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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...
April 09, 2018 at 07:02
‘Limerence’ - ‘Limerence (also infatuated love) is a state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person and typically includes o...
April 09, 2018 at 06:39
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 ...
April 09, 2018 at 06:00
David Bentley Hart: 'one infinite source of all that is: eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, uncreated, uncaused, perfectly transcendent of ...
April 09, 2018 at 04:46
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...
April 09, 2018 at 03:11
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...
April 09, 2018 at 02:43
Very kind of you to say so. I will see if I can find a bit of time to read that Collingwood essay, it has been recommended by quite a few posters.
April 09, 2018 at 00:22
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...
April 08, 2018 at 21:26
Popper devised the criterion of falsifiability to distinguish empirical hypotheses from speculative ideas that could not in principle be tested agains...
April 08, 2018 at 21:07
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...
April 08, 2018 at 10:28
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...
April 08, 2018 at 10:18
Indeed. Oldman was awesome as Churchill. Saw it the night before he won the Oscar for it. Anyway we better not keep derailing the OP. :blush:
April 07, 2018 at 06:06
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...
April 07, 2018 at 05:40
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...
April 07, 2018 at 05:12
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...
April 07, 2018 at 03:56
The whole 'circularity' issue is this: that scientific analysis of anything whatever is based on certain axioms, presumptions, and rules. When you're ...
April 06, 2018 at 23:11
You presume he knows what he's doing. Also, we here in Australia all despised W. But compared to Trump, W was a knight in shining armour.
April 06, 2018 at 22:50
Pence is just an old-school conservative. Sure he’s backwards-looking but he isn’t going to start WWIII out of pique.
April 06, 2018 at 21:46
Will we stop Trump before it’s too late? Madeliene Albright
April 06, 2018 at 21:08
:up:
April 06, 2018 at 09:53
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...
April 06, 2018 at 08:52
And hey - we’re called ‘beings’. Crazy coincidence, hey?
April 06, 2018 at 06:25
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...
April 06, 2018 at 00:18
: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...
April 05, 2018 at 01:38
All human thought relies on language and abstraction, to which reasoning is fundamental. At the very least, abstraction involves the ability to say th...
April 05, 2018 at 01:02
And how do you split them? What is ‘propositional content’ without reason, or language? That’s the whole point.
April 05, 2018 at 00:35
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...
April 05, 2018 at 00:05
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...
April 04, 2018 at 22:43
That is cognitive science, but here we’re discussing philosophy, the nature of meaning and of mind. Strawson 1, Dennett 0.
April 04, 2018 at 22:35
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...
April 04, 2018 at 04:46
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 ...
April 03, 2018 at 23:47
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...
April 03, 2018 at 01:04
Face it, you’re mainly here to while away the time. It’s a social network spoilt by the inconvenience of people talking philoosphy.
April 02, 2018 at 23:11
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...
April 02, 2018 at 22:40
:ok: you are much more thorough than myself in your analysis.
April 02, 2018 at 10:14
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...
April 01, 2018 at 23:41
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...
April 01, 2018 at 07:31
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...
April 01, 2018 at 06:28
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 ...
April 01, 2018 at 03:21
Does the Universe exist if we’re not looking?
April 01, 2018 at 00:13
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...
April 01, 2018 at 00:06
‘Everyone has a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts’ ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan ‘ A little learning is dangerous’ ~ Edgar Allen Poe
March 31, 2018 at 01:57
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...
March 31, 2018 at 00:40
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...
March 29, 2018 at 10:25
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...
March 29, 2018 at 09:52
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, ...
March 29, 2018 at 09:48
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 ...
March 27, 2018 at 23:23