Oh good. That was just an impression from reading some of the comments. Glad that I'm wrong about that. https://www.thedailybeast.com/russia-has-plans...
So having started by shelling a kindergarten, let's follow up by evacuating an orphanage. Very soon it will be clear to the whole world that Russia wi...
I think he's of the conviction that natural science is the only sure pathway to knowledge. But then, science, in that understanding, restricts its sco...
The term 'phenomena' is being used here as a general synonym for 'everything' or 'the totality'. Interestingly, the original meaning of phenomena is '...
I suppose you could say that phenomenology is a 'third way' that escapes the opposition that Gerson sees between Platonism and naturalism. It is of no...
In all fairness, Dylan’s original version of All Along the Watchtower was pretty ordinary (on John Wesley Harding?) But the songs of that period - 196...
I think Gerson’s overall point, and one which I agree with, is that naturalism as we know it today grew out of the rejection of Platonism and scholast...
A couple of more points. Mindfulness as such is only one element of Buddhist abhidharma, philosophical psychology. The root text is the Sattipatthana ...
That'd be right. If anything becomes commoditized, a 'sure-fire path to ' then you can be certain it is already on the way to going out of fashion. An...
I preface this to say I've been extremely pre-occupied with other things the last week (the mother of all house-moves) but I had previously entered so...
Re phenomenology and the 'abstruse debate' - I remember when I got hold of Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences - there was, I seem to recall, a ...
There's a lot of things you say are pointless, but I most often believe there's a point you're not seeing. Ask the proverbial person-in-the-street. Th...
It's not at all arbitrary and with all due respect I feel there's a major conceptual issue you're not seeing in regards to this issue. OK, good point,...
That’s the fundamental difference between cognitive science and philosophy. Cognitive science seeks an objective account, treating consciousness and c...
I had the understanding that the influence flowed the other way - that early Christian doctrine was considerably influenced by Greek philosophy and th...
His is a touching story, lifelong seeker turned Catholic convert who died prematurely from cancer. Eclectic outlook and a very good writer. (He was bo...
:up: Always felt you were a perceptive contributor. But look at the way post-Galilean (i.e. 'modern') science goes about that: by the division of the ...
:up: Platonism, Naturalism, and Mathematical Knowledge, James Robert Brown The Radiance of Being: Dimensions of Cosmic Christianity, Stratford Caldeco...
I think he's stretching the boundaries of naturalism. I mean, one of the fundamental assumptions of naturalism as usually understood is the mind-indep...
Well, considering that it is a cosmological mythology that is the subject of some of the lengthiest Hindu epic poems, it might be a tad difficult to c...
I also want to call out how the statement 'physical things like other people' begs the question. What is at issue is, among other things, whether peop...
You're stating the obvious, but none of that negates the kinds of philosophical problems that, for instance, Immanuel Kant set out to solve. In fact t...
So, before humans existed, force did not equal mass times acceleration? This is something that only exists when it is recognised by humans? Objects ar...
What would human civilization and culture amount to without it? What is it that enables discovery of novel facts? This, I don't understand. What of pu...
Of course. But at the centre of those reactions, is interpretation - what the sentence means. Animals react to threats or other stimuli, but we alone ...
that's what panpsychists want to argue. The problem I have with that, is that it treats 'consciousness' as something objectively existent, when in rea...
Not to mention abandonment of the concept of moral agency, but that kind of goes without saying, considering the rest of the argument. It's why elimin...
They're not 'established' in the sense of being set up by scientists. They're discovered - that is precisely what the meaning of 'discovery' is. I ask...
I really like this post of yours and want to follow up on an idea I'm exploring. I noticed in the Wiki entry on noumenon that the original derivation ...
You know what the largest and most expensive machine in history is? Why, that would be the LHC. Its object of analysis is the very most simple things ...
They're symbolic, which act on a different plane to the physical. Symbolic form only has meaning because you interpret it, which only a rational senti...
Nevertheless, if I write something that gives you the shits, your pulse will accelerate slightly, your adrenals will uptick a little. But nothing phys...
I think that's a very interesting line of enquiry. I suspect that this is a major disconnect in modern philosophy, owing to the abandonment of the not...
That TLP reference is to the passage I already quoted. The very next sentence is 'Thus people today stop at the laws of nature, treating them as somet...
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