One conundrum I have been puzzling over, is the distinction between mind-independent objects, and mind-independent principles. Let me explain. The pri...
Thank you for that careful analysis. The comment about 'being ignored' was in response to posts by several contributors who predicted that I would ign...
Sure. I would never deny the facts of evolutionary theory, although I often question the significance that is attributed to it. I think if Plato had k...
The justified belief that knowledge cannot be solely objective. Then it's not an insight. But the fact that someone doesn't recognise an insight doesn...
Not according to Edward Feser, it isn't. The universals that he has in mind —geometricity, equality, necessity, logical relations—are not physical, an...
Yes, I distinguish between factual knowledge and beliefs (justified or otherwise). No, I am not “opposed to science,” nor do I neglect the findings of...
And the response was - in case it went past you - that the precondition is the capacity to grasp rational concepts, which is not something that needs ...
It was, in fact, addressed, point by point - but there's no use explaining that to someone who is not prepared to reckon with it. Hence Twain's adage,...
Spot on. I had the idea of writing an OP on disembodied cognition. Why? To bring out what was important about embodied cognition in the first place - ...
You’re able to grasp the concept of a triangle — “a flat plane bounded by three intersecting straight lines” — because you possess a rational intellig...
Saying they are “immanent” does not reduce them to material particulars. Aristotle’s forms are not products of material processes; they are the precon...
You’re still treating the point I’m making as if it were an empirical claim about the contents of the world — something that could be justified the wa...
Yes unfortunately me too. It’s pitched to the academic profession with all the necessary armour-plating. But Evan Thompson is just one of the people i...
Better! I’m going through Mind in Life although finding it a difficult read. But my Christian cultural heritage has instilled in me a conviction that ...
yes well all the sources I've seen says can only grow in clear fresh flowing water with stone bed. Kind of rules me out, I'll have to stick with rocke...
Oh, and wasabi leaf is not available in Australian supermarkets, so far as I can discern. It only grows in cold flowing streams in the Japanese mounta...
It’s also worth noting the growing debate—both in physics and in philosophy of physics—about whether time and space themselves exist independently of ...
Noice. I was introduced to wasabi paste, of course, over many a lunchtime sushi, and have since bought it from the aformentioned supermarket. But I ne...
If you want a scientific context for the point I’m making, consider the most famous scientific dispute of the 20th century - the Einstein-Bohr debate....
Hey don't sweat it, you could be called worse than 'English' ;-) eply="Metaphysician Undercover;1025525"] I believe there was a British one, I think t...
Well, they're both challenging! But I like to see it as constructive disagreement - we hold very different kinds of philosophy, but I've learned a lot...
It is ecological-embodied metacognition. But in enactivism, it is more than 'discursive practices' i.e. verbal behaviours. It goes 'all the way down' ...
I was chatting with Claude AI about the topic of ‘semantic realism’ earlier today, and mentioned that I had been a longtime member of thephilosophyfor...
True - it's function is not directed at itself but as part of a larger system. Nevertheless, it does meet their definition: it senses (temperature) an...
Neuroscience tells us how the brain behaves when we think; it cannot tell us what thinking is — because the very act of interpreting neural data requi...
That's an immediate red flag for me. According to their definition, a thermostat is a mind. From a review: Despite the splashy blurb, Journey of the M...
The “map vs. territory” distinction isn’t what’s at issue. The argument from Aristotle through Russell is about the conditions of intelligibility that...
This is the sense in which the mind “constructs” or “creates” the cosmos: not as an external agent shaping an independent material realm, but as the o...
I stil maintain that an effective (if not 'slam dunk') argument against physicalism is from classical philosophy: that linguistic communication would ...
Please refer to what I said in this thread. As I interpreted this discussion as being about metaphysics I responded accordingly here and here. These a...
Further to which, one of the books that started me down this route (although there were many) was a 1994 title Understanding the Present. It was a pre...
:100: Very similar to the points I've been trying to make in the Predicment of Modernity and Idealism in Context. I know how you feel, I took all Octo...
Actually if you'd bothered reading anything I've said in this particular thread, you would see i've said nothing of the kind (although I've never said...
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