mcdoodle

Dammit, one day I wish I could just meet an archetype. I just don't get out enough I suppose. (1) (1) personal inexperience

If you want to criticise an economically illiterate decision to separate, Robert, I think there's a premium on correct spelling.

A reminder: I voted Leave. And I claim to understand economics too :) The short-term economic impact of the brexit vote has been minimal. An odd thing...

Cheers Tiff!

No. I defend its coherence, I'm agnostic about whether it's true, it's obviously a radical opponent of metaphysical realism, but some realists go alon...

Later in s34 he goes on:

Feeling annoyed with myself for being flippant earlier in the thread, I have actually spent the morning reading Nietzsche. I think we should beware of...

Sorry, I don't know what you mean. From premisses via inductive reasoning we arrive at conclusions. Premiss 1: There are well-demonstrated laws X in t...

This is a most enjoyable thread to read: thanks to all the participants. Sorry I've been too busy to contribute. Here is Nietszche (from another threa...

I was just being a bit flip, suggesting that he doesn't regard his own certainties - like the impossibility of not willing by mystics - as 'conviction...

I think this is a section of Either/Or which in its references to lace-making girls and Jews is not Soren's most edifying observation:

I began on the left, I'm 67 years old and I'm still on the left, though it's a Green ecological vista nowadays rather than the old anarcho-syndicalist...

There is a later reference, in the AntiChrist, (http://4umi.com/nietzsche/antichrist/55) I find the argument quite compelling, and his attack on 'the ...

I agree. I push on in the knowledge that some people matter to me; that some activities matter to me; that I find caring, respect and curiosity in me ...

Once two people get into a ding-dong it's hard to butt in! I liked what you said anyway, Cava :)

I agree, DB, write a book :) I've written several (nothing about philosophy as yet) and it's exciting and terrifying, like climbing a mountain . Oddly...

I've read Free Will, Moral Landscape and some online stuff. I think Harris is an enjoyable stylist, but that he uses his stylistic gifts to conceal ho...

I went to a live talk by a bloke called Marcus du Sautoy only 24 hours ago, in which he argued among other interesting things that the Many Worlds Int...

I'm looking forward to this Full Moon too. Some local walkers are hoping for good weather so they can be silhouettes against the moon rise on Monday f...

I believe I'm in a similar zone to MU. A moment is one of those artificial notions that leads to paradoxes and other confusions, because you can't sum...

I am reading a rather technical account by Nancy Cartwright which seems at heart Witty rather than ontological: that there are many languages of causa...

Yes, I think that's the David Lewis counterfactual account. It's a neat sidestep:) If I don't take my umbrella it's sure to rain.

I've been thinking about this stuff again because of some reading about causality. Does a causal event precede its effect, with a time gap in between?...

Just a pause for breath from across the ocean. I find it hard to understand the rational argument (S) for Trump. Clinton is a dire machine politician,...

Jorndoe, I radically disagree with Christianity and Islam but the weakness and awful bias of your argument is persuading me to defend them. Can this b...

I use wordpress.org for loads of simple websites and don't find it 'pretty terrible'. You can always fiddle with the css and code if you can't find a ...

Well, I'm back at Uni after all these years, there are more women students than men which is refreshing, and these bloke-ish remarks seem a bit last c...

Around 200 children have been killed as collateral damage in US drone strikes on Pakistan in the last ten years. I don't recall the moral justificatio...

One would first accept some sort of validity to the religious experiences described, as a premiss to a claim, if that were the basis of the dispute. I...

I have to agree. In the circumstances, it's doing a brilliant job. How else could we be here, on the Internet, talking to each other? Living our lives...

Sorry I missed this thread, which seems to have reached too far into the yes-I-did no-you-didn't phase for a newcomer to contribute much, so I'll say ...

Thanks for the background Wayf

Sometimes a cigar just isn't a cigar.

Relationships are patchy. But they have made a big contribution to any meaningfulness I've found in the course of my life. There seems to me a sort of...

The Nelson mass was written when Haydn was confined to his room suffering from exhaustion: an apt example :) Choir-singing has turned out, for me, to ...

'Fundamental', there's a word I've been enjoying lately, especially as it also has a rude meaning. It is where one sits, on one's fundament. That's wh...

I hope I can butt in to ask, one puzzle for me in this area is why some terms are deemed 'mental' and some 'physical' and where the border falls. For ...

It's difficult to be precise about this stuff, but I think precision is a good idea. We haven't got to my personal views, although your remarks are be...

I'm not following a system except systematic questioning. Of course scepticism can go too far. I think 'systematic questioning' demands of the questio...

I'm asking for precision here. If you're referring to future laws of physics, then you should say so. If you are referring to them, how can you know w...

I'm doing a grad diploma at a late age, and meeting a lot of grads and undergrads. I agree with Nagase, (welcome here Nagase, btw, your experience and...

I wholeheartedly agree. I went to see Caroline Lucas, UK Green leader, speak this week. If only she were running the UK.

A word people seem to be avoiding here is 'supervenience'. Current Academe mostly argues that the mental supervenes on the physical. So everything is ...

It takes quite an acrobatic feat, in my view, to accuse Heidegger of solipsism. 'Being with' is not a propositional idea that one can take or leave; i...

Slabs! But what is basic language for? For the hominims? I'd suggest - imperatives. Then the negative must be ready to hand: to be able to refuse.

PS...I found online the original paper by Levine from 1983, which talks about qualia and introduced the concept of 'the explanatory gap', a concept I ...

Hey Mongrel, I'm with you in spirit :) I confess, I'm not with either protagonist in this thread. But I'm off tomorrow to practice with my choir. We s...

I'm studying a module in Metaphysics of Mind at the moment in (analytic) Academe. I have a sensible tutor who doesn't speak about qualia much. It seem...

I think the Canada treaty problem suggests a juggernaut so big and unwieldy that it finds it hard to steer. I expect a minor short-term drop in standa...

Onwards. Onwards.