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It's a separate department, down the hall, to the left, along the corridor, marked 'Physics'. But seriously - I think most philosophers are extremely ...

I don't understand how you can say that. I think all of them had their faults and weaknesses, and I think W. was arguably culpable of criminality for ...

Evolutionary biology is a science, at the centre of which is the theory of evolution by natural selection. It's important not to lose sight of the fac...

of course it is. But that doesn't make it a philosophy. Anything but Human

I'm firmly of the view that interstellar travel is a physical impossibility no matter how advanced a civilization becomes. The distances between stell...

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no, nothing like that. It's more a consequence of history - the discovery of evolutionary biology occupying the vacuum left by the abandonment of reli...

a lot of people mistake evolutionary biology for a philosophy.

I've tried to explain it, you don't understand how my explanation relates to your post, we're obviously talking past one another. I'll let someone els...

Sacked Vindman's brother too. Not that Vindman's brother did anything wrong. But facts don't matter. Only loyalty.

From the Wikipedia entry on the topic - which has many useful sources in the citations:

I did that already. Look at your OP again. It's like, oh, a comment made in a philosophy tutorial when you're discussing Searle as part of a conversat...

So you think that atoms do "give rise" to language and consciousness? The problem with all your posts is that they contain many unstated premisses, wh...

What I mean by there being 'no facts in Trumpworld' is that first, Trump is notoriously mendacious, a documented fact. Secondly, Trump himself shows n...

I think the description given in the opening sentence of the video, that 'religion has been declared untrue by science', is a myth. Religious ideas cl...

I'm no expert, but I worked at an AI startup for 3 months recently, organising their documentation. And Descartes' argument - made in 1630! - has dire...

In every case, it’s putting political expediency and fear of Dear Leader above principle and law.

there are no facts in Trumpworld.

Yes Ive always been an admirer notwithstanding the many problems associated with ‘the Cartesian model’. But he was genius nonetheless.

‘The Chinese room argument holds that a digital computer executing a program cannot be shown to have a "mind", "understanding" or "consciousness", reg...

symbolic order can’t be reduced to, or explained in terms of, physical laws.

this op is entirely nonsensical - it doesn't convey anything about the original argument, nor any insight into what might be wrong with the original a...

What Trump said after the Senate acquittal: NO - wait. That was Clinton.

I really, really, really hope, with every fibre, that you're right. I just can't bring myself to believe it.

Yeah, sure I understand that he was impeached by the House, but the fact that he was then acquitted in the Senate even after the most blatant and unar...

well, I think the political situation in the US is completely f***ed. The leading opposition candidate is a Democratic socialist, America's counterpar...

Or - against certitude. Now there's a great title.

It's something closer to 'dogmatism' or 'close-mindedness'. The problem is that the word 'fideism' is derived from the Latin fide, which means 'faith'...

The point which your essay glosses over in respect to fideism in particular, is the widespread view, typical of the new atheism, that any form of fait...

Atlantic Monthly Arguably, what we've just witnessed was not an impeachment, but the coronation of the Caeser, above all law and all accounting. (But ...

Two cheers for Mitt. :clap: :clap: on a day of national disgrace in America.

I think my rendering of the term is the mainstream one. I'll bring in another perspective. As you might have gleaned, I'm quite interested in what I s...

I understand that fideism is defined as 'the doctrine that all knowledge depend on faith or revelation'. Generally I would understand that stance, if ...

What's that saying about 'not being able to organise an orgy in a brothel?' :sad:

Of course. Everyone I know here is furious about Government inaction on climate policy. I personally think there are ex-Government ministers who shoul...

thanks for posting, a very concentrated source of insight into the current calamity. I write from Sydney, we're in the thick of it, although it hasn't...

Rather, it can't deal with a President and Senate majority that, to all intents and purposes, ignores the Constitution and flouts the law, which is wh...

Hey they’re talking about Sean Carroll :grin:

I wonder if that was related to the use of Roman numbers as distinct from early decimal numerical systems derived from the East? (also mentioned above...

Actually there's a really profound point behind this observation. The pre-Copernican cosmology really did believe in the crystal spheres, that heaven ...

There is no definition of 'physical'. If you look at what is going on in physics itself, it's riven with debates about parallel universes and many wor...

What a disgrace, a dark day in the history of America. Liars defending a liar with lies, and the liars have prevailed.

What is reason? How do we know what things mean? Especially ambiguous things - handwritten things, ambiguous signs? We make judgments, we say ‘this me...

I didn't pay that much attention to this passage when first cited (as Derrida is not on my reading list), however on re-reading it, I think I can see ...

The so-called 'defense' of Trump is preposterous in the extreme. It all comes down to, well if Trump does it, then it can't be criminal! It can't be a...

Right! Precisely! I've been trying to make this point. Very good sources and quotes, I will spend some time on that last one in particular. Thanks.

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Because, as Husserl explains in Crisis of European Sciences, Descartes' depiction of 'res cogitans' leads to it being characterised as a literal subst...

where does 'knowing' fit into that? How does it come about?

Yeah what about it? I studied undergrad psych and it was abundantly obvious that the whole field was philosophically fractured. (The only essay I ever...