Wayfarer

What if I write something that makes you so annoyed your hands begin to shake. What kind of causation would that be?

I think your addition of 'entirely' and 'not in any way' completely changes the meaning of what was quoted. One may perfectly accept that there is an ...

I'm starting to think - actually I made this point at the outset - that a better term than idealism might be constructivism (grabs bit of random text ...

The Dominion Voting Machines v Fox News has produced a wealth of incriminating evidence even before going to trial in April. NY Times reports that Mur...

water under the bridge.....

Kant's categories were adapted almost verbatim from Aristotle, according to this entry. .

Hugh Everett was drunk when he thought of it. He never got a hearing from Bohr. He left academia and worked on ICBM missile systems, dying early, an a...

Why the Many Worlds Interpretation has Many Problems, Philip Ball There’s the motivation. Read on for the remainder.

Question about anomalous monism - it acknowledges there are no physical laws governing mental causation, but as mental causation occurs, and everythin...

cherry-picked.

Beat me to it, I was going to say exactly that. But they draw very different conclusions as far as I can see - Hoffman doesn’t seem to read any religi...

The automatic association of philosophical idealism with 'spiritual thought' is what is at issue. I think it amounts to a prejudice - there is a taboo...

Strange that his Quanta magazine article was headlined The Case Against Reality, then. It is true that the Dalai Lama doesn’t make computers, but also...

Indeed it doesn't, but it does indicate that your directing the whole issue to neuroscience might have - well - gaps. It clashes with the presumed phy...

Again this is chiefly illustrative of the difficulties that plain language philosophy has with the meaning of idealism. It seems to always insist that...

So I take then that you don't subscribe to scholastic realism concerning universals? 'Universals, strictly speaking, only exist in minds, but they are...

that is not idealism - it is representative realism, where the idea or perception represents the actuality. '“Realism” (in philosophy) is the view tha...

There is a theme associated with Aristotelian and Thomist philosophy that arises from the hylomorphism of Aristotle. It is conveyed in this passage: F...

Thank you Andrew M very informative

Spot on.

I’ve been a long-time reader of Krishnamurti and value his teaching. But here I’m trying to get an analysis specific to recent Western philosophy in p...

By the way there’s an excellent YouTube channel, ColdFusion, out of Perth, mainly covering technology and society. Here is his current take on the sta...

Just refresh my memory about what Ryle said was the correct view of the matter, if this is the incorrect view?

Impossible, for many. Any pretext will do, as you can see. I shall try and remain more on topic in future.

Doesn't make him a positivist. See the passage I quoted previously with the Buddha saying that both the views 'the world exists' and 'the world doesn'...

The claim didn't warrant one. The principle of dependent origination and the Buddhist ??nyat? is a metaphysic. (I don't claim to be a Buddhist, althou...

Bernardo Kastrup on why panpsychism is baloney (IaI TV, paywalled but allows one free article.)

The eye is a sense organ, as much as touch, and a rainbow a physical phenomenon. I might have erred using that rather quaint word ‘corporeal’ as a syn...

I was just saying that, in light of the 'Sydney' incident reported on the previous page, prudence would suggest that chatbots be programmed NOT to tal...

Find me a citation that shows that Wilder Penfield's experimental verification that subjects were aware that their own volitional actions were separat...

There's an expression that captures what I was getting at: Richard J. Bernstein coined the term in his 1983 book Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Sc...

Maybe seeing it is a start. Thanks for your feedback, and the questions.

It's the way empiricism and naturalism developed. History of ideas 101. I question whether there is or should be 'a scientific worldview'. Science is ...

Corporeal definition - of the nature of the physical body; bodily. material; tangible: corporeal property. Rainbows comprise light refracted through w...

Please explain what is wrong with this description then

It certainly does not. They’re simply put to one side for the purpose of the hypothesis.

Maybe he’ll come back in the past. ;-)

Only that because we’re existential, we’re more than animal, as a couple of others have also noted.

The skin, the boundary of the organism. What I’m arguing against is metaphysical naturalism, At first there is methodological naturalism - the attitud...

So you’re the only human being in existence - do I have that right?

The SEP entry on Idealism: The notion of idealism that I am defending is not quite the same as either of those. It is based on the constructive activi...

It’s more that in current Western philosophy there’s a kind of unwritten rule that certain lines of argument are not considered as a matter of princip...

Reinforces my conviction that secular philosophy obtains to atheism as a matter of principle.

I don’t know if you noticed this post but I’m trying to make the point that what has been previously designated (and disparaged) as ‘philosophical ide...

I really don’t accept that. You’re talking about him as if he lived in Medieval Europe. He had a career spanning 50 years, which wasn’t even 100 years...

Berkeley knocks that out of the park in his Dialogues

Don’t like the ‘made from’. More later.

Realism holds that the activities of the agent's mind have no bearing on the existence of the world, that these can be regarded as separable.

I don't see how the invention of computers has any bearing. The specifics of his claim haven't been shown to be incorrect, and the fact that it happen...