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I get it. I was drawn to philosophy for different reasons to many here (not necessarily better or worse, but different.) My motivation was the quest f...

You would agree that human visual perception is restricted to certain frequencies, and auditory perception restricted to certain wavelengths, would yo...

But the SEP entry says unequivocally 'The philosophical term ‘substance’ corresponds to the Greek ousia, which means ‘being’, transmitted via the Lati...

Don't worry! They'll cook it and feed it to the masses.

I appreciate the answer and I like your forthrightness. But I don't think Chalmer's point in 'facing up to the problem of consciousness' really is a c...

I paste this in from time to time, just to jog the collective memory. /uploads/files/o3/j0jz274f2ejqyhps.jpg How anyone thinks that the guy behind thi...

I'm sure the opportunity will arise.

From a philosopher's perspective, I feel Sean Carroll, exemplary science communicator and all around gentleman that he might be, is a poor philosopher...

That contradicts the sources cited, so I will say for the final time, you are mistaken. anything to contribute about the actual question? The reificat...

I've been asking that question here too. Imagine the nominating convention in Milwaukee in July, if Trump has been convicted over the January 6th char...

I stand by the sources I quoted. I am talking specifically of the philosophical use of 'substance'. Spinoza and Descartes initially published in Latin...

That is similar to the logical positivism of the mid 20th Century - 'whatever can be known, can be known by means of science'.

And for the fifth time, you'd be wrong. Spinoza's Ethics, Latin edition, used the term 'substantia' in exactly this way. Descartes' texts were also or...

Hey Leontiskos, I perused the Thomist blog you linked to. I have a specific question on something I read there: I think the term 'individual substance...

They mean the same. 'Should there be?' is just another way of asking 'is there a reason for?' Here we are, trying to re-invent philosophy on the basis...

And I think the motivation for that is to try bring the issue into the ambit of science, neuroscience in particular, as if this makes it tractable to ...

But we know that because of the ability to make inferences, to infer causality, to say that this phenomena must mean that . And that, I say, is episte...

You may or may not be interested, but here is an essay by a Aristotelian Thomist on why human intellectual capacity is different in kind to sense-perc...

Sure. Trump spent huge amounts of time in his last months in office assembling success stories, so-called, but his legislative record was extremely th...

It's not incomprehensible, if you take the time to analyse the figures. There has been measurable progress on environmental legislation, economic grow...

But it's objectively untrue. You know the MAGA have been trying to pin crimes on him - just one! - for the last three years, they have found absolutel...

I know, I know. But I like to think that Biden is unpopular in a different way.

Understanding 'the ideas' is a very subtle and difficult thing. Not that I'm by any means an expert but I think I have an intuitive grasp. My heuristi...

As I said a couple of pages back, there are two extremely serious felony trials looming, the Jan 6th and the Classified Documents trials. If the first...

Right! Agree with that also. They transcend the subject-object distinction.

There's a helpful Wikipedia entry on Noumenon (Philosophy). It discusses whether and in what sense the noumenal is synonymous with ding-an-sich (gener...

I don't want to believe that. I mean, it is easy to believe, but at the same time, this forthcoming election may well be a circuit-breaker. I'm convin...

Isn't that another way of asking 'is there a reason for existence?' And that, if there is a reason for existence, then there is what you're calling an...

More fool them. I'll pick the side that is *not* cheering on a mendacious narcissist wannabe dictator.

Hi George, that was me who gave that advice and as it happens also produced the How To article that I linked to. Was that not clear? Couldn’t you find...

Good ol' atomism, eh? The problem is, quarks, whatever they are, are not ‘identifiable material’ or ‘particles’ as such. From an article on the nature...

A snippet from a recent exchange: I thought that a pretty cool response, but then, it was also telling me what I wanted to hear (although, how did it ...

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What Trump said in his speech to Iowa before the vote: The people loved it. They swallowed every word, and they voted for him. I can’t quite understan...

I have used ChatGPT daily since it came out in Nov 2022. I'm also using Bing Co-pilot for work-related stuff in my role as a technical writer. I've be...

Love Penrose. Watched that interview yesterday. He's a hero of mine. Mind you, I bought his book Emperor's New Mind, and whilst I completely agreed wi...

You may be right, I will admit I was commenting on one aspect of it. But I won't press the point. I was probably reacting to the explicit materialism ...

Speaking of AI research, I posed this quote to ChatGPT4, who agreed that philosophy of mind is not that relevant to neuroscience. But, it said, in res...

Everything he's done since coming down the escalator is a step too far. A thousand times already, it's been 'that's it, now he's done it, there's no c...

It's only that the comment I responded to seemed quite indifferent to the possibility of Trump winning or even that - 'if and when' - it's probable. D...

So the fact that Trump says that the Constitution ought to be suspended, and that he will purge the public service and jail his critics doesn't bother...

if 51% went to Trump, that means 49% of Republican voters picked someone else.

I remain optimistic that Trump is leading his movement off a cliff into the deep blue sea....

I may not matter to the rusted-on Trumpistas, but it will still be objectively critical. And as far as the politics goes - will it be a winning strate...

Fear of religion.

Consider this hypothetical (although it may not be hypothetical for long). Trump is found guilty of the charges he’s facing at the January 6th trial, ...

Sure. What was that aphorism - when Chinese Premier Zhou Enla was asked about the impact of the French Revolution, he reportedly replied that it was "...

No, I think it's fundamental. The reason it seems so opaque is because modernity is so thoroughly embedded in 'the objective consciousness' that it is...

Every win for Trump is a loss for democracy. But the day of reckoning approaches.