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The positing of the world without value or meaning is a consequence of the Galilean division between the 'primary qualities' as being the sole criteri...
April 21, 2023 at 21:56
It's not behaviourism but on re-reading your OP, I'm inclined to agree with it. You are indeed referring to the explanatory gap.
April 21, 2023 at 03:25
Manifest (verb) 'to make evident or certain by showing or displaying.' It is still reductionist, and if it's not, then what does it actually say? To t...
April 20, 2023 at 22:46
It's not that *I* don't know what you mean, it's that I think *you* don't know what you mean. You say: But that is the textbook definition of reductio...
April 20, 2023 at 22:17
That is not the kind of idea that is being discussed. Notice the example given was one of the laws of motion. We are able to discern constraints and c...
April 20, 2023 at 21:31
I was going to mention Talbott on another thread about teleology, but it wasn’t very well formed. Talbott is no crank but of course, to challenge the ...
April 20, 2023 at 06:58
Steve Talbott, whom I quoted, is a philosopher of biology. That section I quoted was extracted from a chapter called 'From Physical Causes to Organism...
April 20, 2023 at 06:19
:lol:
April 20, 2023 at 05:50
I think it's because personal experience/consciousness is instrinsically dependent on judgement and the discernment of meaning, while the kinds of cau...
April 20, 2023 at 05:45
But only to the humans, one presumes ;-)
April 20, 2023 at 05:32
Late to this thread. I'm a boomer, sixties guy, became emamoured of the popular books on Eastern philosophy in my youth. At uni pursued a mainly self-...
April 19, 2023 at 23:03
Well let’s see what the OP has to say about that.
April 19, 2023 at 11:52
That’s the whole question isn’t it?
April 19, 2023 at 11:37
General term - applies to the Bible, Koran, Bhaghavad Gita, for example
April 19, 2023 at 11:28
True, that, Hadn’t paid much attention to it but Smartmatic is very bullish. https://wapo.st/41mwKXC That’s more the French model, isn’t it? A tribuna...
April 19, 2023 at 09:46
Greetings Epicero and welcome to the forum. I think your point makes sense on paper, so to speak. The problems arise when we ask what we refer to as e...
April 19, 2023 at 08:36
Disappointing ending to the Fox News trial. Yes, Murdoch has to shell out $700 million and eat a certain amount of crow, but the cast of clowns that s...
April 19, 2023 at 08:05
Talk of ‘what brains do’ was called ‘the mereological fallacy’ in a well-known book on neuroscience and philosophy. The mereological fallacy is to asc...
April 19, 2023 at 08:01
Those distinctions really only become visible in relatively recent times. I suppose there was an implicit distinction between dialectic and peity in P...
April 19, 2023 at 01:53
I am exploring the notion that Plato's ideas or forms are instead an intuitive grasp of what we now understand as principles and laws. The 'fallacious...
April 19, 2023 at 00:02
Yes, I think he's on to something - I've been aware of that book a long time but only just reading it now. Find myself nodding along with the text a l...
April 18, 2023 at 22:11
That George Harrison song had a big impact on my teenage self. You might be interested in reading up on Terrence Deacon, Incomplete Nature.
April 18, 2023 at 22:07
That's pretty much what I thought. Glad there's someone else who sees the point. That would be Immanuel Kant, it was the subject of the Critique of Pu...
April 18, 2023 at 21:49
Yes, the meaning world. I quite agree. Thanks for the discussion.
April 18, 2023 at 06:31
What is behind the requirement to 'avoid any appeal to rational insight?' Why is it that mathematical insight is said to call into question our nature...
April 18, 2023 at 05:55
Not at all. To put that another way, although science relies on the efficacy of scientific law, the nature of scientific law is not itself an empirica...
April 18, 2023 at 05:33
It's not an 'accusation of bias', I'm trying to understand the rationale behind the article, and why the faculty of reason was called into question in...
April 18, 2023 at 05:15
The question I was asking, is how come esteemed philosophers, such as W V O Quine, sought to 'avoid any appeal to rational insight?' Why does the pape...
April 18, 2023 at 05:02
Hey just saw your reply now. I think it must transcend the subject-object distinction, because it includes both the cognizing subject and the object o...
April 18, 2023 at 04:00
Take your point. Obviously different kinds of existence are considered in philosophy, but on the whole, naturalism and popular philosophy tends toward...
April 18, 2023 at 02:29
That's right. But the problem is, in the current lexicon, 'existence' is a univocal term - something either exists or it doesn't. There is no scope fo...
April 18, 2023 at 02:07
Have I ever discussed this article with you - The Indispensability Argument in Mathematics? It makes reference to a 1963 paper by Paul Benacerraf whic...
April 18, 2023 at 01:39
Why 'divine'? Everyone does that when this idea comes up. Why is it associated with religious philosophy? That's the really interesting meta-question....
April 18, 2023 at 01:10
Citroen DS. My father owned several, and then finally the Citroen CX Palais, which was more modernist, and the last really sexy Citroen. https://colle...
April 18, 2023 at 00:51
Chilling. The thought does cross my mind, however, that in the event of such a global emergency, could humanity not cut off electrical power from all ...
April 17, 2023 at 22:45
The question of the nature of the a priori is a major topic in philosophy. I believe it was Quine who called the whole notion into question, saying th...
April 17, 2023 at 22:42
I really like the start of that lecture, I'll find the time for it later. There was at least a conception of 'the cosmos'
April 17, 2023 at 05:16
Evolutionary biology is an account of how species evolve, but I don't see it as an account of the nature of reason. Should be a different thread, thou...
April 17, 2023 at 04:40
Naturalism as construed in neodarwinian terms, which seems to dictate that whatever faculties we possess are the product of adaptive necessity. Intere...
April 17, 2023 at 03:53
I think that is a notoriously difficult point in Spinoza's philosophy, whether it amounts to a flat out declaration that Nature is God tout courte. I'...
April 16, 2023 at 22:49
Which has among other things resulted in the scientific revolution. My tentative answer is that the world is the experience-of-the-world, and so the o...
April 16, 2023 at 22:37
I think a big part of the problem is that philosophy is no longer connected with culture. After all, Greek philosophy, which you yourself are very wel...
April 16, 2023 at 22:08
Further to the above: Media commentary has been murmuring this possibility since September 2022, with many 'alt-science' sites and dubious youtube cha...
April 16, 2023 at 21:57
He doesn't leave it at a single sentence. A very detailed discussion of the sovereignty of reason and its treatment by evolutionary theorists occupies...
April 16, 2023 at 21:50
I'll also add that the point I was trying to make in my earlier responses on this OP, was not that there is anything the matter with Advaita Vedanta. ...
April 16, 2023 at 13:37
Recounting them is rarely particularly meaingful, no matter how meaningful they are or were to those who have had them. With respect to Hegel, I think...
April 16, 2023 at 13:25
I had deleted that comment, but now you've picked it up, I will explain what I was getting at. This forum is a very tolerant and easy-going place, esp...
April 16, 2023 at 13:18
Why do I feel the only reason you asked me the question is to debunk whatever response I came up with? I won't waste my time in future.
April 16, 2023 at 10:39
From what I understand, neuroscience has no idea of how the natural brain with natural capacities experiences the taste of vanilla. What I'm saying is...
April 16, 2023 at 09:54