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He's an interesting writer. I bought Life's Solution in a rush of enthusiasm about 8 years ago, but it's a very technical biology text, requires a pre...

Are you familiar with Simon Conway Morris? That's his speciality.

Look up a book called The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler. It's on just this point, and a great popular history of science to boot. Overall, I think y...

I perfectly agree. it's that intuition behind 'enactivism' or the 'embodied mind' kinds of theories which have become very influential since the 1990'...

To which I don't have the answer. Really interesting film, though.

Watch Brainstorm. Much better film from same era in a similar genre. Natalie Wood’s last movie.

Ineffable, 'too great to be expressed or described in words', nevertheless, 'known by the wise'. So, not right to claim that no-one knows it. It can't...

I suppose a corollary of that is the understanding that the normal state, or the state that we all take for granted as being normal, is actually a def...

Aside from the question of whether the Buddha continues to exist after death, there are a series of other ‘unanswered questions’, a summary is given h...

we could place bets on who it is. :wink: (I have an idea, but not sayin'.) //oh, and it seems to work.//

Newton tortured people??? I’d be careful about that interpretation. Hick is saying something more like, humans will interpret a religious epiphany in ...

I think it’s a consequence of liberal individualism where the individual is the arbiter of morality. The arguments on this subject often revolves arou...

Right. Just how I understand it also. I do notice that Wiki article has become a lot more complicated than when I last looked at it.

I think you have. ‘Fideism’ is the elevation of faith over knowledge. I think Protestantism can rightly be accused of fideism with its doctrine of ‘sa...

I'm not particularly knowledgeable about Theodor Adorno, but I noticed this passage in the entry on him in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy whi...

There is a point. The point of that particular passage is, I think, that it illustrates what scepticism means within that particular religions domain ...

:up: :lol:

He wrote of undergoing a religious epiphany whilst on the top deck of a London bus. Thereafter, he went on to a long career in theology and philosophy...

Yeah, ain’t the post-modern condition confusing? :yikes: Confounds all kinds of borders and boundaries. I think the problem is that declaring yourself...

That was Newton's attitude. According to Karen Armstrong, historian of religion, this had major adverse consequences for public religion. Armstrong's ...

I favour the Platonist view.

Pluralism or multiplicity of visions is one of the attributes of the period of late modernity, as explicated here by John Hick, philosopher of religio...

I suppose it's pointless to try and explain what I think is the matter with this, so I'll pass. Although I think Bert1 has done a good job of it:

Perhaps I’ll watch it again. :yikes:

I did start this thread, and I do think Tones asks a reasonable question. You’re continually entering these long sequences of symbolic code as if they...

OK, I will explain what I meant to say with that ham-fisted analogy. I was responding to the claim that conscious agents are simply objects with highe...

I deleted that expression before you quoted it. Perhaps you might adjust your response accordingly.

As - not that there is one true philosophical system, or one true philosopher, but that the ‘vision of unity’ is at the heart of true philosophy. The ...

That’s because consciousness is only ever known in the first person.

Buddhists don’t agree. They nevertheless hold a moral code based on transcendence, i.e. liberation from rebirth in sa?s?ra. :up: I do agree with this,...

Nope. Not true. There's a rhetorical description, 'nothing but-ism' or 'nothing but-ery', which is precisely that. There's nothing in the scientific d...

It's a thesis in theology. They seem well-credentialed to me, I mean, they're at Oxford, not the Creation Museum. Emily's thesis supervisor was Alista...

Emily Qureshi-Hurst is a D.Phil. Candidate in Theology (Science and Religion) at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK https://philpeople...

So, does a number, say the number 7, exist? You will say - of course, you just wrote it. But that's a symbol, which denotes a quantity, a numerical va...

Invoking what it is like to be a bat is really a rhetorical device or thought-experiment to drive home the the understanding of the fundamental nature...

Luke Barnes vs Victor Stenger for those interested.

thanks! Never heard that word before.

'The only way out of it is through it' ~ some dude.

But one implies the other. The morality that is implicit in Darwinian theory is always best described by what Herbert Spencer says - 'survival of the ...

Heads up - Wilfred Sellars and Buddhist Philosophy

I think the doctrinal answer is that ‘zombification’ is a form of nihilism arising from aversion to existence, and as such will always generally culmi...

Hey don’t take it personally. I think you’re writing and analytical skills are OK, but just be mindful on the subject in this case. There are some wri...

That’s the salient point. When I did interact on the Dawkins forum, I asked them, OK what do you have to replace it? Evolutionary biology? What are th...

Well, is that so. I’ve never mixed with them. If the New Atheists help some of those types, then more strength to them. In the 90’s, there was a Dinos...

Even though literal fundamentalists would be the last people in the world to take them on board. If you can believe Dinosaurs in Genesis then nothing ...

Wonder where they learned that.

There are straw men arguments, but there are also straw god arguments, which are arguments directed at gods nobody really believes in. I think nearly ...

‘Technique’ is too narrow a term for what N?g?rjuna’s philosophy conveys. Techne is craft or skill or know-how in achieving an outcome. You might then...