I can't say I enjoy these debates when this tone arrives in them. I certainly didn't mean to be rude, so I'm sorry if I was, but please don't be rude ...
Watch out for the shadow of your mother in what you do :) Hey, Tiff, good luck when you take the existential leap. Me I'm too old for all that now, so...
You imply that beyond methodological naturalism lies only 'the more indeterministic spiritual side of things'. But what about the arts, politics, ethi...
I don't think I disagree with anything you wrote in your post, although I would say 'what it appears to be doing to thinkers of a certain place and er...
I don't think you did say that. But if that's what you meant, then fair enough, that's what you meant. But I think you show a non-historian's excess c...
(a) I don't see how my view says 'lucky accident, hey'. My view, to which you were replying, refers to a dialectic between how human understanding wor...
I think 'refraction' would be my preferred metaphor. I do think this whole discussion has a tendency to confuse the philosophy of science with philoso...
I don't believe I proposed that at all. I'm just opposed to the opposite naturalistic thesis: that our present-day categories reflect the way the worl...
It's worth noting that 'cause' is a translation of 'aition', plural 'aitia'. Some argue that this is closer in meaning to 'explanation', so Aristotle ...
Humans arrived at a form of hierarchy for excellent reasons. Hierarchical organisation of understanding makes sense. The particular present-day hierar...
These are metaphysical debates. I don't think that 'reality is organised hierarchically' nor that there are ideal teacups or sparrows. Here your langu...
As I understand it, it's rather like (no coincidence) Heidegger's distinction between 'present-at-hand' and 'ready-to-hand'. Matter has potential, dyn...
This last year reading Davidson's essay 'mental events' about inter alia his 'anomalous monism' has made me think about these questions differently. I...
Well, I realise as you raise this question that I'm strongly influenced by having studied Aristotle just lately, with a side-order of Plato. Aristotle...
Many people do interpret Plato's forms, as explained by Plato, as entities. But I agree that the encyclopaedia entry is surprisingly wrong: modern phi...
Well, I was thinking of those vengeful Greek deities as role-models for the undivine. I think they did egg Medea and Orestes on, for instance. I don't...
Well I'm actually back in Academe doing an analytic-based course. It's an interesting exercise trying to squeeze what I think into an analytic-shaped ...
Let's hear it also for the ancient Greek dramatists. How shall we ever end cycles of revenge fuelled by beliefs in angry vengeful gods? Ah: impartial ...
Like you I've taken to philosophy. I find it absorbing. People have thought hard about things, and it's all about thought. I'm not interested in truth...
Thanks for this, I'm afraid I was previously ignorant of the whole theory. I like the whole concept that each person's psychology might be built up fr...
I saw that. If I close my eyes I still see the real world of that movie crumbling, revealing itself to be a set. I assume this may happen at the momen...
I don't know where 'permissibility' came from. Not from me. No permits here. I don't always do my very best because that's the way I do things, someti...
And yet it does resemble the wave of anarchist terrorism in the late 19th century. There were real conspiracies who committed atrocities and killings;...
Cabrera also has his own statement online: http://philosopherjuliocabrera.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/negative-ethics.html Regularly I am faced with the qu...
Actually this relates to something I've been mooching about and pondering: 'the familiar'. This is my keyboard that I spilt grapefruit juice on, my vi...
I am a leftie Green. I believe Mr Corbyn agrees with more of my party's platform than he does of Labour's. In my part of the world, decimated by indus...
That certainly seems to apply in dementia: one's self-identity floats away, sometimes with traumatic interruptions en route. 'You are not my child,' s...
This is the opposite of what Plato says. He stands at the beginning of an entirely different tradition, that 'belief' and 'knowledge' are of different...
Interesting how these metonyms of place or indeed of entire peoples come to stand for a government. I used to get brassed off by the way the country's...
My brother had that song on a 78, back in the 1950's, that also included songs from High Society. One of my favourite politically dodgy things to do i...
There are many other countries with many other cultures that grapple with the same issues, and indeed, have been more accepting than the puritanical W...
The i, (https://inews.co.uk/) to which I've moved from the Guardian, did a rundown of the biasses in reporting on the referendum. The Guardian was I t...
We are animals to which, some things matter. To arrive at a notion that nothing really matters (I hear a dying Freddie Mercury singing) is to have fai...
Click and drag your mouse across the text you want to quote, and release. Then it will magically appear in the comment box ready for you to type aroun...
According to Nature, there's a good Wittgensteinian preliminary answer to this: that 'reproducibility' is a mistakenly catch-all term, which actually ...
Well, indeed, the world is going to hell in a capitalist handcart, but if you take such a broad brush line, then you will find no small steps meaningf...
I live near Oldham, I have an Oldham postcode, in a post-industrial town that now is mostly a commuter town, with one big factory and a few small othe...
Society is not, for me, the sort of entity that sends, conveys or implies messages. But then, I'm cursed somehow by the Sartre I probably misunderstoo...
When the voices of children, are heard on the green And whisprings are in the dale: The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind, My face turns green an...
I wonder if, as in other contexts, the answer depends on the presuppositions of both the judger and the judged. Blinkered goodness and decency is unli...
I agree that that's part of the problem. As I said in another post, I voted Leave for quite different reasons from the anti-migrant line that the main...
Spooky. I'm startled by a (related) middle-class liberal reaction that there is something illegitimate about the 'leave' vote, and that the EU and Eur...
It's another axiom of philosophy of language: the listener usually wants to make some sort of sense of what the speaker is uttering, and that may invo...
Here's a charming article by some hopeful psychologists who think we may be able to counter misinformation: http://psi.sagepub.com/content/13/3/106 It...
Lies and misinformation are part of any lively democratic campaign. It seems to me there are all sorts of ways in which opponents of a democratic resu...
I have wondered, looking back, about this issue. In the 1960's LBJ, a backstairs wheeler-dealer and warmonger, nevertheless fought for and successfull...
All this rhetoric has nothing to do with philosophy, though your remarks about this topic have undermined my interest in anything philosophical you mi...
A small Yorkshire First movement hasn't gained much traction: I speak from Yorkshire, as a Yorkshireman, though I am on the border with Lancashire, so...
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