The logical positivists have trodden this path and metaphysics has survived that onslaught. If the op questions the place of metaphysics in the house ...
It is much more problematic trying to explain consciousness without reference to physical processes At the very least if conciousnsss is software it n...
Thanks for these interesting observations. An area I find particularly fascinating in this general context is the clash between Calvinists and Anti Ca...
You may find the link above interesting. Consciousness continues to perplex. I still find Ryle's category mistake idea challenging and the sense in wh...
This flag was waved most vigorously by Freddie Ayer in Language Truth and Logic with a large nod in the direction of the Logical Positivists. I think ...
Great discussion. Interested in something being "more or less objective" doesn't work with absolutes but I can live with shifting relativity to a fixe...
http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute An extract from the above article which I think summarises...
I know something of Penrose in this context better seen in conjunction with Stuart Hameroff. Penrose does seek a "third way" between the macro and mic...
Historians like ranke believed there was a truth to be discovered...post modernists like jenkins believe there is not. Richard Evans seeks a middle gr...
Hume is interested in the fallacy of induction that is to say that innumerable instances of b following a does not prove any causal link between the t...
The role of the observer is crucial here and though perhaps not helpful to the original post there is no easy answer. In the quantum world the observe...
Though far from universally accepted you may find the work of Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose interesting. Penrose sees consciousness as non com...
Berkeley is worth considering here..esse est percipi I am interested in the role of the observer whether Divine as with Berkeley or otherwise. In term...
The problem is that Anselms proof though elegant only proves the existence of God as originally defined, something than which there is nothing greater...
The problem is also of the determination of existance...in history the conflict of the objective past that is there to be discovered in which the disc...
The Free will debate has historically been captured in many differing contexts, I am particularly interested in 17th century British history where it ...
From a historical perspective metanarratives have been a fertile source of debate and discussion and one of the tenets of postmodernism as applied to ...
God in the Quad by Ronald Knox ( Balliol Oxford) There was a young man who said "God Must find it exceedingly odd To think that the tree Should contin...
It might be helpful to think of the dialectic in Marxist terms as a driving or motor for change. The implications behind this are several, as a materi...
Kants thoughts might be helpful here; he talks at some length about the issue of intentionality when considering the categorical imperative and this w...
Sir Roger Penrose has suggested in discussions about the measurement problem that we might need a whole new approach to physics to deal with the quant...
Wayfarer Just read the article on quantum mysticism that you directed me to...excellent. my linking berkeley and schrodinger was not to claim the infl...
Dare I join the debate having also sensed the danger of treading in the philosophical waters of the physics forum....I am interested in observation an...
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