That's the opposite of what I said. What do you think the thesis of physicalism is? I don't think there is a single generally recognized physicalist d...
An argument or a justification can beg the question, but logic* as a field does not present an argument or a justification of itself. I already acknow...
I would rather address the original question directly. No, I don't find the analogy with logic any more clear. Anything can be the subject of a discou...
I am not following your argument. I am stuck at "one simply can't get beyond the brain-itself-as-phenomenon, for to affirm a brain as not a phenomenon...
Nice. I am listening the whole set. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GxkZKiiRv0 A while ago I was binging on Purcell and Handel, especially their less...
I would include here all scientific and scientifically informed studies of consciousness, including psychology and some philosophy of mind. Well, this...
I am suspect that, like @"Art48" and some others in this discussion, you are not clear on what the Hard Problem of Consciousness is supposed to be. It...
Yeah, fascists and tankies often make cozy bedfellows, even as they try to make bogeymen out of each other. In the post-Soviet Russia the relationship...
Another beautiful violin concerto. Not yet "typical" Britten, and not often performed, owing to its great difficulty. (Jascha Heifetz declined to prem...
So this is not about fields at all. The actual question being asked could be stated as follows: Can a researcher postulate an unknown force of nature ...
"Person" does not have the sort of sharp and unambiguous meaning as, say, the Sun (something that we all understand the same way, at least ostensibly)...
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology released the results of the latest telephone poll, which it has been conducting periodically since May: Dyna...
Thanks for the article. It nicely exposes the willful ignorance and parochialism of westplaining Ukraine. One phrase strikes a false note though: This...
Michael McFaul, former ambassador to Russia, now Professor at Stanford, recently gave a lecture: "Explaining the Causes and Consequences of Putin’s In...
I think we are on the same page. It's just that for me energy transfer means that, well, energy is transferred between parts of the system or between ...
Does it? What if the gasses are at thermal equilibrium? Where does energy transfer take place in mixing? Let's take the air in your room, which is mos...
Stravinsky allegedly said about his violin concerto that he wanted to write "a music that would have no emotional resonance." What a load of crock! It...
LOL at "my very accurate denials". Not going to waste my time arguing with another freak, but here are a couple more links for general reference: Huma...
That's a nice way to put it. Although there is also such a thing as entropy of mixing, as when two dissimilar gases mix with each other, in which no e...
It doesn't. This is just a brief summary of Plantinga's original Evolutionary argument against naturalism. The OP attempts a parallel argument as appl...
"Resistance is futile!" They just can't help acting like movie supervillains, can they? In related news: Putin gives eight golden ‘rings of power’ to ...
Putin, Isolated and Distrustful, Leans on Handful of Hard-Line Advisers Russia’s president built a power structure designed to deliver him the informa...
Sometimes I find Modernist art more "interesting" than actually satisfying to watch/read/listen, and this goes for some of Varèse that I have listened...
Another of his sources is Brian Berletic, aka Tony Cartalucci, a far-right conspiracy theorist who has been amplifying Russian propaganda, and before ...
This popular narrative of "a motley group of Ukrainian defenders" that eviscerated Russian armored columns "with shoulder-fired antitank weapons" was ...
The New York Times published a big investigative article: Putin's War (You should be able to read without subscription if you open the link in a priva...
The Economist interviewed General Valery Zaluzhny, the head of Ukraine’s armed forces. Now, normally I don't pay much mind to government or military o...
Who are they arguing against? No one but no one believes in Strawson's strawman of a self-caused, perfectly autonomous agent. That's news to absolutel...
In that interview he says: He uses similar superlatives in the "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility" essay. According to his thesis, what this "...
Although the main argument seems to leave out the possibility of indeterminism, Strawson does discuss indeterminism and argues that, if anything, "ran...
Here is Strawson's paper: Galen Strawson: The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility (1994) summarizes it accurately. Much of the short paper consists ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkbWcvEPeo8 Composed in the final weeks of the war, when the composer's world was crumbling around him. If the theme s...
British Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) published Preliminary Lessons in Conventional Warfighting from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: February–J...
It is hard to tell, to be frank. The OP insists that it is, but then when philosophers discourse about truth (or anything else for that matter) things...
I don't mean to stick up for error theorists, but I am with them (and with Humeans) on this one. One shouldn't confuse explanations for morality being...
Your question is (perhaps deliberately) unclear. If you are bothered by the apparent tension between moral talk (locutions such as "torture is bad") a...
If you are referring to the above (moral claims are not truth-apt), that is non-cognitivism, rather than error theory. Error theorists (and Leftist, i...
@"Leftist" seems to be reasoning from the error theory, except that Leftist doesn't quite get it. Leftist doesn't get that the error theory is a metae...
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