Wayfarer

Correct. To physically affect someone would be to give them a drug or injure them, as you say. But if you say something that annoys them - I do this a...

Perhaps 'canonical texts' might be the description. Might help to narrow it to pre 20th century as there is such a proliferation of sources nowadays.

Her confirmation hearings will be wild. She should go on a double ticket with Kash Patel. ‘The enemy within’ will be more than Trumpian hyperbole, alt...

Don't you see something wrong with this? All of Greene's books, of which I've read The Fabric of the Universe, consist of paper and ink. Is that all t...

Never! :yikes:

What is 'physical event'? There's not much use saying that it's neural or neurological, because there's no reason to believe that neuroscience ought t...

No, mainly on account of the kinds of things they post.

‘Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets himself’~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Right, and furthermore, as you also often say, it doesn’t matter anyway.

Well, as you never tire of telling me, people tend to believe what suits them. And just because something can be described as 'neurological' doesn't m...

That's why I deliberately called it out. We're having a debate about whether 'qualia' are real or not. Janus is saying that they are not, they make no...

But, as you well know, that would be described as an intentional activity, revolving entirely around interpretation of meaning, and how that would aff...

I could say something to you right now which would raise your blood pressue and affect your adrenal glands. And in so doing, nothing physical would ha...

Discussion of qualia and the nature and significance of subjectivity are subjects for the numerous threads on David Chalmers and the 'hard problem'.

The thought does cross my mind that the chatbots you interact with respond to your recondite philosophical questions with considerably more depth and ...

It’s taken some doing!

Says you, who just this minute has pasted an entire paragraph from the Pali texts into another thread. I don’t see any ‘bad blood’. Hostile reactions ...

Perhaps that’s a precursor for what was to become the ding an sich of Kant (I don’t know if that’s a recognised theory.) The many arguments I’m having...

My reference to Buddhism was in respect of a glossary term in Buddhist lexicon which was relevant to the question. I’m not ‘offering teachings’ or put...

Aristotle beat you to it. If you think about it, the same general logic applies to the 'domain of possibility'. At any given time, in any situation, t...

They're all different. We've had debates here about Strawson's panpsychism, which I've never agreed with. I think he tries to rescue materialism by in...

That is indeed the 'strange loop': logical priority is a product of the brain, which in turn is a product of evolution. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w...

alternatively, the voters don't really understand what is at stake. There is after all unprecedented amounts of misinformation and commercially-sponso...

It is determined by both external and internal factors. There are definitely 'facts of the matter' as I've acknowledged. I'm considering the idea that...

this conversation is drifting towards The Trump Thread, although that thread is of course ghosted by our own dedicated MAGA fanatic.

I'm still hopeful that American democracy will hold, although of course it's still day -44. But when DJT begins to try and enact his revenge and depor...

As asked previously, where do you differ with the SEP description? ‘According to metaphysical realism, the world is as it is independent of how humans...

I have a long history of posting critical comments about Daniel Dennett, who is the main representative of eliminative materialism. Bernardo Kastrup i...

You’re referring to the abstract of the introduction of Pinter’s book Mind and the Cosmic Order, which I quoted, which says in the early Universe, ‘Th...

Thanks, interesting distinctions. Tyche shows up as Pierce’s ‘tychism’ which I too believe is intrinsic to the order of things.

It seems to have.

Sure. That’s a very broad category. I’m not nihilist.

The one passage in that entire work that speaks to me is this one: As for the rest, I can take it or leave it, but generally the latter.

What I meant was, the famous last statement in Wittgenstein's Tractatus is often used to smother discussions of certain topics. It certainly is on thi...

https://philosophynow.org/issues/103/WittgensteinTolstoy_and_the_Folly_of_Logical_Positivism

And repeated ad infinitum by the Vienna Circle.

The ancient skeptics were not polar opposites to mystics. Pyrrho of Elis famously sat with the Buddhists of Gandhara and brought back a version of Mad...

Name one! Yet, somehow, I’m confused?

Insofar as it is mind-created it is delusory. Mysticism proper is seeing through what the mind creates. There’s a term for that in Buddhism, called ‘p...

Different thing. There’s also a sense in which modern culture normalises philosophical ignorance, lack of insight. I’m not referring to that.

Well, consider the role of not knowing, of intellectual humility, of ‘all I know is that I know nothing’, of ‘he that knows it, knows it not.’ ‘Access...

But belief in the 'actual existence of things' is precisely what is at stake in the meaning of metaphysical realism. It is exactly what is at issue: y...

The existence of mountains 8 million years ago, for that matter the entire record of paleontology, comprises empirical facts, which I have no intentio...

In Greek philosophy, wasn't that simply a presumption that the world was governed by reason? A kind of intuitive sense that there is a reason for ever...

This has already been mentioned several times but it might help to revisit (comments in italics). The position I was arguing for is similar to (althou...

'Being' is a verb. Often overlooked.

Jerrold Katz's Metaphysics of Meaning offers a critique of semantic theories that reduce meaning to empirical and psychological factors. Katz argues t...

The whole idea of an absolute objective truth has been radically undermined by science itself. See Ethan Siegel (a popular and hard-headed physics wri...

How do you get outside the human conception of reality to see the world as it truly is? That is the probably the question underlying all philosophy. A...