It's a matter of history. After the European Enlightenment, there was a movement away from religion as an explanatory framework, to the sciences. Obvi...
Indeed! And these are among the reasons for the 'decline of materialism'. However the conundrums about dark matter have only become apparent about 50 ...
What is being discussed is the sense in which the mind creates the canvas or the stage against which scientific judgement is made. This is something w...
The point about Dennett, is that his work most consistently and completely exemplifies the consequences of materialism in philosophy of mind. If you t...
It is indubitably foundational to the scientific-secular attitude. That is the context in which I refer to Daniel Dennett. Daniel Dennett is not a str...
This statement: Is a misrepresentation of the argument they present, it's not even a remotely accurate interpretation. They're making a serious point,...
I should also add, i’m completely aware that most scientists themselves are wholly dedicated to their work and would not themselves make sweeping clai...
Well the irony is that one point of this approach is to heal the ‘Cartesian split’ which has given rise to this sense of ‘otherness’. The whole point ...
On the contrary, Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson, and Michel Bitbol, are dedicated academics, writers, philosophers and scientists, They ha...
It just happens to be the one that was purportedly concerned with 'the fundamental constituents of reality'. And that does have philosophical signific...
Are you familiar with 'the observer problem' in physics? With the decades-long debate between Einstein and Bohr about 'the role of the observer' and w...
These quotes and your interpretation of them are all made from an implicitly realist point of view, and furthermore, one which sees ‘mind’ and ‘matter...
Not ‘as fictitious’ because Canada comprises vast tracts of real estate which possess a concrete reality that unicorns and Greek gods do not. That sai...
Mereology is the study of the relationship between wholes and parts, which is germane to the topic, as we’re discussing the ‘mereological fallacy’. Th...
I think it does. The strength of reductionism is to reduce (hence the name) complex systems to their component parts and processes to understand how t...
Well, I think it's worth thinking through that and making it explicit, as there's a really important point here. After all, science and the social sci...
Intuitively, I feel I have a grasp of the idea through the notion of 'the unconditioned'. Something like that intuition is found in many traditional p...
Not at all, I think you’re asking very good questions. (And apologies if I went off on a tangent in my first reply. ) I think, however, it might be wo...
I think it's important to distinguish objective, subjective, and transcendental truths. By the latter, I'm not referring to the supernatural, but thin...
Bennett is a neuroscientist, Hacker an academic philosopher. It’s a well-regarded book. Read the Notre Dame review if nothing else. https://ndpr.nd.ed...
Philosophy of mind is not a science and the reasons for that are themselves philosophical rather than scientific. Start by googling ‘Bennett and Hacke...
I don't think they would not have articulated it that way. The school of philosophy that has most fully realised and articulated these insights is act...
First it ought to be stated that Schopenhauer declared himself atheist and was fiercely critical of institutional religion. But then perhaps that is a...
It’s a whole other thread, but I don’t necessarily accept evolutionary accounts of reason. Which is not to say that humans didn't evolve, as we clearl...
The only piece of data necessary to share is an email address. If you use a VPN or post from 4G then even your own IP address is concealed. So apart f...
It's worth recalling the definition of ontology, particularly in respect of the aspect of the definition that declares ontology as 'the study of 'bein...
Did you add the postscript to the original post after my entry about D2O? In any case, I missed it as I generally only read responses that are made la...
I don’t think your depicting ‘necessary truth’ correctly. I would always categorise such facts as chemical formula as contingent rather than necessary...
Jesus doesn’t decide that - according to Christian lore, Christ rose from the dead, and salvation depends on believing it. I guess what I am saying is...
Hi Christine, welcome to the forum. My framing of this question is not so much from philosophy per se but from the perspective of comparative religion...
Further to which, I would question whether ‘water’ is indeed a concept. I think, perhaps, liquidity is a concept, of which water is an example. So, a ...
As a matter of fact, there is a form of water which is D2O, namely, 'heavy water - a form of water that contains a larger than normal amount of the hy...
I see your point, and would be inclined to answer ‘no’. In effect these individuals would be born into servitude, with no say in the matter, and no ch...
I’m convinced that interstellar, or even inter-planetary, habitation is impossible due to unsurpassable physical constraints. The Voyager spaceships t...
E F Schumacher, economist and philosopher; talk given on BBC Radio The Insufficiency of Liberalism, 1957 (from The Education of E F Schumacher). So, I...
Of course it does but it has nothing to with what I think remains significant in religious philosophy. Plotinus thought of his religious philosophy in...
I wouldn't make the effort with those who aren't interested in the subject. I've been on internet forums for around ten years now, and most discussion...
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