Interesting blend of the materialistic and phenomenal here. The question of personal identity can be asked of the phenomenal conscious itself, whose m...
Yes, this. And this. It seems to me that your hypothesis would benefit from a more concise formulation. As I said (and as the quotes from Joshs also h...
How does the phenomenology of culture, art, history, ethics, and aesthetics, fit in you analysis? Or does it? It seems that you feel the philosophy of...
That philosophical thought - aka thought - is ultimately synthesizing in nature, yes. Collingwood has an interesting view on how the unity of a class ...
@"schopenhauer1" @"javi2541997" So far as any man is a competent philosopher, his philosophy arises by objective necessity out of his situation....but...
Which as I read it means accepting absolute responsibility for the consequences of your thoughts and deeds, which raises philosophical questions. Rais...
Which is tantamount to one's being, assuming there is a genuine and deep commitment binding understanding and personal identity: In history, mind make...
I try to read 90 to 120 minutes per day. I'm hoping to increase that a bit, as I just retired. I couldn't say about retention, my personal focus is on...
The question isn't whether we would call them consciously aware, but whether they are. (What is it like to be a bat?) The problem lies in attempting t...
What point? You made one unsupported claim - that evolutionary psychology and neuroscience contradicts Collingwood - I offered to listen to your expla...
Again, something you brought up. Forgive me for misunderstanding you, your writing really isn't very clear. Perhaps you should start your own Lounge t...
Twas yourself equated philosophy with reflection. I made careful to point out this is not necessarily the case. If you've no issues with religions, my...
I stand corrected. You are criticizing these elements as faux-values to be reflectively corrected. I stand with Collingwood's view, that everyone has ...
You seem to be implying that mythologies, theologies, and ideologies do not have actual impacts on how people behave. This is patently not the case. C...
I'm very much concerned with why people actually do what they do. My take is that rationality is constitutive and instrumental for the thinking thing....
Seeing consciousness as paradigmatically human is so limiting. If I allow myself to be aware of a spectrum of consciousness that extends far below my ...
The whole notion of a "possible reality" or possible worlds gets a lot of airplay. Metaphysics is about the real. You can't get more real than real, c...
A metaphysical impossibility contradicts reality. Viz. "Nothing exists". So it's logically possible that "nothing exists" but it's metaphysically impo...
This is not true Bob. In fact, it is not even true by your own assertion "Semantics is about words—i.e., what is the best or chosen word to describe s...
I think this is misleading. You cannot abstract semantic meaning from its putative external correspondences. Semantics deals with the nature of signs ...
Yes. Consider the logical touchstone of analytic truth. If x is red then x is coloured. Its analyticity derives from the metaphysical reality of the s...
As long as some people to continue to be offended by a word other people will continue to use it. You can't legislate social conscience. All you can d...
This is only possible for a logic that is is purely syntactical. However such a logic would be meaningless (ex hypothesi, since meaning requires seman...
My friend, you are very reactionary in your comments. All I have done is been accommodating to your perspective and all you have done is quibble. I ne...
And yet I explicitly offered that comment quite early that it was not "purely passive." Just goes to show you how perceptions can get pre-filtered.......
It seems to me constrained by the burden of the physicalist presupposition though, which is why I didn't attempt to actually construct the argument. I...
I think that the only possible argument for physicalism has to start from a neutral monist metaphysical position, then argue that emergent psychologic...
But think again. If I learn to anticipate that there will be cheek and ear pulling I can modify my activity patterns to avoid those circumstances. Per...
We are the efficient causes of many organic functions over which we do not exercise voluntary control. However they are still in essence controlled by...
Really I just wanted to emphasize that perception is not "purely" passive. There is always an active element; which is embedded in the mechanics of th...
It is of course possible to "be philosophical" while not actually doing philosophy. For example, when discussing current events. viz. Not just an inte...
Presumably, experience designates in the broadest possible sense that "contact with reality" which is universally...experienced. So if we can't all ag...
I would say that "thinking an object under a concept" correlates with the description of experience I provided. That's Kant. The synthetic unity of pe...
Well, since our conceptual framework (which is composed of ideas) acts as a kind of filter that strongly influences the nature of the things of which ...
I do, and remember asking you a question to clarify what part of experience troubles you specifically? I thought it was a pretty traditional perspecti...
But isn't the fleeting preciousness of the time what confers the value on such a work? If you make conditions ideal for writing, will that produce the...
Ideas are both rooted in and grow from the soil of experience, as does language. The idea of equality is both the experiences of inequality that sugge...
Hence my characterization of an idea as part of an overarching performative context, versus some kind of abstract noumenal entity. The Platonic concep...
Ok. And how are you able to distinguish those? The only way you can discriminate a subjective from an objective idea is through the instrumentality of...
We have wandered far astray the original point and this statement of yours isn't a rebuttal. If anything, it makes my point but tacks on an critical a...
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