Agree entirely - in fact I'd go further and say that I could not even imagine a human life at all, horrible or otherwise - as being one driven by nece...
You are missing the point. Just because the relata of a relation are constantly changing does not entail that the relation itself is constantly changi...
As I understand it, the basis of your original argument is that one and same piece of information can be born by numerically distinct material states/...
Thanks Wayfarer - I've never heard of Ed Feser, but I note he is being cautious when he says brain processes He's been doing philosophy for too long t...
OK, so do you believe that nominalistic materialism is true? If so, what is it that is true? Could it be merely an occurent state of your brain? Brain...
Well, I still think the arguments of Berkeley - which, as far as I can tell, are simply assumed to have been refuted these days by modern analytic "ph...
And if you want an analysis of why things like the financial crash that Ghilcrist mentions happen, you'll find more inciteful analysis in Karl Marx th...
A non-sequituur if I ever heard one. If you take an instrumentalist view of neurology, then the brain simply has no nature that could even possibly be...
Perhaps I'm not sure what you mean by physicalist - it's an unclear label for a wide variety of views. Do you mean that mental things simply are physi...
OK, so let me ask you a question: why can't behaviour be mental? Just saying that it cannot be doesn't answer that question. There seems to be a duali...
You seem to be assuming that intentions lie behind the conventions rather than intentions actually being manifested in those conventions. You may be r...
Metaphysician Undercover has pinpointed one of the problems with your position - what you assume about conventions: If your aim is to align with conve...
I see a point here, but I wonder if it is one that need worry the "LNC is timeless" advocates. There is a notion of a proof as an activity which invol...
I'm not sure. I want to say "of course an instant in time makes sense as being some specific point in the temporal continuum" - and to prove that thes...
One thing to clear up is that formally (i.e. as a rule of logical inference) the LNC has nothing to say about time. It is simply a law that allows you...
If the idea is that realm C contains the necessary and sufficient conditions for causal occurences, the passing of time won't cut it. Time passing mig...
I've nothing against speculative philosophy, as opposed to the dry analytic kind that jkg20 seems more focussed on, but there's some terminology in wh...
Doesn't that miss jkg20's point? After all, the way you make this statement assumes you've already settled that there are two realms for different att...
Now I'm confused. I thought your position was that the very term "consciousness" was drivel, by which I presume you meant "devoid of content". If it i...
Indeed, and there is a whole literature on the idea that one can use QM to explain consciousness (and by QM I mean QM interpreted non-idealistically)....
As far as I can tell, the heart of the dispute here is about the following statement: A coherent interpretation of QM must require that the mathematic...
Berkeley denied the existence of substance - so whatever account you have of it cannot possibly accord with Berkelean idealism. You might need to revi...
I don't think Wafarer is misrepresenting the debate, but perhaps I'm being naive. The debate as far as Wayfarer is concerned is about explaining the c...
The main motivation for coming up with alternative interpretations of the measurement problem is to avoid idealism and retain realism. Whether they ar...
You are not wrong, but you are just giving one of a number of interpretations of what is going on. There are some interpretations of QM that explain t...
There are some theorists working in the world of QM who do believe that experimentation can help decide which interpretation of quantum mechanics is t...
I'm not so sure that what you are calling "normal" usage is irrelevant. Don't get me wrong, I'm no "cardboard cutout" of the later Wittgenstein - i.e....
The QM interpretation issue can be put like this. Any quantum system is in a superposition of quantum states until such time as a specific kind of int...
Getting back to the point of the discussion you started, and concerning so-called unfocused anxiety, representationalism has three ways of dealing wit...
Wow - just read that precis (thanks for the link): if Kant needed to get that complicated to try to refute Berkeley, that seems like some evidence tha...
By subjective idealism do you mean the idealism of Berkeley? Who refuted it? I know Samuel Johnson thought he did so by kicking a stone, but he was ju...
Berekeley's argument for the existence of God seems apt here: 1) The relativity of perception proves that metaphysical idealism is true - the perceive...
"..I hardly think scientists need metaphysicians to help them out". The article seems to suggest precisely the opposite. The idea seems to be that the...
Hello Cuthbert - small clarification, the article I cited is talking about the principle of least action, not the principle of sufficient reason. I ca...
Yes, you did cite Bretano, but citation and interpretation are two distinct things. Sometimes philosophers - and I'm presuming Bretano was a philosoph...
The difference between an ontological claim and an ontological commitment is what, as far as you understand it? Is it that the former is always explic...
If Bretano did claim that every mental phenomenon includes something as object, then isn't jkg20's unfocussed anxiety a counterexample? A general feel...
OK, so it sounds like apokrisis is agreeing with the article to the extent that the article is targetted only at those physicists that take physics ot...
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