That's funny though, because you could align the theoretical and the practical the other way around, and it would make just as much sense. (Science lo...
Here's a more controversial example because it speaks to methodology. Timothy Williamson tells a story about explaining the Gettier problem to an econ...
And your local philosopher will complain if you mention that not every tree in a pine forest is a pine. (To quote J. L. Austin yet again, "You might a...
Not the same, but also not too far from the way William James uses the handy pair 'rationalist' and 'empiricist' or 'tender-minded' and 'tough-minded'...
We're the only critters we know that have math and art, and we are the way we are because of natural selection, so evidently it does account for math ...
That may very well be, but I have tried. I'm not even sure I've posted a criticism of the argument so much as I've tried and failed to understand it. ...
I don't usually do hot takes but here's one: it's about risk. I doubt it's entirely a social construction, but if I suggested that male mammals are mo...
Obviously I agree, but I'll add one more point, which might count as a sort of non-reductionism. It seems to me a lot of our traditional "mental" voca...
That may be, but I assure you it was relevant to my understanding what you're talking about. Suppose I just deny this. As I understand it, Anscombe di...
Look at this way: we think of logic as normative, within limits; if P entails Q, and you believe P, then you ought to believe Q. Do people always do w...
Robert Kowalski (early developer of Prolog) has been suggesting that instead of trying to get machines to think like us, we ought to consider learning...
Adopt, willing, accept, act -- all of this is beyond the purview of logic. It's really straightforward. One proposition can entail another; one belief...
It isn't. I don't have to reduce logic to psychology to point out that logic describes some relations between propositions and no relations among an e...
I don't think so. That's what I asked for earlier: I'm not sure there's exactly an argument here at all, and even if there is, whether it works. Certa...
This is the thing, though, you keep eliding the difference between propositions and epistemic agents holding those propositions true (or probable, wha...
That sounds a lot like "But where's the university?" It is a spectacularly awful argument. The much-vaunted (around here) failure of neuroscience negl...
"Better a question that can't be answered than an answer that can't be questioned." I think he said that. (Reading Surely You're Joking at I guess 16 ...
Sure, but even though there's a story we can tell about sound Bayesian inference being adaptive, even if unconscious, cognitive biases tell another st...
While I think this is fundamentally the right sort of answer, it does require a wholesale rethinking of the idea of rationality, and that might be a b...
The version I presented really targets determinism rather than naturalism, but we'd also want not to say that a conclusion is rational if reached by a...
(( Unlikely I'll slog through Victor Reppert, but if I do, I'll let you know. Probably will look at the Stephen Talbott. )) Back to business. What doe...
Logical necessity never holds between one belief state and another; it only holds between the contents of one belief state and the contents of another...
Agreed. One of the original TERFs, Kathleen Stock, is all for gender-affirming care and also for excluding trans women from traditional women's spaces...
Have you been living under a rock? I'm not testifying here, but offering an explanation for why an "issue" that affects almost no one, that need not e...
"Disgust" I think is the key word here. It's been mentioned a couple times that FtM transitioners are of much less interest in the debate. For the ant...
Well, sure, but I understand @"Michael" received applause that one time he did it by mistake. This is horrifying. Here's a genuine problem that needs ...
The implications of what argument? I thought in this thread you were presenting a specific argument, credited to Lewis with an assist from Anscombe, n...
Still not seeing it. This is true: the kind of reason I have for believing in UFOs is not the same kind of reason my treehouse fell down; those are tw...
It wasn't intended as the sort of reductionism you describe. You could claim if you want that the history of my mental states is not reducible to the ...
Sure, I get that. Two meaning of "because", two meanings of "reason". I get that, but I'm not clear how you make an argument out of this and if an arg...
In neither of these examples does the B follow logically from the A, not the way we usually use "follow logically"; in each case the A's count as evid...
Cool. And if we reserve the word phenomena for what we can possibly be aware of, then objects are constitutive of phenomena, agreed? All this business...
But -- to start with, wholes and views aren't opposites; they're different sorts of things altogether, and it's exactly this ambiguity that's troubles...
Sure, and one way to describe that theme is, "I have pretty severe depression and am not receiving treatment." I wouldn't actually presume to diagnose...
Not exactly. The original quote could be read as a sort of paradox: if you wait until you have a reason to kill yourself, you'll have an experience ba...
It's a tricky issue. In a sense all of Nietzsche's genealogical analysis works this way, and we live in an age where the ad hominem argument has gaine...
Should have added some context, was referring to the Cioran quote schop posted, for instance: Does it matter to our discussions if Cioran had depressi...
Not only that, but he has considerable support among Christian fundamentalists despite being a womanizer, a liar and a cheat, a man obsessed with eart...
But there are two sources of randomness in this example, the die and the coin. Similarly for all analyses that treat SB's situation as describable wit...
I've been following the discussion (without rereading the text, else I'd contribute) and this is exactly what I've gotten from the quotes posted. Will...
I don't think we need to talk about intentionality, or not yet, or not this way. Ask yourself how your approach would change if, instead of just sayin...
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