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Well, not really. I was not arguing for naturalism anyway. Nothing is completely deterministic. The logical premises you use are abstractions-of and d...

I think you are misunderstanding my point here. I am saying that Gravity is a placeholder for a phenomenon observed. As you noted there are two distin...

@"Astorre" You might find this quote from Kierkegaard interesting:

So panpsychism with the belief that every mirco and macro item is experiencing on some level.

I think you mean yes. Without consciousness the universe is a clockwork machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Albert Camus wrote a piece on Sisyphus that is very famous.

So you are looking at the univserse as a clockwork machine without the input of consciousness? I think when we are getting to such far flung thoughts ...

I do not understand what you mean by this within the context of the discussion?

I am onboard with this generally speaking. Our ignorance leaves us somewhat at sea. This again I see as a reflection of responsibility. We bias positi...

My point is the exact opposite. Bruno lived in civilized society not the kind of Closed Society Popper was referring to, where the heirarchy is the fo...

I was thinking more along hte lines of Popper's Open and Closed societies in relation to your view on this too. As in the effects of rationality from ...

Interesting thoughts that seem in line with some anthropological views. Prehistoric humans lived in a finite world bounded by the horizon. Any 'beyond...

He is a sensible cookie! His position does parallel that of Richard Feynman and his view of physics. A sense of humility and understanding, in our lac...

Before that there is an issue with naturalism. We do not know what Gravity is, yet we have become able to measure its effects overtime. Morality is mu...

There is something to be said for this, but hard to do so without entering realms you wish to steer clear of. In some sense we can frame those that sa...

Understood. I am having real trouble here in distinguishing what you are trying to say and exactly how it is different from panpsychism? I cannot seem...

It is Han's 'Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power'. For whatever reason Baden forgot to cite the main contributing source for t...

How so? I find this analogy strange as a rock is not actually a rock to anything other than that which consciously adheres to it as an object. To an a...

@"Showmee" I should also add that Error Theory is only negative (destructive), yet you move away from non-cognitivism because you claim it is also onl...

Agreed. In principle the possibility of there being an underlying objective morality is neither here nor there as we would likely never come to realis...

I guess we are all drawn more or less towards one area for numerous reasons. This will hopefully change for most people throughout their lives; which ...

One small mistake (in terms of concise writing) that stuck out was the repetition of the quote from Mackie refer to universality. Other than that my m...

I will defo get around to this. Reading something at the moment by Shelly Kagan that will probably relate to this.

Sure as hell did! Not good enough though. Read Byung Chul-Han's 'Psychopolitics,' it is almost like he wrote a commentary of Baden's work - only more ...

Made me want to climb a mountain ... sadly, I still haven't :( More fool me!

It was criticism. Stop complaining! You didn't write it :D I am sure Baden can answer if he sees fit. If not, no bother.

No, just honest criticism not really a 'complaint'. If it shows I am not sufficiently intellectual enough so be it. Others seem to think this is well ...

It is a common symptom on an informal site. The biggest issue I see on this forum is how quickly threads can go off topic. There are often some intere...

My own view is that generally I see more attempts to be original that tend to do the exact opposite. It seems that there are some serious ideas being ...

I really enjoyed that one. What did you think?

@"Baden" Did you say you have read 'Psycho Politics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power (Byung Chul-Han)? If not this appears to be basically...

@"RussellA" Do you prefer more analytic writing yourself or do you find something like what Nietzsche does equally worthy of attention (regardless of ...

You did it yourself here: So, you can just as easily state that philosophy is moving us in the right direction. Note: I do not at all believe any of t...

Answering Moral Skepticism - Shelly Kegan Finally!

Purpose. Do we make it, are we drawn along by it, or are we the substance of purpose itself? Whatever purpose means to us it seems to be inextricably ...

So? You can deduce many things from such. I repeat. So? One which has been discussed for centuries. SO? Opinion. So? Good for you! You have an opinion...

Why would I. You have shown nothing of substance.

You are using philosophical tools to say that philosophy does not do what it does. Deductive Reasoning is part of logical philosophical discourse. Thi...

Contradicts: Your hint at an alternative sounds suspiciously 'philosophical'.

You think they can be 'solved' or even need 'solving'? I am confused. You sound confused. You assume there is some ethical absolute? On what foundatio...

It shows. Any chance of a rewrite that is accessible? I can see there is something in this that is of interest to me and so I reckon we could have a p...

I would have to disagree here. The concept of the 'invisible hand' is something Nozick uses to highlight how ineffective it can be to point at deliber...

Is this? We exist. Existence means there is some form of balance. Daily life is Peaceful enough for the vast majority. Example, I cannot recall having...

To add, what I found most relevant about Berlin was his pluralism. The piecemeal engineering Popper backed was shown as wanting by Berlin due to how t...

I think that is more than a little unfair. In the preface he makes clear his critique is aimed at nuances, but I can see how you and others may read t...

Can you elaborate please?

I think there is probably too much noise atm. Advances are often made in small conclaves not within the thronging masses. Creativity is not subjective...

Flibble Flobble.

This question is one thing Popper covers. Our sense of 'Liberty' is basically part of how we parted from the traumas of nature to a more civil means o...

I think, as Popper says, this is our eternal struggle in some way. I really do think Schiller was onto something regarding 'play' as being a useful me...