I take your point that as any pursuit that depends largely on public support, philosophy has a burden of justifying its existence. But as I think you ...
Well, this is true for a lot of academic disciplines, both in humanities and in physical sciences. Exactly. This demand for (whatever) philosophy to j...
Likewise, if your response to any push-back is that you are obviously right and there's no value to a different view, then it is very easy to come up ...
Obviously not. Most of the things that we hold as true are not verifiable in practice or even in theory. If you were consistent in your skepticism, yo...
How is this issue different from not having a first-person experience of another person's consciousness? Unless your real issue is that it's a compute...
I think Searle's thought experiment was rather a reaction to reductive takes on consciousness, particularly computational, functionalist ones: There a...
Well, that is generally true of specialists. You will find the same with black holes or medieval French literature. But as for your general question, ...
Was it ever a thing? Is "analytic philosophy" a meaningful and useful designation? I think philosophers tend to answer in the negative. (And the same ...
If you identify logic with classical logic, or something with a close family resemblance, then yes. But formal logic in general is less specific than ...
I think you make a good point here: But this is if you look at quantum logic as making an absolute metaphysical statement about quantum mechanics, rat...
And of course there's heaps from the philosophy of physics side. Reviews and anthologies alone will probably fill a shelf or three, e.g. Tim Maudlin's...
Rather than speculate in the abstract, do yourself a favor and google "philosophy of space." You'd be surprised at what scientists and philosophers ha...
Right, I am just saying that bringing up the fact that a conscious being is always involved in QM experiments as a last-ditch defense of a mentalist t...
You are talking about the mind interpreting the world. Mentalist interpretations of QM imply the mind directly affecting the world, e.g. reaching out ...
Oh, you want boobies? Why didn't you just say so? :) Anyway, to your point that an experimenter has to be involved, that's true of literally everythin...
You don't have to use quantum logic in quantum mechanics either; classical logic works perfectly well there - it's just one way of thinking about QM t...
Right, that would be the orthodox Copenhagen interpretation: the electron interacts with the detector and the wavefunction collapses from a superposit...
It can, with some footwork, but at the cost of metaphysical extravagance. But then mind/matter dualism is already pretty extravagant, and if you've al...
What @"khaled" attributes (inexplicably) to the Copenhagen interpretation sounds like the von Neumann-Wigner interpretation, in which only minds have ...
Which is when the collapse allegedly occurs: when the (classical) measuring system interacts with the quantum system to produce a measurement. Measure...
This is not accurate. There are interpretations of quantum mechanics that involve the mind (e.g. Neumann–Wigner), but as Kenosha Kid says, the Copenha...
Thanks for your candid explanation. As I suspected, what is at issue here is not the original question, which is easy enough to answer, but how you fr...
You seem to be using the forum as a personal blog or scratchpad. There are better platforms for this. The point of posting on a forum is conversation....
Causality in general is an informal concept. We have intuitions and practices related to causality; theories (plural) of causality attempt to capture ...
Sweden? On a different, more hopeful note, it has long been a puzzle why Covid morbidity/mortality seems to differ significantly in different parts of...
If you have no idea whether or not you exist, then I would say you are confused. But other than that, absent certainty, probability is the obvious nex...
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One can make an argument by way of analogy for a kind of teleology inherent in homeostasis and biological adaptation, but this "teleology" does not po...
That's a lot of words for a basic appeal to popularity. Was that in reaction to anything specific? If you want to complain about the running of the fo...
This all just comes down to whatever we believe ought to be the case ought to be the case - a truism. The halfhearted proper-functionalism with which ...
Not this old chestnut again :roll: Why anyone would say something so obviously untrue is puzzling, but how this inanity gets to be repeated over and o...
No need to get angry. I am trying to engage with your ideas, but you aren't being very forthcoming. I realize that I may be pushing in a direction tha...
As a minor note, the argument is not that the universe could not have existed if it lacked some feature, but that it would have been lifeless if its f...
You are misreading this expression. In game theory, economic theory and such, the self and the interest in "rational self-interest" are taken for gran...
I am still not sure what you are trying to say here, but this struck me as bizarre. I get a feeling that you are working within a rationalist framewor...
Just wanted to link this critical review of recent experimental meta-ethics research: Empirical research on folk moral objectivism (2019). Some intere...
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True, official statistics underestimates COVID mortality almost everywhere, for various reasons (not necessarily nefarious), but the extent of underco...
Obviously, not by counting or measuring directly. We don't hold a stopwatch to measure the age of the earth either - we use other measurements to esta...
Same way as how we establish anything in science: that Earth is ~4.5 Gyr old ("How could you possibly know? Were you there?!"), that pulsars are neutr...
But whether these things are deemed to be material or not (I don't much care), the boundaries of perception are still ises, they are facts about the p...
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