What makes them distinct is that in the hallucinatory experience nothing is experienced. In the premise that one can't see whether an experience is ve...
I found a link to an old article about a postmodern way of doing math. "Thus, by calculating that signification according to the algebraic method used...
Yes, the debate on skepticism is perennial, but the notion of consciousness is arguably modern, as is the conceptual separation of consciousness from ...
Right, I recall something Hilary Putnam wrote on color realism, that surface properties of objects have dispositions to appear in such and such ways u...
To expect accuracy is to assume that seeing something is a re-presentation of something, which it isn't. A Sunday painter might have the intent to re-...
The analogy is between feeling (pain) and seeing (objects). Is visual data not the result of certain biophysical causal chains? Or do you just mean th...
Searle's analogy (pain) shows how absurd it would be to assume that you never feel pain as it really is, only via your own sense-data. Likewise, it is...
You might be interested in reading this short but concise text by John Searle: Philosophy of Perception and The Bad Argument Searle was a student of A...
According to this article on Time and Physics there might not be a temporal structure at a fundamental level (referring to recent theories of quantum ...
Speed is irrelevant. At the level of fundamental physics the temporal order of cause and effect is, arguably, contingent. If the temporal order is con...
The short answer is that Kant is an empirical realist, but the thing-in-itself is not an empirical thing. It's a conceptual construction, a thing imag...
That looks similar to Kant's definition of analyticity. Quine's objection refers to Carnap's definition, not Kant's. Putnam criticized Quine's objecti...
In the film The Death of Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev is portrayed as a talkative joker who is good at making Stalin laugh. After their meetings Nikita a...
It occurs to me that the word 'progress' is used in related but different senses in science, philosophy, and art. In all three there is a shift in the...
Good description, and you're right, there is no analogous method in philosophy. However, there are analogous shifts. For example, philosophy used to b...
Let's compare psychiatry with cosmology. Currently only 5% of the known universe is sufficiently explained by the standard cosmological model. It migh...
Are mental content oriented treatments doing any better? I'm asking, because I don't know psychiatry. I scrolled through this article at SEP. Seems th...
Must an unknown number preexist in the same sense that, say, an unknown galaxy preexists before its discovery? The galaxy is actual, the number is pot...
Perhaps, see below. We could start with the intentionality of conscious states. A thought is not just a thought, it is about something, which means th...
The argument that everything is or supervenes on the physical is arguably falsified by the fact that things have different modes of existing. For exam...
Well, the existence of god would obviously settle the question whether god exists. So, it would no longer be a philosophical question, and that's one ...
Yes, for example a return to a paradigm* before Descartes proposed a separation between mind and body. A lot of philosophy has since then been obsesse...
I agree, but the questioning of common sense realism is often limited to a superficial or willful rejection, perhaps because it just seems too banal o...
Some are born blind even, but that's no good reason to reject the reality of visible things. Colours are partly created by the biology of various visu...
One thing that is logically unsound is when the word 'perception' is used ambiguously between two different senses: (1) for the object that you percie...
Plato: Only philosophers can sense what's beyond the shadows. Aristotle: (imagines) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Charlero...
I agree :up: Not only is the term 'consciousness' used in two different senses but also 'perspective'. A first person perspective is indeed a perspect...
Perhaps the taste of chocolate is not in the neurophysiology of the brain but in the chocolate :cool: There is, of course, neurophysiological activity...
:up: Philosophy of Language + Philosophy of Science + Metaphysics The fact that Philosophy of Mind overlaps with Philosophy of Science doesn't prevent...
Article A sea urchin has no nerve system, yet it can identify the presence of a predator and scoop sand and gravel on top of itself as camouflage to r...
I dance lindyhop. It's a fun dance from the 1920s-40s to swing jazz and bebop. Nowadays there are regular social dances, courses, camps, and competiti...
The interaction between contemplation and its expression in text, pictures, music etc. is often reported as constructive for the mental health of writ...
One thing that separates contemplation from vision is that you don't see a visible object. The object of contemplation is thought, imagined, felt etc....
I thought so too but then compare Norway with UK, for instance. There are no mountains or fjords that separate groups of people, yet there are many di...
Intentionality, however, is a widely accepted property possessed by conscious beings. The property of being directed towards something, as in behavior...
Certainly possible, but not so probable, because a (too) strong fascist (or other political) movement is a threat to the ruling business movement. :co...
Granted that little is known of the brain's mechanics, but the seeming obscurity regarding experiential quality is perhaps not so empirical. As soon a...
Direct (naive) realism? Perhaps depending on how we use the words 'code' or 'translation' or 'transition'. In any case it is not the process of seeing...
The simulation is indistinguishable from reality, recall, yet the experience "has no real-world equivalent"? To be indistinguishable from reality mean...
In the veridical case beer is experienced whereas in the simulation no beer is experienced. Yet we suppose that also in the simulation beer is experie...
I think it would still be fairly easy to distinguish between, for example, drinking a glass of beer and a simulation of it. The conditions under which...
I suppose chat bots can be useful, but when a chat bot gives us almost instant access to answers, we learn nothing from the process of getting it. By ...
Arguably, it was fin de siècle political culture in late 1800s Europe that gave rise to fascism/nazism, marxism, psychoanalysis, modernist art etc. A ...
What definition? Above I reply to your question. Likewise, we recognize these words that we type by some (but not all) features that they possess and ...
What exists are the actual elements and properties of things, including texts and pictures, of which we can construct abstract things. That's construc...
The symbols used for logic are not imprecise, scientists are not guessing when they use symbols for chemical compounds etc. The word 'symbol' is also ...
Well, unlike the mark on a page, which can be found meaningful for its own sake (e.g. beautiful, surprising etc) its usability for symbolization gives...
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