I sometimes get to read that female architects demand to be identified as architects, not as female architects. The assumption seems to be that the wo...
Huh? What would different meanings of the word 'god' have to do with the fact that most of the great philosophers' works are based on argument, not bl...
Call it 'faculty' or 'higher intellect' or what you like. A possibility to comprehend the incomprehensible doesn't follow from there being limits to h...
Identification? Identification is the function of reference, and it is possible to refer to almost anything, such as fictious, alogical, or impossible...
To have or live the experience is neither necessary nor sufficient for understanding it. Moreover, it is relatively easy to evoke the experience of th...
34% religious on a philosophy forum! :-O Being religious and being philosophical have two different senses: unlike the philosophical the religious ult...
Oh yeah, the new dark ages. :-( But the anti-intellectual life on Earth makes a great contrast to the depicted science and space travel. It reminds me...
In the OP and elsewhere it is assumed that some animals understand or imagine only so much of the world whereas others, such as humans, have the capac...
Passion changes with experience, or when the things that we're passionate about change. These days there is a lot of great music instantly available o...
Philosophy is the activity of thinking, reading, or writing about the nature of things, or unanswerable questions. Its methods are what it takes: for ...
I'd say the two are connected in the sense that without truth the human intellectual enterprise is re-directed from saying things about the world to p...
Solaris (2002, which I think is a very good remake of the Soviet original). It could be the plot for a philosophical thought experiment (e.g. like Twi...
So, for example, the positive feeling that a junky might have when s/he finds some drugs would reflect the positive meaning of what? Why must it be po...
Emotions are effects on the organism caused by one's environment, actions, or thoughts. I suppose some emotions can be evaluated as "inappropriate" in...
Being blind or lack the capacity to see shapes, for instance, does not mean that shapes would somehow become inaccessible, unimaginable, or impossible...
Where? Are we confused when we speak about our experiences in a public language? All talk is public, one does not assume a private language by talking...
I see many metaphors here used against psychology, but I think they are misleading. The fact that experiences are ontologically subjective does not ma...
Alexius Meinong thought that abstract, fictitious, imaginary things really exist, and the early Ludwig Wittgenstein thought that facts in logical spac...
If seeing something is the evidence, then the disagreements are not over how we see it but how we interpret it. The question "How we see it?" is alrea...
I don't think the mere passing of time would prevent us from understanding what a civilization is like in the future. Do you know of something that wo...
What's the threat? Does Rand's statement make sense even? It might be worthwhile to note, however, that by pretending to take Rand seriously Ryan & Co...
Better luck next time when other kinds of chances come along. Whenever a major project gets cancelled or the economic cycle stagnates we sometimes inv...
Lots of things are forbidden, that's why we have laws against them, deterrent penalties, shared as well as personal morals. I forbid my cat to steal t...
The phrase "end of the world" seemed to refer to something more fundamental than the end of intelligent life here. The assumption of a perpetually lif...
So if 'the world' doesn't refer to the world but biological life in the world, then the idea of a decisive end to it is still dubious, because if life...
I heard someone mention that if all of today's nuclear bombs would explode now on the same place the explosion might correspond to an earthquake of a ...
At least they ought to be apt, but some metaphors are less apt than others. I think they can be metaphorically false even. For example, a rose is thor...
If a club is an association of people united by a common interest or goal, then Philosophy Club is a club whose members are not united by a common int...
We arose from a world without us, so if we all die, then chances are we'll arise again, on this planet, or other planets. Perhaps we already have cous...
If might makes right, then even wrong is "right" if might makes it so: anything goes. Unsurprisingly it can be in the interest of the mighty and their...
Neither. What constitutes your colour experience is located in your head: a firing of neurons. But the colour that you experience is located outside y...
Bricks? :-} What is a "subjective reality", and who says anything about reducing it to an "objective reality"? In your use of the words 'subjective' a...
Looks like he was "led" from assuming dualism to endorsing dualism. But how on earth could anyone know that every single version of physicalism fails ...
On my first computer that I bought back in the 1990s I got to play with a fractal generator that would generate drawings of a type called "Drunken Arc...
:-} Chalmers is a dualist, recall, and the alleged puzzle arises from taking dualism for granted. You don't get to talk about a hard problem of consci...
One more, an unfinished proposal for a market hall in Sweden. Lots of triangles in this one o.O http://kopare.se/portfolio/bilder1a/portfolio_sv/A3%20...
Here's a photo of a project I did at architecture school some years ago, a theatre on a piazza in northern Italy. http://kopare.se/portfolio/bilder1a/...
Right, one might add that Dennett and his opponents are therefore not even wrong. :D Experiences are, indeed, qualitative, they are what things are li...
It is hardly passive, nor is a 'red fire truck' given as its content. What constitutes the visual experience is, as you probably know, a firing of neu...
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