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I don’t know if I said ‘there are no mind-independent objects’, although I suppose it is something that can be justified in Schopenhauer’s philosophic...

I don't say 'the mind has no access to what is inherent in the object'. Plainly if my shower is too hot, I won't get in it, if my meal is cold, I won'...

What Michael says. He's a ignorant blowhard and diehard partisan.

Very well said. That's the sense in which otherness is fundamental to any kind of life-form. Because it essentially recognises in some basic way the d...

First, thanks for the positive feedback. :pray: You've covered a lot in your comments, I will do my best to respond. I take the term 'objective' at fa...

Illegal immigration is a problem all over the developed world, not just the US. Australia famously stopped the boats but today's press stories show th...

I used to know a girl, a flatmate of a friend, who firmly believed 'the news is all made up'. I wondered what she thought was really going on, if the ...

I think it belongs to the therapeutic aspect of philosophy. Did you ever have that 70's perennial The Road Less Travelled? Very much along those lines...

Perhaps. There's some murmurs around that Jim Jordan might win the Speaker's Ballot. God help us all if that's true.

What I mean is that millions choose to believe Trump's lies over reality. Like Jan 6 was 'an evil plot by leftists' or even 'a beautiful day'. That th...

I always thought the maxim 'know thyself' was simply about seeing through your own delusions and false hopes. It doesn't necessarily pre-suppose a 're...

Actually I believe the next debt limit vote is not required until 2025 - that was part of the agreement between Biden and McCarthy signed off in June ...

Doesn't really have that many parallels with Nixon. After all, he exhibited a sense of shame, and acknowledged a duty to the country. But then, compar...

'It might be thought that a neuroscientific approach to the nature of the mind will be inclined towards just the kind of physicalist naturalism that t...

Cross-checked a possible reference against ChatGPT:

What I said was that 'empirical reality in general is not solely constituted by objects and their relations but has an inextricably mental aspect, whi...

Indeed. That is how language, mathematics, and all forms of communication are effective - they are part of a 'shared mindscape', so to speak, that hav...

That was given as an illustrative analogy, not as the main point of the argument. Note also I that I say that a perspective is required for any judgem...

Excellent post, thankyou. Which philosophers in particular? Any particular examples in mind? Your presentation of the matter is somewhat idiosyncratic...

Well, fair enough, but what I was attempting to respond to is hardly a model of clarity itself, you must admit.

Not so much problematic as limited, not universal. Isn't to limit the scope of truth to what is objective a form of verificationism? As I already said...

Organisms obviously utilise energy on a cellular and also bodily level. But 'that which does all the computations' is what, exactly? Whatever it is, I...

Augustine on Intelligible Objects (clearly showing his Platonist influences): Cambridge Companion to Augustine.

Believe me, they were absolutely incredible bone spurs. They were by far the best bone spurs that anyone has ever had. Only Trump could ever have had ...

Not what we understand as 'conscious' intention, but they can learn. I also agree that borderline creatures, like sponges and jellies, don't meaningfu...

As stated at the outset, the OP is an argument against the over-valuation of objectivity as the sole criterion of what is real. Accordingly, 'objectiv...

Think about alternative terms for mind - psyche or geist, for instance (or the Sanskrit 'citta'). Is it not conceivable that the first stirrings of li...

I understand that is your belief, but not that it is definitive. I certainly won't hold myself up as one. But I have the idea that this is what philos...

You frequently put this up as a kind of maxim, but one of the over-arching themes of philosophy since ancient times has been the possibility of self-k...

First, I'll note that Schopenhauer1's comment above was in response to an extract of a précis I posted of Mary Midgley's book, Evolution as Religion, ...

If you look at the Medium version of the essay, I appended a quote from C S Peirce at the top: /uploads/files/v6/bv1gceyqcm3nud5e.png Just to re-itera...

I think it's going to be a complete fiasco. Commentators are saying that the reason McCarthy was dumped was because he had the gall to work with Democ...

No, it doesn't. Not unless you're a materialist :rage:

:pray: :lol: That's not at all what you said. What you said was Which is patronising, and also irrelevant. The argument I'm putting forward has simila...

I don’t really accept that. This is a philosophy forum, and the medium of discourse is writing.

That's not my motivating metaphor. But never mind, I think I've about done my quota for today.

I would have to have one in mind. Her 'Evolution as a Religion' is a favourite. Evolutionary Overreach: Midgley suggests that some scientists and scie...

Which cup? Presumably you have one in mind.

I will add, though, that for many purposes, it can be presumed that events will run their course as if it makes no difference whether or not there is ...

No. It was based more on a book I encountered when I studied comparative religion, by Wilfred Cantwell-Smith (cribbed from Wikipedia): 'In his best kn...

I’m careful to explain that I’m not claiming that things go into and out of existence depending on whether they’re being perceived, but that, absent a...

I will take issue with this. The basic thrust of the OP is to point out that in the 'experience of the world', the objective domain is not simply and ...

argumentum ad manum.

Oh, you mean when Moore discovered he had hands? I do understand that German idealism kind of collapsed under the weight of its own verbiage. I nevert...

And I'm cool with that. A lot of strife is caused by people wondering, hey, what *is* that? What is he talking about? If it's so mysterious, it must b...

Right. It's often given as the materialism or 'the object view' of Hume et al, vs the idealism or subject view of Berkeley et al. This is sometimes de...

Notice a little further down the page you linked to: (That, incidentally, is a very sophisticated review.) The 'no-self doctrine' would correspond to ...

Try reading it in context.

So do you think ordinary languages, like French and German, would have facilitated equal progress in physics and cosmology since the 17th C, in the ab...