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I appreciate the response, but I think it sidesteps the core issues rather than addressing them directly. While there may be broad agreement that cons...

And what way do you think I suppose? I think I could say that the act of observation seems inextricably connected with an experimental result in quant...

Physicists are not trained in theories of consciousness. There’s probably precious little agreement amongst them about what the word even refers to. (...

You think the Kant's description of the unknowability of the in itself is a religious dogma, because you don't understand it. You think he's projectin...

It is not! Verificationism is not specific to philosophy of science. It is a central tenet of positivism and was associated with the Vienna Circle and...

Which is verificationism in a nutshell . I know you resent being described as positivist, but then you go ahead and make statements right out of the A...

Every so often, MU, you hit upon a vein. Anyway, I'm reading that Heidegger essay ('What is a Thing?') this morning, with able assistance from my frie...

That is the whole point of the Heidegger essay, which I've been re-reading. Like the OP, right?

At least your version of it does.

You may recall that this is the subject of my essay Scientific Objectivity and Philosophical Detachment. It is also a point made in this OP, that the ...

I'm going to agree with in this regard. I don't think there is a phrase that translates as 'physical object' in the COPR. Kant is clear that noumena c...

Let's recall the point of the original post. It was that Bishop Berkeley's idealism was a reaction against the emerging scientific worldview which sou...

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I don’t conflate them at all. I distinguish them. To say that what exists must be subject to a perspective is not to deny its existence; it’s to say t...

Name one.

Note the qualifier, 'objective knowledge'. Let's recall the point of the original post. It was that Bishop Berkeley's idealism was a reaction against ...

Positivism, pure and simple.

But I'm not denying that there is an external world. What I'm denying is that knowledge of that world is purely objective, that we can see it as it is...

I've been alerted to a book on Kant called Kant's Theory of Normativity, Konstantin Pollok. He refers to Kant's transcendental hylomorphism, by which ...

The actual quote was:

What I’m saying is that the frameworks through which we recognize “yellow, blue, green, red” are already the product of shared cognitive, biological, ...

Concepts of God(s) are notoriously difficult to define with any precision. What I had in mind with Feser and Hart were these kinds of critiques. Feser...

‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic’ ~ Arthur C Clarke. If you don’t think modern information technology is magic, y...

I’m not ‘proclaiming’ anything. I’m saying that quantum physics is like magic: it produces astonishing results but nobody can really say how. Hence th...

But then, this is a philosophy forum, not physicsforum, where this discussion wouldn’t even be tolerated.

And what. specifically, about the original post goes against that? It goes directly against your contention that every observer sees the same thing wh...

Yes, with the very large difference being that they work :100:

I’m saying there’s a sense in which quantum physics seems like magic. Have a read of Spooky Action in Action

'I think i can safely say that nobody understands quantum physics' ~ Richard Feynman (who ought to have some credibility, as he won the Nobel Priize i...

That's where you're being dogmatic. As has been pointed out, physics itself has cast this into doubt, to which you then say you don't have the experti...

But maybe quantum mechanics really is magic. Not metaphorical magic, but actual sorcery. We build lasers, computers, and superconductors out of it, bu...

Nevertheless the observer problem can’t be wished away by realist rhetoric.

But can only be validated by observation a posteriori.

More easy targets for you, 180 ;-)

You're not the only one it puzzles. Esteemed mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose adamantly declares that quantum physics must be wrong, deficient...

I am perplexed the modern personalist idea of God. I've read some discussion of this by Edward Feser and David Bentley Hart (Thomist and Orthodox resp...

He’s not a mainstream philosopher, more an alternative type. But, I think, perfectly authentic. Probably overshadowed by more recent figures like Eckh...

I don't think that's quite it. Terrence Deacon's concept of "absentials" from *Incomplete Nature* refers to higher-order phenomena that are defined by...

Terrence Deacon's book is pretty novel, although it has convergences with Evan Thompson Mind in Life, and Alicia Juarrero Dynamics in Action (the latt...

Are you familiar with the book Incomplete Nature by Terrence Deacon, a biological anthropologist. He develops the idea of absentials, which are ‘const...

It’s not that I find Kant troubling so much as that reading him is very hard work. But I find if I go through it methodically I can understand the arg...

I’m determined to get through the whole work by year’s end. I talk a lot about it but am well aware of the gaps in my reading.

It is the 'egological' outlook. Not egocentric, in an obvious way, but the sense of being a separate subject/self in an object world primarily oriente...

There is an expression in esoteric philosophy 'the eye of the heart'. And I feel that sense we have of being 'in the head' is very much associated wit...

Aristotle believed that the heart was the seat of sensation, thought, and intelligence. In De Anima (On the Soul) and other biological works, he descr...

Good comments. The key point is ‘participatory’ - not being a bystander.

Krishnamurti used to say, ‘to see as it is without condemning it or justifying it.’ That is something that stayed with me,

That’s more Freud’s superego, The philosopher’s aim is always ‘seeing what is’.

Ain’t that the truth. Everyone has them but the wise are willlng to own up to it.

Thank you for that input, it's an aspect of Husserl that I hadn't encountered yet (there are many). I will think that over some more. ‘I tick therefor...