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They’re brothers in arms, Hoffman is on the advisory board of Kastrup’s Essentia Foindation.

Neo-darwinian materialism surely does. But it has many critics, not least Raymond Talllis: I have that book, later I’ll see if Hoffman is mentioned, a...

Idealism is not a claim to omniscience. In Greek philosophy there is the notion that we can't say what any thing 'truly is', because it is not 'truly'...

Different guy. American.

This member has joined numerous times under different IDs. 'Hoo' was one I could remember, so I looked up the member info for that name and found he h...

A couple of years ago, I rebuilt the deck on our home. It was a large deck, and my carpentry skills are rudimentary, so I made many a mistake - some e...

Gift copy of the NYTimes Op Ed on the indictment.

worse than solitary confinement for this particular defendant, one would think.

https://i0.wp.com/blog.apaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/lady-justice.jpg?fit=620%2C400&ssl=1 Notice the mask. Can't tell, you know, Republican...

If there are grounds for a criminal charge then justice demands it be pressed. Waiving it for political reasons is just more corruption.

I note the GOP’s MAGA firebrands are going all in on the ‘corrupt Government/Deep State’ conspiracy theory. It’s going to be very, very tense, but I h...

I think the basic issue comes down to whether objects of experience possess intrinsic reality. This kind of critical analysis is characteristic of Tib...

How about judgement and reason? Is a rational judgement, like a syllogism, reducible to sensations? I think there's an unstated problem in this descri...

TRUMP INDICTED BY GRAND JURY IN STORMY DANIELS CASE https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-indictment-hush-money-stormy-daniels/index.html H...

Mainly because of the strong cultural bias against the subject he's exploring. It's not a conspiracy by any cabal, but belief in reincarnation is, as ...

Fair enough. Don't mind chewing over it, all grist to the mill.

Hey my argument is not with Wittgenstein in particular but 20thC English language philosophy in general :-)

Which is the basis of the Theory of Forms. I actually tracked down the source of this intuition I had about the Greeks and the ontological status of n...

There is a difference between phenomenal objects which are temporally delimited and composed of parts, and those objects of thought which are not. Whi...

This argument came out of my attempt to show that ‘existence’ pertains to phenomenal objects, and that intelligible objects, like number, exist in a d...

Stevenson is a hot-button issue. Shouldn't have brought it up, and won't do so again on this forum, as so many people find it upsetting.

:100: Notice how this re-affirms my criticism of Descartes' reification - because that is what it is - of the self as 'res cogitans', which is what su...

But not as anti-metaphysical.

Indeed, no better antidote to bullshit than ignorance, eh?

Which I presume is 'not at all'. Again: the reason I brought up Stevenson's research was in respect of the claim that there is 'no public evidence' co...

Or maybe they do manage to say it, but you don't get it. I say 'occult' is deliberately pejorative, in this context. Ryle's ghost metaphor is grounded...

I am saying that existence properly refers to phenomenal objects. But that is not ‘privileging’ them. What Russell is articulating is a distinction in...

I agree - that's what I'm trying to say. What Russell says is: Also note this from an IEP article: Whereas, what I'm arguing is that I think the very ...

I noticed that something that is characteristic of phenomenal objects is that they are temporally delimited - they come into and go out of existence -...

I don't question any of that. However, you also interpret meanings, which is why you are able to communicate in writing. That is not something reducib...

Thanks for the credit at my having invented transcendental idealism. Now please help arrange the royalties.

someone unpack that a bit. Why that word? Why 'occult' in this context.

:up: Glad you get it! I emailed Tallis once, and he replied. Some notes on the support cognitive science lends to views once understood as idealist. F...

In support of what I think @"Manuel" is saying, and in response to @"Banno"'s realist objections. I've quoted this about umpteen times previously, but...

:100: He doesn't actually bill himself as a philosopher. He's a professor of cognitive sciences. But plainly his work has philosophical implications. ...

:rofl: I have my questions for Hoffman, but overall he's on my whitelist.

'We are all the philosophers of our level of adaption' ~ anon. If idealism were simply the belief that 'the world exists in your or my mind' then that...

That's 'cause they're not philosophers. :razz: Agree, but it's a strong undercurrent in cultural discourse regardless.

I think the point of the computer metaphor is to illustrate the shortcomings of naive or even scientific realism. Realism 'takes the world at face val...

I don't think he's referring to an aesthetic experience ('what a beautiful sunset!') or a passing thought ('I might go and get icecream'.) I think he'...

Sure he does. The point I keep making - seems to have slipped by - is that checking what a child says about a remembered previous life is an empirical...

still reckon a lot of this behaviour is modelled by video games. That footage of her prowling the halls, the attire and the stance, is right out of vi...

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I'm pressing the point that there is a difference between reality and existence. That there are things - they are not actually 'things' - that are rea...

He could answer - I don't know if he does - that reason is not reducible to adaptation, that despite the senses decieving us - an intuition that goes ...

Because mental illness implies a lack of agency, that the shooter doesn’t know what s/he is doing. Most of these acts, the shooter knows damn well wha...

Would not basic arithmetical facts be true in all possible worlds? That were any sentient rational species to evolve elsewhere in the universe, then t...

The Christmas Card of the Governor of the school district where these latest appalling murders happened. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FsPocbRaMAAS8t3?f...