Many thanks, and welcome to Philosophy Forum. Of course! That's why in our age of technological marvels, it's easy to see why philosophy is thought of...
It's an inevitability of human existence. Newborn infants have no such conception and it is one of the broad parameters that is developed in the first...
OF COURSE. Global warming is based on the fact that pouring hundreds of billions of tons into the atmosphere will change the atmosphere and cause glob...
Here in Australia we’re getting a real clobbering from bushfires and drought this summer. Just today many homes lost and more deaths (at least three)....
Read it in 2010, an important book. Review here with links to other reviews. Also see What's Wrong with Ockham. There's also a movement coming out of ...
What 'the unconditioned' is, is a very hard thing to articulate in the modern philosophical lexicon. But I think that whole question of what you're co...
Sounds a fascinating read. Is that one of his articles for 'The Monist'? He published a lot of his more mystical stuff there, and it's a really intere...
I think maybe you don't have a lot of experience with internet forums. I looked at your homepage and am quite well-disposed to your general philosophy...
Welcome. Interesting bio! Do a search for username Apokrisis. He posted here for a few years, was a Peirce and biosemiotics specialist. I learned a lo...
Not at all. Numbers are not real as ‘electrochemical dynamics’. Here you’re mistaking an event for a representation. Neural dynamics don’t ‘represent’...
Nowhere in Buddhism itself is Nirv??a described as 'a state of mind' but a psychologized and subjective interpretation is popular in the West. I think...
To get the conversation back on track - the problem here is that metaphysics, generally, is the discipline of reckoning 'what must be the case' in ord...
Nos constantly recirculates Alt-right conspiracy theories. There's an entire media landscape out there that does the same. It would the same tactic: s...
I think you'd be interested in some media studies. As you note, the world depicted by the media has taken on a life of its own - this has been the sub...
Berllinksi is allied with (actually a senior fellow of) the Discovery Institute which is the central ID organisation in the states so his disavowal of...
It's interesting to reflect on Buddhism in this regard. Buddhism famously says that everything is anicca, impermanent, and that there is no permanent ...
Necessary truths are not ‘in time’. I think you're making the mistake of believing they're real in an objective sense, when they're actually transcend...
A note from the Wikipedia entry on the Russian philosopher, said to be an influence on Tolstoy and Nietszche, by the name of Afrikan Spir. I mention i...
In today's culture atheism is generally conditioned in response to the kind of religious doctrines and practices that it has rejected, and continue to...
To ask to understand how to do what is right, or to attain inner peace, is not the same as seeking a benefit - rain, crops, children, wealth and so on...
There are many contributors on this forum who write from an assumption of the foolishness of religious faith, and then, from that perspective, imagine...
Not at all. That is specifically called ‘petitionary prayer’ and comprises asking for something or seeking a benefit. Human nature being what it is, p...
As a newbie to this conversation, and probably also the topic, I'll ask a newbie question: what if language can't be fully rationalised in evolutionar...
There are no grounds whatever to call Schiff as a witness, he's a serving member of Congress, and the only reason for his involvement is to prosecute ...
I've never read up on it. A quick glance at the Wikipedia article shows that the assault was retrospectively justified by the Allied forces on the gro...
I’m inclined to viewing that as a war crime. The great difficulty is dealing with ‘degrees of evil’. It would seem to me the only way to avoid partici...
I think he would have said that the decision was made to avoid a greater evil. Interesting, and thanks for the correction, but even as a hypothetical ...
From the Atlantic article you link to (published July 2017): (Hey, he's talking about you.) Anyway, it then goes on to wonder, could the same kind of ...
The Democrats have deployed the impeachment proceedings in exactly the manner, and for exactly the reasons, that the articles were written into the Co...
Incidentally, and apropos Pugliucci's essay, I note this passage quoted from Searle: I think a much better argument is the inescapable presence of mea...
A recent Aeon publication by Prof. Piggliuci, Consciousness is Real. (I lost interest at mention of Dennett.) I do get that. Oftentimes I feel the sam...
If you want to study the subject, which is not necessarily the same as developing a personal philosophy, I strongly recommend studying it historically...
Apropos your original question, there's a movement or discipline or something called 'general semantics' which was popular during the 60's, and actual...
The ability to recognise that ‘x’ is ‘x’, is essential to the ability to ask ‘why’ in any general sense. If you couldn’t recognise and abstract likene...
I've been interested in American politics since a child. I used to read Time magazine when quite young. I was part of the anti-vietnam movement. I rea...
Just to make clear: everything Trump has said about the impeachment enquiry is a lie. The Republican Party has been completely taken over by Trump and...
Referring to the request to 'keep the email quiet', this mirrors the movement of the original Call Transcript to a top-secret server immediately after...
The deliberately vague nature of the description of impeachment in the Constitution is attributable to the fact that the framers couldn't, and knew th...
I can’t help but be reminded of the famous story of Winston Churchill not ordering the evacuation of (I think it was) Manchester prior to a major bomb...
There are thousands of pages, and many hours, of witness testimony, which attest in enormous detail to Trump’s attempt to extort a foreign power by wi...
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