Nominalism needs to die. We should take it out back and shoot it, put it out of its misery. Also Leopardi's aesthetic of the spontaneous explorer is q...
I don't know why you seem to be so resistant towards metaphysics. This also isn't even metaphysics, it's an attempt at phenomenology, the science of c...
I don't get this, astrology isn't metaphysics, and metaphysics isn't astrology. Hence why epistemically productive metaphysics is far more conservativ...
Interesting theory. In regards to how Christianity engenders atheism, I would qualify this and say that it engenders reactionary atheism. To get as fa...
Second-order morality takes its ground to be unquestionably justified, and as such suffers from inconsistencies, hypocrisy, aggressive-ness, and tende...
This is understandable as it's not really a "thing" in moral philosophy. A first-order moral agent can act in first-order moral ways. A second-order m...
I'm not saying we should just dismiss them as hacks, but that we should be skeptical that the metaphysical systems they employed are indeed accurate p...
This is entirely correct. I suspect Scholasticism is indeed flawed even if has internal consistency, but this is just because it comes across as advoc...
If it helps, I struggle with this all the time. Our personalities are not of our own creation - they are socially influenced and thus the optimistic a...
I've mentioned him several times in the past, but I personally found Julio Cabrera's A Critique of Affirmative Morality to be extremely provocative an...
I made a similar argument for antinatalism elsewhere - basically, we did nothing to deserve the goods and bads of life, since we didn't exist before w...
Probably I'll give a more thorough response later, but you might be interested in a book on this very subject: Is Nature Ever Evil?: Religion, Science...
As they are to me. I'm not nearly as optimistic as Pearce is, but a cautious, pragmatic optimism is the best thing one can have in this situation. We ...
False. You are required to be a human to be you. You aren't able to be anything else. That you exist as a human was 100% guaranteed, although your exi...
I think this is an example of a philosophical thought experiment that seems to be legitimately problematic, but in reality is actually not an issue at...
Ehh, I would disagree. Descartes is indispensable to any student of the history of philosophy. Studying philosophy isn't just getting what's important...
I think we generally agree. Habits and tendencies arise from dispositions and powers - they are the "macro" scale "laws" while dispositions and powers...
Behaviorism was dominant back in the day, in large part because the mind was seen as unable to be studied scientifically. But clearly people don't jus...
But who gets to decide when something is fundamental? If we just said that it's a fundamental law that a computer turns on when the power button is pr...
Natural laws are the natural extension of a Cartesian epistemologically-oriented metaphysics, one that rejects teleology in favor of mysterious, immut...
Analogy: there are different sorts of noodles. But are all noodles made of the same thing? Similarly, there are cars and people and numbers and mounta...
There certainly are different ways of existing, in the sense of different sorts of arrangements and configurations and what have you. But the question...
Existence as a false predicate comes from Kant. Aristotelian hylomorphism is the theory that substance (another esoteric term unfortunately) is made u...
To ask such a question seems to presuppose that there is only one "way" or "mode" of existence. Does an Boeing 747 exist in the same way the number th...
The extreme nominalist would probably have a difficult, maybe impossible, task of explaining qualitative similarity. The extreme realist (or universal...
This works well with my own phenomenological analysis of how I reason. Except I would add that higher-order thinking processes seem to be based largel...
Curious, why not? This premise seems to rest upon the assumption that something can only be causally relevant to something else in its ontological "sp...
In my honest opinion, nothing really important or deep, at least in the holistic sense (and not the more specific sense, like social or political issu...
Isn't this an inductive premise, though? In the sense that it cannot be deductively proven that all ravens are black? What if there was an albino rave...
I would say that I agree with the overall sentiment that reason is a burden as much as it is a gift. And I would also agree that philosophy has a hist...
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