Wayfarer

I’m not saying that an object is ‘affected by thought’. I’m thinking of the Statue of Liberty right now which will make no difference to it whatever. ...

The point I'm pressing is the distinction between the empirical facts of science, which I'm not disputing in the least, and the grounding of these fac...

Mind is the faculty of knowledge. Consciousness is always consciousness of... which was one of the basic observation of phenomenology. (However Indian...

That’s true if one assumes from the outset that “the physical” is by definition causally closed and fully intersubjective. But that’s precisely the po...

That’s a valid question—but perhaps what’s really at stake is our concept of what counts as “physical” and how information is encoded and retrieved in...

The point of the Galilean method was that it was defined in terms of primary and secondary attributes of matter, instead of Aristotelian (meta)physics...

Plainly I can think about my mind, or mind in general. I can reflect on my inner states and those that others must have. But that doesn’t undermine th...

You have your work cut out for you, that’s for sure.

One point I would make about this is in respect of the cultural influence of René Descartes. As you will know, he is generally introduced to philosoph...

'Holism' is a modern word. It was coined by Jan Smuts early in the 20th c. I don’t think I’ll comment on the other matters but will follow the thread.

I had rather thought that Aristotle was the greater influence on Western (Catholic) Christianity due to the rediscovery of his works from the Islamic ...

It is a matter of fact that the mind is not an object in any sense other than the metaphorical, such as ‘the object of the argument’, ‘the object of t...

My claim was the mind is not a thing. Doesn't mean it's nothing. But it's not a thing, it's not an object. Your 'experience of the mind' is not an exp...

Sure it's a project. I enrolled late at University in the second half of my twenties, and ended up doing a BA and MA hons in philosophy and related su...

Well, I want to get this straight. You've heard them many times, but I say you don't understand them. Take this latest exchange - it began with: This ...

I've reflected recently on how much I've learned on this forum - even from you! I'd never heard of Davidson or Austin or the other anglo analyticals b...

Not all the exchanges in this thread have been acrimonious, in fact they're the minority. Ludwig and I have managed to negotiate a pretty detailed con...

But you clearly don't understand. Your arguments don't display a proper grasp of the issues. I've tried for years to explain ideas to you, to be met f...

Not at all! Very much enjoying the forum at the moment, there are many very interesting discussions, and I'm learning a lot.

@"Mww" replied for me. Remember this thread started in part with One of many such apparent paradoxes in quantum physics - which is, after all, suppose...

Quite right. It's a lovely word, regardless of whether it's fashionable or not. I was most impressed by a 1996 Tom Wolfe essay, Sorry but your Soul Ju...

There's no use trying to explain it to those without sufficient education to understand it.

Speaking figuratively, of course.

Forthcoming book The Soul, Paul Ham. Looks interesting!

Husserl was never overtly 'spiritual' (whatever that means) but some say his emphasis on the transcendental aspects of phenomenology became somewhat t...

Where is the outrage about Trump trying to strong-arm Brazil into dropping criminal charges against Bolsonaro? There is credible evidence - yet to be ...

I’m distinguishing between two levels — both valid, but different in scope. On the empirical level, of course we say the cosmos existed long before us...

I've read a bit, and I think I understand some basic points. There's a mixture of ideas in your post, but I'll start by saying realism v idealism is p...

It helps to understand where the word came from and what it has meant over history. The Greek equivalent (and I'm not a scholar of ancient Greek, but ...

That's relatively simple — it means taking the reality of the world to be as it appears, or as it is presented to us, without recognizing the interpre...

Perhaps. It's been said he has a nihilist view of N?g?rjuna, and this kind of mistaken interpretation is not infrequent even amongst expert readers. H...

Citations, please. First, your appeal to “scientific consensus” is misleading unless you specify what kind of consensus you mean. Neuroscience as a pr...

I question that the brain can be described in solely physical terms or as a physical thing. Of course, in some respects the brain is physical - it wei...

An impressive synopsis, clearly written and well-argued. Something leaped out at me - my dear other’s family belong to a traditionalist Christian sect...

On the contrary, the whole is what gives unity and function to the parts. In living systems, it is the organism that organizes the parts, not the othe...

The reference is to a book How Life Works: A User’ Guide to the New Biology. Yet another book I must look at :roll:

Which world? As soon as you name a ‘world’ or a ‘thing’ or ‘an unknown object’ which you claim is unaffected by or separate from your thought of it, y...

I feel no burden of proof.

I too think Schopenhauer was wrong on some things, but not on that.

That's not all he said. Nobody seems to pay much attention, but Schop. also believed in some form of redemption. As is well known, he read a translati...

For sure, looking forward to it!

But this was the very question that awoke Kant from his dogmatic slumber. His famous “answer to Hume” was, paraphrased, that we do not infer causality...

Perhaps, but it is a vital insight nonetheless. (Interestingly, if I select that Russian term and choose Translate, the choice offered is ‘involvement...

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I do. I make a similar point in On Purpose, with respect to organisms generally - they are all engaged, even very primitive organisms, with maintainin...

Surely. The precise mechanism is very well understood, in terms of molecular dynamics. You’re right that causality as a principle isn’t a material obj...

Only to the misinterpretation of it. Anway, enough for now, you won't find the keys under this streetlight.

Misleading use of 'thing'. The point about first-person experience is that it is not a thing. No, it points out premisses that have been suppressed in...