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He is a bullshitter, and bullshit can be used as a control technology (like obscurantism in religion, art philosophy and so on).

Everyday experiences are very different from dreams. Consider, for example, that dreams typically disappear when you wake up, whereas experiences of s...

A nominalist who would adopt realism for the sake of discussion is an extreme relativist. His or her ontological commitment would merely be an adoptio...

“A metaphor is an affair between a predicate with a past and an object that yields while protesting”. --Nelson Goodman

Ruth Millikan is not difficult to understand, and she's both original and significant.

For example, when you put certain ingredients together in one and the same glass they might begin to interact with each other so that a new property e...

Good point. Being influential, or considered significant, does not mean that a philosopher is philosophically significant. Like Hegel, for instance ;)

Perhaps most women are wise enough to see that philosophy is mostly nonsense disguised as hard questions.

An argument is guided by the truth of its words. First, with what sense organ do you experience a thought? Second, if you can think, but can't verbali...

Like a living organism may have a disposition to sense items in a certain way, also items may have a disposition to be sensed in a certain way. Perhap...

Acquaintance with bioethics, for instance, seems appropriate for a good nurse.

The justice system exists because there were benefits for different individuals to comply to a shared system, and thus avoid the bad effects that veng...

Punishment is a means to make different individuals comply to the system. The system, however, emerged because of the general benefits of a shared sys...

The assumption that there would be something to translate, and necessary for starting and finishing a sentence, is unwarranted. For example, it is not...

What is it about computation, or translations from some sets of symbols to other sets of symbols, that could produce a state of conscious awareness? I...

An experience is a biological phenomena: the identification of something, not an expression of it (eg with pen and paper).

Intentional content is set by the present features of the object that you experience. It's location is where the object is.

What is an example of a raw form of an idea? Seems like a metaphor passed for logic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogCih4OavoY

Both of my past cats showed symptoms of stress as in death agony when they got ill and died. One died slowly of kidney failure, and about a year later...

Death penalty is murder. .

What do you think is achieved by rephrasing the same statement?

One's own experience of an object is the object that one experiences. There is no relation between the experience and the object. The computer screen ...

That would be a statement, not an argument, nor a reason.

The conclusion, that god created the big bang, is arbitrary and not based on reason.

Science is, roughly, the name for human knowledge (in its classic definition, justified true belief). You justify statements with good reasons (eg evi...

Well, by single-mindedly defining science as some kind of a crippled physicalism you can certainly get away with anything "non physical". But that's i...

I don't agree with any of those statements. Big bang "in sync with creation"? Wtf?

Because then you're following theism, not science. You're not following science by assuming that science would be discovering the work of a theist god...

What broader metaphysical system? Not really. It is possible to follow science and become a theist in case the existence of god is scientifically disc...

Science could converge with theism in the case of a true discovery of the existence of god. Theism, however, cannot converge with science, because the...

Look, an experience is not a phenomenon in fundamental physics but biology. Is there any benefit in interpreting biological phenomena in terms of fund...

:-} What did I just write?

It is arguably a category mistake to exploit problems of fundamental physics or worse even metaphysics in order to dismiss notions such as the present...

An architectural model of a building, or an astronomical model of the solar system, are examples of three dimensional symbol systems. What they symbol...

I'm obviously criticizing the article when I'm pointing out that its abstract contains a lie about Hume. Furthermore, most factual or fictional statem...

It was neither wishful, superstitious, nor irrational, to believe that Pluto was a planet prior the formal definition of 'planet'. What's emotional ab...

That's an odd claim. Pluto, for instance, used to be a now-questionable 'planet'. Not because of "emotional reasons" but a convention to call such cel...

To change one's opinion is not to lie. One effect of thought is that it tends to change one's opinion along the way, so I don't believe that bias is i...

That's weird. If language and reasoning would be circular, then words would be meaningless (e.g. 'food' would not refer to edible things in the world ...

So what would be examples of medicine being overrated and prayer underestimated?

What's the heading or direction of the world when the distance between its galaxies is expanding?

That's a skeptic view of the content of some books or metaphysical claims, not reality.

Some people change opinion, philosophers even, when truth matters more than the appearance or reputation of being right. Entrenchment in public debate...

To believe in something is to believe, for example, that for every effect there must be a cause. But is that ietsism? Or is ietsism to be covertly rel...

Religious people refer to the alleged words of some authority, whose existence is unverifiable, whereas philosophers refer to the explanatory power of...

Unsurprisingly likes are wanted by those for whom the resposes of people are more interesting than the matters discussed, e.g. trolls and pop psycholo...

Yes. In the vein of Searle, who was a student of Austin.

A humean impression is the old version of sense-data. But sense-data is ad-hoc, it does not really exist.

Once you assume that perception would produce a percept or sense-datum the object of perception will certainly seem representational, just like a thou...