Against better judgement, I want to revisit this exchange. My claim was that when a subject is persuaded by another's reasoning and realises the truth...
Is 'the epistemic cut' avoidable, do you think? It seems a necessary condition of existence. Which would explain why the 'self-overcoming' or 'detachm...
Hey, I'll be a hundred. Better look after my health if I want to see it. It's an interesting article. I have no trouble accepting the idea that insect...
Speaking of Hart, take a look at his review of Dennett ('so preposterous as to verge on the deranged'). I think the original post makes a perfectly in...
The act of putting them there is physical, from which you then can draw mathematical conclusions. Dual, you see - physical in some respects, mental in...
All I know is that it was the novel in which there was a metal dildo called Steely Dan which then provided the name for the well-known musical ensembl...
The philosophical distinction between physical causation and logical necessity, and the implications of that. For eliminative materialism, the claim r...
No, they're mainly picking arguments with me. I select Daniel Dennett because he's unapologetically materialist so I can't be accused of attacking a s...
I'm sure that Lloyd Gerson doesn't misunderstand Aristotle, it's more likely that I misunderstand Lloyd Gerson, or rather, have taken one of his argum...
It's highly relevant. When you say, 'ah, I see' - what is it you're seeing? That is indeed the point at issue. In the physicalist view that is the sub...
Of course you will assume that information is physical, given that everything must be. The apparently inviolable constraints of physical laws have bee...
C'mon. What expertise is needed? Either you see a reason or you don't. What I'm asking you is that if I persuade you to accept something - not even th...
My claim is that the perceived dichotomy between material and immaterial is a consequence of Cartesian dualism. Recall that Descartes posited mind as ...
How do you interpret that? How does it bear on the topic? In respect of the general question, one way of thinking about it is that the search for gene...
I'm sure that whatever way we try and conceive of as 'an immaterial entity or process' will miss the mark. It requires, as one of the earlier contribu...
Say if I suggested 'mind' or 'consciousness' as a hypothetical answer - how could you go about defining that in objective terms? You can't ever cognis...
Fair point. A lot of Wallace' Victorian prose is pretty hideous in today's terms, specifically all the references to 'savages', but I still think the ...
Looks a cool book. Some of those Big History types talk about those kinds of topics (Brian Swimme comes to mind. Oh, and I thought you said 'someone n...
Because there's nothing in the theory that addresses it specifically. The theory is about the factors that contribute to the survival and evolution of...
You're quite right. Please note the terms of reference provided in the original post. It is quite specific about the type of physicalism the argument ...
As you point out, logic itself is not necessarily descriptive of the world of experience - something can be logically true but physically impossible, ...
That's what it seems to me, but I appreciate the fact that you directly addressed it, rather than changing the subject or digressing. That's subjectiv...
I have read that Penrose is saying these anomalies might support his 'CCC' cosmology, which is the idea that the Universe goes through an endless cycl...
And I would guess that this is because it purportedly gets them off the hook from having to defend the ridiculous implications of reductive materialis...
I believe I have successfully defended it in numerous places in this dialogue, and I don’t think Srap’s criticisms come to terms with the argument. Sa...
I can see you have not been persuaded by the argument thus far and probably won’t be, until you can see a reason why you should accept. At that point,...
You haven't provided anything to 'get' save reference to a youtube video and various links. If you're suggesting a superior paradigm, as distinct from...
Of course not, but you've already made that point, and I've said that it's not really relevant to the argument at hand. I want to double back to this ...
That's a theory similar to J S Mill's. To which the Kantian rejoinder is, that it would be impossible to arrive at 'synthetic generalisations from exp...
However, if I adopt a view on account of logic, then that informs my 'belief states', I am willing to accept it, and act on it. How could you specify ...
The target of the argument is re-iterated in this post, the passage commencing 'The materialist worldview presumes a mechanistic base level. This does...
Isn't that psychologism? The philosophical position that asserts that all meaningful statements or concepts can ultimately be reduced to psychological...
Some notes on 'transcendental arguments': 'What is typical of transcendental arguments proper is that they purport to establish the conditions necessa...
All of which is quite irrelevant if you were doing an actual exercise in logic. But rationally-inferred propositions aren't a matter of belief at all ...
There's a very well-worn saying in America, 'why does the Devil have all the best tunes?' The answer is 1, because rock and roll has a beat - we know ...
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