What our statements refer to don't necessarily need minds. Likewise with experiences. From the fact that we perceive objects with our minds it does no...
What ontology would do that? I suspect you are talking about some ideology passed for "physicalism". Lapis Lazuli was the blue of antiquity.The ancien...
Interpretation is a use of language, recall, and unlike language you don't learn how you ought to see things. You see what there is to see, and retrie...
It is simply the experience of the location of objects that reflect sound. You don't have to be a bat to know what that is, and the experienced locati...
What Mary lacks is not the knowledge of what it’s like to see a particular colour but the possibility to acquire that knowledge by seeing it directly....
External to what? The possibility to have consciousness is already assumed in talk of reality being external or internal to consciousness. To have con...
Right, it dissolves the question, since it makes little sense to ask "How do you get from ions being passed across synapses, to meaning?" when meaning...
Your skepticism arises from the assumption that each organism would see their own sensations instead of the objects in our shared environment. All see...
:-} By assuming that religion would be an integral part of the human psyche it is unsurprising that it appears to "win". But religions are cultural co...
Relatively simple and small organisms can see, recall, so it should be fairly clear that the conscious awareness that is the seeing doesn't require "a...
It is called 'direct' because there is nothing by way of which the objects are seen, neither a process nor a mechanism, so there are no such things to...
I think the bull is superfluous, because it is just a metaphorical description of what is already present at Wall Street: a bunch of aggressively ente...
When the appearance that you see is the external object that you see there is no gap to explain. The gap arises by assuming dualism, it was invented b...
Right, so why are you stuck in dualism? Direct realism is a better assumption as defended by Searle, or Putnam. Perception has no interface between th...
Regardless of whether we call it an organ or inner light, what signals does it use? If it is using the same signals as the visual system, then whence ...
I agree. It is indeed unsurprising and expected that states of the mind produce effects in the body. By thinking of a cold beer, good food, or beautif...
Sure, the light hits the retina and thereby starts a causal chain of biochemical reactions. But you say more: that the light would be turned into "som...
You can ascribe almost any meaning to a colour, because meanings are linguistic and social or cultural constructs. Colour experiences, however, are bi...
The explanatory gap arises from a failure to distinguish 'the experience of red' in its constituitive sense (i.e. the physiological events that consti...
If thought is referential, then all thought is at the very least a capacity to think of something else, and to think of something else is to imagine i...
It explains that the difference between a living cell and a dead cell is not fundamental. It makes no sense to classify swarms of atoms as dead or ali...
As far as I know the debate on vitalism had more or less dissolved by the 1930s, when there was genetics and a more refined understanding of bio-chemi...
The concept refers to many things with different definitions. Hence the lack of one clear definition. It used to refer to an assumed essence, élan vit...
You can have economic democracy in a company (owned by its workers) operating in a capitalist market. Likewise you can have a capitalist market in a s...
Some decades ago there used to be a misconception about black jazz musicians that they would only be improvising, playing by ear and so on instead of ...
The concept 'happiness' does not arise from there being another concept, 'suffering'. Happiness is an experience, recall, a biological phenomenon. Tha...
Yes. Happiness can be derivative from identifying that suffering has diminished or disappeared, for instance. But it is not necessary to suffer in ord...
What society has ever nurtured artists? How could anyone invent anything valuable if the values would be predetermined? Allegedly John Coltrane played...
So what made Rimbaud assert the necessity to be absolutely modern? I think it is fairly clear that art is an end in itself, many artists wouldn't care...
19th and early 20th century historians of art and architecture did, but they were wrong. For example, Wölfflin, Schmarzow, Gideon and others worked un...
. The ancient Egyptians depicted what they knew, not what they saw. As far as I know it was not until the 19th century when the very idea of art began...
Faked results of thought experiments! https://fauxphilnews.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/kripke.jpg https://fauxphilnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/kripke...
It seems to be the dubious assertion that what we mean by 'valuation' would not be set by us, nor its real occurrences in the natural world, but some ...
Many things, but I'll mention two: anti-intellectualism and violence. WW1 and socio-economical unrest pushed people to embrace fascism. But where did ...
Hi, I don't think we debate whether absolute truth exists. If you look at the premise of the archaeological method, there is an assumed ground for tho...
Absolutism is hypocritical in the sense that it asserts its "truth" regardless of what is true. It is indifferent to sufficient reason to believe x. I...
Sure, but powers beyond grammar, logic, and awareness are not part of, nor do they necessarily influence, the grammar, logic and truth of words from w...
Right, but I never said that he was terrible, nor that he was just reducing argument to discourse. He did many things, and perhaps he was a great guy....
Well, you neither amplify nor widen the explanatory power of an argument by adding the power of physical violence, for instance. We might be exposed t...
No, you circumvented my inference by saying that Foucault's focus on power would entail "a widening of what an argument is". That's effectively a dilu...
Again you attempt to merely diagnose my criticism from a superior vantage point, and assert that I'm ignorant of details in Foucault's work. What's th...
Authors like Foucault ain't that clear either. The context of my previous post was that obscurity of expression might be sufficient reason to skip rea...
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