Wayfarer

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Do you have any grounds for saying that there is such a thing? So then how can that be only ‘subjective’ as you seem to say?

The thing that draws me to Nagel is that while he's a professed atheist, he's critical of philosophical and scientific materialism on the grounds of r...

Does the first law of motion exist? Do numbers exist? Does the law of the excluded middle exist? Point to any of those, and you're indicating a set of...

Don't I know. Not that I was ever really full-blown counter-culture, but it definitely was a major influence, and not all for the good. But then, as y...

I thought the IEP article was pretty good, actually. One paragraph that jumped out at me was this: In other words, defined by what it is opposed to. T...

Hey I’m also wrestling with all this. I often feel - actually I know - I’ve been corrupted by the society I’ve been born into. It’s a constant battle ...

Yeah, true that, might have been a little hyperbolic on my part. Nevertheless I'm sure that it was a major element in actual Stoicism, as distinct fro...

Have you read Nagel's essay Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament? He makes a similar comment in that essay. I know you're interested in hi...

Interesting that the suggestion of physical fitness is immediately interpreted as 'self-torture' ;-)

Do you practice any sport or fitness regimen? I suspect that is a factor. The root of 'asceticism' is actually 'askesis' meaning 'training', and I'm s...

When I did a unit in Indian philosophy as an undergraduate, the lecturer remarked one day that in the West, when someone dies, it is said 'he gave up ...

(Although, mind you, we’re only ‘tiny fragments’ looked at from the outside.)

Nevertheless if one refers to ‘analytic and continental philosophy’ it is a well-understood division even if as noted above, no longer hard and fast.

Let's just pause to remember with poor Florida about to walloped by the mother of all hurricanes, that that states Governor passed a bill into law thi...

that is truly, unintentionally, hilarious. As regards Hadot, I agree that it seems challenging, but I'm a subscriber to both Medium and Substack, and ...

Contrast with:

I think the etymology of 'soul' is relevant. Originally in Greek it was 'psuche', roughly equivalent to our 'psyche' but with a broader set of meaning...

There’s an essay pinned to the OP. Recommend a read. Also check out the level of vituperation in the early replies. Obviously hit a button.

Kinda like Sliding Doors, right? Multiverse stuff? That kind of thing? Am I warm?

I didn't say 'important', although in the sense that we hold sway over the fate of millions of species, then we are. But that is not the point I've be...

It might also indicate that logic has limits, which is not the same as to say that it isn't universally applicable within those limits. Graham Priest'...

Really? Tell that to the Jain monks who conscientiously sweep the path they're walking along to avoid stepping on insects. Or the world's many vegetar...

Seems to me that logical nihilism undermines the idea of there being 'necessary truths'. But how can logical nihilism be supported by rational inferen...

All Things are Full of Gods - The Mysteries of Mind and Life, David Bentley Hart.

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(Aquinas’ ‘five proofs’ and other exercises in scholastic metaphysics were never intended as polemical arguments to persuade unbelievers. They were in...

It's made more explicit in them, but it's also there in the Western traditions. I often feel that in Asia there is not so much of a gap between the an...

Thanks. I see it's a rather delicate point. So I read that qualification as an admission, yes, there are real objects independent of our sensory grasp...

I have an intuition which is rather difficult to articulate, but which revolves around the sense that there is a kind of infinitely fruitful nothingne...

The persistent error I see with this, is the idea that the ding an sich is a 'thing behind the thing', that it's 'the real thing' as opposed to 'the a...

Deutsch says 'our perceptions are at the end of a long chain of physical processes'. He then starts on how to explain the apparently-inexplicable 'wav...

The point is that the many worlds interpretation wants to deny the wavefunction collapse to preserve scientific realism. To this end it starts from th...

I know. That MWI fantasy is the cost of keeping realism. :party:

I'll refer to Phillip Ball, The Many Problems of Many Worlds. As I understand it - and I think I do understand it - the entire genesis of Everett's th...

Why thanks, kind of.

Your reading will instantly affect my state ;-)

I've published a Medium essay The Timeless Wave, on the philosophical interpretations of the double-slit experiment. (May require registration on medi...

...you'll get a Philosophy Forum :lol:

What ‘explanatory power’? In a Scientific American cover story on the Multiverse, we read the following: So the possibility of infinite universes is a...

overall I agree, although I have my doubts about him.

He was released in June and returned to Australia. He’s hoping for a presidential pardon for the crime he pleaded guilty to in order to be freed.

My thoughts too. The whole idea of ‘other universes’ says precisely nothing more than that anything might happen. Which is basically irrational.

All I take from the 'anthropic principle' is that the evolutionary sequence which we understand from science doesn't begin with the beginning of life ...

There is no explanation for physical laws, generally. Physical laws can serve as the basis for the explanations for all manner of things, but why they...

Yeah, probably! I was aware of that episode, but it didn’t occur to me that this was the episode he was referring to. Thanks for that.

John Vervaeke dialogue with Evan Thompson on The Blind Spot. He says it’s Part 2, although part 1 doesn’t seem to be published yet. In any case, the e...

I wish :love:

Regrettably there’s no ‘dummies guide’ to transcendental idealism.

I think you would only say that if you put the creator on the same ontological level as the created. But according to classical theology, the creator ...