If you like. Looks like a change of topic. Before moving on to consciousness, it might be a good idea to get some basic logic right. "The tree has thr...
Ok, so to this: The argument can probably be modifide to meet any form of idealism you want to discuss. I took that as fairly obvious. "The tree has t...
Folk hereabout can't even agree that Kant was or wasn't an idealist. I don't see how making use of such historical quibbling is helpful. Better to add...
But see 308 and 309. The process is taken as granted, trapping the fly in the bottle of thinking in terms of juxtaposing the "internal" process agains...
Nice. I wonder what to make of "The tree has three branches"? That seems to involve a tree, and not a perception-of-tree. It's different to "I perceiv...
Just came across this: An angel came down for a meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Greeting the assembled philosophers, the angel offe...
Indeed, it is difficult to move past this, given the extraordinary success, evident even at your fingertips in the device you are using to read this. ...
:roll: Anyway, we are now at 29 votes in the poll - remember the poll? This is a thread about a poll. And still my comments on the results stand, and ...
At least I offered an interpretation of the stuff I linked to. Your copy-and-paste from someone else simply repeating the error. :smile: This bitching...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnRzJyGYExc&t=192s Should we start a thread on the Voice? Thinkin' yes. Lookin' for a good way to set it up for them a...
Actually, @"Tom Storm", you might like it too. It moves away from the theoretical quagmire of meta-ethics, back to plain practical morality. Seems to ...
Panpsychism is a terrible idea. You need more? I tend to get stuck at the Incredulous Stare. But moving past that there is the problem of how little m...
It looks to me as if what the authors are doing, in an essay on the definition of "morality", is saying that "morality" can be used descriptively, or ...
Seems to me, in the context of the article, that Gert is not offering a definition of morality, but giving reasons why such a thing is bothersome. He ...
It's astonishing. Idealism begins by looking for certainty in one's individual perceptions - "esse est percipi" - and almost immediately finds itself ...
I'll make the point again, that the questions are not mine, but those proposed by the PhilPapers survey. I assume that the lack of specifics is intent...
You'd think it was, the number of retired engineers who casually drop past to explain how the poor benighted philosophers went wrong. Shame they don't...
Looks to be a performative contradiction. If it's human-independent then it's not somethign with which we need be concerned. My impression was that th...
That's it. - the part of reality seperate from humans? Idealism says, one way or another, that to be is to be related in some way to some mind. If you...
, yes, those doctrines that tell us all about the stuff about which we can say nothing. Moore made the point well: So if we have no access to anything...
The difference, at the extreme, used to be that realists thought that all there was, was physical, idealists, that all there was, was mental. Realism,...
A silly argument. Let "Humans" include aliens if you want. Or dogs. Whatever. As I said, But if you push the argument that the stuff around us does no...
Anyone you wish to include. I've given an account of what realism is, and it seems there is a supposition that realism is opposed to idealism, so if s...
So it would seem. Care to try again? What is it, if anything, in that quote that counts specifically agains realism? Because you are right, I'm not se...
It's not too difficult to give a minimalist account of what realism about the world might involve. It holds first off that there are things in the wor...
Keep going. Say some more about me. If eight out of ten aeronautics engineers say the plane is unsafe, I won't fly in it. But perhaps schopenhauer1 wo...
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