The problem is, such comments represent the very kind of attitude which makes reaching consensus impossible. If, as pointed out, you demand the kind o...
Says who? Without even having to quote specifics, it is general knowledge that human consumption of fossil fuels has injected hundreds of billions of ...
They're both instances of the same particular; they're effectively duplicated, or cloned. The referent is only important insofar as you need to direct...
Indeed you can. I said: But, I also said that experiences are 'undergone by a subject', so that they're not objects in the same way that the objects o...
I think panpsychism is trying to extend naturalism. The paper that I read first was the well-known one by Strawson, which was discussed many times on ...
Right. So basically, it is a kind of naturalism - that 'experience' must be a feature of the natural world, we just haven't discovered 'experiencum' i...
Good observation! Please point out where in the OP I said 'we can't know anything', or anything I said that could be taken to imply that claim. That i...
I think that signs imply minds, but admit it's not something that could ever be resolved conclusively. If you're wondering how 'reductive materialism'...
In other words, it's unbearable to think that someone else might actually be wrong about something. We can only get along if we're all equally right -...
I would have thought that this proposition: is exactly the is/ought problem. The 'moral experience' is the subjective sense of 'what ought to be done'...
It's the 'is/ought' problem again. What is the warrant for 'it is wrong' beyond subjective opinion? This is what religion and social mores used to und...
I have thought about this some more. That is indeed what a Christian would say - this is what I was taught, in religious education. But when I asked '...
That is how a Christian would have to see it. Part of what defines Christianity is that it is the 'one true faith'. As someone whose spiritual formati...
So what is your interpretation of the verse I quoted? Do you believe that every individual ever born literally lives forever? Then, there's the questi...
Question: I would have thought that the ability of the mind to heal itself from brain injury, by re-routing its activities to other areas of the brain...
The Buddhist teaching that 'nothing is self' doesn't deny the reality of agency, or of cause and effect. As long as the individual identifies with the...
Well, Buddhists accept the fact of re-birth but they don't worship a creator-god, and it is generally said that they also don't believe in 'the soul',...
There is an entire genre of literature devoted to synthesising Platonism, neo-platonism and Biblical eschatology. Some of the early Greek-speaking the...
I really don't know. As I said, I'm vague about the details. I think, suffice to say, I don't believe the human is purely physical (actually, nothing ...
I agree with you that what is driving the apparent 'right turn' in America, Europe and also here in Australia, is basically dissappointment with the c...
But it is unquestionable, it's beyond doubt. The whole problem in this area is that various interests have created the FUD factor - fear, uncertainty ...
I think 'avoiding burning fossil fuels' should unquestionably be a major policy goal. Solar and wind power are certainly less polluting, the only real...
that kind of expression plays right into the hands of petro-chemical industry scare-mongering. Today's news from Australia - 'Disastrous': Australia's...
Reincarnation is a bad word. But I think there has to be some kind of means by which cultural and other forms of knowledge are transmitted, and I don'...
Trump has displayed a lot of fascist tendencies, but I think it's a stretch to say that he's actually facist. But notice the constant tendency to say ...
Yeah, sorry, uranium. Apparently there's an alternative nuclear technology based on thorium (I think it is) which is said to be a lot less polluting. ...
'False arrest is a common law tort, where a plaintiff alleges he or she was held in custody without probable cause, or without an order issued by a co...
That's interesting, if it's true. But I had read that account of the emergency of 18th Sept 2008 from a number of sources. Recall, it was three days a...
'Oh, you're saying Trump is untruthful? So, you're saying that he's "like Hitler"! Hey, that's an hysterical reaction.' Kind of apt, in a thread calle...
My instinctive answer to your question is that most people believe there is nothing beyond, because nowadays they totally identify with the physical b...
Although I will add again that an event can neither be true or false. An event either happens or if doesn't, and an account of it might be true or fal...
Don't forget oil is the basis of plastics also. It is indispensable for an enormous range of products and industrial ingredients aside from its obviou...
in response to the suggestion that fears of catastrophe are overblown when it almost occurred recently. A couple of recent quotes from Republicans on ...
Actually I think CBT is nearer to Stoicism - there's a really good, current, practical philosopher, Jules Evans, who has made a career out of that - a...
Apologies. You're a tough adversary, but I need to get off my high horse. Will refrain from that henceforth. Well, obviously, these are theologically ...
It has been the case, since the 1950's, that there are sufficient thermonuclear weapons to effectively end life on earth. Short of that, the global ec...
If you're a politician or a pilot, then you have to deal with it. I recall reading that Obama was enormously conflicted over the drone programme. But ...
I am very dubious about 'the trolley problem' because of its artificiality. I suppose as a classroom exercise it's useful for focussing the mind on th...
What about stealing office stationary? Underpaying staff? Freeloading on your neighbour's WIFI because they didn't change their default password? The ...
I don't think it's really robust. A moral realist acts like 'his life depends on it', whereas if it's simply pragmatic, then there's no such principle...
Did you notice the story a couple of years back on the mysterious Siberian craters? These are thought to be 'methane burps'. The earth bursts a pimple...
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