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Part of the methodology is engage, engage, engage. Quietly, drip, drip, drip, through a thousand little channels, just like this. And see how easy it ...
November 23, 2019 at 06:45
One of the fundamental questions. I think the most important thing to realise is that it's an open question.
November 23, 2019 at 05:40
It's a pseudo-materialist solution, in my view. It says there must be some extra, magical ingredient in everything which is 'consciousness' in some la...
November 23, 2019 at 00:38
This deserves a bit more attention. All of the witnesses that came forward for the impeachment enquiry were career professionals and public service of...
November 22, 2019 at 22:30
But, there are "real possibilities" - that is, possibilities that actually exist, and others that are mere fantasies. What is the Schrodinger wave equ...
November 22, 2019 at 21:48
They were a long way apart in many important ways, but they are still more alike than they are like anything in post-Cartesian philosophy. It is said ...
November 22, 2019 at 21:45
Our Trump troll here, along with Trump, Fox News, the 'alt-right media', and a large part of the GoP, are operating in an alternative universe, one wh...
November 22, 2019 at 21:19
Joe Bidens' efforts at that time were not directed at 'helping' his son but at targetting corruption. This is a lie. This is a lie. Another lie. These...
November 22, 2019 at 21:19
There's a deep definitional problem regarding the nature of physical things. This is of course the fundamental subject of physics, but physics has bee...
November 22, 2019 at 04:43
The single most disappointing thing about the Trump presidency is the methodical and total disregard for facts. This impeachment enquiry really ought ...
November 22, 2019 at 01:12
Because there's a connection between 'ideas' and 'forms'. The platonic 'ideas' are in some sense like archetypes or essences, the forms that give a pa...
November 22, 2019 at 00:57
Don't hold your breath. They will simply bring a couple of more more lorries full of bullsh*t and bury everything under it. I mean, I'm really hoping ...
November 21, 2019 at 22:27
Yes but 'everything is fucked anyway' is hardly an answer. Trump is such an egregious example of wrong man for the job, were he removed (and regrettab...
November 21, 2019 at 21:52
I agree his tone is obnoxious but I dealt with it by ignoring his posts. But I do see your point also and would have not the least objection if bannin...
November 21, 2019 at 21:50
I don't like Bartrick's posts, so I avoid them, but don't see any grounds for banning him (unlike the resident MAGA troll who has had it coming a long...
November 21, 2019 at 20:02
The point I want to make is that such objects would be found by any mind in any possible world. They're not dependent on the human mind for their real...
November 21, 2019 at 19:57
The key point being that this enabled philosophers to regard ideas as properties of matter - as everything became. (Glad at least someone else gets it...
November 21, 2019 at 19:31
https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html
November 21, 2019 at 19:28
The point is that they don't exist in any location; the so-called 'platonic realm' is real in the sense that 'the domain of natural numbers' is real. ...
November 21, 2019 at 10:10
More to the point, it's about something which is objective. Whether it's the 'ghostly neutrino' or the black hole at the center of the galaxy or about...
November 21, 2019 at 04:10
Might interest you to know that Popper co-authored a book with neuroscientist Sir John Eccles on dualist philosophy of mind.
November 21, 2019 at 00:26
Forgive me, but I was harking back to your recent thread on just this point, which started with what I took to be an unequivocal statement to just tha...
November 21, 2019 at 00:22
As you mentioned Etienne Gilson, you might be interested in this analysis by Peter Redpath, in a talk given called Why Gilson? Why Now? It's the autho...
November 20, 2019 at 23:01
A question that occurs to me is whether mathematical proofs are objectively true? I mean, they are in a sense, but on the other hand, strictly speakin...
November 20, 2019 at 22:11
Well, Gordon Sondland's testimony has sealed it beyond any possible argument. Trump engaged in a corrupt scheme to withhold congressionally-approved a...
November 20, 2019 at 19:41
As you say, your understanding of 'what is real' is constituted by what is 'materially existent', and the only role of religion is to provide a 'safe ...
November 20, 2019 at 19:38
Another key passage from Gerson (who is incidentally considered one of the leading academic specialists on Platonism): I regard that as a succinct sta...
November 20, 2019 at 06:01
If Trump is impeached and then removed from office, it will be no longer up to the voters. Given the evidence, he is clearly impeachable in my and man...
November 20, 2019 at 05:33
I think there's a good argument that Donald J Trump is really an Enemy of the State - the very same state which he was elected president of. He keeps ...
November 20, 2019 at 04:15
An illustration. Feser, Some Brief Arguments for Dualism Elsewhere he discusses how for example algorithms and scientific theorems fall into the same ...
November 20, 2019 at 00:30
I agree that formal concepts are 'not private' in that they're not the creation of individual minds. In that sense, they're 'public', although it is a...
November 19, 2019 at 22:27
All you are saying is: scientific models are models, the explain something specific - 'they explain some transformation' - which is perfectly true, wh...
November 19, 2019 at 19:14
Fantastically illuminating conversation about Godel. People ought to pay to get in. Timely blog post from Edward Feser on Ur-Platonism.
November 19, 2019 at 10:44
See - biology. Evolution as philosophy. What evolutionary theory is intended to explain is the development of species. But now, as a matter (not to sa...
November 19, 2019 at 08:46
Metaphysics. Neo-thomism (of which Gilson was an exponent) is a modernized form of classical metaphysics. The Feser blog article would help clarify th...
November 19, 2019 at 02:40
I'll enlarge a reply to this later.
November 19, 2019 at 00:21
Please do, and let us know what you think. The passage that strikes me in this essay is the following: The main thrust of the essay is indeed 'how to ...
November 19, 2019 at 00:19
:up: Nailed it.
November 18, 2019 at 20:15
I feel your essay is somewhat tendentious although I hasten to add that I don’t feel sufficiently qualified to properly criticise it. It’s inevitable ...
November 18, 2019 at 20:02
I thought of this exchange when I read about this disovery - a mathematical discovery, by physicists, for which approval was sought from Terence Tao, ...
November 18, 2019 at 03:11
The other argument I mentioned is more compelling anyway. This is that: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538094/ bolds added.
November 18, 2019 at 01:12
Because the subjects could clearly tell when the memories and sensations arose as a consequence of the surgeon's activities. They would say 'you're do...
November 18, 2019 at 01:00
Not so much an argument, as a couple of observations. The autonomic or parasympathetic nervous system is generally not under conscious control, althou...
November 18, 2019 at 00:29
I was listening to the radio one morning about ten years ago. It was a discussion between Lawrence Krauss and the then-morning radio host, who was pre...
November 18, 2019 at 00:09
When you want to scratch your nose, you don't say, 'hey, finger, scratch nose.' Nor does your nose transfer its 'having been scratched' back to the mi...
November 17, 2019 at 23:37
It's not your philosophy in particular, but I do acknowledge that this style of criticism is my focus, so I apologize if it's annoying. But it's the z...
November 16, 2019 at 10:34
There's Jacalyn Duffyn's research into miraculous cures associated with Catholic saints. (Duffyn says she remains an atheist and that she hasn't been ...
November 16, 2019 at 07:48
That says much about your presuppositions. I did peruse your very well-written and presented website with some of the essays about this same question,...
November 15, 2019 at 08:58
Got a reference for that? Would be quite interested in looking it up. Thanks.
November 15, 2019 at 00:32
'Ideologue' flatters them. It doesn't rise to the level of ideology. Trump doesn't represent conservatism. and his GOP lackeys have long since walked ...
November 14, 2019 at 23:36