A shame you added a question. I won't vote on that. It's easy to invent intractable moral issues. Children use these to claim that there are no answer...
Would that this were so. They throw out the babe with the bathwater, adopting convolute notions in order to avoid the simple fact that ought statement...
...as well as who we think he is and choose him to be. Direction of fit helps here, again, in that we choose what counts as schopenhauer1. It appears ...
Pretty close. Back in the days when I edited Wikipedia, I was at pains to keep the distinction between substantive and minimalist theories of truth. T...
Modally, that very individual is still that very individual. But physically and presumably psychologically they might be different. And here the conje...
The closest thing we have to a zombie is of course ChatGPT. It is a program that given an input sentence, repeatedly selects a word, from a database o...
No, his main target was the descriptive theory of proper names and reference generally. The causal theory of reference was only mentioned briefly towa...
That's pretty loose. No, it's not an essence. The causal theory was more a throw-away alternative explanation, never fully worked out by Kripke. No, t...
Well, yes, there is an ambiguity in this thread between modal identity, which occupies most of the conversation, and personal identity, a very differe...
Wouldn't it be preferable to say intentional attitude? That's the usual term used by philosophers, with a quite substantial backing in the literature....
Stop there and you are pretty much right. Being rid of essence is somewhat to the point. That's what rigid designation does, avoids the "picking out"....
Meh. The error in your post is obvious. The supposition is that the zombie behaves just as we do - says things like "I believe..." - and yet has no "i...
What? What do you think a philosophical zombie is? Edit: no, forget that. I see others have tried to explain the error in the OP to you. I'll leave yo...
Exactly. Zombies by definition behave as we do, but they cannot adopt attitudes towards propositions, and so do not have beliefs. This thread is based...
I wasn't going to get involved in this thread, because of the many ways modality is misconstrued. The difference between a kind and an individual is l...
Water is a kind, not an individual. The logic is a bit different. A closer example would be the Lectern used in Identity and Necessity. There i tis us...
I'm not avoiding these questions. I am avoiding glib answers. I've offered, here and in other threads, ways of thinking about them that I think are pr...
0.\dot9 = 1 After the cake has been passed around the family circle so that an infinite number of slices have been removed, there will be no cake left...
And so long as you don't consider what we do in writing them out, you cannot progress. I supose it is your extreme individualism that prevents you see...
Nuh. This has been explained to you previously, by myself and by others; it dissolves the perplexity in your OP, but you can't see it. Are words more ...
Because of the lack of volition? I think it true that there will be an eclipse in March, 2025. I might be wrong, but tif so the circumstances would be...
I don't think that's me. I suggested sorting out such terms earlier this morning. This conversation is swinging in the breeze. Several times, I've ask...
I don't really care. It's true that you should brush your teeth. We can work from that rather than assigning "ism"s. Yep. Michael's direction is absen...
You do not have to call our talk of "what might be done, what ought be done, what's the best thing to do, and so on" moral, if you do not wish to. Tha...
That's not what was suggested at all, of course. We talk about what might be done, what ought be done, what's the best thing to do, and so on. Whateve...
The core error is the simplistic picture of meaning being encoded in one brain, transmitted to anther, and then decoded. It's rubbish. There's no reas...
You pretend to understand how moral language is used but not what moral language is. That's somewhat disingenuous. But the word "moral" - which we inh...
You made an assessment; this is not a moral obligation; as if you understood what a moral obligation is. This begins to look like the sort of situatio...
This is quite problematic. I've been unable to follow what Ryle means here by "general" and "singular". The sentence "The next total lunar eclipse wil...
I'm not too keen on going in to that, due to the effort required and the small payout. If you ask whether you might have had different gametes, then t...
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