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Your question 'how is knowledge that you see a lamp possible' follows from the assumption that you never see the lamp, only something prior to the see...

Right. Lightwaves, brain chemistry etc set the causal conditions that satisfy seeing a lamp, which in turn is justification for the belief that there ...

Good point, I'll ask Claude about Searle's internalism. Not bad for a chat bot. :up: But... this does not seem right: In the openly available article,...

I'm afraid anyone would have failed to comply with the investigation if you consider the extraordinary behavior of the Swedish prosecutors. In the art...

In 2010 he was like a rock star for journalists and activists, women included. Allegedly he had unprotected sex with one or two women, which resulted ...

I asked Claude why s/he/it referred to representationalism in a conversation about disjunctivism where the converse is assumed. User Thanks again. It'...

Truth is unpopular. Other examples are the Panama papers and the Paradise papers that reveal how major banks and law firms participate in illegal tax ...

I think WikiLeaks had plans to relocate servers to Sweden because of the seemingly strong guarantees of press freedom and ethical responsibility. But ...

That's what Julian Assange thought before his visit to Sweden.

So I asked Claude to clarify. Hm, aboutness as representational experience? Not according to Searle. There's something fishy going on here.

Ok thanks, now I have access to Claude, and I admit that its summary of Searle's criticism of disjunctivism is better than the one I got from ChatGPT ...

Interesting topic! I asked the "old" ChatGPT 3.5 to compare McDowell and Searle on disjunctivism. I was hoping for a concise review of Searle's critic...

It's trivially true that seeing a car is dependent on sense organs, eyes. No-one expects to see a car without a possibility to see it. But does seeing...

There's more than swarms atoms in fundamental physics, such as the forces that bind atoms together so that they necessarily form what we in our scale ...

Why, though, when the original projection on the retina is already flipped upside down by the eye's lens, and then flipped back in conscious awareness...

It occurs to me that the reference to press ethics is an argument against an already ongoing politicalization in order to avoid further delegitimizati...

One example of a non-authoritarian possible cure to failed (representative) democratic institutions is direct democracy. Populism, however, doesn't ne...

An orange building may appear blue in the early morning when the sky is blue before sunrise. So in a sense something that is in fact orange may appear...

How do you know that it is in fact orange if you never see the orange?

Seems reasonable. What is also a bit anarchic and extends beyond institutions is Goodman's suggestion that art and science and philosophy are similar ...

Right, historically there's been little blood on the streets here. Instead we have this "consensus culture" where open conflict and disagreement is av...

Being a land owner in rural Sweden in 1867 meant that regardless of how well you had taken care of your land you would starve to death unless you revo...

Ok, I'm thinking of 'institutional' as referring to recognized schools, museums, institutes, journalists, famous artists, gallerists, historians, theo...

So what makes it art? That it is a poem, or that it is merely labelled 'personal poem' and read at a poetry reading?

It serms to turn art into PR (networking, making headlines, influencing people) and the art becomes whatever serves those interests. I prefer Nelson G...

How would you know unless you sometimes see reality as it is? You know of illusions because you sometimes see things look weird, and then find out it'...

Ok :cool: I like the naive sound of it. Like 100% real.

Right, so the illusion doesn't involve refraction or the like, just some light that projects a grid on the retina. The grid, however, is not an ordina...

3/4 of the population owned very small lots, so one might have reason to suspect that these peasants were simply too poor to revolt against the ruling...

Not the science, but the assumption that you never see the world, only illusions and delusions while referring to science as if it would support the a...

Historically there's been a lot of speculation on the psychology of the aesthetic experience. For example the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin used ide...

Some works of art inspire or provoke discussion on what is art. Since the early 1900s, artists have been exhibiting ready-made, or abstract, or ugly, ...

Many work places are unethical. I don't think they can be fixed. Just avoid them if you can. Start a better work place.

Ethan Iverson's trio https://youtu.be/ZkETLLn7sS8?feature=shared

In some contexts it's sufficient to be original or unusual in some way, for example skilled, insightful, inventive. A creative person is not necessari...

It's a relational property shared by different types of conscious mental states. SEP Without intentionality, thoughts would be empty, vision blind, de...

Study the history of roller skating, and find out what kind of roller skating is for you. https://youtu.be/ojgRIEU6t_Q?feature=shared

Yes, the adverbialist avoids the use of sense-datum theories. For example, when you see white... -From the same SEP article

It follows from their assumption that perception is indirect: they never see the world, only their own sense-data or worse.

That doesn't follow from what I write, though. I suppose the direct realist will be quick to notice a defect in the visual system (it's not an object ...

Right, what causes our experiences is something that we find out empirically. Let's clarify some reasons and their consequences. Since the indirect re...

Doesn't seem right. Lots of epistemology is based on idealism or the nature of language with no interest in realist accounts of perception. Sure, but ...

I suppose some objects of conscious awareness are representations. For example, memories and beliefs may represent what's remembered and believed. Rep...

Direct or indirect realism isn't epistemology, recall, they're philosophies of perception. So, regarding the nature of the object of perception, it is...

Stars, planets, moons etc. Indirect realists sees dots that represent stars, planets. The direct realist sees the stars and planets that may appear as...

Like "look over there is Mars", or "What I see is Mars". The direct realist doesn't see a dot in the visual field.

That mars is not experienced via something else, such as sense-data or a mental picture. Hence directly.

Searle defends direct realism. - - - Here's an addition to my short reply. I suppose representationalism is indirect realism under the assumption that...

Searle, for instance, distinguishes representation from presentation. For example, believing x is a representation, seeing x is a presentation.. Link ...

I can evoke the experience of seeing a sudden flash by poking my eye (not recommended), and I suppose that the experience could be subjectively identi...