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I just did a bit of poking around: https://philpeople.org/profiles/dennis-polis A few points, none of which he made in this article but inform his wor...

You are claiming a dualist ontology. The laws of nature as Platonic entities and beings that are distinct beings because these laws are causal and act...

If you claim, as you do, that living things and the laws of nature are not the same then they are other to each other, but can form a unity in their d...

So as not to lose sight of the forest for the trees, skip to the end. What is intrinsic is basic to something. What is "co-extensive" is other than wh...

You claimed: Saying that consciousness is not physical avoids the question of how physiology creates consciousness.

What is it about physiology that is not physical?

quote="Dfpolis;783488"]First, the laws of nature are not "outside." They are intrinsic -- coextensive with what they control. If they are coextensive ...

Well, that is one opinion. Law of nature are not some outside force that acts on nature. Surely you are aware that not all physicists hold to your con...

The point is From the abstract: This use of theory does not conform to the restrictive sense you want to reserve it for. Unless you clarify what sense...

But the term 'theory' is commonly used in such discussions in a looser sense. See for example Theories of Consciousness in Nature.com

At a sufficient level of organization, yes.

Right, he does not have a scientific theory, that is, one that has stood the test of time. In his own words: .

Surely you know that some physicists hold that the laws are the descriptions of the behavior of matter. When I say physical I mean that consciousness ...

If you mean he declares it true then you are right, but he does endorse it in the sense of give support to it. From his article The Puzzle of Consciou...

Are you claiming that those laws are not simply descriptive? That matter is somehow made to conform to laws that exist prior to and independent of it?...

See his paper Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism

The intelligible order, the order of Mind, intelligible to the mind of man.

One question that guides my admittedly ignorant thoughts on these matters is what is to be accepted as basic. Chalmers accepts consciousness as fundam...

No. I make a distinction between Plato and Platonism. By Plato I mean the dialogues. As I think you pointed out, Plato never speaks in the dialogues.I...

On page 6 you ask: and answer in the affirmative: How well do we know the parts? Although a heap of building materials is not self organizing, matter ...

Perhaps that in philosophy there are fashion trends. Okay, but I'm not sure what we might conclude from that.

I am referring to larger historical time frame, but we need not go back too far. To Bradley and McTaggart, for example.

It is, admittedly, a bit unusual to address a potted plant. As to Hard to avoid the ruts. I suspect the survey results differ over time.

Descartes did not prove he existed. He found something he concluded could not be doubted, that is, that he existed. He could not doubt it because he w...

Another option is to regard certain rights as inherent. No one confers on us the right to not be murdered or enslaved. But rights are not boundary mar...

That we cannot talk about something independent of us is not a property of that thing as it is independent of us. That is not a statement about the wo...

If I understand you correctly you are claiming that by denying that we can talk about the way things are independent of us I am talking about the way ...

Part of the problem is that a dog having four legs, for example, is independent of us. That is just the way it is. But I think we go too far if we dra...

A follow up to my last post. For Plato philosophical inquiry is not value free. We do not seek to know for the sake of knowledge. We seek to know beca...

You are making my point.

The underlying assumption is that things are and are known in light of the good, and to know something is to know why it is best that it be as it is. ...

As opposed to claims about how things are independent of us.

Things are for us as observed or conceived or experimented on by us.

Rejected? This may be an accurate reflection of your opinion but does not reflect what is going on in political think tanks and academic research.

What does it mean to be in accord with or contrary to nature? What this meant for the ancients, and for the philosophers of Liberalism, and contempora...

I voted "Other" because it left room to explain why "The question is too unclear to answer". Is there an external world? Yes. Do we experience it as i...

I took the following formula and made a first attempt at extending it: A knack is flattery disguised as techne. Sophistry is flattery disguised as phi...

I think so, but that is not the whole of it. There are two senses of establish The first is to determine that something is true, the other is to demon...

What is Plato's version? Gettier may have an opinion on this, but is noncommittal. He does not know if his opinion, whatever it might be, is a true op...

23: Does Hegel intend for us to draw a connection between “God is love”, “The life of God and divine cognition ... as a game love plays with itself” (...

Some years back there was a reading group on the preface to the Phenomenology. We went paragraph by paragraph. Here are a couple of my posts relating ...

There is much more to it than that.

Somewhere Nietzsche reverses Matthews: along the lines of:

Yes, I think so. This is clearly seen in the case of jazz. The innovators made the rules that those who came after them learned and followed. But the ...

I have read it. It is actually Gettier himself who drags Plato in. He says in a footnote: The passage from Theaetetus is like the Gettier cases in tha...

The spectrum is the subatomic to the cosmological, but much in biology focuses between the molecular or cellular on one end to the living organism and...

The reason, I think, he introduces it is not to provide a model of an account but to address "certain persons". Empedocles, for example, claimed there...

I think it would help to take a step back. You claimed: What you are referring to is Socrates dream, which begins at 201d: What he used to imagine he ...

I did not mean a double reductionism. The opposite ends of the spectrum are not opposite ends of reductionism. Reductionism is one end and holism at t...

The dialogue begins and ends with the question of reputation. Theaetetus quickly agree when Socrates asks him: But Socrates has his doubts. It is sign...