Well stated. I have been discussing a Buddhist aphorism on another forum, to whit: ‘from the very beginning, not a single thing is.’ The ‘is’ here, is...
‘Limerence’ - ‘Limerence (also infatuated love) is a state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person and typically includes o...
It's more a matter that a secular, non-religious outlook is normalised in a secular culture such as ours. As you say - this doesn't mean that holding ...
David Bentley Hart: 'one infinite source of all that is: eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of ...
But I think Thomas Nagel’s is a more important voice than Kastrup, because he’s arguing from within the tradition that he’s criticising, whereas Kastr...
Not least because of its use by culture warriors such as Jerry Coyne and Richard Dawkins to attack religion at every possible opportunity. It’s perfec...
It sounds a simple principle - but what about 'bubble universes' or 'multiple worlds'? Is it 'reasonable' to posit the reality of those? That is the s...
Popper devised the criterion of falsifiability to distinguish empirical hypotheses from speculative ideas that could not in principle be tested agains...
It’s more that modern science wished to start with assuming the ‘apodictic certainty of the testimony of the senses’ by first of all discarding the ‘f...
Well said. That is the kind of criticism which has been made of Dennett in the past, for example in the Wikipedia entry on him where it notes that his...
Yes Lachman was the original bass player in Blondie. But he’s made a great career as a writer. Actually I’m envious of him, he’s staked out a fascinat...
I bought it and read it to the point of knowing it was something I didn’t want to know more about - about half-way through. The problem with Steiner i...
I would start with some bios of Steiner first, although as others here have noted, he is not regarded as a philosopher by those outside his fold. He s...
The whole 'circularity' issue is this: that scientific analysis of anything whatever is based on certain axioms, presumptions, and rules. When you're ...
The ‘argument from the stone’ has formed many a long forum thread. My view is that Johnson simply demonstrated incomprehension. Kant thought he had de...
A lot of physics is done according to the ‘shut up and calculate’ approach, which means NOT discussing the various philosophical quandaries that are t...
:ok: I was also tempted to mention the Notre Dame review of the Bennett and Hacker text, although modesty compels me to admit that I'll probably never...
All human thought relies on language and abstraction, to which reasoning is fundamental. At the very least, abstraction involves the ability to say th...
My criticism of examining questions about the nature of mind with reference to brain scans was a philosophical objection, based on an argument about t...
Imagine the scene, at the Temple of the Oracle of Delphi, when Socrates approaches, and sees the aphorism emblazoned on the Portal, gn?thi seauton, 'k...
Some Buddhist schools taught that the underlying nature of existence is actually a succession of minute instants which arise and pass away in rapid su...
Well, Buddhists, as is well known, deny that there is anything static or changeless. And Heraclitus is often compared to Buddhism and to Lao Tzu; the ...
We are designated 'human beings'. It has always seemed important, to me, that we are called 'beings' - I think that word, which is so everyday and tak...
You never did strike me as one with a real interest in philosophical questions. Not you're not intelligent or articulate, your posts are generally bot...
That’s a good point, but not the point. I’ll rephrase - ‘mind’ is not a visible or tangible object of experience. This fact bugs materialists, for who...
This being Easter Sunday, I would like to take issue with this. The whole point of the story of Christ’s resurrection is the disclosure of a reality b...
It’s also borne out by the research of neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield who conducted many experiments with living patients. The brain itself has no sensi...
I read of Peter Berger’s ‘Social Construction of Reality’ about thirty years ago but only started to understand it years later. It doesn’t contradict ...
I would like to agree, but a lot hinges on the meaning of ‘to exist’. As far as science is concerned, ‘the universe’ preexisted H. Sapiens by billions...
What I’m arguing is that when scientists analyse image of neural data, they’re employing the very faculty which they’re purporting to explain. After a...
That’s a big assumption. That nicely encapsulates what I think as the very worst of ‘evolutionism’ - the fact that it keeps the mechanistic paradigm w...
But both language and architecture are junior to, or depend on, there being living species. So it’s hardly surprising that they should inherit some at...
Thanks! I had his dad’s book ages ago - William Irwin Thomson ‘Time Falling Bodies Take to Light’. Marvellous book. I haven’t ploughed into his book, ...
And that is precisely what the article that I linked to is criticizing. Of course, given huge expertise, predictive algorithms, and the like, then an ...
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