Relativist

I recommend Micheal Tye's book ,"Tense Bees and Shell Shocked Crabs: Are Animals Conscious?". He explores the very topic you are investigating. Here's...

Not true. There is indeed evidence of collusion. What Mueller did not find was a prosecutable case for criminal conspiracy. On the latter, there is so...

I brought up 2 key issues, and I can't discern your position, so I'll ask directly. 1) Are you skeptical of causation within the universe? The progres...

I addressed that in the rest of my post.

"Does every effect have a cause, or is it possible for causeless effects to happen?" From a strictly semantic point of view: no. Labeling something "a...

Start with an account that a historian would give, one that is as complete as possible. Next show how these factors supervene on the mental activities...

That's even worse, because the author of Matthew was not even an eyewitness. He's just passing along hearsay.

There no difference, because in both cases it is just a claim that YOU are making. If it's a lie, it's just a somewhat bigger lie to claim 10 people h...

FYI - In 2016 there were 10 "faithless electors" who tried to vote against the candidate to whom they were pledged. 3 of these votes were invalidated,...

The natural= That which exists (has existed, or will exist) including ourselves, everything that is causally connected to ourselves, and anything not ...

Tim- I know that. I was just looking for a way to succinctly show that it's wrong. For the record, this pertains to a discussion I'm having about the ...

I didn't actually win, and obviously it's because I'm a 65 year old, male Czech.

I think you nailed the error. I can express it in terms of conditional probability: where P(a|b) = the probability of a, given that b is true C=being ...

After hearing Trump's proposal for a temporary extension of DACA, I was modestly optimistic that this might be at least an initial step towards some k...

Feb 16, 2017 Trump: “DACA is a very, very difficult subject for me...You have these incredible kids, in many cases not in all cases. In some of the ca...

McCain regretted picking Palin (see this). Admitting to a mistake is a sign of both intelligence and humility.

Jeff Flake? Mitt Romney?

It's not baseless, but it's relatively unimportant whether or not Tump is a racist in his heart. What's important is that his rhetoric appeals to raci...

That's only one factor in the equation. This Wikipedia article provides a balanced analysis.

Trump is a consequence of the right wing punditocracy. This is no exaggeration; listeners are his base, and Trump frequently takes advice from them.

Funny you should mention that, because Mike Pence was a guest on today's Rush Limbaugh show. Pence said: " Thank you, Rush. It’s always an honor. I ju...

Do his supporters believe Trump is clairvoyant? I don't know how else to explain their complete trust in every "solution" he comes up with, despite th...

Pence becoming President would not result in Pelosi becoming Vice President. She would briefly be the next in the line of succession - while remaining...

I don't know that it's an honorable profession, but it does seem to be one sort of profession that a truly honorable person might take. I suspect some...

April 2016, Trump said, ""We're gonna beat ISIS very, very quickly, folks. It's gonna be fast. I have a great plan. It's going to be great. They ask, ...

1. If I read my logic book then I will feel tired and frustrated 2. I feel tired and frustrated 3. Therefore I read my logic book Question: is this a ...

What is a concept? I suggest it is an abstraction, described propositionally. You seem to be suggesting there exist platonic entities that correspond ...

No, it's not just beliefs - it's also due to dispositions and can be influenced by impulsiveness. These are also consistent with determination. Questi...

But you have mentally assigned the probabilities based on prior beliefs, and this determines your choice.

What does that mean? Describe the process you have in mind.

I made a case for moral accountability under compatibilism here.

That is a reasonable clarification of the PAP. But isn't this still consistent with compatibilism? How could the agent have made a counterfactual choi...

You are basing your hypothetical on some specific interpretation of QM. For example, your view is consistent with the Many Worlds interpretation. This...

You earlier referred to Schroedinger's cat. A cat is not both alive and dead; it is one or the other - that is the ontological nature of the experimen...

Refer back to the thought experiment I described in my opening post. If I make a choice based on my prior beliefs and dispositions, isn't that choice ...

By "ontological" - I'm referring to things as the actually ARE (as the exist), not merely what is measured. All interpretations of QM are consistent w...

Maybe nothing, but I wanted to clarify that quantum indeterminacy is generally regarded as ontologically indeterminate. I gather you do actually accep...

Not so much. See this. Of particular relevance is footnote 41, which refers to a 1968 journal article that proposes the energy for neuronal activity i...

Does quantum indeterminacy satisfy your assumption of randomness. It is REALLY random, unlike dice throwing. Do you think this randomness is sufficien...

Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics does seek to explain the indeterminacy. I am aware of only two interpretations that are consistent with strict de...

OK, but any factor under the agent's control seems determinative, which falsifies LFW. Refer back to the thought experiment: It seems to be the case t...

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Compatibilism = a concept of free will that is consistent with determinism. I've described choices that are consistent with determinism. Is the choice...

Sure - and they ARE effectively predetermined. I'm drawing the distinction between entailment and causation. Per determinism, the decision is a truth ...

I mildly object to saying a decision is predetermined. Saying the decision was "predetermined" can be interpreted to mean the same decision would be m...

"What situation could you envisage that would offer no alternative courses of action? Unless you have unwillingly and unknowingly been 'possessed' or ...

"Doesn’t free will just mean to a Compatibilist that the actor isn’t being coerced by anyone?" Yes, but some deny there is moral accountability if cho...

Multiple options are available, and one is chosen. This is the case irrespective of whether or not compatibilism is true. This is indisputable. I desc...

It is a choice by definition (a choice is a behavior in which a person has multiple options before them, and selects one), and I explained how it is c...

Thanks for the comment. It reminded me that I failed to include a preliminary description of a compatibilist choice. I have added that - it's now the ...