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I think you are missing the point. Descartes was able to imagine a scenario in which the existence of his hands (to stick to the example) could be sub...

I re-post this, which you (perhaps conveniently?) failed to respond to previously.

A minor gladness in proportion to our agreement I assume?

The gnostics beleived that the 'god' (actually a minor arrogant and deluded demiurge who imagined himself omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent) w...

What do you find questionable about the common ideas of virtue?

Yes, this is like the Buddhist idea of interdependent co-arising.

I'm an enlightenment assurance denier, and an enlightenment deflationary. I think enlightenment consists in transformation of the way of being, i.e. n...

OK, I wasn't aware of that, thanks.

For us, subjectively speaking, the self, understood as the experiencer (and the doer) is the basis of "all this". Without experiencers the world would...

:smirk: Good onya an unimpeachable source to be sure!

:cool: I'm glad you enjoyed it Emdubbyadubbya!

I haven't seen any explanation as to how their could be determinable inter-subjective confirmation re religious experience, or any other kind of subje...

I generally agree with what you said. It seems to me the "cogito" is a synthetic a priori judgment.

Sure, the idea of mind is how we conceive of what we take to be the faculty doing the thinking and experiencing. It doesn't seem necessary to hold to ...

Yes, there are different kinds of logic. I see the idea of logic as being the idea of the connectivity and coherence of thought. If thoughts were disc...

Good points! I agree: the distinction between knowledge (that) and understanding is a very important one. Our understandings don't have to be true or ...

I guess that's always a subjective judgement call. Could there be a fact of the matter?

Religion, as it understands itself, has multiple purposes. Salvation, however variously conceived, is probably the most primary. The binding of commun...

It depends on what that is taken to mean. I agree that some aspects of the so-called folk conception of consciousness are most likely mistaken. I thin...

He doesn't define consciousnesses out of existence; he defines what he understands to be the folk conception of consciousness out of existence. I don'...

The point we disagreed on was your claim that Dennett denied that consciousness exists. That's it. You certainly said that was what you are claiming i...

I remember listening to a podcast lecture series on Merleau Ponty given by Dreyfus years ago, and I didn't get much out of it at the time. Other than ...

Since the idea of Karma was an almost universal belief in India at the time of Gotama, does not entail that it should be "axiomatic" to Buddhism. It i...

Yes, and it also reminds me of Pyrrhonism, because we, absent one or another set of groundless assumptions, have no good reason to believe either that...

And always I suppose?

While the young women were there, or after they left?

Right, so a predominantly existentialist reading of Heidegger?

That's interesting thanks. I seem to remember reading something by Zahavi a few years ago where he was saying that Husserl is not a representational t...

Right, that is what it sounds like. Which is why I wrote in an earlier post, referring to first to phenomenology, and then to the rest of philosophy: ...

Literature? Poetry? Music? Religion? These also have their own logics, realities and truths though, no?

Right, so you obviously believe Dennett did not understand traditional phenomenology. I'm inclined to agree, insofar as Dennett claims that it consist...

Now I think I understand just where your confusion is. Knowledge is of course not an external object,with properties we discover. What we do discover,...

I also want to point out that no one has yet addressed the headline question: 'does phenomenology consist merely in introspection'? If it does then De...

Thanks, that's an interesting account!

I think this is an important point. Dennett's approach and cognitive science generally seem to be predicated on the idea that we cannot elucidate the ...

And all the more so due to humanity's lack of omniscience, omnipotence and omnibenevolence

I agree. I think there are various possible philosophical approaches, and it is not my intention to denigrate Dennett's heterophenomenology.To repeat,...

Why do you think it follows that if we call something an apple, it follows that we would thereby be committed to saying it is mind-dependent?

I agree that it is a fallacy. I came across "The questions of King Milinda" long ago and I always thought is is a spurious argument.

Dennett's "heterophenomenology" uses for its data, first person reports of experience, and then attempts to match, or discover mismatches, of what is ...

I think it is the function of the chariot that is constitutive, not merely the idea, but the actuality.

Right, it does seem that way. But if you read the paper you will see that Zahavi argues that phenomenology is much more than that. He presents it as b...

But don't "we" agree about the attributes of the moon?

If you don't hold the beliefs I attributed to you and hence don't disagree with what I've been saying (even though to me your responses made it look a...

As I see it you are still conflating what is involved with taking ourselves to possess knowledge and what is involved with our actually possessing kno...

Yes, I know and was being ironic. I was not patronizing you I was questioning the validity of your statements and asking for arguments to back them up...

Sure, but there is also a clear sense in which there is a difference between introspected "contents" and publicly available objects. In any case the p...

My disagreement with you was specifically over your claim that Dennett denies the existence of consciousness. There was really no need for you to comm...

Oh, I didn't think she was a Murican. And I thought the expression was Thai...:wink:

The mindset you refer to, I think has never been more than half the total picture that is philosophy. The other half is the phenomenological tradition...