex. The relation of affect to r...
What does it mean to say "NOTHING is nonexistence"? Do you mean that "Pegasus does not exist" and "Pegasus is NOTHING" are essentially the same claim?...
No. Especially since you seem to have characterized "happiness" so as to make it incompatible with pain and suffering. I suggest that most of us do no...
I have the impression this remains a hotly contested region of philosophical discourse in the schools. I'm inclined to say that perceptual experience ...
Are we talking about natural languages, like English, or some sketch of an "ideal language" in a logician's notebook? I'll assume we're talking about ...
Try this: Propositional content: S loves everyone, S = "you" (the addressee) Propositional attitude: B intends (desires, recommends, commands...) that...
Thanks for crunching the numbers for us! I'm relieved to find that the math, at least, confirms my intuitions. I was running with unenlightened's usag...
@"unenlightened" I'm still not sure what our discussion about probabilistic inference has to do with Gettier's paper. Is it your position that wheneve...
Surely someone better versed in the logic of probability than I could help us clear up this confusion. I'm not sure it's valid. I take it the probabil...
As a number concept, the quantitative concept of zero entails a unit-concept. We need to specify the unit, an answer to the question "Zero what?" More...
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