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As far as I understand it - for Kant, the "thing in itself" is definitely not to be equated with God. However, I suppose there may be Kantians who mig...

How one should live? and if God exists? What's the relation? Well, and this is definitely not Spinoza's position, if you thought you could prove that ...

If we see something blurred as opposed to clearly, or as you suggest through a filter of some kind, I admit there is a good deal of motivation - indep...

Thanks, but no need to apologise, my question was probably a little too basic for this technical thread anyway, so I started another one specifically ...

I'm not sure why Spinoza chose the title "The Ethics" for his work, but it is above all a work of metaphysics. As far as I understand him, though, he ...

Common sense is right about the feather and the iron ball, at least insofar as dropping them from the top of the tower of Pisa is concerned. Of course...

Thanks for this post, which I found enlightening. I'd often suspected that there was something circular in Dennett's position. Doesn't he try to disso...

For attempts to argue for God's existence, you could do worse (at least in my opinion) that to read Descartes' Meditations (from memory the arguments ...

"Well, it actually does matter if something is caused by a psychoactive substance or not." Why? The question I'm interested in is the one Procastinati...

This may be off-topic to some extent, but is there a link here to the position in the philsophy of mind called adverbialism? From what I gather, the i...

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I agree the author of the article seems to be a bit of a crank (seems he or she thinks he or she can prove god exists for one thing). Having said that...

Isn't it? I would have thought physicists wouldn't be too happy to be told that when they talk about electrons etc that they are not talking about rea...

Thanks Akanthinos and Ying for the explanations and pointers to further reading. Not that I'm taking any sides here - but what about this unfocussed a...

A mistake people are making about Descartes (it seems to me) in much of the discussion so far is that he took his cogito to be a deductive argument. W...

Some of what this Cogitson is saying sounds like the kind of arguments Berkeley gave for his empirical idealism (you might already have read Three Dia...

Not much of a philosophical argument. As for Corvus , that's not much of an argument either, although at least it has a premise and a conclusion, even...

Thanks apokrisis for the detailed reply. I have a couple of points/questions: 1: Isn't that precisely the kind of view that the author of the article ...

In the article I linked to it seems pretty clear that the author is talking about that part of commonsense that views the world as populated with colo...

I think the realist you are talking about has at a bare minimum just four metaphysical commitments: 1) that there are things that perceive 2) that the...