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I'm one of those totally anachronistic people who's never signed up to Tinder. Mainly, I guess, because at age 70, I was lucky enough to meet my life'...

It’s called ‘the hard problem’ for a reason! You’re dealing with a question that is at the basis of a great many philosophical questions and there are...

You're actually into a very tough problem here, which is the appearance and reality distinction. You're wanting to claim that 'the apple' (read: any o...

If anyone cares to go back to the start of this thread, the article which is is about is in Aeon Magazine, How Blindsight Answers the Hard Problem of ...

I think the orientation of his overall philosophy is clearly influenced by Protestantism. It wouldn't be accurate to say that he was Protestant, as he...

Aspect of Truth: A New Religious Metaphysics, Catherine Pickstock. Thinking Being: An Introduction to Metaphysics in the Classical Tradition, Eric D P...

I watched excerpts of Garland’s response to the Jordan inquisition. While I agree with everything Garland said, his persona and delivery are weak. I w...

More and more, I'm understanding how the 'Western mindset' has lost a vital perspective, and that the resulting worldview is like a two-dimensional de...

:up: And how we got to 'physicalism' was by two steps: first, declare that 'the physical' and 'the mental' are two separate substances but exist basic...

It's a reasonable idea, but this kind of analysis barely falls under the general subject heading of philosophy. There is a very strong tendency to evo...

They're really not. I will always read the texts that are presented with interest. It's more that my interests are tangential to the topic and I'm eve...

And as I've said, I'm interested in Aristotle in the context of the history of ideas, which is the study of an omelette. It is nearer to what John Ver...

Question from here. The key idea is his 'levelling up' - rather a peculiar turn of phrase, but what it means is that there are different levels of des...

I've quoted your question in the Vervaeke thread so as not to divert this one. It's not so much 'paradise lost' as 'forgotten wisdom'. That there was ...

Professor Maritain. It's not a matter of whether I "buy" the argument, @"Moliere" asked the question and I happened to know of that essay by him. I wi...

You’ll find a thread that I’ve created about him here.

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I’m very interested in history of ideas. That is not as vague a term as it sounds, it is an actual academic discipline, usually associated with compar...

And another https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/covid-origin-wuhan-lab-leak-alina-chan-mit-harvard/

Previous review of the above author's claims, saying she has an ax to grind. The review in question is of a book she co-authored a couple of years ago...

(Incidentally I don't know why this topic has been relegated to the Lounge, it is really an interesting question in history of philosophy.)

('while severing itself from the world of objects' is a point that John Vervaeke stresses about Kant in various of his lectures. )

But don't fall for the 'equivalence' fallacy. Only one side is based wholly on lies, even though the other side might also not always be truthful.

However, Aristotle's fourfold causality - formal, final, material and efficient - was assumed to be operative at the level of organisms and in the act...

MAGA commentary on the verdict: a ‘mirror universe’, a world of ‘alternative facts’, whereTrump is the aggrieved and cheated legitimate president, and...

There's a major OP in today's New York Times presenting evidence for a laboratory-based origin of COVID19. Authored by Dr. Alina Chan, a molecular bio...

Regarding the significance of teleology and its place in Aristotle's metaphysics, I happened on a very succinct explanation in a video talk by cogniti...

Utter nonsense but at least you've made clear what side you're on. Trump watched the whole thing unfold on TV and didn't call his attack dogs off.

I didn't 'miss the story'. There is no 'moral equivalence' between what Clinton did or didn't do, and the many crimes that Donald Trump is now facing ...

There may be sharp criticisms from the left and right, but denying the result of elections and attacking the rule of law should be abhorrent to both.

As noted above, an upside-down US flag is emerging as a rallying symbol for Trump supporters. Isn't this a spectacularly awful idea? What would the th...

Like that Tom Cruise movie, The Firm, where Mitch (Cruise) manages to bust the Firm on the technicalities of mail fraud. Meanwhile an upside-down US f...

In esoteric philosophy there are said to be forms of gnosis or Jñ?na or direct insight. They're very difficult to assess for pretty obvious reasons, a...

Yes, that's the point I was trying to make, and you've addressed it well.

Isn't there an especial significance attached to what is 'self-moving'? That applies to organisms, generally, which distinguishes them from artifacts,...

This is a thread about Aristotle's Metaphysics. There are two fairly recent threads on Kant which might be more suitable for discussion of that isssue...

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Thank you, I shall have a look.

While we’re at it - the other obvious point is that Trump has no platform. He has no policies or policy proposals. His ‘campaign speeches’ only consis...

Not true. It was a very tawdry case but the facts presented to an impartial jury resulted in a guilty verdict. The Office of the President had nothing...

Not so. Aristotle did not rule out the concept of “prime matter” as incoherent with his cosmological argument. In fact, “prime matter” is a fundamenta...

I would agree with that description, although not with the equivocation with ‘ding an sich’. That is owed to Kant’s confusing equivocation of ‘thing i...

Post verdict all the MAGA Republicans are fuming about a 'dark day for America'. If it weren't so serious, it would be laughable - the way Trump has s...

Probably that case can be made. I'm the first to admit that I don't have deep or extensive knowledge of the field of scholastic philosophy. I'm only s...

My point was rather that they are inter-woven and that the separation of subject and object is not so clear cut. We find in Thomism, the expression of...

'The test for us as a nation begins now' ~ Rachel Maddow. Makes the points that Trump's playbook is to discredit the principle of trial by jury and th...

'Trump, a self-proclaimed wannabe autocrat, has made his own criminal case an attack on the rule of law from the start. It is incredibly dangerous to ...

I have learned from philosophy of science that the 'particular physical attributes' that are 'attached' (or imputed) to objects, are derived from Gali...

Thanks,pleased to have some elements of agreement. I've been reading Deacon's Incomplete Nature which I think also has relevance to this subject.

Thanks, I recall those exchanges! I do admit I have a tendency to trot out the same well-worn quotes from my scrapbook when the opportunity arises. Th...