So, would you describe your overall approach as scientific realism? You’re crossing a line there. But then, I think you’re a ‘continental philosopher’...
I have thought of something to say. It is that Wheeler’s ‘participatory universe’ challenges materialism, because it places ‘the observer’ in the pict...
The so-called 'conservative media' - not that they're actually conservative in any real sense - are bullshit magnifiers of the first degree. They pump...
May well be true, but what I was commenting on was the resemblance between the 'triadic' structure found in Eriugena's neo-platonism, and Peirce's muc...
I think that's probably right. They're playing along, trying not to get 'the base' offside, trying to avoid being machine-gunned by Trump on Twitter, ...
I was perusing a book on Scottus Eriugena, a medieval philosopher-monk. It noted that his Neoplatonic cosmology posits a God 'beyond being' from which...
I tried to draft a response to this, but really couldn't, without going into too much detail. I'll try and pick some of these points up in ongoing dis...
Well, thanks, and I appreciate the care you've gone to, to spell that out. I started responding to it, but have saved that response, as I've just rais...
I’d be interested in Kenosha’s input on this. John A. Wheeler said ‘no phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon’. Wheeler al...
Second that. There's a good essay on him in SEP here by Dermot Moran, who also wrote a book on him (with an entire chapter on Euriugena as philosopher...
There's an underlying issue of intellectual history which might be of interest to you and the OP. My knowledge of it is only sketchy, but it revolves ...
(I had posted this in the other thread but now you’ve posted this new one I’ll reply here.) As secular culture is presumptively physicalist, I can’t s...
Thanks. I wasn't aware of the work, and found the Wikipedia entry on it. I note Schopenhauer submitted it in an essay competition, in which his was th...
In many schools of ancient philosophy and religious lore, the vision of 'what truly is' is itself redemptive. As I noted in another thread, 'avidya' o...
No, it's because to a nihilist, nothing you could say would make any difference. If it could make a difference, then they wouldn't be nihilist, becaus...
Actually, the original notion from ancient philosophy, was that being is a good and that non-being was, therefore, an imperfection. I suppose you coul...
Luther was no philosopher. He said Aquinas was doing Satan's work. He was also not 'medieval'. If you're a general reader, I would start with a genera...
I think the problem is, there is no adjudicator - no definitive authority to whom one can appeal for the ‘correct’ version - and there seems to be an ...
I still think don’t think Cohen comes across well. Neither does Anthony Scarmucci, even though both of them have turned on Trump. I think a lot of sta...
Empty Lives. This is one of my songs, written, arranged and played by me, using Logic Pro X on a Mac Powerbook, vocals courtesy of some talent I hired...
It’s often said that ‘philosophy makes no progress’, that ‘they’ve been arguing about these questions for millienia but that nothing ever changes’. Bu...
The first chapter of Eddington’s Nature of the Physical World goes into this idea (although of course things have developed since his day.). But it wa...
The ‘illusory nature of reality’ has a very long history in philosophy Eastern and Western. But what your post is completely missing, is that this has...
I am no scholar of American constitutional law, but surely the Trump campaign/GOP are veering really close to actual sedition. I guess it would be pol...
Well, except for the replication crisis. There's also the fact that within philosophical and spiritual traditions, there's both peer validation and re...
As Descartes made abundantly clear, the reality of one's own mind, at least, is what is described as an apodictic truth, 'apodictic' meaning 'cannot r...
If you read his autobiography Memories Dreams and Reflections, he wrote of the legend that he is the illegitimate grandson of Goethe, due to a dallian...
Interesting fact: there's a Buddhist concept called the ?layavijñ?na which is translated as 'storehouse consciousness. The '?laya' is the same word as...
This is the crux of the issue. Take a look at the first paragraph of Schopenhauer's 'World as Will and Idea'. This is basically representative realism...
I think it’s too easy an explanation. Every physical thing is compound - composed of parts - and temporally delimited - beginning and ending in time. ...
It’s more that, after Descartes, idealists tended to congregate around res cogitans, and the engineers and scientists around stuff you can actually wo...
I get the argument about monopolisation and think it has merit. One of the co-founders of facebook wrote an impassioned OP in the NYT about that a whi...
well, the question I broached above, is ‘do numbers exist’? You might say, of course they do, there’s ‘7’. But you’re pointing to a symbol. The same v...
With respect to your argument, or rather, assertion. What we have is the insistence that, if something is real, then it must be physical. That is just...
But the number of ducks in the row is not 'a physical thing'. It's an intelligible unit, a number, and numbers are intrinsic to the success of physics...
Reason, language, meaning, self-awareness - there’s quite a palette. I’m specialising in the argument from reason, in fact, seriously considering in e...
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