It maybe is just an admission that the horizon of knowledge is not the bounds of the universe. I want to try and articulate a notion which is that the...
You're missing the point on a basic level. Were this the case, there would be no need for arguments such as 'mathematical fictionalism'. The whole rat...
:up: I think hylomorphic dualism - dualism of matter and form - would be more satisfactory from your viewpoint, would it not? Because it can be transp...
I haven't read Weiner's book either, but my initial reference wasn't to Norbert Weiner, so I haven't 'misread' or 'misrepresented' anything. Mine was ...
On a slightly related note, I've been reading the SEP article about 'fictionalism in mathematics'. Notice the whole argument is predicated on the simp...
I've always loved the idea of Panspermia, ever since getting Fred Hoyle's and Chandra Wickramasingha's book The Intelligent Universe way back in the 1...
Because there are a lot of people who unconsciously accept materialism - like, they wouldn't think of themselves as materialist, and they're not mater...
Mine was a reference to the original quote, by Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, a French materialist philosopher of the Enlighenment. It was his expressio...
You're not responding to what I said, but what you think I said, which is understandable, as it is a very complex and controversial subject. I am *not...
I didn't say they don't have philosophical relevance. What I said was that cognitive science is not the same subject of philosophy of mind. But as you...
You see how this question, and your post, is framed against the (I suggest unconscious) assumption of historical progress? I'm looking at the issue th...
I dispute that they're philosophically 'more advanced' - and, how would that be measured? I agree cognitive science, evolutionary biology and neurosci...
Cognitive science is not philosophy of mind. But this paper on the neural binding problem and the subjective unity of perception does explicitly menti...
I don't think that is known. Alva Noe says 'Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.' Thinking of...
Enables it to write the above. Write the above, or any other entry that it sees fit to write, for whatever reason. I presume you wrote the above consc...
Scientists will never understand why philosophical questions are not resolvable by scientific means, because it's a philosophical issue, not a scienti...
'What is real' is a matter of judgement. So a materialist, like Dennett, is advancing the thesis that 'what is real' are the collective outputs of mil...
A quote from Thomas Nagel’s review of Dennett’s last book which I highlighted at the time (now unfortunately paywalled): Dennett really does deny that...
To me it seems the positing of a mind-independent reality is the hallmark of scientific realism and is also widely assumed by common sense realism. I ...
Hence the emphasis on objectivity and the corresponding deprecation of 'any hypothesis that pretends to discover the ultimate original qualities of hu...
Mindfulness in the sense it’s currently used has never been associated with philosophy as such. It originates with popularized Buddhist meditation pra...
An underlying issue is the fact-value dichotomy, or Hume's is/ought problem. As stated by Hume: So the contention here is that statements of fact and ...
I think it might be. I've stormed off from this forum on several occasions but (obviously) have returned. But I've learned to become somewhat more det...
Well, yes, because it's much closer to philosophy than some other subject. That's why there is a constant stream of newcomers trying to articulate som...
But another factor in a secular culture such as ours is the general absence of spiritual literacy; people have little grasp even of the terminology an...
This is the best introduction to emptiness I'm aware of. There is ample documentation of people, mainly children, who remember their past life. Bhikkh...
Irony being that so much thinking is driven by what is not religious. I'm studying a few topics from late antiquity and medieval philosophy, and there...
well maybe not all but that guy has been openly proselytizing here for a long while. I thought such activities breached the ToS but to be honest I did...
I think ‘enduring’ is better than ‘permanent’. Permanence implies some unchanging substance, something which persists through time unchanging. That’s ...
The key term in translations of Buddhist texts is the 'unconditioned'. There is a canonical statement to that effect: I think the Buddhist diagnosis o...
I’ve always wanted to visit there - might, one day. My son is now a permanent resident in the US so am likely to visit again when travel opens up agai...
The religious answer, put in philosophical terms, is realization of an identity that is not subject to death. I take that to be the meaning of what Ch...
Agree. But then, consider the audience. I don't know if desert tribesmen were really up for philosophical nuance. That's why interpretation is importa...
None of this is basic. I should provide some background to my perspective on this: I don't write as a Christian apologist, although I'm certainly symp...
Because if you can't recognise general forms, then you can't make general statements, which your statement 'we don't recognise general forms' is an ex...
I was a participant in one of those threads with you, a couple of months back, when it got bumped to the Lounge, and you complained about it at the ti...
Right. I think I see what you mean. I looked at the Wikipedia article you mentioned - I'm impressed that it talks about 'the fifth dimension', althoug...
I ploughed through quite a bit of the first Lazerowitz article, found it repetitive. I think he mischaracterises the subject of the debate. It is true...
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