Theologian

Well, as I posted elsewhere, fundamentally I am a meta-ethical subjectivist, so I don't think that anything is wrong. I am not devoid of moral sentime...

Anyone interested in the secondary lit on Kant may also find this interesting: It also deals with Kant's ability/inability to deal with competing ethi...

I'm about two thirds of the way through writing a more serious reply to some of the arguments raised. In the meantime, I've discovered a definitive an...

One thing I can't quite tell about your suggestion from what I see on Amazon: does it look like a textbook? Is it built like a textbook - I mean physi...

Something just occurred to me: The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy. It's a loose interpretation of what I had in mind when I OP-ed, but not entirely ...

I'm not sure if it's a little too similar to the last book I gave her, which was the Arthur Waley translation of Monkey.

Well, thanks to you we're up to 10 now! I'd throw in another five, but... do we dare??? :gasp:

Smiles and sunshine, tim. Only smiles and sunshine. :smile:

I agree! :up:

Not to worry. But now you are going to have to wait for me as I'm actually quite sleepy and about to log off. Sorry! :gasp:

I would be glad to. Perhaps in the next day or two though, as I am a little tired right now. And perhaps you could also refrain from ad hominem attack...

Oh, Lord! :roll: Let's just agree that someone is completely missing the point. Willfully or otherwise.

Well, one truth I'm going to utter right now is that I'm not familiar with all the terminology you're using, so I was planning on doing a search on so...

Hmm... I'm going to have to go think about that. I may get back to you.

I’ve been thinking some more about this. I know I wavered on my original formulation at one point, but I’ve come back to it. I want to stress that I m...

I can't deny that that was an unstated premise of my argument. But I would assert that to say that truth is relative is precisely to deny its universa...

But you know, if Kant really is as context insensitive as I've been saying... Is hitting people with rules something I - or he - would will to be univ...

Thank you, schopenhauer1; on both counts! And you know, that comic really did make me laugh out loud! :lol:

Nope, I'm afraid I don't. I recognize I may be wrong about the implication of the first formulation if the CI. And I realize it is not your responsibi...

You've raised a few objections/questions that I think show that my attempt at a scientific definition needs to go through another round of refinement....

Wow... thank you also, Stephen! I seem to be doing really well on this thread! :grin:

Wow... thank you! :grin:

Again, it's important to begin by distinguishing between attempting something like a scientific definition that gets at the heart of what we are deali...

I couldn't resist. I suggest you blame auto-correct!

Yeah... I'm gonna have some difficulty ridding myself of that one too! :grin:

I’ve been thinking about how I might myself deal with this objection. Of course, it applies not just to biologically infertile humans, but to all orga...

I myself want to consider two different approaches to deciding what life is. First of all, life is a natural language word – specifically from the Eng...

Astonishingly, the SEP doesn't seem to have a dedicated page on logical positivism! https://plato.stanford.edu/search/search?query=logical+positivism ...

I can't fault your logic there! And truthfully, that hadn't occurred to me. Kant says only to act in ways that you would allow everyone to act, all th...

If you just do a search of critique of pure reason pdf, you'll get a lot of options. EG http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/kant-first-critique-ca...

My only tip is that I'm referring to the old pen and paper role playing game from the 90's. Oh, and try it: you'll love it.

You know, I've thought about it some more, and I can see that it is necessary for me to recant on something I said in my previous post. I said that: W...

The sun is a paisley bumblebee, Crawling across my face. Therefore the moon is a rhubarb tree, Somewhere deep in space. Therefore Shamshir’s soundly r...

Clearly, every belief exists as a belief. But what then is a belief? Beliefs are propositional attitudes, and most beliefs, such as a belief in God or...

"The logical picture of the facts is the thought." http://www.kfs.org/jonathan/witt/t3en.html To "believe in something" is merely to hold a picture in...

I think Baden is on the right track, but not quite there. But first, an acknowledgement: "Canada," as others have observed before me, is simply a word...

You are right of course that my argument crucially hangs on the segment of my post that you have quoted. I have not read Kant first hand, and make roo...

FWIW I think your fundamental problem is here: I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying you are at the level of raw assertion. Think of certain AI c...

Well, you began the thread by saying that evolutionary psychology was a pseudoscience because the mind was always one step beyond a computer. Then, in...

Because when I said: You responded: So it seemed to me that you were saying that we were trapped in infinite recursion, and that this was a fatal flaw...

Actually, one last post... Two points: 1. I don't think the recursion problem is the fatal flaw you see it as. You see, I think you're thinking in the...

I'm actually getting a bit sleepy. Will respond tomorrow. Or possibly later today, depending on where you are in the world. Night all.

I'll get back to you on recursion shortly. For now, though, I'd like to examine this: Are you saying that literally all descriptions are observer rela...

Ugh... I think I forgot to "reply" to you when I responded above. I post this so you'll get a notification. My apologies. I'm new here. :roll:

PS If I understand you correctly, it seems to me that your argument leads to the conclusion that mind can never fully describe mind because mind, perf...

How would you feel about the position that yes, it does mean that it is what you're describing it as; it just doesn't mean that it can't be other thin...

I would try to resolve the issues here as follows: 1. Evolutionary psychology is the attempt to explain what are regarded as psychological phenomena b...

Hmm... will have to look into this. Cheers. Alternatively, I might just start a thread on the subject, go out on a limb, and see if anyone can saw me ...

Incidentally, I have a question for you that I've been thinking about. If you're a big fan of Wittgenstein, I imagine you have more than a passing acq...

Why thank you! I'll try not to disappoint! :wink: