Wayfarer

I agree - but it’s also because at least some of what was truly worth preserving was written down and carried forward. Those around Plato, for example...

I find the distinction between object/objective and subject/subjective quite intelligible. The main issue in the context of the discussion of physical...

Is that a Freudian slip? ;-)

I will add that there is a concept, derived originally from Indian philosophy, but now also found in the 'embodied cognition' movement, maybe because ...

I get it, I really do! I'll have another go at it. What I'm saying, and it's an important qualification, is that consciousness does not exist as an ob...

It would be very helpful in your replies if you might indicate who you're responding to. Have a look at How to Quote.

please spare the Nietszche refs. I hate Nietszche. :rage:

I believe that comment is based on the review I mentioned, which says I believe the point here is that Descartes pursued and encouraged the study of c...

So tell me, according to current science, what does ultimately exist?

Yes, agree. Anil Seth is still rather too 'scientistic' for my liking, the 'hard problem' is not a problem to be solved, but a rhetorical device to po...

Glad you found it helpful. As said, haven't, and probably won't, read it all - massive book - but the reviews and excerpts I've encountered seem on th...

Basically, I'm simply arguing that whatever exists, always exists for some mind. The sense in which it exists without reference to a mind is simply un...

In context it is as follows: There's a supporting quotation for this point in the original essay that the OP links to, from the Pali Buddhist texts. I...

Plato is not the only source for that idea. The parable of the burning house from the Lotus Sutra concerns a wealthy man with a magnificent house full...

You're far from alone in that.

FYI, there's a rather influential book that was published about 20 years ago, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, Bennett and Hacker. Bennett i...

These ideas are very much in the air. I've been listening to Bernardo Kastrup's lectures, he's all in on analytic idealism (mind you, I'm not all in o...

Well, the point is, I am at pains to differentiate myself from that iteration of idealism, as I say at the outset. I also suspect that it is rather a ...

Thanks for those tips. I've been delving into some the neo-Thomists. They both look excellent books but I have no more space in the backlog presently....

So, you're saying that according to idealism, if there were no mind, then matter would not exist? (Sorry for being picky but really want to clarify th...

It is amazingly difficult for humans not to procreate. I was watching a documentary the other week about a Filipino village that makes its living pick...

So, it it were idealist instead of indirect realism, what would be the difference?

I don't think they're nearly so sanguine about it. I think they believe that the odds of obtaining a favourable re-birth, left to their own devices, a...

Buddhism explicitly doesn't 'endorse life's continuation'. In the early Buddhist texts, aspirants were categorised according to the number of lives th...

I think you're right about that. Stoicism is a way of coping with the vicissitudes of life, Buddhism sets its sights beyond. In that respect, although...

The chapter one abstract of Pinter, again: Is that ‘indirect realism’?

Fair points, I’ll think it over. But I don’t think it’s indirect realism, as the external world can’t be said to exist outside of or independently of ...

Hey nice cherry pick :up:

That’s because they’re generally in line with the ‘naturalized epistemology’ attitude. Fine as far as it goes but the Buddha is designated ‘lokuttara’...

I feel compelled to mention the name of John Vervaeke, author of a series of 51 recorded lectures called Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. Vervaeke i...

My Indian Philosophy lecturer, Arvind Sharma, noted that when people die in the West, they say he's given up the ghost, while in India, they say he's ...

But you might agree that there are more and less meaningful ways to live. And that for many, the lack or loss of meaning is a genuine source of grief.

Greetings and thanks for the thoughtful post. Obviously it could be answered in any number of ways, but here I'll just respond with reference to what ...

Very interesting and thank you for it. There has also been some comparative studies of the influence of Buddhism on Pyrrho of Elis and the subsequent ...

Tip of the hat to @"Gnomon" for pointing out a book recently, Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics which I have subsequently acquired. Chapter 5, Ideal...

The deeper point about this essay, is that it draws attention to the naturalistic notion of the purported mind-independent nature of objects. Where th...

That is one example of an empirical fact. As I said in the OP I don't deny empirical facts. What I'm criticizing is the attempt to absolutize them as ...

Furthermore, even if the case were to be taken out of Willis' hands, it could be re-assigned to another Prosecutor, as there seems to be abundant evid...

I have reviewed the comments I made on this thread six years ago, and I completely and unconditionally withdraw them. They were obnoxious and overly p...

Isn't positing 'a frame of reference' without their being a mind to conceive it, merely speculation? It's difficult to convey Pinter's argument in a f...

The only two world leaders that Trump routinely expresses admiration for a Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin, quite obviously because they exercise the k...

Trump is beyond furious at this case. In Trump's thinking, he IS the law, and if he fudged his figures and lied about the values of his properties, th...

Seems to me that these concepts transcend the division between subject and object - which you actually posit here: That book looks absolutely splendid...

What does 'coherent' mean? Coherent 1. (of an argument, theory, or policy) logical and consistent - "they failed to develop a coherent economic strate...

@"jgill" The implication being that, were there no law against it.... :yikes: (source)

The best book I read on it was Manjit Kumar's 'Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality.' It provides a lot of detail...

I don't know if it's a consensus. That is the theory of a-biogenesis (literally 'life from non-living'.) It is of course one of the burning questions ...

When I work that out, I’ll be sure to invite you to my Nobel Ceremony. Although I’ve always been rather drawn to the charmingly-named panspermia, the ...

I had rather thought it was the opposite. Crabs and lobsters are sentient beings, but would we call them 'consciously aware'?

I think the leap from inorganic matter to organisms is just that - a leap. Says Ernst Mayr, one of the heavyweight biologists of the 20th Century, say...