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Husserl, who was basically the founder of phenomenology, anticipated these kind of objections to his methodology. In fact there's a line between the s...

the coda of that OP: :naughty: :fire: :scream:

From a NYT OP: https://nyti.ms/37snUNe New word! Autogolpe is 'A self-coup - a form of putsch or coup d'état in which a nation's leader, despite havin...

Nagel's a champion as far as I'm concerned. He doesn't profess any form of theism, yet he sees right through what he calls neo-Darwinian materialism. ...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/physicalism/ My take on it is that physicalism is a form of philosophical monism, that is, there is only one kind o...

Of course it does. The first step in studying any subject scientifically is deciding what to exclude. Purpose and intentionality are exhibited by the ...

Data - facts, and the assimilation of facts - is only one facet of what minds do. They are also constantly engaged in judgement and reasoning. I do ge...

well Starmer seems a much more likely prospect than Corbyn ever did, from where I sit, but the Tories have a huge majority, don't they? I mean, again ...

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Furthermore, physicalism is not a theory - it's a metaphysic. Again, don't agree with that. It's a placeholder for a gap in the accounts, but that sho...

We'll see. At least now there appears to be an actual deadline, unlike the interminable Teresa May years.

Its nature remains unknown, and until it is discovered, it still remains a conjecture. Yes, I'll cop to that, very carelessly expressed on my part.

No sweat?!? I think there's literally buckets of sweat pouring out of the brows of a large number of people right about now. So - this Sunday is the a...

I'm afraid that what you're trying to do, and failing to do, is re-inventing or re-defining many of the fundamental terms of philosophy, and then by n...

Minds don't process binary units. It's a false analogy. I've worked in an AI company, and the system I was documenting didn't 'infer' anything whateve...

So even after - what is it - 5 years, it's still a cliffhanger. Deal or no deal? What was that cowboy film where the hero took 32 bullets while stagge...

Relevant quotation from Rene Descartes: From Discourse on Method, 1637 Of course, Descartes could not have foreseen neural networks, but it's still su...

Machines infer nothing. They perform calculations, on the basis of which their operators may make inferences. :roll: How can you say we arrive at beli...

Take out the ‘non’ in the title and I’ll take a look. :-)

There are philosophical problems with science in modern culture due to its association with Enlightenment philosophy. The problem is that science assu...

One of the remarks Bob Woodward made after his extensive series of phone interviews with Trump, is that Trump really doesn't have a grasp of reality. ...

Numbers and logical laws are intelligible, not physical. The 'eye of reason' is an allegorical expression - when you see that 2 and 2 is 4, you're see...

If the GOP had any guts, - which of course they don't - Trump would be removed from office immediately under the 25th Amendment, 'incapacity to perfor...

What I think Platonism gets at, is that laws (etc) transcend the physical (which is also ‘the existent’ or ‘the domain of phenomena’). Put another way...

There’s your issue, Forrest. Everything real, for you, is situated somewhere.

as soon as you enclose exist in scare quotes, it’s game over for physicalism.

What you’re talking about is scientific empiricism. That is, propositions must be validated by observable data. As I’ve hinted above, pure maths is al...

How about the number 7? (Any natural number would do, but let’s keep it simple.) And for that matter, none of your elaborate logical (or pseudo-logica...

It was reported that he responded to Gabriel Sterling, the aggrieved Georgia election official, by more or less telling him to get f***ed. By Twitter,...

He’ll save the worst till last. God knows what’s going to happen in January.

well, at least some of the MAGA lunatic fringe are doing everything possible to help the Democrats win the Georgia run-offs.

this post self-destructs in its first sentence. Best not to engage - this poster is either deeply confused or trolling.

I see them as 'post Cartesian' - after Decartes' great division of the world into matter and mind, the scientifically-inclined gravitated towards res ...

Yes indeed. Was just composing this post on the very same topic. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/01/us/joe-biden-trump?referringSource=articleSha...

Care to explain in what sense it's 'opposite'? Take for example this paragraph: I suggest that this is incompatible with 'the argument from causal clo...

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You're talking science, I'm talking philosophy. Let me explain a distinction: methodological naturalism, as opposed to metaphysical naturalism. Method...

'Causal closure of the physical' is precisely that 'every event has a physical cause'. If, however, 'the physical' can't be defined, then how do is th...

Don’t you think that covers a lot of what goes by the name ‘philosophical materialism’? I thought it was ‘accounted for by the known laws of physics’....

Yeah well the basic problem with that is that it is essentially meaningless because it is so open-ended.

What about the idea that the mass/energy of 96% of the universe is of an unknown type if ‘straightforward’? Ought not that be considered mystifying or...

'The world', eh? If it were me, I'd want to be sure exactly what the source of that voice is.

Actually I will take issue with this. I watched an excellent PBS documentary series recently, The Mystery of Matter, which contained dramatized episod...

We'll see, but I doubt that it will become any clearer in my lifetime.

I think 'hope' as much as 'likelihood'.

The problem is, this idea is subject to 'Hempel's dilemma'. So - science doesn't know what dark matter is, what its components are, or even really tha...

I found a quote by the biologist J B S Haldane which makes the point I was trying to get across: Haldane, J.B.S. (1932) . Possible Worlds, and Other E...

Well outside my knowledge of biology, but an encyclopaedia entry notes that ‘The simplest viruses contain only enough RNA or DNA to encode four protei...

And here's another: What is "information"? This is a question I often ask in relation to the claim that life can only be understood through understand...

Ask Mary. She knows all about it.