There are actually quite a few religious scientists; Wikipedia has a list. Of course it's true that science challenges some forms of religious belief,...
But insofar as they're physical processes then they're not different in principle. When you examine brain-scans, you're interpreting graphical images,...
The tension between idealism and materialism is a dialectic. As you say, each side needs the Other in terms of which, or against which, it defines its...
Feser is a neo-Thomist . I’m myself am not, but In the spirit of ‘the enemy of the enemy being a friend’, I have found his critiques and polemics agai...
For a time, I was severely disillusioned by the Monica Furlong bio of Watts, and by his alcoholism, but over time I reconciled myself with it. That bo...
Love your list. Shame we're so geographically remote, it makes me want to meet you. (re 23 - my mnemonic for the colors spectrum was 'rotten old yacs ...
There is an expression in esoteric philosophy, The Eye of the Heart. It refers to a different kind or level of 'seeing' that is associated with spirit...
Fair enough, I didn’t read it either, but from what I read about it, he is someone I feel an affinity with. That PDF that is linked in the OP ought to...
You do understand that this is basic materialism, right? If you actually believe that everything is simply matter in motion, then there's no need for ...
The wise understand that good and bad are co-arising. To pursue hedonistic pleasure is to be a hamster on a wheel. You've been posting the same idea h...
DNC files suit alleging that Trump campaign officials conspired with the Russian government and its military spy agency against Democratic presidentia...
I think your problem is, you're seeking a naturalistic answer to a metaphysical plight. It is true that humans are perplexed and terrified by the pros...
In Buddhist cultures, there is the belief that being born in the human realm is advantageous because it's the only opportunity to hear and follow the ...
I ran across Mcgilchrist some time ago, I think through these forums (either this one or the previous). Makes sense to me. Ain't that Steve Pinker to ...
For who? Who is pulling the strings? The meta-meta identity? You know the word 'person' is from the mask used in classical dramas, the 'persona'. But ...
I understand it as referring to the idea that the act of thinking is personal or subjective, but by 'thought contents' in such cases as number, he is ...
Have a read of What Is and Isn't Yog?c?ra (which is another name for the Vijñ?nav?da school.) This is by a Western scholar of Buddhism and compares th...
I don't know about that. If you go back to the early tradition, the relationship between abstract universals and particulars was a major theme. The wh...
If you propagate - i.e. if your sperm cells win - then you outwit it. You personally will die but your line will live on. Beyond that, there is no ‘wh...
I hope I can illustrate a slightly different perspective on this question for you. I take the sense of 'domains' when applied to this question to be i...
One of the interesting topics I studied as an undegrad was Max Müller's 'linguistic archeology'. Müller (1823-1900) was one of the first European scho...
So - you’re not actually saying that prisoners ought to be euthanised instead of being rehabilitated? Or, if you mean that the community has to find a...
This thread was opened over 6 months ago, and all of these issues have been canvassed in depth. However, and I'm not going to argue the point beyond t...
Assuming that you must exist in order to argue, is not 'begging anything' and is not 'bias'. It's a simple statement of fact and not a matter for deba...
The fact that the question can be asked rules out the possibility of there not being simply nothing. There could be no empirical anything if there wer...
‘How many objects there are’ is a given; what number and language provide is a common way of counting and measuring said objects. This is why numerica...
But isn't the whole point of mathematics and standard units of measurement and shared meanings to facilitate this? Isn't that what culture and languag...
It is often said that the Buddha rejects belief in the soul but this has to be interpreted in context. The Latin-Greek-Christian notion of 'soul' is n...
But I think that still assumes that there is thought 'in here' which corresponds with something 'out there' - that thought is one thing, and the objec...
Incidentally a comment from Kastrup's blog: Bernardo KastrupFriday, October 30, 2015 1:41:00 PM Hi Matthew, I explore more of this in an upcoming book...
...However, I can't see how there can't be a kind of 'pre-established harmony' between all the individual subjects who are measuring the same thing. E...
Again, have a read of this article.. This is not fringe or alternative science - Fuchs is a physics academic. His one-liner is that “Quantum mechanics...
I did two years of undergraduate philosophy including units on early modern philosophy, David Hume, logical positivism, and philosophy of science. At ...
As is well known, one afternoon whilst walking in the woods in the 1920's, Einstein suddenly stopped and asked his friend Michele Besso, 'does the moo...
I think the Manjit Kumar book lies out in some detail why it could be considered 'idealist'. Leave out 'consciousness' and leave out 'idealism' - the ...
The hypothetical question 'if a tree falls in the forest' is another way of posing the question and is often used to stimulate discussion on this very...
The role of observation in determining an outcome - not by 'interfering with' or physically causing an effect, but simply observing. It seems to impli...
Not being a physics graduate, I am restricted to reading popular books on the topic, the two most recent being Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great ...
The whole import of the ‘delayed choice experiment’ seems anti-realist. At issue, is the very meaning of the word ‘physical’. The difficulty is that t...
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