Because according to classical understanding of causality, the past is both fixed and exactly determines the future, which prevents the possibility of...
Earlier i was mentioning models that might appear retro-causal, in the sense that the model considers facts about the past to be ontologically depende...
I was referring to the usual kind of compatibilism. The problem of compatibilism, at least as i understand it, is how to reconcile two seemingly contr...
Models of causality that are "compatibilist" are those which appear to be retro-causal due to rejecting the antecedent-precedent distinction. These mo...
it's a good example, that is co-related to the idea that the direction of causality is relative. The classical conception of causality, which assumes ...
I think Hawking misrepresents his own intentions, judging by the wildly different interpretations I have seen of MDR, for I've witnessed both realists...
The most famous western idealist George Berkeley wasn't a reality skeptic, precisely because his subjective idealism denied the status of the hidden v...
Model Dependent Realism is a dubious metaphysical proposition in itself. For how does MDR avoid collapsing into either George Berkeley's instrumentali...
I suspect that Wittgenstein wasn't interested in QM due to the fact that he considered it to have no metaphysical value. Remarkably, it has taken anot...
The above can be summarized by saying that "other minds" is an oxymoron. Epistemic uncertainty is meaningful when identifying a behavioral disposition...
The debate as to whether QM randomness is aleatoric or epistemic is presumably rendered moot by modern understanding of Quantum Contextuality; for in ...
To use the SEP's description of Aristotle's causal ontology: The material cause or that which is given in reply to the question “What is it made out o...
Had Aristotle known about evolution, then he could have explained the regularity of nature without appealing to final causes and only to adaptive feed...
Yes. To say that an oak tree is a "final cause" of an acorn is to speak informally about the evolutionary feedback that determined the chemistry of De...
Yes, although I would reject the concept of "self determination" as meaningless. IMO, "determination" is only meaningful when used in the sense of the...
The concept called "Intelligence" - whether natural or otherwise - is largely an anthropocentric misconception of Cybernetics that is born out of cart...
Can someone give me an example of a "final cause" that cannot be eliminated for initial causes? The examples that Aristotle provides, e.g the function...
In type theory as used in computer programming languages, "nothing" is interpreted as a type denoted \bot that has no values but that can be eliminate...
Yes, that would be because Godel wanted to reinforce the point that his theorems have entirely constructive proofs, that don't appeal to the law of ex...
The book "An Introduction to Godel's Theorems" by Peter Smith would be my recommendation for an eager beginner. Alternatively, wiki's page on the Halt...
Alternative foundations for general mathematics and computing can't solve Kripikean skepticism in the sense of providing stronger foundations that rul...
That depends on the sense of adequacy you are referring to. The question is, how can an intensional definition of addition such as an inductive defini...
A philosophical commonality of those approaches, is that mathematical objects are treated as being finite. So for example, plus is permitted to exist ...
It's interesting to speculate what effects that mind-reading technology could have on our linguistic conventions. It is conceivable that the use of wh...
Kripke's mistake (assuming I am recalling his position correctly), was phrasing the skepticism as a circular question to a mathematician where he aske...
A central question of concern when it comes to interpreting the late Wittgenstein and what he meant by "private language" is the following issue: " .....
Truth conditional semantics implies that beliefs don't exist, for beliefs are teleological entities. The meaning of belief-behaviour isn't reducible t...
Mathematicians are also "spiritual advisors", for mathematics and logic are normative disciplines. Going along with Hacker's interpretation of Wittgen...
In AI , the word "belief" is principally used to denote an agent's understanding of cause and effect in terms of his "Cartesian" mental model of the w...
The sample space of any room is { H, (T,F), (T,S) } where F and S refer to First Stay and Second Stay, respectively with probability measure M(H) = 1/...
Now suppose she doesn't make any assumptions regarding her room allocation. What then? For all she knows, she might have been hand-picked to babysit a...
Two "tail" rooms refer to the same coin outcome. So when computing the probability that the coin of her room landed heads, she needs to take into cons...
The question she is asked is in the context of a single trial. It is merely "What is your credence now for the proposition that the coin landed heads?...
They do indeed conflate them. Why would SB assign a credence of 1/3 to heads, if she knows 1) That the physical probability of winning the lottery is ...
Other people can hear your snoring, but they cannot observe an absence of your experiences on your behalf, and neither can you. All they can observe i...
When I awoke this morning, I felt as if time had passed. This coheres with biological hypotheses that some level attention was present, at least spora...
I simplified my thought experiment to say that she loses $1 on Monday if heads comes up, otherwise she loses nothing. No stake is involved, and she is...
That is true according to thirder's logic, but it doesn't alter their fallacious implication that consenting to amnesia before the experiment improves...
In my argument, SB isn't asked to guess anything during the experiment. To make things really simple, let us only suppose that SB will lose $1 if the ...
Here's another criticism of the thirder position: Their reasoning implies that self-induced amnesia is a valid strategy for controlling outcomes: Supp...
Let P(Flip | Today ) represent the conditional probability of the state of coin, relative to the value of SB's indexical "Today". Then 2/3 = P(Flip = ...
But indifference with respect to the joint outcomes (Day, Flip) implies not only (1) a "posterior" probability for heads that differs from it's prior ...
I would say that neither the halfers nor the thirders position concerns credence. Plus the concept of "credence" is a minefield of unresolved philosop...
The question here concerns whether realism and idealism are truth-apt synthetic propositions, with each representing competing theories that describe ...
Yes, I see that. So why are you redefining y? Your two definitions of E aren't equivalent. The first one is implicitly referring to E, the conditional...
No covert redefinitions of y are happening, just covert pathological expectations over infinity. For the problem implicitly assumes P(x) = c This is a...
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