I'm reading an excellent book, Schopenhauer's Compass, Urs App. Schop was extremely critical of the other German idealists - specifically Schelling an...
Fair enough, but I have observed in your case that your approach to philosophy has been that it provides alternatives to Cartesian dualism for the pur...
Fair enough, although I think it's fair to say that the bulk of their work is directed principally or solely to their academic peer group. I don't kno...
Right. And would you agree that this insight is more typical of phenomenology and existentialism than Anglo philosophy? Fair enough. But aside from a ...
I don't agree. This sense of the division of self-and-other, the Galilean division of primary and secondary attributes, the Cartesian division of mind...
You don't make any point by trivialising the argument. The issues at stake are considerably more subtle, and more significant, but I won't try to expl...
You posed a question, then you said (presumably to me): So I went ahead and did that. Your response was: So, no response to anything I actually said, ...
Why did you choose that as a hypothetical example? Is it because you have me pegged as a religious-or-spiritual type, therefore this must be typical o...
If someone frequently responded to my posts with sarcasm, hostility and pointless emojis then that would cause me to believe that their posts were not...
The original context was the suggestion on my part that Apokrisis has adopted those aspects of C S Peirce which are relevant to biology (namely, semio...
But he asked the question! Srap Tasmaner asked me, quoting from one of my posts, 'why should we bother with history of ideas' and said it was a 'genui...
@"schopenhauer1" - as you’re interested Schopenhauer I will mention a 2014 publication I’m reading, Schopenhauer’s Compass, by Urs App. ‘Schopenhauer ...
I mainly agree with your analysis. I think business, politics and science all need to involve themselves in this. It's something deeper than culture -...
Source text. Scroll down to (1). Correct, that’s exactly what he’s arguing. Einstein thought Kant was wrong on that. Then again, he also thought quant...
:100: And also Zen. He was very popular in my youth (long time ago now) and has also enjoyed an Internet renaissance, not least because of the efforts...
Believe it or not, Alan Watts has a popular interpretation of this idea. I tossed it to the oracle who responded: According to Watts, the Divine, whic...
With respect to the convergences between Platonism, and Greek philosophy generally, and Buddhist and Hindu traditions, there was a ground-breaking boo...
Not so. That is a nihilist view. Nirv??a is beyond the vicissitudes of existence but is not mere non-existence. This is laid out in a very long text i...
Desired by whom? Actually your description contains other terms implying intentionality - life evolving its complexity, neurons that play tricks, and ...
How do you see that book you refer to, Life’s Ratchet, as fitting into a holistic point of view? From the jacket copy: Isn’t that a reductionist (i.e....
That’s up to you. In the context that started this dialogue, I claimed that C S Peirce was part of the generally idealist attitude of the philosophy o...
Thanks for picking up on that. First of all, why is that paragraph 'weirdly factually wrong'? What exactly is wrong with it? The history of ideas is a...
Very interesting. Doesn't this reflect the distinction between mathematical idealisation and reality? The former allows for complete precision as a ma...
:100: Old school. Amazon page, Lawrence Bonjour's Defense of Pure Reason (this was the philosopher mentioned in the OP): I know it's a book that I wil...
Sorry I hadn't noticed this question. See below. It's not specific to any country - I was referring to modern liberal democratic cultures generally. I...
Like I said - it's a Philosophy Forum. There are distinctions between the subject matters of science and philosophy, although those distinctions tend ...
Right - that's because it's not a thing. Which is what I said. A lot of what you say is not science, per se, but metaphysics. You're building a genera...
You might find this analysis of the Chalmers-Koch bet insightful. (The author, Gerald R Baron, is a theistically-inclined philosopher of religion who ...
Welcome to Philosophy Forum. I think of 'intuition' as 'knowing without knowing how you know', which I think is consistent with Bonjour's use. He clai...
Indeed. One of the principle reasons materialism has fallen into disfavor. Do you agree, then, that psychology, insofar as it is the science of consci...
Of course. I acknowledged that we can infer that there are minds, but that the mind is not an object for us. Right. And there is controversy about wha...
Totally hear you on that. But your use of the metaphors of information and information processing introduce many difficulties from a philosophical poi...
You never see anyone's mind. You can see their behaviour or hear what they say, but you never see the mind except for in a metaphorical sense. Right. ...
Something like that. Put it this way: if a belief is a consequence of a brain condition, then it is not held on the basis of logical necessity. It is ...
Very good question. Being is a verb, isn’t it? Doesn’t Aquinas have something to say about that? (quick google.) Aquinas argues that being (esse) is t...
I wonder what a 'scientific explanation of consciousness' - or let's say 'mind' - is trying to actually explain. I mean, there are untold applications...
That’s pretty clear from extrapolating the fossil record isn’t it? Stromatolites or something like it? In any case whatever it was had to maintain its...
I said that for modern anti-natalism, as distinct from gnosticism 'Existence is a mirage, a trap, a painful charade, but there’s nothing higher to asp...
It's not like some personal shortcoming but a number of factors that were crystallised in his work, chief among them the division of the world into pr...
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