You can have a mix of determinism and randomness, sure, not just 100% of one or 100% of the other. But still the only thing you've changed about the f...
The problem is that we have no way of judging who on the ship is an able helmsman independent of the opinions of those on the ship, who all think them...
:up: A general tactic I like using in philosophy is recognizing positions that claim to be competing answers to the same question to instead be answer...
I thought it was very cool when the HBO show "Westworld" incorporated the concept of a bicameral mind into their depiction of artificial intelligence ...
Then that is a job that still calls for human labor -- the emotional labor of being a friendly person to talk to, even if the actual drink-making part...
Transhumanism is a specific technological means, and so is beyond the scope of philosophy, but it sounds like the people behind that site generally ha...
That would be what I called 'metaphysical will' above, and gave arguments for why that is not a useful sense of the word "will"; but also, in practice...
What is the essence of philosophy? A quick and general answer would be that philosophy is about the fundamental topics that lie at the core of all oth...
This reminds me of my thoughts on beauty qua elegance, which is to say, the intersection of a phenomenon being interestingly complex, but also compreh...
That question doesn't make any sense. How do my higher priorities -- things like keeping myself alive -- "match how things really are"? What does that...
Y'know, it has often seemed to me that far too many people show too much disdain for truth, but it's rare that any of them straight up admit it like t...
...so that their models would remain accurate in light of new information? Between this and your say similar question in that atheists thread, you com...
I always come to doctors (and most any kind of expert) with all the information I can and what analysis I’ve done of it myself and where I got stuck t...
No worries, I'm just happy that anyone is engaging with my ideas at all! I just thought maybe I wasn't clear what those ideas were. I agree with you t...
“Only things that are true” doesn’t mean “all the things that are true”... but yeah, knowing all the things would be cool too, though of course I have...
I'm not arguing against institutes of justice, if that's what you're talking about. I'm not saying that we should just "let our free will judge what i...
On Intentions None of this is yet sufficient to call something free will in our ordinary sense of the word. For that, we need all of the above plus al...
On Appetites and Desires https://geekofalltrades.org/codex/images/will-functions.png As with consciousness, the first of these important functions, wh...
On Psychological Will The pragmatically useful sense of "free will" is, I hold, a functional one, just like the pragmatically useful sense of "conscio...
Pan-Libertarianism That latter position is what I have dubbed pan-libertarianism: the view that everything at least has something prototypical of meta...
Against Emergent Libertarianism I am also against what I dubbed above emergent libertarianism, as a part of my general position against (strong) emerg...
Against Hard Incompatibilism I am against hard incompatibilism, strictly speaking, though I am very sympathetic to the motivations for it. The incompa...
On Metaphysical Will Metaphysical will is largely defined by its independence from the functional process of deliberation, in much the same way that p...
Sure, and that all sounds perfectly consistent with critical rationalism. We can’t know for sure what patterns phenomena in the universe follow. But w...
I think more in terms of the opposite assumption being “pragmatically falsified”, in that it’s a self-defeating assumption, leaving only something wit...
There were philosophy discussion clubs for philosophy students at colleges, but nothing for mature adults that I’m aware of. Looking for something lik...
We’re discussing this in another thread right now: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/10539/at-long-last-my-actual-arguments-for-hedonic-morali...
No? We can be certain that a particular combinations of beliefs is false, if they lead to contradiction. We can’t ever be certain that any particular ...
I’m always trying to find experts to whom I can defer because I really want to not be the ultimate authority on things since I know how little I know,...
The critical rationalist can’t ever hope to find certain knowledge about what is true, sure; but we can accumulate more and more knowledge about what ...
For the sake of that illustration I take it for granted, but that is just an illustration. Whenever it is discovered that a person with such and such ...
Science escapes the trilemma because it rejects the justificationism that all of its horns rest upon in favor of critical rationalism. Critical ration...
You're welcome, but please note that those are my personal technical uses of those terms, that I do think track generally with common usage, but you p...
It's fine with me if that's how you want to use the word "God", but in doing so you are conceding that he does not have the omni-properties often attr...
It would be immoral to force them (to do something they don't enjoy, not just to stop doing something that makes others suffer), sure, but definitely ...
And God has no power to stop people from doing these things? Or doesn't know he needs to? Or he just doesn't bother? Which is it? NB that "stopping th...
They can and should, we just have to find some alternate means to their happiness. There’s never only one route to happiness. Just because X makes you...
This is the point of distinguishing between appetites and desires: an appetite is not aimed for any specific state of affairs like a desire is, it’s j...
So the problem is that we are mistaken when we say that child sex slavery is bad, and from God’s perspective that’ must be perfectly fine, since he cl...
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