Here you're forced to accept the model of the world divided into the two domains - the mind 'in here', private and subjective, the world 'out there', ...
Scientists who don't accept that matter (matter/energy) is the fundamental substance. e.g. Richard Conn Henry The Mental Universe, Bernard D'Espagnat ...
Well there is such a thing as'scientific idealism'. We're seeing it emerge. https://www.philosophy-of-education.org/consciousness-scientific-materiali...
No, didn't notice that one. There's an entire essay in this question, but to answer very briefly - I think 'eternal' is oversold for Platonic ideas an...
Hoffman rejects physicalism/materialism. In his view consciousness is fundamental. His wiki entry is here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_D._Ho...
Again, Pinter's book is not a philosophy book as such. So he himself doesn't go into that. But I have a strong interest in Platonic idealism, and I th...
As far as the science goes he’s pretty mainstream evolutionary theory. But I do note in the final chapter, he makes the point that all living processe...
Neither does it do so in Kant's philosophy. Which is referred to as 'subjective idealism', and usually associated with Berkeley, which Kant took pains...
I've often used a passage from Bryan Magee's book on Schopenhauer to argue this very point, based on Kant's claim 'if I were to take away the thinking...
That's where Charles Pinter's book Mind and the Cosmic Order has some interesting things to say. He says that all sentient creatures up to and includi...
I wouldn't bring time into it. I think Russell is reaching for a word to describe something which is very difficult to articulate in common language. ...
I don't think many people are thinking about it, although I'd be glad to be proven wrong. Aristotelian or scholastic realism, represented by Aquinas, ...
Berkeley is known as one of the three principle British empiricists - he himself was Irish - along with John Locke and David Hume. And the reason why ...
He is known as an empiricist due to his emphasis on the primacy of sensations. I don’t think the rest of your interpretation stands but as you invaria...
Berkeley's major problem is that he's a strict empiricist, meaning that his nominalism won't admit the reality of universals. So he has no coherent ac...
I will say that it is perfectly true that universals do not exist, but Russell adds this tantilising qualification to his discussion: In that sense, u...
Yes - concepts without percepts (=mind with nothing to perceive) are empty, but percepts without concepts (=perception with no mind to organise them) ...
Make an effort. He's saying: you assume the reality of the objects of experience, but what are 'objects', unless you've assimilated them into your min...
Disputes about Kant and Hegel and the meaning of noumena are a labyrinth which many enter but from which few emerge. Notice that your question assumes...
Each perspective is unique, but we're members of the same culture, species, tribe, language group, and so on. So we're unique in one way, but in other...
:up: Agree. Most modern philosophy forgets this fact. By the way - to quote someone's post, select the text you want to quote and then click or tap th...
But they are! We're connected with others through all of our relationships, speech, thoughts, empathy, and so on. The only sense in which we're not co...
1. How we can appear to have separate people with unique conscious experiences. They're not totally unique. The more unique there are, the harder to c...
And I understand why that view gets a lot of pushback. We rely on our sense of reality to get our bearings and anything which challenges it has to be ...
There are no objects publicly accessible or otherwise outside the cognition of sentient beings. Science makes no assumptions about the matter, but Ber...
You're just talking out of your comfortable assumed realism. Science suggests otherwise. Anyway - duty calls, I have a commercial assignment to start,...
They're not, though. That is the whole point of the 'observer problem'. That is why Einstein had to ask his friend Michael Besso, 'doesn't the moon co...
As you know, I respect many elements of Platonist/Aristotelian philosophy. The basic sketch I give is ultimately Kant's - his categories were adopted ...
Reality is not 'just an experience'. It's a constructive activity which synthesises elements of sensory data with the categories of the understanding ...
He's not saying that. I don't think you've taken in what he's saying. I would say (although he doesn't say) that what he and Chris Fuchs are both call...
Through reason and experimental observation. He calls his theory 'conscious realism' - objective reality is something in the minds of conscious agents...
That's an argument I've pursued on this forum myself. The entire problem with physicalism is the meaning of causation or 'giving rise to' when proposi...
:up: In that case, you do get it. I just thought I might have distracted you from the main point of my review with that remark about the constitution ...
You’ve made your view clear, but I don’t share it. It’s true that the Hindu caste system exploited the idea of karma for its purposes. As I already sa...
Psychedelics Give a Glimpse of Enlightenment https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-meditating-mind/202207/psychedelics-give-glimpse-enlightenmen...
I’ve only read the Hoffman article I linked to, though probably should invest some time in the book. At first I was sceptical about Hoffman but I’m be...
You mean Chuck Hagel? Sorry, flippant remark, I'm sure you meant Hegel. Anyway - my view is that while there is a great deal of systematic rot in the ...
He does say that 'the animal sensorium' is present in even the most simple of sentient creatures - the example he gives is an insect type called fairy...
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