I have a decent grasp of Davidson's approach. If @"Banno" has something to add regarding the possibel descrepencies with the term Causal between Physi...
I am not interested in how scientific approaches woudl have to readjust. My concern is with the Metaphysical question of Causation. You do seem to be ...
It is actually about the use of Causation across two different domains and how this may aggravate the Hard Problem even further. I know because I star...
Can you imagine a non-informational object? Anyway, I misrepresented what I meant. No problem. Back to the matter that concerns me :) Are informationa...
What arguments. I have provided examples of what people refer to as Mental Acts: Desires, Beliefs, Propositions etc.,. I created this thread to talk a...
I already stated a problem I see in the OP. A fake fake could be construed as something Fake and as something Genuine. It depends on which 'fake' we p...
Can you imagine an non-physical object? Can you refer to something that has velocity but no material qualities? I think you will find in both cases th...
Phsyicalism is basically the same as Materilaism. You can look it up easily enough. I was not labelling you I was labelling the position you are expre...
Yes, I know. The hypothesis commonly put forward for that is an association with ripe fruit. Red also slows time subjectively whilst blue does the opp...
You understand that this is one philosophical position. It is called physicalism. If you claim you are not talking about physicalism just spit out wha...
:up: Although there are plenty who wholly oppose this. I thought @"Jamal" was one but apparently not? Or if the Art World dictates 'Conceptual Art' as...
I think the whole deal can be more or less split into two categories. 1) You go to school and you are taught how to use numbers effectively. 2) You do...
@"praxis" For starters I think you are just assuming this is a representation of how attracted we are to particular colours where it could be more to ...
In that case I have literally no idea what you are talking about when you said this in reference to how colour has presented in written form throughou...
You've lost me. I think I may have misunderstood though: Meaning in CURRENT texts rather than the first historical instances? I read this as meaning t...
Supervenience in the philosophy of mind states that if a Physical property alters so to does the Mental property. A change in Mental property requires...
As someone else mentioned supervenience may be a way to elucidate this misunderstanding further? Correspondence Theory is one way of bridging the gap ...
Cicadian Rhythm. Easily the most important as it regulates your body clock. This was fairly recently discovered to be far, far more sensitive to Blue ...
This can be explained by basic physiological neural priming though. If we are brought up around chimpanzees we recognise the differences in facial fea...
It was the Himba people from Namibia I was thinking of previously btw. Such different uses in language pervade other areas too. In South Korea parents...
It has also been shown that in infants before they can speak one sid eof their brain lights up when you ask them to point out a colour, but once they ...
Really! What on Earth do they base that on? That seems to fly in the face of evolutionary biology. We have three receptors in our eyes and one is spec...
Are you in favour of substance dualism then or something? If so you cannot really explain the gap between the mental and physical acts. If not then I ...
Are you suggesting something like linguistic relativism is going on when it comes to differentiating what a painting is compared to a drawing? Sounds ...
Makes them realise how LITTLE they are actively conscious of more like ;) Such focus shows how limited our active visual perception is. It still blows...
Numbers, Love, Annoyance, Or, Gravity, Yesterday, Next Week, etc.,. In terms of this thread and Philosophy of Mind items like Desires and Beliefs are ...
I've spoken to many Russians about this and they call blue blue. There is an exception with a group in Africa. Cannot recall their name/location, but ...
In particular the focus here is on the use of Mental Acts and Physical Acts in terms of Philosophy of Mind. I think there is still worthy groudn to co...
@"Leontiskos" To use technical jargon I am more or less approaching this as a mistake where the 'causal features' in a nomological approach are being ...
A very common judgement I make for many philosophical arguments. I think sometimes philosophical machinations can be so reductive that they fall prey ...
If I am using the term Artwork I do not see how we can refer to a mountain as a Work of Art. Other than that, I am with you. My only qualm being in th...
It depends what you mean by 'physical'. Plenty of people happily refer to subjective feelings as non-physical entities (qualia and such). Then there i...
We can only experience causation physically so it seems presumptious to assume that causation is a matter of fact beyond physicalism. The very term be...
If causation is the same for mental to mental as it is for physical to physical how can this be proven? There is physical evidence for physical causat...
Much like the proposition of the Language Instinct I think the same can generally be said about having an Art Instinct. Such instincts may be no more ...
If you want to feel free. I have been in the same position before whenever I mentioned Husserl I felt like I was banging a drum for him or something. ...
One thing that may explain a lot is that Language is an epiphenomenon and we use it to explain its own existence and practically everything else. Not ...
@"Leontiskos" What are your views on Mental to Physical and Mental to Mental causation? My interest does extend beyond philosophy of mind, but would l...
Yet, we are aware of things that do not exist for us through abstractions. We are 'aware' of abstractions. I think there is nothing particularly fault...
The current paradigm is the current paradigm. As long as we are not going backwards. There is a reason I get aggravated when discussing philosophical ...
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