Why do you think the first articulation of the is/ought problem came from David Hume, the 'godfather of positivism', and a principal of the Scottish E...
The silver lining is that Gaetz is out of the game. No doubt he will join the rogues' gallery that will comprise the Trump Regime, but him being out o...
It's a pretty carefully put-together OP, but on an unpopular topic. The first forum I signed up to was on Richard Dawkins website, around 2008, which ...
You mentioned that a collection of three sticks can make a triangle - which is a form. It signifies. A simple example, but the same principle is behin...
My first reply gives some detail - 'substance' was used to translate ousia in Aristotle, meaning 'being' from the Greek verb 'to be'. So whereas subst...
When I did undergrad studies, Heraclitus (everything changes all the time) and Parmenides (the real never changes at all) were presented as two poles ...
Perhaps they have little idea what they actually were voting for. Already, true to form, the headlines are being dominated by ethical scandals and cov...
I suppose in line with what Schumacher says, 'more real' in the sense of possessing a greater degree of organisation, and a greater degree of agency a...
Yes, I suppose that is a poor example. I suppose what I was driving at, is the various degrees of the grasp of reality, not degrees of reality per se....
Not that aspect, more that the individual as the arbiter of value, and that all individuals are equal in principle. Within an heirarchical ontology, t...
Not yours, in particular, but the general tendency towards reification of 'forms' such that they are depicted as existing in a platonic realm. My revi...
Splendid idea! The source of the quote is 17th Century Theories of Substance in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Substance My understanding is...
Yes, that David Stove, under whom I studied Hume. I didn't learn about his 'gem' until much later, but I can't say I think much of it. (See a critique...
There are many interesting practical philosophy writers on Medium and Substack. Too many to follow, really. Masimo Piggliuci is one. Many of those wri...
Facing the Great Divide, Bhikkhu Bodhi. Beyond Scientific Materialism and Religious Belief, Akinko Weber. There really is such a thing as 'the unitive...
The conflict, if it is a conflict, between secular and sacred readings of traditional and pre-modern culture, is also a factor in Buddhist modernism. ...
Surely. I suppose a traditionalist way of putting it, would be the relationship of scientia and sapientia, which don’t conflict, but have a different ...
It’s because there’s a kind of unspoken prohibition on certain topics or attitudes in the consensus view. I’m reminded of a clause in the founding cha...
As pointed out, the texts lend themselves to a variety of interpretations. That is part of their inexhaustible nature. But nevertheless I presume at l...
Depending on what happens, I think the US is approaching the point where it simply has to acknowledge that Donald Trump is above the law. If he succee...
But isn't it also possible that traditionalist interpretation of Plato - the mystical side of Plato, if you like - has been deprecated by secular cult...
You complimented my essay on it. You will no doubt recall the citation: What do you make of this criticism from the above-mentioned SEP article on met...
Portentious, then, that Albert Einstein himself felt obliged to ask his friend Abraham Pais 'does the moon continue to exist when we're not looking at...
I rather like to think that philosophy is concerned with reality as lived. It's in that sense that it is concerned with the nature and meaning of bein...
Time comes into existence with minds. Outside minds there is no time. You and I understand what pulsars are, and remote stars, and planets, because we...
I am questioning that 'x can be the case even if nobody knows it'. It doesn't mean that in the absence of any knowledge of it, 'x' does not exist or c...
And the reason I'm impressed with that book is that I think it is one of the many in that emerging area of cognitivism and cognitive science, which pr...
The passage that is being commented on was from the abstract of a book I mentioned, Charles Pinter, Mind and the Cosmic Order. It is of course difficu...
But as I said, that is the case for any empirical fact whatever. You're loosing sight of what 'mind independent' means if indeed you ever had sight of...
We might imagine that it would continue to exist, but whatever existence it possesses would be unrecognisable to human intelligence. I did mention Wit...
The 'forms of intuition' - namely, space and time - and the world of appearances exist only in relation to the subject's cognitive faculties. If the t...
The same can be said for any empirical fact whatever, but that is still not the point at issue. Incidentally, the passage I quoted was the absract of ...
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