Wayfarer

Arguably, all of the influx of vedanta-yoga-buddhist ideas into Western culture, beginning with Thoreau and Emerson. Theosophy, Richard Maurice Bucke,...

Why is 'new age' a pejorative? What if it really is a 'new age'? Global culture really has crossed thresholds of conscious awareness that weren't even...

There's no criterion for what 'maximally great' means in respect of fictitious creatures. There's no way of adjudicating what 'maximally great' might ...

'Spiritualism' is a rather old-fashioned term, used to refer to the Victorian belief in spirits, seances, spirit mediums, and the like. It ought to be...

I think he is very much New Age, but I don't see anything intrinsically the matter with that fact. The logo is from the Science and Nonduality Confere...

Actually to be totally honest, I entered a rather intemperate response, and then got annoyed with what I had entered - so then I deleted it, and kind ...

Sorry, as soon as I posted it, it got a derogatory remark, so I deleted it.

thanks! Strange. I had been wanting to post a Youtube vid in Phil of Religion, I'll try again. (Wasn't the first time I had observed it.)

I think the contention that human-induced global warming is NOT occuring, is disinformation, pure and simple. There's been enough disinformation sprea...

Seems you can't display videos or pictures where the URL begins with https://. Don't know if this is a bug, a feature, or a limitation.

Well, that's what I consider myself to have been doing on philosophy forums since I joined them. Tricky, for a mortgage holder. (I once said to a monk...

I agree. But Kant pointed out 'the limits of knowledge' - which is how all this came up - and what lies beyond rational explanation (i.e. the antinomi...

Meanwhile, Trump - it has become obvious that his constant refrain of 'lying media' is because he only ever wants to be sorrounded by adoring fans. Be...

'Pruitt, who has sued the EPA 14 times as Oklahoma Attorney General, and wouldn’t promise to recuse himself from ongoing suits once he was confirmed, ...

It's more accurately what we know through. It seems to me that what is being discussed here is 'the unconscious' - the mental and affective processes ...

At the end of the movie, there are photos and details about the lives of the three principles, who really did work at NASA in the capacities depicted ...

It is pretty accurate - dramatized, but based on real characters. And what characters. I'm sure you'll really enjoy it.

Well, in support of your argument, that was one of Kant's major motivations - that metaphysical arguments had been going on for centuries and never lo...

In that context 'truth' is a predicate of statements. An event can't be true, but an account of an event can be true (or not true).

It's about the perspectival nature of knowledge, that we know anything as it appears to us, not as it is in itself. 'The concept was harshly criticize...

Ah, but do we? I am inclined to accept the view that nobody knows what anything really is. All knowledge is approximate except for in regards to those...

you realise you will have to shoot every instance, one at a time X-)

Thanks! Will take all that on board for future discussions.

You mean this post? It's a bit sketchy. Perhaps you might elaborate.

No - I believe animals are beings, but that they are not rational beings, and in this context it's a significant distinction. (I think that was an egr...

I think 'animal knowing' can generally be subsumed under the heading of 'stimulus and response'. When you say 'direct knowing', then there's the 'myth...

Sorry. That was my lame attempt at trying to convey that I thought that the two sentences I was commenting on contradicted each other.

I think there's a bit of equivocation going on here. It think that Newtonian physics only deals with mass, not 'substance' in the formal sense, the me...

From Wikipedia 'Sellars' most famous work is the lengthy and difficult paper, "Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind" (1956). In it, he criticises the...

I thought AaronR lead a discussion of it on the old forum. I thought it was his most famous piece but I'm not well informed about his work. It may not...

The ideas of physics obviously have philosophical implications; many worlds and multiverses (and yes, I know they're different kinds of ideas) are now...

I am not complaining about those, because I have not the least idea what they mean, nor do I particularly care to find out. After all, this is a philo...

Thanks. I have just been perusing the reviews of the former, and I find this paragraph in the Notre Dame review: I am perturbed by the reference to ma...

You're overlooking the very act of measurement itself. Most of what you say about 'what already exists' is, I think, the subject of the criticism by S...

Tell me, then, why was 'Everettian QM' referred to as 'the many worlds' intepretation? The Wikipedia entry on the subject (and it seems adequately foo...

No, but then there's the problem of there being many worlds. The remedy is worse than the disease in my opinion. Very well said, your comments are ext...

But, what exists 'beyond perception'? And, what does 'duration' comprise? It might seem obvious, but in order for time to exist, there has to be sense...

"Everyone knows that the earth, and a fortiori the universe, existed for a long time before there were any living beings, and therefore any perceiving...

I think the time is well past due that self-respecting Republicans admit that nominating Trump was a horrible mistake and that he needs to be impeache...

Actually the basic book of logical positivism, was A J Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic. I did study it, but I don't recall anything about 'simples' in...

Right! Hence the 'neo-' in neo-scholasticism.

The ongoing story about 'Russian interference', Trump's aids hobnobbing with Russian intelligence before the Election, Trump refusing to condemn Putin...

Thanks, very interesting insights. Must look into Agamben. The other historical factor which I think is directly relevant to the waning and, now, the ...

I had the idea that the reason why Christianity engenders (which I prefer to 'secretes') atheism, is because of the compulsory nature of belief that i...

Thank you, AaronR and Pierre Normand. (Y) Ed Feser has a current article From Aristotle to John Searle and Back Again: Formal Causes, Teleology and Co...

Recall the hysteria at the Republican National Convention over 'lying Hillary's' email server and the masses screaming 'Lock Her Up!' Recall Trump say...

It's not 'denial' - it's another 'd' word, called 'definition'. The definition of 'software' is different to the definition of 'reason' or 'thought' o...

Thank you, Pierre-Normand. I wanted to post a response to this point, made a couple of days back, because I think it's important, (if not directly con...

Obama demonstrated his menace by saving the auto industry, introducing affordable health care, attempting to disentangle America from the consequences...

Trying to answer Apokrisis' question, I guess ;-) I'm highly sympathetic to dualism, but I think everyone is flummoxed by the idea of how 'res cogitan...