Hume's articulation of the 'is-ought' problem was situated within his broader examination of the 'nature of the understanding'. Hume is arguing that j...
Everyone knows that Trump completely torpedoed Republican healthcare policy by saying (in the heat of the moment during the campaign) that he was goin...
First, it's not a matter of access. One doesn't open a door into personal experience or find it within some container. First-person experience is prio...
That is referred to as the 'homunculus fallacy'. Clearly not. If I burn my hand, I don't say 'that hurt him'. I say 'that hurt me'. And that pain is a...
But, it's not 'part of the world'. It precedes the world. I don't want to say that the world is 'all in the mind' in the sense implied by solipsism, b...
...and the attempt to apply scientific method to the kinds of philosophical issues that can only be properly addressed in the first person is the prec...
None of what you say refutes or comes to terms with the issue of 'the subject of experience'. A deaf, dumb and blind subject remains a subject. And Ro...
Entertainment, payment, and so on ought to be considered external to art, ought it not? Art for art's sake, is the saying. (That's a lyric, I think.) ...
The problem is, that is just what the materialist account obscures. It is found in traditional wisdom schools and other sources such as those you ment...
That's about right. So what Dennett objects to is the idea that the subject of experience could be something that is, in principle, beyond the ken of ...
Interesting point, but I don't quite agree. You might recall the big debate on the old forum between myself and Landru among others - I think you also...
It's more that it's not an open and shut judgement. But some architecture is obviously of higher artistic merit than others. http://lgam.wdfiles.com/l...
(Y) Dennett's career is based on that apparently outrageous claim, and he's clever enough to be tenured for it. And you may think it pointless, but it...
Decades ago, I saw a news feature on a US evangelical who travelled to Turkey because he believed the remains of Noah's Ark could be found on Mt Arara...
But the point is, and one that was matter of intense debate earlier in this thread, is that 'all experience implies a subject of experience'; and my c...
Two examples come to mind. In the Christian tradition, the term is 'agap?'. Agap? embraces a universal, unconditional love that transcends, that serve...
The Selfish Gene says something perilously close to that, although Dawkins qualifies it by saying we are obliged to struggle against it. But the probl...
It's one of the - how should we say - Ur-texts of the New Age. Published in 1901 and regarded by its fans as a classic, although I think it is barely ...
I can't see how the whole question of what is or isn't art has anything to do with this thread, however, one criterion might be that an artistic work ...
It doesn't dissolve it so much as ignore it or bypass it. I can't resist re-telling the old joke about two behaviourists after making love: 'That was ...
Today's installment - Trump didn't really mean that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, because the presidential tweet put scare quotes around 'wiretapped',...
Plantinga is a highly-respected Christian philosopher, but he is a 'confessional' Christian, i.e. his philosophy assumes that you have accepted the te...
I have bent over backwards, written essays, to explain it. I have a degree in comparative religion, and have worked as a teacher in Buddhist Studies. ...
As I explained, my original motivation for joining Internet forums was a response to 'new atheism'; and every philosophical discussion I've had with y...
Right, so your sole motivation in this thread has basically been to bait those interested in such matters with reference to your new atheist hobby hor...
I notice that none of what you've said on this thread pertains to the video that the thread is about. Can I presume you've already discounted what's l...
That is what a lot of people will say. This is why I have come to realise the negative consequences of evolutionism on public discourse, even though i...
The basic tenets and main arguments of the 'new atheists' can be adequately communicated in a couple of paragraphs. If the premises are fatally flawed...
Actually I want to acknowledge Arkady, with whom I have had vigorous arguments for years now. I realise we often talk past each other, but his questio...
To digress briefly into 'elan vital' (as I know my earlier response must be annoying). I think the underlying issue here is the prior rejection of the...
Borrowed it when it came out. Read the first three chapters, skimmed the remainder, read many reviews. I think I'm thoroughly conversant with the phil...
Well, perhaps that's why science is not omniscient! But I think you've made a valid point, and one often forgotten. Maybe that is why Aristotelean phy...
Lewis said Trump was not a legitimate president, because of Russian interference in the election. What a lot of people have said is that Trump is an u...
I had heard that previously although I still don't think it would support the 'mass' hypothesis. I might float it over at Pysics forum (although I wou...
I used to like his TV show, although it wasn't broadcast regularly here in Oz. I also liked his book, Dragons of Eden, although he did tend towards sc...
Well notice the first paragraph: So their estimate is 10x the figure quoted in the article I referenced. The upshot is, none of the figures are enough...
No, it's a serious question. Gravity is a function of mass, right? So a planet twice as massive as earth would have much greater gravity (I think twic...
Biblical creationism rejects Darwinian evolution holus bolus. But why I find fault with evolutionary materialism is because of the insistence that evo...
I don't need to read atheist polemics not to trust faith healers and those who reject blood transfusions. Capital T Truth denotes something like a 'vi...
They're not 'fair game', and your argument simply capitulates to the notion that everything really is a matter of opinion. 'If everyone tells lies, wh...
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