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I asked you to say explicitly what you thought was wrong with Husserl's criticism of naturalism, which you didn't do. How about this excerpt from Brya...

If you address the actual argument, I will respond.

No, but they're also not understandable outside the scientific context within which they were discovered. I've said, I don't deny the reality of there...

True - but not trivial. That is an insight I claim you will never find called out in mainstream Anglo philosophy. It challenges the point of physicali...

My issue with dualism, in the Cartesian sense, is that it tends to reify consciousness, treat it as a spiritual 'substance', which is an oxymoronic te...

I do, but this is qualified by declaring that the world is not ultimately or really mind-independent, insofar as any judgement about its nature presup...

Right. Like the standard model of particle physics itself. Something which physicalism tends to overlook. But the main point is, I think the non-physi...

I felt the major point was Kant's relationship with modern cognitive science. You could say that in some respects some of his major ideas have been vi...

https://aeon.co/essays/who-really-won-when-bergson-and-einstein-debated-time

So - is your question basically ‘what does it all mean’?

Some of the posters held at the Women's March in DC today: "We need a leader not a creepy tweeter." "Uncle Sam stay outta my clam." "Roe, Roe, Roe you...

It was the backstory to my remark about Calvin.

Well, yes, agree.

It was a flippant line, poor form on my part considering the topic. Although there is some factual basis, it’s not coincidental that Calvin has been p...

It is naturalism (or physicalism) that is human-centric. Why? Because of having excluded the subject from consideration of what is real and declaring ...

That wasn’t the point at issue, which was that ? is outside of spacetime. (Among the interpretations are subjectivist ones like QBism, which makes sen...

Sounds like Calvinism to me.

Yeah I had the idea philosophy had something to do with that. Evolutionary biology, maybe not so much.

No such faculty. This is the problem of the subjective unity of experience which currently escapes scientific definition.

It’s from Dermot Morgan’s Introduction to Phenomenology. I quoted it in support of my overall argument, which is also similar to The Blind Spot of Sci...

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I asked if you had any comment on the passage about Husserl. Apparently not, but never mind.

Agree, but does it acknowledge that religions might make valid truth claims?

So Husserl is conceited?

Fair. But then a label turned them down because they didn’t have trumpets so you weren’t alone. But, I meant with regards to the issues at hand.

Never!

As if that is the sum total of our achievements….

Any comment or criticism of the above snippet about Husserl?

The Logic of the Diamond Sutra: A is not A, therefore it is A Shigenori Nagatomo .pdf, 32 pages including footnotes.

Don't you think the issue here is the difficulty of questioning the instinctive sense of the reality of the sense-able world? (a.k.a. naive and/or sci...

There have been various reductionist and biologically-based attempts to explain or rationalise religion in terms of evolution. Evolutionary adaption i...

So, you think that would mean something to an animal? Sure you're not being a tad anthropomorphic there?

And what do animals value, then?

I hadn't thought of that, but it's true! The amoeba must at very least have an innate sense of itself as being separate from its environment, otherwis...

Right. And all that this entails. It's an ontological distinction - a difference in kind. Anyway, I started reading the article linked in the OP, and ...

To save me the time of researching all of them I tossed it to ChatGPT.

It doesn’t need to stipulate the identity of whomever is in the chair. It is a general claim, to wit: So if the intention of the argument is to prove ...

And I said, the argument begs the question. We're related to all other species and descended from earlier hominids, but 'the human condition' is ident...

I said, if the aim of the argument is to prove that humans are animals, then P1 already says it, so it begs the question. Begging the question is 'ass...

Agree. But Vervaeke would also say that h.sapiens have greater horizons of being than do other animals, because of reason, language, self-awareness, a...

But it delivers considerable capacity to gain knowledge, surely you would agree. H.sapiens by dint of reason is able to do many things which animals c...

If the aim of the argument is to prove that humans are animals, then it begs the question, because it starts by presuming the conclusion. Personally, ...

I think Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism and Victor Reppert's version of the argument from reason are both plausible arguments aga...

I've just fielded that question in the mind-created world thread. It would be better to discuss it there.

It's supported by an argument based on the double-slit experiment. That argument is that the interference exhibits the same wave-like pattern even if ...

I have taken pains to word the essay we're discussing in such a way as to avoid solipsism and subjectivism. To quote from Schopenhauer: Where I take i...

Agree it's a difficult point to make. I'm saying that there is an implicit subject in every statement about what exists, including what exists in the ...

Yes, I think that's reasonable. She's focussing on religious practice as a different mode of being, not as propositional knowledge. But that also has ...

I don't think you can have your cake and eat it. Physicalism is reductionist by definition. Why? Because it methodically excludes or reduces what may ...

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