yes. Find it hard to be impressed with Tony Bourke and Chris Bowen, although Mark Butler comes across OK. Massive own-goal by Albanese on Day One, if ...
:up: Hadn't encountered that before, very useful term. Rad indeed. (Or sick. Or cool.....) In some schools of Mah?y?na Buddhism, it is said that Buddh...
There’s an interesting current story on neuroscience.com about how single memories (in mice) are stored across many diverse areas of the brain (you ca...
Sometimes I do comment on specifically theological OPs that this is a philosophy forum not a theology forum. But I don't know if a lot more should be ...
I do agree that philosophy of religion and theology are not the same. Mind you I thought the vitalism/Darwinism thread a perfectly acceptable general ...
While I agree that specifically theological topics are not part of the general philosophy curriculum, I don't agree that philosphical consideration of...
While I agree that specifically theological topics are not part of the general philosophy curriculum, I don't agree that philosphical consideration of...
Very early on, a number of commentators observed that Putin's major problem was in believing his own propaganda. His web of deceit is now so vast that...
I explained earlier in this thread my motivation for studying it was to understand what was meant by the 'enligtenment' promoted by figures in the pop...
Yes, I think you’re right about purification. I hope your back pain abates, if it’s any comfort, I’ve had that occur twice in my life, both times it w...
Your examples are not conclusive. Regarding whether 'clouds are fluffy' or not, it is a factual matter. If in such cases the terms can't be defined cl...
The fact–value distinction is derived from the is–ought problem in moral philosophy as characterized by David Hume. This is the fundamental epistemolo...
I didn’t understand your response. To recap - I understand the distinction Hume is making to be between the quantifiable (what is/is not) and the qual...
So do you think that the distinction Hume articulates here is between ‘the quantitative’ (‘is’) and the qualitative (‘ought’)? That he is drawing a di...
‘It’ does no such thing. There is no such consensus. This is a philosophy forum, as such knowledge of neuroscience is not assumed or necessary, althou...
That is because you assume that thought is reducible to neuroscience, which is precisely the meaning of 'neuroscientific reductionism'. There are many...
According to biosemiosis, and pansemiosis, it's something inherent in the Universe. Life is the emergence of meaning. So this contention that life was...
By 'cosmic', what I mean is this. A typically early-20th century view (put by Bertrand Russell and later by Dawkins et al) was that Darwinism had 'pro...
hey it was Nietszche who was adulated by the Nazis, not Kant. I think the ideology of the Ubermensch is far more suited to fascist authoritarianism th...
Unlike yourself, I don't rule out the perspective provided by philosophical theology or religion generally, insofar as they provide a cosmic grounding...
I think the idea behind 'meaningless matter' is simply that matter (apparently) can be fully accounted for in terms of physical laws, which act with n...
Hence the appeal of hylomorphic dualism, although that's worlds away from what Nishijima means. Although I think you mentioned you have To Meet the Re...
Well, true. But it's kind of the default, isn't it? Hasn't evolutionary biology rushed in to fill the vacuum left by the abandonment of traditional cr...
There cannot be any watertight argument for the kind of idea I'm considering. You recall Fooloso4's thread on Phaedo. Rife with aporia, inconclusive a...
So, it addresses the question, although I do understand that your stereotyping contempt of anything you categorise as 'religious' has no gapps in it w...
Actually, Buddhism of all schools stridently rejects the charge that it is nihilistic. It is a charge that was frequently made by its Brahmin opponent...
There is a phrase that you will find in the sayings of mystical lore, 'the good that has no opposite'. The thrust of this is that what we normally con...
That's the secular take on it. But the religious believe in the principle of revealed truth, which by definition is the revelation of a true good. I'm...
I think the question is, is there any true good? Is there anything which is unconditionally good, not a matter of either social convention or individu...
My sense is that the electorate is pretty sick of Morrison as PM but that it's still going to be a stretch for Labor to flip it. I think Albanese's ov...
Actually, if you think about it, this 'using the concept of spirit only figuratively' is not a million miles from Aquinas' analogical language. Note t...
:clap: Hence the links that have been discerned between Pyrrho (ancient Skepticism), and Buddhism, which has emerged in the last couple of decades (e....
Fair enough. Although it is the absence of the qualitative dimension that prevents there being any real basis for ethics, other than ‘what I think is ...
What I thought was significant about it was, first, the way it shows that the Vienna Circle, and A J Ayer, completely misconstrued Wittgenstein’s phil...
I don’t think either of them did that though. More that they were scrupulous about the use of conceptual language for what is beyond its scope. The di...
Makes you wonder why he bothered putting pen to paper. Any thoughts on this? It is, after all, posted on the website of the British Wittgenstein Socie...
The discussion was around where in the Huston Smith schema I presented does science belong - actually the comment was ‘science ought to be added to it...
Nothing of the kind. Think about what the postulate of methodological naturalism excludes. When that is transposed to the domain of philosophy it is n...
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