Well don't go to scientists for philosophical advice. Fuck the modern trope that makes scientists out to be these omniscient gurus, the priests of kno...
I mean, I wouldn't say every single scientist is a narrow minded prick. In fact I would say that a vast majority of them are normal human beings who d...
Thomas Aquinas. He continues to impress me with his systems thinking. I'm not qualified enough to seriously criticize anything in his metaphysical sys...
G. E. Moore and his common-sense intuitionist philosophy. "Here is one hand, and here is another, therefore there are at least two external objects, t...
Every discipline has it's esotericism. It's just that philosophy, especially analytic philosophy, tends to be almost entirely esoteric. It's meaningle...
I wouldn't say the universe itself is futile. Maybe it could be argued that it has a knack at creating futility. Or in a more absurdist light, the uni...
I don't mind analytic philosophy, in fact I study it often. It's just that it has the tendency to create over-specialization and cottage industries: p...
Yes, so long as they seem genuinely interested. When discussing philosophy with some friends a few months back, the topic came up: what even is philos...
I'm going to be polemical here and say the people who are socially conservative and "religious" are not typically seen as the sharpest tool in the she...
No, I tend to keep to myself in regards to philosophy. Philosophical discussions with those who don't have a background in philosophy nor take the mat...
Futility is a limitation in terms of something else. Fighting a one-man revolution is an exercise in futility, for example. Trying to bring back the d...
I can't see how else we are to describe such an existentialist leap of faith, though, apart from irrational, absurd "madness". There has to be a good ...
I say keep the likes away from here. I agree with , a voting system fucks everything up. It subconsciously influences people's decision-making. If we ...
"“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” - Sigmund Freud....
Does Sartre find any way of overcoming the absurd, irrational character of life? His characters certainly seem to understand it. It's probably both. P...
So similar to how we assume there actually is an external world outside of our consciousness, or Hume's skepticism of causality? This is the "seductio...
I'm not sure I follow. A ball moves towards me. In reality, this means that the ball is changing locations, traveling distance, in a specific discrete...
The experience of motion is more like the experience of changing secondary properties. Sort of like how programs can model three-dimensionally but it'...
Right, but if you don't move out of the way, that baseball is going to hit you. We register that there is a change going on in our phenomenal world, b...
I mean, illusory experiences happen all the time. What is actually happening need not correspond to what we register, just as wavelength is not identi...
This, I would say, is contentious. We could be mereological nihilists and think that the parts of the flower are arranged "flower-wise", but not belie...
Is this supposed to be one of those knock-down a-HAH! arguments? Something can be seen to be moving while actually not moving at all. Something can al...
Yes, well we can make distinctions between different sorts of properties. If we go the dualist route, we can plausibly say that there are primary and ...
But we use mass and energy as predicates with power. Things have different amounts of mass, different amounts of energy. We can measure how much mass ...
But then we're back at square one, still. If they are nothing but concepts, then when does it end? What concept is actually referring to something tha...
But this is exactly what I am disputing, how can physicalism have a coherent definition of what "physical" entails or what "mass" or "energy" entail w...
Nonphysicalists are those people who reject the doctrine that everything is "physical", whatever that entails precisely. Dualists are not physicalists...
Concrete particular objects, the subjects of predicate statements. If we predicate the mind as physicalists, then the mind is a physical object. There...
I consider physicalism to be the doctrine that whatever exists "on the stage" so to speak is "physical", whatever that entails. "Physical" itself cann...
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