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You don't merely believe that you are writing ( if you are writing) you are aware of the fact; you know ( leaving aside ridiculous forms of skepticism...
March 05, 2021 at 20:57
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I don't have any argument with any of that, in fact I find it intuitively congenial; but I just don't see how it could ever be definitively empiricall...
March 05, 2021 at 20:27
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That's because the intelligent answer to that conundrum (from long ago, that is from Augustine) is that God exists in eternity, and so it's not a matt...
March 05, 2021 at 06:21
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Yes, but even then, how could we know whether the mind was "causa sui" or itself caused by some other antecedent processes? Intuitively, I have little...
March 05, 2021 at 06:14
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Interesting fact about air pressure facilitating music recording. :cool: Re the above though: I don't see how a causal explanation of human agency (de...
March 04, 2021 at 20:37
I agree with the jist of what you say here, but I am not a monist. I tend to think more in terms of ontological pluralism, so I don't think in terms o...
March 03, 2021 at 21:51
Are you saying that if there is no authoritative source that determines what matters in some overarching general sense, then, simply on account of tha...
March 03, 2021 at 20:54
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The person is the subject of all the possible true descriptions and explanations of her or him. No, I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that while ...
March 03, 2021 at 20:26
I agree that radically different explanations can coexistent as two perspectives, from very different angles on the same thing; but then the "same thi...
March 03, 2021 at 20:11
You seem to be thinking I was claiming they are ontologically incompatible. If so, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying they are epistemologically, ...
March 03, 2021 at 07:20
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Sure, there must be quantum indeterminacy for freedom to be actual; if everything were wholly causally determined there would be no freedom in the sen...
March 02, 2021 at 23:28
That's true, but some things such as human behavior are understood in terms of reasons and other things such as physical processes are understood in t...
March 02, 2021 at 21:15
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Yes, but the point is the convictions, values and intentions must be freely chosen or the person is not responsible for holding them.
March 02, 2021 at 08:34
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OK, I'll have a read and let you know if I find anything convincing there, or if I find it all unconvincing.
March 02, 2021 at 08:31
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I don't think this is true at all. People are not their values. People do have values, intentions and convictions, and sure they are judged on account...
March 02, 2021 at 08:28
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If I couldn't but have had the set of convictions, intentions and desires I have then how can I be fairly held morally responsible, and fairly praised...
March 02, 2021 at 08:00
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Can you outline a cogent compatibilist argument or indicate a relevant text?
March 02, 2021 at 07:52
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I don't agree that freedom is compatible with determinism; I've heard plenty of people claim it is so and yet they are never able to explain how it co...
March 02, 2021 at 06:36
Sure, but it doesn't mean they necessarily can be understood together either. For example you won't be able to understand the reasons for human behavi...
March 02, 2021 at 01:22
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That's not the alternative as I understand it. The alternative is a decision that is not determined by anything other than the self, with the self not...
March 01, 2021 at 20:36
Yes, that's the self-contradiction at the heart of such projects in my view. That may be what you (and many others) are aiming at. It's very far from ...
March 01, 2021 at 20:03
My question amounted to 'why do we have to have an overarching model to reconcile all experiences'? Such models are inevitably reductive and eliminati...
March 01, 2021 at 19:28
:up: Yes, I haven't been arguing that the mind is non-physical in any substantive sense; I am not a dualist. But people, apparently including Khaled, ...
March 01, 2021 at 19:18
Yes, I'm allowing that the intelligence which makes decisions may not be determined by any antecedent processes. Obviously that cannot be proven just ...
March 01, 2021 at 08:48
Thanks 180...
March 01, 2021 at 08:25
I'm not familiar; sounds interesting I'll check it out...
March 01, 2021 at 05:36
I'm talking about experiences and judgements, not curves and data, though.
February 28, 2021 at 23:00
You're misunderstanding. I am saying that if a decision is not predetermined by antecedent neural process then it can be free. To be free is to be det...
February 28, 2021 at 22:58
Why must all the things that people experience be reconcilable? What makes you believe things are so tidy? Also what one may consider a reconciliation...
February 28, 2021 at 22:30
The decision could be a physical process, or at least have neural correlates. But it would need to be a neural process not wholly determined by antece...
February 28, 2021 at 22:14
That may have been the question for you, the question for me is whether or not minds can make free decisions. Telekinesis is defined as moving objects...
February 28, 2021 at 21:42
For me "the whole cosmos" is an idea the referent of which can never be an object for us. So, it is just an idea. I would opt for pluralism, or as the...
February 28, 2021 at 21:28
I accept science when it comes to things we can observe, but the mind is not an observable object. I don't deny that it has physical correlates, but I...
February 28, 2021 at 21:00
If you guys want to buy into misplaced scientistic dogma, be my guest. I'll trust my own experience any day. No point arguing further, we're just goin...
February 28, 2021 at 20:21
Not at all. If my decision is determined by anything else other than my freely making it then I am not in control of the decision. What I'm trying to ...
February 28, 2021 at 07:12
You haven't said why it is "far too simple" in your view. And you haven't explained why you think that "What counts as a token is dependent on the lan...
February 28, 2021 at 06:47
You have it backwards; all experiences are tokens, but not all tokens are experiences.
February 28, 2021 at 04:08
Not sure if this is addressed to me. The question of interest to me is whether people ever have a choice. I'd say they are not if they are one hundred...
February 28, 2021 at 03:26
Depends on how you think about it I guess. For me being in control entails that your decision is not wholly determined by anything else, regardless of...
February 28, 2021 at 02:59
I didn't introduce it; it was there implicitly from the beginning. I made it explicit only because you seemed to be failing to understand what I was a...
February 27, 2021 at 23:12
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February 27, 2021 at 22:32
This is hilarious; where have I said that synesthesia is empathy or the same as empathy? I don't believe I have said that. If I have I misspoke. If yo...
February 27, 2021 at 22:29
That's funny, Salinas himself refers to it as a "heightened state of empathy". If Salinas was with someone in pain, but who didn't show they were in p...
February 27, 2021 at 21:49
I presume that people are (in principle, or if they are sufficiently thoughtful) free to choose whether to be influenced or not by what others say. On...
February 27, 2021 at 21:26
Oh, I think I get it now. I could have said "kinds of activity" I just happened to choose the word "modes". Or I could have just said "all activity is...
February 27, 2021 at 21:17
No idea what you're getting at.
February 27, 2021 at 21:00
' The two explanations are obviously contradictory. If I go to the shop because I decided to for whatever reason, then I am in control. If I go to the...
February 27, 2021 at 20:56
OK, explain how you think the linguistic turn is relevant to the question as to whether our ability to feel another's pain is just a matter of empathy...
February 27, 2021 at 20:34
The inability to feel someone else's pain, in the strong sense which would be just like feeling one's own pain, and would not be mere empathy, has not...
February 27, 2021 at 03:47