Right, "checking their internal structure on the basis of shared human mental structures" would be one such reductive procedure. "Greatest happiness (...
This kind of brings to mind arguments over "objective" morality and the is/ought gap. What often stands for said objectivity is some consistent reduct...
"Understand" is too vague a requirement to give an answer. It's vague even in the usual context of human interactions, but if you want to apply it cro...
Yes, that was what I understood you to mean. It isn't so much paywalls that separate the masses from the latest scientific research, but years of trai...
Fanaticism for truth and justice sounds very fine and romantic. Who could object to that? The naked truth used to be allegorically depicted as a beaut...
In that case, the somewhat flippant answer that I gave you in the beginning still fits. There are plenty of things in our ordinary experience that fit...
The problem with this discussion is that no one, including, I am sure, the OP @"elucid", quite knows what question is being asked, and what kind of an...
You have very naive, black-and-white notions both about academia and about open-access publishing. The best of open-access journals are very much a pa...
That's kind of a silly thing to say, on the one hand. A field is "a physical quantity... that has a value for each point in space-time." And temperatu...
You are just making my point. You choose to include elementary particles into things that you call "objects." I don't think it's a conventional use of...
So am I. Physical objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Things that can occupy the same space at the same time are not called objects...
On one now defunct forum that I used to visit they even made a sub-section of their philosophy forum specifically for free will discussions. I wish we...
This is just what we mean be the word "object." If some entities - real or imagined - can be at the same place at the same time, such as fields or gho...
The basic hypothetico-deductive method works like this: 1. Assume that the system under consideration is described by some theory - in other words, it...
It is certainly an interesting question to ask how music came about, and there can be different ways of answering it. The "easy" question is the descr...
The fact that our blood is red does not confer fitness advantage to us, so why is it red? The color of blood appears to be "just extra-chance-random" ...
Not only that, but the slogan is not a good representation of the theory of natural selection. You are still stuck on the idea of hyper-adaptationism ...
You are not trying to explain it in a different way. You are repeating the exact same truism ("a thing is what it is and is not what it is not") over ...
Even as an atheist, I am surprised that of all the garbage threads that are started here, @"fresco" chooses to pick on the few religion-themed ones. B...
That's a good way to put it, if a bit vague. It makes sense if you are already familiar with various examples of metaphysics and are trying to general...
Don't automatically assume that what seems to you like an abstruse post is a sign of "intellectual posturing." A forum is not a school or a public ser...
If you are interested in what people in the street (and perhaps also in courts of law and ethics committees) think about "free will", then perhaps, ra...
It is, of course, an age-old plaint about people getting stupider, weaker, more corrupt, etc. etc. But if you are being serious and not just idly moan...
I am more concerned with exploring those views, starting with learning them even in the most basic outlines. But I can see that you are not interested...
I just told you, didn't I? Why not read something about this topic if it interests you? You might want to start not with the identity theory specifica...
You are misunderstanding the mind-brain identity thesis. It does not say that your mind is literally a physical object that is your brain. Rather, it ...
Well, thank you for being so upfront, I guess - this will save me time and effort. By giving a caricature of your position I was hoping (though it was...
It's contentious, if you care to survey philosophical literature on free will, rather than just the works of one or two authors. And no, I am not goin...
Right, so your receptive/consequential distinction falls approximately along the same line as Hume's matters of fact vs. relations of ideas, which is ...
That's a lot of words, but I am kind of struggling to understand what it is that you think is the original thought here. How is your receptive/consequ...
That's some assignment! I read Notre-Dame de Paris as a teen, and even at that age his overwrought romanticism turned me off. The shear bulk of Les Mi...
"What it means" is where conceptual issues begin and end. What did you think I meant? Specifically with regard to causality, since that was the contex...
Reader here. I read every day, though since I am a slow reader, I don't cover nearly as much ground as some. I don't have a good idea of how much othe...
Which is impossible to judge based on the retelling of one of the participants. For all I know, you could be right, but to a rational observer who kno...
This situation is changing though. Just as science is no longer the province of gentlemen dilettantes, as it was until about the mid-19th century, phi...
This isn't so much Popperian falsificationism as just empiricist principles that were around, more or less, since Bacon's time. Falsificationism is so...
You don't need a NYT account to read this article. If somehow, despite your policy, you've exceeded their free articles-per-month limit, you can just ...
Well, Science Forums has an explicitly stated narrow focus and tight moderation, so the fact that your thread was closed immediately and the earlier t...
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