Wayfarer

Your prose is always a model of clarity, and this piece is very well written, but I wonder if it is too much information (speaking of information!) fo...

When you're in Edit mode, notice the 'eye' icon in the controls (for 'hide and reveal). Select the text and click on it. That passage about Pierre Had...

Perhaps. But I don't know if the 'form of the Good' could be described in terms we would now call naturalistic although I agree there's nothing corres...

The democratic institutions had to fight Hitler in WWII. The costs were of course appalling beyond all imagining, but the alternative would have been ...

SO if you're saying that as a negotiating gambit, that Ukraine should 'give him the land', meaning recognise Russian ownership of the lands that have ...

So, yes? If so, don’t agree. Putin cannot be rewarded for his crimes.

You mean, to appease Putin?

Seems to me the impassable obstacle to any kind of settlement is that Putin cannot afford to be seen retreating. As everyone outside Russia, and some ...

You have a sensory experience of an object - i.e. you see it - but your categorisation of it ('it's a tree') etc is dependent on your prior knowledge ...

The translation is this https://www.platonicfoundation.org/republic/republic-book-7/ Quoting selectively from the text. Those 'dwelling in the cave' o...

Thank you :pray: You can definitely see echoes of this in Christian theology, in which each soul is created by God (i.e. 'not born of some seed').

There's something else, though. To truly penetrate or understand the nature of being (I prefer 'being' to 'reality' in this context) requires a re-ori...

'universals are not thoughts, though when known they are the objects of thoughts.' ~ Bertrand Russell

Your interpretation is at odds with the text, though, and every interpretation of the meaning of the Allegory of the Cave that I've read. In the alleg...

:100: Do you really think that’s even conceivable? He’s only ever won one election, every election since has been on a downward trajectory. As is well...

That's about the opposite of what I stated.

It seems obviously the case. Sea temps, air temps, Antarctic ice formation and extreme weather events are all off the charts, at once. What science ha...

I am very wary of the attempt to identify some putative ultimate in objective terms. But those terms do make sense in the context of the cultures and ...

This indictement is the Big One. All the others are serious, for sure, but even being charged with attempting to prevent the transition of power must ...

Don’t make me go back and copy the hundred thousand times you’ve claimed that we all learn abstract concepts through experience. Having to use scare q...

:lol: There is huge controversy over their reality and whether number is invented or discovered and so on. Empiricist philosophers like yourself gener...

From the OP (based on the C S Lewis form of the argument): And quoted above, from Gerson's paper The convergence of the two quotations ought to be cle...

Nifty segue!

It doesn’t annoy me, but I’m not persuaded by it. Not according to the Oxford Dictionary online edition. It says the first use of the term was in rela...

Had I been schooled in the Classics I would have a much better knowledge of the texts. Regrettably it was not part of my education, a lack that I have...

Of course not. But there is plenty of scope for different interpretations.

A theme also found in Kant. Fooloso4's reading of Plato generally deprecates the widespread view that the knowledge of the forms corresponds to insigh...

These are all very deep questions. I’m hardly equipped to make a comparison between Platonic philosophy and Asiatic teachings of enlightenment (althou...

Just noticed your post now. I have read some of Lloyd Gerson's work, but I find his corpus pretty unapproachable, as it is directed almost solely at h...

A note on neurophenomenology (subject of one of the papers that was returned): This is a talk from Evan Thompson (mentioned above) on some of the aspe...

I said there was no need for it. From what I can see you haven't really had much to say about the substance of the article being discussed. I have cit...

Did you read the article that this thread is about? Do you have any idea of what the issue being discussed is?

It's not an analogy, it's a proposition. The difficulty with your thesis being that energy does not itself exhibit a 'capacity for experience', it act...

My two bobs is that it's a fascinating and fruitful field of study, alongside (paleo)anthropology, linguistics, and other disciplines. But due to the ...

Beautiful. Co-incidentally I was listening to a youtube lecture whilst working out, which mentions a book called The Paradox of Subjectivity, apparent...

Beats me. My study of Plato's forms is still (and will probably always remain) incomplete. I was just responding to your post above, which I think is ...

I thought you had distanced yourself from philosophical materialism. Was I wrong? Organisms are subjects of experience, which is something more than, ...

And with it, much of philosophy. This thread has largely been characterised by measured consideration of claims and arguments. Very little by way of '...

:clap: I've been singing that book's praises on this forum ever since I read it about a year ago. I emailed the author and got a friendly reply (he's ...

OK, I should have written 'excludes consideration of the first-person perspective....' No need to be condescending. I use to mean both Original Post a...

Thank you. Although he does say: Fair point. Might have gotten carried away. I've read a little of Colin McGinn and listened to an interview with him ...

This is the paragraph I frequently cite: Later, he says: That's fairly clear cut, is it not?

On the other hand, it would be great to have a philosophical zombie sherpa help you climb Everest because it wouldn’t matter if they fell off.

Namely through the introduction of first person perspectives https://consc.net/papers/firstperson.html Subject of Dennett’s critical article ‘The Fant...

In Plato's dialogues the Forms or Ideas are not differentiated according to specific species or individual instances. Instead, they represent universa...

Of course, the subject of neuroscience is the human brain, and humans are subjects, but that it not the point at issue. ‘Facing up to the problem of c...

‘ .'...we may be surrounded by objects, but even while cognizing them, reason is the origin of something that is neither reducible to them nor derives...

Quite so. Can’t you see how that also relates to the ‘problem of consciousness’ that is being discussed?

I understand it perfectly well thank you. Since you first mentioned it, I’ve read up on it. I’m talking about epistemology, not systems science or mod...

And that term, ‘qualia’, is only ever encountered in academic literature, precisely about this problem. As I’ve said, I think Chalmer’s expression of ...