If neither Alexander nor the Stoics faced a free will problem 'within' their respective systems, where else were they meant to face it exactly? In a C...
Overdosing is the end of productive imbalance: death puts a stop to the controlled disequilibrium that is a living body, and puts an end to the asymme...
Forget 'balance'. The only reason nature exists in the first place is because of imbalance, asymmetry, and the destruction of equality. Had the balanc...
Sorry, I couldn't hear you over the sound of you totally abandoning the authors you initially quoted in favour of some last minute updates because you...
In fact, since your 'research' cites Bobzien, whose book on the Sotics is a widely acknowledged masterpiece of historical philosophy, let's see what s...
Given that the book I cited is largely a genealogy of the will in which all the primary sources of your 2 second wiki search are quoted from and engag...
A great deal would be disentangled if one starts from a couple of select points; namely: (1) Free will is a thoroughly theological problem, and did no...
That's a really neat way to put it. My only concern would be if such flattening effects were treated as cause rather than effect: I'd wager that such ...
Without wading too much into this, I deliberately avoided questions of 'in/determination' - indeed avoided the word(s) altogether - insofar as I think...
Mm, I was not entirely comfortable with my use of the ontological/epistemic distinction. I suppose what I wanted to emphazise was the necessity of an ...
A fixed system can and does capture real phenomena. A great deal - if not all - of experiments in science involve fixing possible variables in order t...
In political theory, there's a useful distinction that often gets made between 'antagonistic' and 'agonistic' politics, where antagonism is the strugg...
I didn't say this. That a coin toss is random is entirely a real, and not artificial property of a series of coin tosses. In fact it might be fair to ...
A quick comment on some of the discussion here: a clean way to understand randomness is as equiprobability: if, given certain outcomes, the likeliness...
http://blog.apaonline.org/2018/12/17/the-radical-philosophy-of-egypt-forget-god-and-family-write/ "A remarkable example of classical Egyptian philosop...
What I like about it is it's clear-eyedness about not 'going back to how things were before'. With 'big data' you can't just institute laws or protect...
To shift a little to diagnosis again, one thing that depresses me is that this 'removal of ethical breaks' comes right at the time when ethics has bec...
I don't think it would be unfair to say that hylomorphism informs Kantian philosophy from end-to-end: “Matter and Form - These are two concepts which ...
The entire 'Transcendental Aesthetic' in the CPR is more or less dedicated to the question of sensory perception, which Kant generally groups under th...
https://www.sjc.edu/news/scholars-discover-original-locke-manuscript-greenfield-library This is cool! They found a new manuscript by Locke, wonderfull...
"We are never able to choose or do anything other than what we actually do". There's alot of weird modal shit going in a statement like this. Take 'ch...
I don't know why atheism is always framed in epistemological terms: as if its merely a matter of 'knowing'. People ought to consider instead an 'ontol...
I guess my personal framework is a largely (radical?) democratic one: if responsibility really has become so diffuse, then democratize responsibility....
Suspect there is some confusion between choice as verb and choice as a state of affairs, and over how the one relates to the other. Would be interesti...
Yet, Deep Blue is real. Between contradicting sentences and contradicting reality, best to choose the former, and reevaluate what we understand of con...
It's not a matter of if. Deep Blue evaluates options. That is what it does. That is what it is programmed to do. And then it chooses between them. It ...
Of course. You are determined to eat the apple. But you still had the option between apple and the pear. You just chose the apple, not freely. There i...
There is an apple and a pear. Two choices. I choose the apple (to eat). The determinist says: the choice was not one freely made. Here you have both o...
I read this the other day; it's a fantastic overview of Peirce's thought. Didn't realize firstness, secondness, and thirdness were modelled after inde...
Ok, but your OP doesn't talk about choices 'feely made'. It says merely that science requires that choices be made. The determinst simply has to reply...
But surely free will isn't merely the ability to 'make choices'. It surely turns instead on the nature of choice made: is the choice itself freely cho...
Of course Hegel is not a philosopher. If you conveniently define philosophy in such a way as to exclude him, all the better to make provocative, atten...
One thought I keep coming back to is something like a foreclosure of ethics or an impossibility of ethics: if - and this is a big if - ethics is in so...
The basic idea is that if it's true that responsibility has a constitutive link to what escapes control, then the breaking of that link (so that respo...
Overpopulation is a sham peddled by apologists for capitalism: "It is unconscionable to call for a decrease in birth rates rather than an end to an ec...
I agree that most of everything Terrapin says is absurd, but I think there's a confusion between understanding chair as a nominatum (the thing named) ...
There's an Italian philosopher, Paolo Virno, who argues that one of the transformations that's happened since Arendt's time is that work has more and ...
One way to think about it is that concepts have purposes. They are motivated by something, necessitated by a convergence of issues and problems (like ...
What's missing in the conversation here is any sense of the problems to which concepts respond. Concepts are addressed to problems to which they form ...
It's good once you realise that it's like a 40 page essay on Deleuze and then the rest is cultural critique where Deleuze barely figures. The Deleuze ...
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