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I am still not sure what you're asking. The first thing that comes to mind is that there are many kinds of explanation. Aristotle distinguishes materi...

I disagree. The fallacy is forgetting that, when we abstract, we leave contextual data on the table. Things all share being, but they differ in how th...

The hylomorphic theory (the analysis of bodies into matter and form) has a long and venerable history. In my book, and in my article "A New Reading of...

It is different because those theories do not see the need for an intentional subsystem in their theory of mind. The brain clearly encodes and process...

The causality is not circular because it is not in the same act. In perception, material states inform intentional states (not as agents, but as forma...

Here, we need to apply the definition of an intentional state as one whose nature points beyond itself -- Brentano's "aboutness" criterion. If, as I'v...

No, an act of awareness is typically about the sensory contents that inform it.

Naturalism is a vaguely defined and, in my considered and elaborated view, irrational movement motivated by an a priori prejudice against what its pro...

Materially considered, which is to say as a piece of text, it has nothing to do with the motion of billiard balls. Formally considered, which is to sa...

I think the causality can run in either direction. As the placebo effect shows, what we think can affect our physical health. As neurophysical process...

Logical satisfaction need not reference human psychology. So, any psychological satisfaction is only related per accidens to an explanation being logi...

No, I am not. I am talking about the conceptual space spanned by concepts and how they relate logically. I am not saying that there is no relation bet...

Thanks for the clarification and reference.

It amounts to the basis of scientific understanding. Every branch of science has unchanging principles, their explanatory invariants, in terms of whic...

Thank you. It's Kirkland Colombian.

I think the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness plays a pivotal role in the confusion surrounding quantum theory, but explaining this would take us far ...

That is your belief. What is your justification? The one principle explaining many cases. For example, the laws of nature are explanatory invariants b...

"Thrown state" is a new term for me. We know that one of the main causes of depression is neurochemical -- problems with the balance of our neurotrans...

I did not claim that it did. I am saying that material properties alone cannot be the explanation of intentional properties. No, it is not about psych...

Whitehead discusses the fallacy in Science and the Modern World. as part of his defense of his theory of organism. The specific context is the fact th...

I don't think I did. I have no idea what the limitation "any context other than its own" means. Obviously, if we exclude the datum of actual existence...

Thanks for the heads-up. I edited it to make it clearer. Yes, a thought certainly worthy of reflection. I wonder if angst should be called an "intenti...

Mentality is physiological in the sense that it is normally supported by the neurophysiological processing of informative contents. It is equally clea...

Thank you for the informative post. The citations are quite helpful. Reflecting on them, we have used "desire" ambiguously. I was focusing on desire a...

I recall Aquinas saying that whatever we choose, we choose under the aspect (appearance?) of good. I would not be surprised to find that he derived th...

No, desires are generally physiological needs, accompanied by mental awareness of the need.

So, desires are not empirically knowable? I am not saying that the experience of having a desire is intersubjectively available. I an saying that the ...

The notion of "emergence" is that of an unexplained consequence and has no place in an explanatory or causal theory. It is clear that neural processin...

Of course, and we know that we do by what Jacques Maritain calls "knowledge by connaturality" -- by being aware of how we naturally respond in various...

Of course brains encode the contents we are aware of, but neither contents nor the processing of contents entails awareness of contents. I am not sure...

No, I an saying norms have an objective foundation in reality, which though not themselves norms, justify the application of norms. For example, there...

This is a non sequitur. The fact that thoughts depend on the mind for their being does not prevent them from referring to and grasping objective reali...

Thanks. There is nothing wrong with an open mind.

Any assessment has to be done by a mind, so, it seems that what you want, "a mind-independent assessment," is a contradiction in terms.

I may be missing something, but a more mature, educated, moral, healthier person, seems objectively more fully realized to me than one who is not. Wha...

Thank you.

I must object that the scientific method does not turn off belief, but seeks to justify it. The hypothetico-deductive method can only yield justified ...

This is not my position. I think that we are able to choose the kind of person we wish to be. I am unsure why you are addressing your questions to me,...

I agree that it was a horror, but I do not think that the definition of "anarchy" fits the kind of horror it was.

For retardation: being killed, being inadequately fed, sheltered, clothed, educated, etc. For advancement: having adequate food, shelter, medical care...

This forgets that thoughts are formal signs, often pointing to actual states of affairs. Here, what is signified is the potential fact that some physi...

I am not comparing anyone to the Nazis. I am simply pointing to a well-known counterexample to the thesis that lack of responsibility implies anarchy.

It seems to me that your view precludes metanoia/conversion experiences. I am thinking of one of the great proponents of free will, St. Augustine. Bef...

Yes, it did.

I am sorry, but I do not see loving animals while killing innocent people as "taking responsibility seriously." Anarchy is defined as "a state of diso...

Is it? I think that's a separate issue. In Nazi Germany we had a highly structured society in which no one seemed to take responsibility. Famously, mo...

Thank you for the kind words. I will look into Wiggins.

It seems to me that after you do all that can be done, the only thing left is to cope the best you can. As I said there is value in that because other...

As I asked in the beginning, what is the alternative?

Norms are intentional, for they are goals. So, they are not independent of mind in the sense of being physical states; however, they they exist in nat...