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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...
August 27, 2019 at 06:04
Probs not.
August 27, 2019 at 05:25
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...
August 27, 2019 at 05:08
Forget 'balance'. The only reason nature exists in the first place is because of imbalance, asymmetry, and the destruction of equality. Had the balanc...
August 27, 2019 at 04:29
Matthew Warren - Balckout: How Is Energy-Rich Australia Running Out of Electricity? Patchen Markell - Bound By Recognition
August 27, 2019 at 02:51
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...
August 26, 2019 at 23:59
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...
August 26, 2019 at 17:01
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...
August 26, 2019 at 15:25
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...
August 26, 2019 at 13:24
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 ...
August 26, 2019 at 12:44
Without wading too much into this, I deliberately avoided questions of 'in/determination' - indeed avoided the word(s) altogether - insofar as I think...
August 26, 2019 at 11:17
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 ...
August 26, 2019 at 08:53
Oh that's right this is why I don't respond to you, ever. My mistake.
August 26, 2019 at 02:18
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...
August 26, 2019 at 01:52
In political theory, there's a useful distinction that often gets made between 'antagonistic' and 'agonistic' politics, where antagonism is the strugg...
August 25, 2019 at 18:20
My condolences.
August 25, 2019 at 15:25
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 ...
August 25, 2019 at 12:18
A quick comment on some of the discussion here: a clean way to understand randomness is as equiprobability: if, given certain outcomes, the likeliness...
August 25, 2019 at 11:13
This nasty slight of hand is how one goes from science to Deepak Chopra woo shit.
August 25, 2019 at 07:24
http://blog.apaonline.org/2018/12/17/the-radical-philosophy-of-egypt-forget-god-and-family-write/ "A remarkable example of classical Egyptian philosop...
August 25, 2019 at 03:15
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...
August 23, 2019 at 06:01
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...
August 23, 2019 at 05:45
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 ...
August 23, 2019 at 04:18
The entire 'Transcendental Aesthetic' in the CPR is more or less dedicated to the question of sensory perception, which Kant generally groups under th...
August 23, 2019 at 03:33
https://www.sjc.edu/news/scholars-discover-original-locke-manuscript-greenfield-library This is cool! They found a new manuscript by Locke, wonderfull...
August 22, 2019 at 11:27
"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...
August 22, 2019 at 10:41
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...
August 22, 2019 at 02:11
I guess my personal framework is a largely (radical?) democratic one: if responsibility really has become so diffuse, then democratize responsibility....
August 21, 2019 at 17:35
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...
August 21, 2019 at 03:02
Yet, Deep Blue is real. Between contradicting sentences and contradicting reality, best to choose the former, and reevaluate what we understand of con...
August 21, 2019 at 02:35
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 ...
August 21, 2019 at 02:10
How are there not options in a deterministic universe? Deep Blue chooses, yet everything is determined. What is the issue?
August 21, 2019 at 01:59
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...
August 21, 2019 at 01:54
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...
August 21, 2019 at 01:40
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...
August 21, 2019 at 01:20
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...
August 21, 2019 at 00:57
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...
August 20, 2019 at 13:18
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...
August 20, 2019 at 09:25
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...
August 20, 2019 at 08:48
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...
August 20, 2019 at 05:41
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...
August 17, 2019 at 05:54
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) ...
August 17, 2019 at 04:35
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 ...
August 17, 2019 at 03:22
Yeah, I saw comments to that effect, just lending my agreement.
August 16, 2019 at 17:39
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 ...
August 16, 2019 at 17:25
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 ...
August 16, 2019 at 11:05
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 ...
August 16, 2019 at 03:49
Yep.
August 15, 2019 at 18:34
Eh, not a thread for you I guess.
August 15, 2019 at 18:25
If you were boring and unspecific maybe.
August 15, 2019 at 18:13