Wayfarer

I can think of some obvious examples where this would never occur with the current understanding of science. One is multiverse and many worlds nonsens...

There was some mention of the issue upthread so I couldn’t resist posting it. (I’ve never felt that Fauci was anything other than competent and profes...

Chinese State Media turns on Antony Fauci for expressing openness to the Wuhan lab origin theory. “I think we should continue to investigate what went...

Einstein definitely had a mystical side to him. It comes out in his popular writings and correspondence. But then, Western science has a mystical side...

I don't know if it's been mentioned in this thread yet but one major and usually overlooked source of religion is shamanic practices, and yogic practi...

Thanks, I will look into the original again when I have some time. I think it's one of the crucial issues of metaphysics in this text.

Indeed, but the Timaeus is a whole other can of worms! I think it would be useful in this thread to confine ourselves to intepretive questions raised ...

I follow. I don't think the eschatology is by any means worked out or finalised. This comes up in the Phaedo in the discussion about 'snow' as being '...

I want to return to one of the opening passages. This is one of the passages cited in respect of the famous quotation that philosophy is the 'preparat...

My view is that many current interpretations of Plato intentionally deprecate the religious aspects of his philosophy, as incompatible with the secula...

Why do you think this undermines the assertion of the immortality of the soul? Soon afterwards, Socrates says a man ‘should be in good cheer’ about hi...

Have a read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_thesis. It ‘maintains that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and scie...

It was a response to your mentioning of the fact that LeMaitre published his thesis in 1927. What was the point you were making with that reference? T...

The fact that you take it to mean that, only confirms what I said previously - that proponents of scientism will generally fail to recognise what it m...

+1 :vomit:

One of Strawson's main papers on panypsychism can be found here

pays to remember that whatever is irreducible is not composed of anything.

An ontological distinction - would you agree? Because 'appears' requires a subject, i.e. an agent to whom something appears. Nothing appears to a rock...

Also previously discussed here.

Interesting, then, that set theory is regarded as the basis for number theory, no?

Sorry, in my original post, I mis-named Godel as 'Cantor', typing in haste. I have corrected that. Apologies. Godel died from malnourishment after ref...

Good question! Now that you ask me, I find that: I'll re-visit that section of the video, in case I mis-stated it.

You know Wikipedia is user-edited, right? So you can go right in there and set the record straight. Let us know when done. Meanwhile, we should get ba...

But there are 'sets of natural numbers' and 'set of prime numbers' and so on. So are they concepts? Or are they real? (Thorny question, I know.)

No need to say anything further, that speaks volumes. I read in the weekend papers that the Lab Escape theory is being re-considered. If that turns ou...

By the way, this question was prompted by a 2007 BBC Documentary called Dangerous Knowledge. It's about four great and controversial mathematicians - ...

It doesn't confuse me, but then, it's a single paragraph about a thousand years of intellectual history. As such, it's rather lacking in detail, but I...

@"counterpunch" - here's what I've been able to discern about your view. Science is the sole avenue of enquiry into objective truth, which exists inde...

Thanks. Very close to what I was getting at. :up:

I agreed with you in that case - that of amelioration of climate change. Not on the issue that is being discussed but I can’t see the point in discuss...

Well i’m that case I agree with you.

I would keep the emotive term 'sin' out of it. I think the Haack article does a good job of explaining what 'scientism' is and what is the problem wit...

You may not agree with this sentence but there’s nothing the matter with the syntax. @"FrancisRay" seems to be able to interpret it.

Proponents of scientism will never acknowledge there could be such a thing, in my experience.

Good question! So maybe the problem, or an additional problem, is that ‘everything’ can’t be defined. But if it is ‘a thing’, then no set could ever i...

Ah but that’s only one of the four F’s. Bet it didn’t help at all with the other three. Although I guess if you were good enough at it, might help wit...

I think it is, but it’s a slightly different angle on it. Maybe.

....When plainly there are excellent evolutionary reasons why poetry should have developed.....

Excellent essay, says all that needs to be said, I think. Not peer-reviewed scientific journal studies, but it does purport to contain witness testimo...

I've been following along, and thanks for your patient explication. This thread has taught me to pay more attention to the detail - particularly the o...

The other point to comment on is that reductionism is intrinsic to the methods of scientists and engineers. It comprises reducing a complex whole to i...

Incidentally check out the synopsis of this video, Dangerous Knowledge. I haven’t watched it but intend to, if I can find a copy. It’s a BBC productio...

Not so. You find that in Tantrism, of which there are Buddhist and non-Buddhist forms. In tantric religion, there are indeed practises reserved for th...

I wouldn't put it in those terms, but there's definitely something in it. But, yes, I agree that it can take the form of religious fundamentalism and ...

Memory, in the broadest sense. More detail here.

I agree that reductionism is a common problem, and that many of the examples you've given are cogent. But I think you're drawing the net a bit wide. T...

Kant’s original thesis was on Platonic universals but later in his career he came to completely reject his earlier views. Indeed later in life I’ve he...

Thanks, very carefully argued and stated. I will certainly think that over. I think the passage in the middle about the meaning of nouns and names is ...

These are a few of my favourite themes. Of course we evolved, but through reason and language we escape from biological determinism. Never make the mi...