IMO, Chalmer and Dennett both had a tendency to misconstrue the meaning of "physical" as denoting a metaphysical category distinct from first personal...
Isn't understanding the same thing as justification? I'm not sure what the U adds to JTB, given that we assess understanding in terms of justification...
I think that axioms are a misleading interpretation of Wittgenstein's hinges. i) Axioms are typically used to represent truth-apt empirical hypotheses...
Yes, the keyword here is interaction - more specfiically John's ongoing interactions with his environment that maintains a correlation between his con...
Here we must ask if John's understanding of mathematics is relevant to the mathematical truth of his utterance: From the perspective of the mathematic...
Under the strongest possible interpretation of truth-conditional semantics (the principle of maximal charity), the meaning of your use of a sentence S...
Truth conditional semantics does not escape the dilemma between the postulation of belief intentionality ,causal semantics and trivialism on the one h...
And that is the idea I am attacking. Supposedly, Intentionality refers to "The quality of mental states (e.g. thoughts, beliefs, desires, hopes) which...
Thermometers never commit epistemic errors; they can only mislead those who uncritically rely upon them. Likewise, the same can be said of a 'believer...
Don't think of thinking as a solitary activity, as in a circular causal process. Think of thinking as open communication between two or more processes...
Science isn't committed to the reality of alethic modalities (necessity, possibility, probability) in the devout epistemological sense you seem to imp...
Or rather, it explains why mathematics is simply efficacious - mathematical conventions are arbitrary and independent of facts and hence a priori, and...
Here is my position: 1). I cannot know false propositions a priori. 2). I can have known false propositions a posteriori. This is because I cannot dis...
But you haven't presented any cases that can be expected to survive an ordinary degree of scientific scrutiny. Randomized trials aren't a requirement,...
In modern western societies, a testimony that appeals to clairvoyance falls under misrepresentation of evidence, an inevitable outcome under witness c...
I am guessing that if EEGs are flatlining when patients are developing memories associated with NDEs, that this is evidence for sparse neural encoding...
Sam, name one reproducible experiment under controlled laboratory conditions that confirms that NDEs entail either clairvoyance or disembodied cogniti...
Sure, so the question is whether proponents of physical explanations for "consciousness" and purported anomalous phenomena share that sentiment, in wh...
Which is precisely why Physics survives theory change, at least for ontic structural realists - for only the holistic inferential structure of theorie...
For the record, I don't consider any such case to be real - a flat EEG reading isn't a sufficient measurement for defining brain death. Only quacks se...
Even if NDEs were veridical, that wouldn't be enough to challenge physicalism or mind-brain equivalence. The same goes for past life regression. At mo...
Actually that's untrue, because without ontological commitment to universal quantification over absolute infinity, one cannot distinguish the hypothes...
Leibniz's Law at the Post Office The postal system relies upon referential transparency, namely of knowing an immutable address that is associated wit...
Yes, that is perfectly reasonable as an informal description of gravity when describing a particular case of motion in the concrete rather than in the...
Determinism can always survive on a theoretical level, in the sense that in ill-posed problem with more than one possible solution can always be conve...
if NDEs were objective, then intelligence agencies around the world would be training spies to induce them for purposes of remote viewing. Alas, the S...
Yes, the semantic distinction is a methodological distinction. I think of mathematical language as being analogous to a high level programming languag...
In my view, both Berkeley and his detractors are right. His detractors are right in that physical definitions purposely omit the subjective. Therefore...
A classical analogy for interaction free measurements, as in the quantum Zeno Elitzur–Vaidman_bomb_tester, can be given in terms of my impulsive niece...
By all accounts, Berkeley was an instrumentalist. So Berkeley would have "believed in physics" - but not in realist metaphysical interpretations of ph...
I think that Berkeley would have accepted physical explanations, but as being semantically reducible to talk of private sensations, perhaps by arguing...
Berkeley presented what we might now call a nominalist or deflationary view with respect to abstracta, both mathematical and physical, that considers ...
Notice that propositional attitudes at least internally satisfy Leibniz Law, since if Lois believes that Superman is Clarke Kent, then she believes th...
A proposition is meant to describe and thereby predict the world. So then what of the unity of the proposition? Consider the sentence "The cat sat on ...
What is meant by a scientific explanation here? If scientific knowledge is conceived to be reducible to a formal system, then a scientific explanation...
Somebody first needs to explain why emergence should be considered to refer to a physical or metaphysical property, as opposed to referring to grammat...
Logically speaking, first-order quantification refers to quantifying over atomic terms (i.e. constants) that satisfy a first-order proposition, namely...
The mechanics of cognitive externalism are generally considered to be physical, as when resorting to a calculator to do arithmetic or when a robot is ...
The idea that NDEs behave as a sixth sense is actually in conflict with the idea that NDEs are evidence of Cartesian dualism; for how are the experien...
I actually find it tempting to define computability in terms of what humans do , to follow Wittgenstein's remark on the Church-Turing thesis, in which...
I think a common traditional mistake of both proponents and critics of the idea of AGI, is the Cartesian presumption that humans are closed systems of...
Judgements about other minds should always be made relative to the person who is judging. Then all the philosophical confusion dissipates; if I judge ...
The OP raises an overlooked point; if the evolution of a system is invertible, which is presumably the case for a deterministic system, then there is ...
My opinion is: Nobody has a transcendental conception of other minds, rather they project their own mentation (or not) onto whatever it is that they a...
Consider Wittgenstein's following remark: 124. Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it....
A "Quale" should be understood as referring to an indexical rather than to a datum. Neuro-Phenomenologists routinely conflate indexicals with data, le...
Two directions need to be distinguished, namely analysis Phenomena --> Physical concepts Which expresses the translation of first-personal observation...
"That man over there with champagne in his glass", if interpreted as a rigid designator, doesn't fix an immutable description, but rather fixes an abs...
Hinge propositions correspond to non-logical axioms that correspond to presuppositions, rather than to undecidable sentences whose truth values are de...
Your interpretation of immanence is naturally fitted by Chu Spaces , which can be used to model bidirectional causality that can either be interpreted...
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