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In my view it's not moral to control which geographic areas people can choose to travel to, to settle down in, etc. I don't object to private property...

Yes, the disagreement is whether (there is any good reason to believe that) you have anything with the properties of thoughts, desires, ideas, concept...

It's my view that justifications are not objective. It's not my view that there are no objective bases to anything. If someone wants to argue an objec...

It's a truism about descriptions that they never convey what anything is like, experientially, to someone who hasn't experienced the thing in question...

So I stated my view. If one has a different view, one would support the view, and if that's persuasive, I'd change my view. It would be like me saying...

Well, it depends on what someone would mean by "conceivable." Basically, the p-zombie idea involves pretending that the physical properties of some su...

I didn't say anything even remotely resembling "There are no objective bases for anything."

I wouldn't say that it ever makes sense to talk about "all aspects" of anything. But you just described "gardening practices and situations unique to ...

Which makes it subjective. It's mental content, something mental that your brain is doing. Emotions period are mental, they're a brain function. Menta...

When you watch someone play chess, you can say that they are following the rules as you understand them (where your understanding is subjective, and y...

The problem is that things like "objective knowledge," so that the knowledge itself has as one of its properties that it is objective, are really cate...

Standard dictionary definitions work well enough: "the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something." "...

If you're observing people in observing language, then how is language not mind-dependent? Are you saying something only about non-mental aspects of l...

So that would suggest the answer to my question is "no." Would you say there is a describable metaphysics of nonphysicals?

Yeah, "complete description" just seems like a nonsensical phrase to me (hence why I didn't say anything about "complete descriptions"). What I was as...

Vacuous because there's no way to quantify "aspects." Why aren't you answering the question I asked you, by the way?

Potentially yes. And I don't know how I'd believe that there are things that I can't describe. I don't know how to make any sense of that. What would ...

You believe things exist that you can't describe?

I'm not going to address every single thing I'd need to address in such a long post. I don't like the idea of basically "writing books back and forth....

Yajur quoted you saying this: "Due to conclusions from Quantum-Mechanics, many or most physicists don't believe in Materialism anymore. — Michael Ossi...

Yes, although I like all music, really. But the Dead are one of my favorite artists.

Just so you know where I'm coming from I'm a hardcore atheist who thinks that the idea of a god and many other religious beliefs are absolutely absurd...

Count me out of that general agreement. ;-)

If you're an identity theorist as I am, those two are not contradictory. Not that I share the view. I think that only some physical "stuff" is mental ...

I'd be curious re the source of the data re whether most physicists are materialists . . . And curious, for that matter, how they'd attempt to even de...

There are obviously subconscious brain phenomena. In my view there's no good reason to believe that there are subconscious mental phenomena--thoughts,...

Normatives are "shoulds" in general. They're not defined by whether they're conditional or not. I don't know where you're getting that idea from.

No, that has nothing to do with whether we're talking about morality or not, and you could parse anything as conditional or unconditional in that way....

No, you're making the same category error here. There is no objective value. That doesn't mean that there is no subjective value. You simply have to l...

And as expected, responses start with a complete lack of understanding. That there is no objective value doesn't imply that things are similarly value...

That there's no objective value, knowledge or morality (or many other things) seems as obvious to me as anything can seem obvious.

I already have a couple problems there. First, I'd want to clarify just what he's claiming re possible worlds. If it's some Lewisian nonsense a la pos...

Nope, not confusing anything. Whether the Earth has one moon is an objective fact. Whether x justifies the claim that P is not an objective fact. And ...

We are and we evolved from species that needed to band together and cooperate to survive.

I don't buy the notion of subconscious mental content.

Anyway, people having NDEs and issuing reports about it are people who still have bodies, and they're people who always had bodies, even during the pe...

At any rate, I wouldn't consider that "getting burned." Re the idea that women only have sex with men because they think that if they get pregnant, th...

Wait, for one, how can you not understand the consequence of the child being only your responsibility if one parent opts out? That's nothing complicat...

"You shouldn't stick a fork in an electrical socket."

That I'm giving an opinion wouldn't at all imply that I feel that all opinions are just as worthwhile. I have the opinion that I do because it's the w...

Not sure what you're thinking of there.

Unless the assumption is that the author possibly doesn't understand how conventional English works, it's true.

Not all normatives are moral normatives.

First, were not talking about something true or false. We're giving opinions about what sorts of epistemic grounds justify actions, beliefs, etc. Ther...

First, James Rachel's argument is just a complete mess in my opinion. It's not really worth bothering with. It's comically poor. However, I'm not sure...

In my view both should have a veto right. If a woman decides to have a child despite the father vetoing it, which should require some sort of formal f...

Re your strength comments, in my view, multiple reports, etc. only matter if we have evidence that the persons couldn't possibly have heard others' re...

If there's a God that's changeless/motionless, how does that God start the material world?

The weight you put on purely testimonial evidence should be inversely proportional to the practical importance of accepting the testimony as true and ...

Is he offering moral advice there?