Of course there are, and I don't think they work. I didn't actually mean that I don't think people attempt to do the project. Most scientists probably...
No, I think teleological accounts are distinct from efficient causation insofar as they are describing two different causes; however, I do think the e...
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the bivalent forms of logic, because generally when you reject the affirmation of a statement, you think its inverse is tru...
So, the process of homeostasis attempts to not do things, works indeterminately, in order to not maintain the internal regulation of its temperature a...
:-| And what? I didn't say the processes occur outside the body. The process is immanent in the body. And the process itself is functioning to do thin...
What are you talking about? Of course it does. You just described it earlier. All I'm asking is how does your previous sentence escape teleology. Beca...
That's not non-teleological. Because you have the means of which are in the body (in the case of homeostasis), for the end of regulating its internal ...
Yeah. I have no idea what what a nonteleological account of causation is without making your nature Humean. Does Andrew just deny a form of immanent c...
These two things seem to be in conflict. Also: I mean, practicing scientists have made this claim. Many of them. E.S.Russell, Colin Pittendrigh, Ernst...
I'm not sure what that's suppose to mean. Teleology is a metaphysical question, so I wouldn't expect scientists to know much about it, understand how ...
I actually would like physics departments to include Aristotlean concepts, at least minimally be familiar with them before rejection. I think all scie...
Well, the point for me would be in virute of what makes one a assembly machine instead of a self-organizing development? Presumably the concept in an ...
I'm rather curious, apokrsis. With respect to distinction you make between artifacts and organism, I find myself worry about the distinction when it c...
That's extremely unfortunate. I really don't think any form of science can be done without telos, or what you called "acquainted" Aristotelianism. Con...
It is odd that you have no problem differentiating the hive of bees as being consist of many organisms, each with their own particular totum, and a co...
Because if we experience discrete units of time, then we'd have to know in what respect it has continuity to a whole (an event, for example). But this...
(Y) Well, this would be my guess: there's some problems there. When Aristotle speaks about organisms he'll basically appeal to them as acting as totum...
Sorry, I am not a Thomist, really. But I'm not really sure you would have to be in order to believe in concepts like potency and act which I find to o...
Why? Aristotle's metaphysics assumed all common sense notions that it could. It's the basis of his metaphysics. We look around nature and see what is ...
Well, in order for an acorn to have the potential to become a tree, it first needs to exist, doesn't it? Potency is contained in act - it's capacity t...
Generally, potentialities are going to describe the intrinsic capacity of any being such of what it can become or what it does strive towards. An acor...
No, the world in Aristotlean-Thomstic metaphysics is such that nature contains both potency and act. So, in order for something to have potency it mus...
That's just not charitable at all. Not sure if Feser ever puts it that way, but I haven't read that book in particularly, because... I think something...
“A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “Which people, in history, might have been the hap...
Since I'm bad at finishing books, I read books here and there, particularly focused on these: The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by Vincent ...
Ah, I was recently reading Schelling on this issue with the productive intuition. Thought you meant something more along over with German Idealism, bu...
There is an "external world" in the sense that when one considers the mind as a discrete, individual property that's enclosed, but then this gets into...
Some essences are probably fine: The ability to use language, the ability to forgo oneself in one's future possibilities, being social creatures that ...
The German Idealists never had a problem with the aspect of there being a "mind-independent world" in terms of a world that precedes human consciousne...
And where did any of the German Idealists say this within any of their work? That the world was "in our mind?" German Idealism has been the struggle a...
Out of curiosity: How do you generally feel about holistic systems like Hegel's, Schelling's, or Goethe's? Mostly organicism, naturaphiloshopie - the ...
That's pretty interesting. I've recently been bogged down with simple refutations like those to top-down systems. Do you have any books that recommend...
Honestly, I don't understand how emergence works in physical states, either. Why not opt out for wholes instead where you have top-down systems. Nothi...
So meaning and value is imposed on the world? Sounds Humean. :-| Look, my view is inspired by McDowell's sensibility theory. In order to get at what w...
As long as Idealism isn't the idea that phenomenon exists "in the mind", then I'm probably an idealist. But I ulimately don't really see this oppose t...
But then what is the intention? It seems to be generated by reasons. These reasons are supplied by external content. To be clear though: There is no '...
That just proves to be untrue, since we've had a dozen interpretation of Plato by now. They don't seem to be talking about nothing. That's just a fals...
Right, because the values that we experience change. In that sense the values motivate us different ways. This has nothing to do with material/efficie...
Right, but I disagreed. I'm not talking about poetry, necessarily. But I scarcely see why that's removed from philosophy. Why is poetry an exception? ...
I'm not sure. Talk of essences are used quite colloquially, even. As if its intutive for people to know exactly what it means to talk about the essenc...
Well, I guess I'm surprised in the level of confidence you have in some of these major continental thinkers. But I guess you read a lot of unusual sec...
Sorry, I don't see the difference between what you and I said. Yes, I realize you're invoking conceptual differences for the same word. I know you're ...
It would be over-determined if our actions are in some way completely reducible to external mechanisms. However, a mechanical world is completely run ...
I shared this intuition after reading enough Heidegger -- mostly due to the idea of the ontological difference, which invoked multiple different ways ...
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