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And mind-body indentity theory has the hard problem of consciousness and the notion of how physical matter, in some forms, produces consciousness and ...

Perhaps. The mind and body are clearly linked, that is for sure. The question is how. The OP presented an argument. Again, the argument I intitially p...

Yes, minds clearly interact with bodies. You are assuming that immaterial causes cannot interact with physical causes, i.e. you are assuming your prem...

Yes, it's modus tollens. However, I was talking about the premise: Why should we accept it as true?

How? Please assert how you falsified and/or demonstrated how the substance dualist is false.

This is the entire crux of the problem. The dualist clearly believes that the immaterial, non-spatial mind can interact with the material, spatial bod...

Dualist response: Clearly, the immaterial substance of the mind and the material substance of the body do interact, as we can clearly see observe them...

I'm not endorsing the argument that I presented. It is a bad argument. However, it is bad in the same way that the OP argument is bad. They carry the ...

Dualism specifically defines that the mind and body do interact with each other.

My argument against physicalism (and possibly some of variants of dualism, such as emergent dualism: 1. If physicalism is true, then physical matter p...

Christians believe that to take an innocent life is immoral. In their minds, the conceptus (I'll use this word to describe everything inside the womb ...

The issue is that the old traditions of foundationalism (DeCartes and the like) suffer from problems. Even the more permissive inductive versions of f...

The "I think; therefore I am" pretty much is the best we are going to get about our own existence. As the argument goes, I can doubt what I think is t...

Then you do not understand the original p-zombie argument. Logically conceivability entails logical possibility. Logical possibility means that there ...

Leaving aside all the problems tom alluded to with premise two, like sleeping persons and persons in comas: We need to establish what exactly you mean...

I never said that I endorse full-blown determinism. I'm agnostic towards determinism being true; the answer is irrelevant to me in so far as I only ca...

Given that almost all knowledge in inductive in nature, we cannot prove most things absolutely false. We can, however, look at how the universe and ou...

I disagree that it is relevant. It has a lot to do with personal responsibility, so if we cannot find a legitimate way to give responsibility in a sou...

I agree with what you are saying. I would say that lacking proper epistemilogical proof does create a gap in which to deny ontological determinism. A ...

I know that we can make probability assignments to quantum events and that there is definitely room to argue quantum events are deterministic, though ...

You are not a determinist by that definition. Because of the current understanding of quantum mechanics, the hard determinist position seems very hard...

As previously stated, I don't very much care for cultural relativism, though this is more because of the "cultural" part, as there are subcultures and...

The second premise is not supported. To go down the same line of thought others have done in the thread (and at the risk of restating what has already...

I have not read anything in terms of full tracts beyond an excerpt about her arguing against having to pay for public schools. All I can think about i...

Whenever I went on Objectivist sites, I got this eerie feeling of Christian apologetics sites: very short and trite answers to complex issues, a relig...

I can imagine that, living in the world of political philosophy, you have to deal with a lot of people arguing for complete system overhaul. Marquez w...

One is general and one is specific. In general, I believe that people are too confident in their beliefs in light of the vast disagreement amongst com...

I'm still reading through essay with a finer tooth comb, but based off what I see: I do see some issues in regards to slavery and woman's rights, as h...

Point of reference: are you asking what functions a government must serve to be called a government (the miminum requirements to be called a state)? O...

How are the effects different from people believing in god, even though god does not exist? In other words, what testable and observable difference is...

You are simply proclaiming the teleological argument and are trying to phrase a philosophical argument in science in order to make your argument appea...

1. You never actually explained why andrewk's rebuttal on how you prove every god (even gods that logically oppose each other's existence) or my rebut...

Science uses observation, hypothesis testing, and experiment to narrow down a list of possible causes for an observed phenomenon. You have not shown a...

Given your argument: As andrewk stated, every form of deity must exist, at least the ones currently being worshipped/acknowledged. Ancient aliens must...

The argument the author presents is that just because a bunch of precise factors needed to happen to make a particular piece of cup does not imply tha...

The difference in you see is based in what is referred to qualia. We know that different people have different perceptions of the quality of color, fo...

We know that people do not think the same way, as we can have two people who are epistemic peers (have same evidence and same rational ability about a...

I assume you are referring to punishment. When you commit a crime and are found guilty, you are sentenced a harm (fine, jail time, and, in some cases,...

I'm with Bitter Crank on this one. What westerners (or those living in highly western-influenced countries, which is the vast majority at this point) ...

What are you talking about when you say "archaic intelligence" and "modern intelligence"? All the original post states is the question of whether the ...

I do not see omniscience or even "assume I know" in anywhere at any point, so I am not sure what you are referring to. I am saying that if I wanted to...

In criticizing, the argument presented appears to be disingenuous, in that it sets up an strawmanish version of the argument (I don't think you are re...

What?

Perhaps my phrasing conveyed my message poorly, as I could see how you got that. I meant to convey this: The position of the theist is that something ...

The theist may have reasons and arguments for their position, which is simply something called god exists. The only real big push for the existence of...

If we are defining moral relativism as cultural relativism, I agree that it does not adequately describe how people think and act on a personal level,...

Okay, that is a very different definition than what science means within my real life circles. I would generally just call that philosophy. Under that...

Could you roughly define science, particularly in how it does not assume methodological naturalism?

A full metaphysical system, in this context, would be an entire way of looking at existence. Knowing one is a theist or an atheist is only to know the...

"Theism", "atheism", and "god" are just words that change depending on context. What matters are the meanings of the words. The gods of ancient Greece...