A sensible law - the one in place here, for example - isolates those who are infected; they are not allowed to interact with others. No idea what the ...
You do realise that post is not a reply, don't you? So presumably you accepted my argument that applying Christian ethics as if it were universal is i...
Here's a curious, invalid deduction that no one here would be silly enough to make: One can take information from a visual cortex and reconstruct the ...
Well, I can't find support for that - what I found says 75% of new covid cases are unvaccinated. Considering that only around 17% of the population ar...
We're talking about law here; rules for everyone, not just Christians. Your argument assumes a Christian hegemony, it assume the primacy of a Christia...
Actually, what was questioned was this: But you have corrected yourself, somewhat backhandedly. Neither Dennett nor I have argued that there is no nee...
Well, no. He presumably did suffer. Even if "crucification is a doddle". The point is that his suffering had a purpose, while the suffering of a child...
What's that? There's plenty of room in that notion for a range of views. Me, too. It's just that the model used in explanations of perceptions is very...
Pathetically bad. It's already been established that the god of the old testament is a bit of a bastard. But even supposing that there is a god who sa...
The pragmatist's failure to commit. Not only that, but you seem to have me confused with Mww, quoting your reply to him instead of to me. But I take i...
I make that distinction, explicitly*. Indeed, you do not seem to have grasped the simple point that we can talk about both our experiences and the thi...
On Dennett. He is important precisely because so many dislike his ideas, especially those of his arguments that hit home. Keep in mind that his critic...
indeed, with no clarification. See the bolding? Isn't what you are saying here that when we attempt to refer to the flower directly we only succeed in...
On the contrary, it is what is so. Sure, you are aware that you are aware of the flower. By way of keeping track of the argument, let's go back to the...
That strikes me as question-begging. No, you are conscious of the flower. It is not until you have studied philosophy that you might mistakenly come t...
Qualia are so loosely and variously defined that this will doubtless be so. While few would suggest that there is no such thing as the experience of s...
If you are happy that the flower exists, then we can refer to it. I put it to you that we can refer to two distinct things: the flower and the percept...
Indeed. And this is another example of @"Metaphysician Undercover"'s congenital logical problem. His argument is based on the idea that there must be ...
Your experience of what, now? "When I refer to the red flower, I am doing so as a shorthand for my experience of the red flower" If "red flower" is a ...
It shows that qualia are not widely accepted in the professional philosophical community. Here's a better account of representationalism: https://plat...
Your problem is thinking that because we see the world in different ways that there must be different worlds. You would look at the duck-rabbit and se...
If that were right, then there is no point in introducing them into the discussion. Your reason for supporting the use of qualia is your odd insistenc...
Nothing to do with Dennett's "Quining Qualia" Quining Qualia gives plenty of support for rejecting qualia, using a series of examples in which problem...
Unless you can say what your aether is, that's at the cost of being little better than hand-waiving. You're just saying 'something that is invisible i...
But it isn't. It's actually quite clever. The only folk who will complain in the first instance are those who sell cigarettes to children, which they ...
A good rule of thumb is that if during a philosophical discussion someone invokes Quantum, they are wrong. As for the OP, Brains and minds are no more...
Sure. But your claim demands that being the Capital of France is spacial. So if Orleans became the Capital, it would presumably have to move to where ...
In positing this you are restricting your discussion to physical individuals. What space is occupied by your Mortgage? What space is occupied by Philo...
What is a property? The usual answer is that it is an attribute or characteristic of some individual; an individual being a thing we might name. Hence...
Varoufakis summed up the situation nicely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6xjr8YcRoM How China saved Capitalism. This thread plays into a feint by t...
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