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Can you unpack what Rödl means here by the incomprehensibility of the judgment of experience? Is he pointing to the problem of grounding causal necess...

The fact that the theoretical constructs are an essential constituent of what is considered real, while they're not themselves existent in the way tha...

My response would be 'what do you mean?' It might be a meaningful expression, but that would depend on whether it was being said by someone who actual...

I'm attempting to portray Kant's form of idealism. The term 'classical ideaiism' is a little misleading, because idealism itself is a modern idea - th...

Agree. I might mention the interview where I first read it. It’s a good intro to Bernardo Kastrup, and he’s definitely worth knowing about.

I agree. I like that image of Kastrup that ‘tears are what sorrow looks like from the outside’ (but then, it’s such a sensitive new-age analogy….)

Kastrup, as you know, wrote a book on Schopenhauer (Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics) which I found very good, and Schopenhauer saw himself (rightl...

A simplistic dichotomy, and simplistic analyses never apply to Kant. The actual distinction Kant makes is between empirical realism and transcendental...

The “unity of experience” isn’t just a special riddle for consciousness—it’s mirrored by the unity of life itself. Just as an organism isn’t literally...

So, more of a Frankenstein than a zombie, then. :wink:

I was referring more to the event - pomp, pageantry and nothing of consequence.

No, what I said: a nothingburger. Spectacle and empty words.

What’s that horrible Americanism that Trump sycophants always used about the findings of various criminal and civil investigations into him, even when...

This statement is incorrect according to Newton’s first law of motion (the law of inertia). When a force causes a body to accelerate, the acceleration...

Universals are not generally associated with idealism. Berkeley rejected them, although Peirce’s objective idealism recognizes them.

Sorry my remark about metaphysics was prompted by many of the comments made here about it, but you're right, it is a field that has made a comeback in...

Would that be because metaphysics is generally considered archaic by modern philosophy? I've posted an excerpt from Bertrand Russell on universals in ...

Bertrand Russell has a chapter called World of Universals in his early Problems of Philosophy, which I often refer to. Russell makes a simple but impo...

I agree with you!

I think this is a misrepresentation from the outset. Isn't this just exactly what Heidegger criticized about the objectification of metaphysics? The o...

I included that, because he does come to that conclusion in the essay I presented of his. But I think his arguments against emergence were more import...

Very good :ok:

But that is exactly what was implied by the Galilean division. The distinction between what was measurably the case, and how objects appear, was centr...

Surely one of the multiple threads on AI would provide a better context (speaking of context).

'Different world under every hat' indian proverb.

Aw shucks. And thanks. But as i said the other day, I've also learned a ton of stuff interacting here. Not least because of disagreeing with intellige...

You know what they say about empty vessels..... ;-)

My technical writing career seems to have come to an end, although I do have a profile up still. We've retired to a nice house but without lot of mone...

From which: But, notice, this pertains to plants, living organisms. I don't think the same can be said of anything non-living. :100: As someone remark...

https://i.postimg.cc/NF92Cb5j/25000.png Don't know whether to laugh, cry, or look the other way.

He'll never live those photos down.

Recall at the time the reports of how haphazard and chaotic the DOGE program was - greenhorn computer geeks barging into offices managed by seasoned b...

Liquidity is a structural–functional property: once you know the arrangement and interactions of H?O molecules at given temperatures and pressures, yo...

Why do you say that?

Empirical objects do have the appearance of being mind-independent — they confront us in space and time as separate objects — but that appearance is c...

In the essay “Panpsychism” in his book Mortal Questions (1979) Thomas Nagel argues that the usual examples of emergence, such as the liquidity of wate...

It was, I admit, a flippant remark, but it does refer to a serious cultural issue. There is an influential school of thought or philosophical undercur...

As a coda to this story, a report has now been released showing that the DOGE program ended up costing tens of billions of dollars, rather than slashi...

Thank you. I have been a tech writer but I don't know if that career has any mileage left in it. Also I realised the other day (somewhat gloomily) tha...

You covered it pretty well. I just want to recap the central point. It was the belief that was coming into view in Berkeley's time, and is fully entre...

Indeed, I did also mention that, to dispel the idea that Berkeley dismissed sensible objects as mere phantasms. Notice that he means sensible things -...

Are you familiar with the modern philosophical expression 'the space of reasons?' The "space of reasons" is a concept developed by philosopher Wilfrid...

What about abstract objects like numbers and logical rules? Do you think there are physical explanations for them?

Can I suggest that this is a result of the way the 'physical versus non-physical' has been framed after Descartes? His philosophy, which was strongly ...

It's not a matter of 'locating' them. That depiction is only because of the inability to conceive of anything not located in time and space. The unrea...

I’ve noticed that. The Platonic tradition was itself critical — the Dialogues show Plato testing every proposition from multiple angles, leaving many ...

I agree. But there's no easy solution. It's part of living in a pluralistic culture with innummerable perspectives, views, opinions and cultural backg...

Let’s go back to the starting point. The world we see, with objects arrayed in space and time, is constructed by the brain on the basis of sensory inp...

It's not a single issue, though. Of course there are many interacting factors involved but the decline of Aristotelian realism really was a momentous ...