Janus

That's the stupidest thing I've heard in a while. 'Inter-subjectivity' obviously refers to agreement or disagreement between subjects.

There is no objectivity in human discourse beyond our ability to inter-subjectively agree that something is the case. What else could objectivity cons...

If you can't see it, don't worry about it. For me to explain it here would be off-topic.

A community is obviously not an "extramental world" ( whatever that could even be!) and yet there are obviously objective facts about whether it is he...

Morality is relative, but it is relative to what is good for community, not what is good for the individual. There is obviously an objective 'what is ...

Anthropomorphism is indeed busily at work!

Was he (@"creativesoul)" not anthropomorphizing and, it might be said, reifying the cat's sensory perception as (prelinguistic) thought/belief?

I replied to you in PM otherwise we will commit acts which carry the great anti-value of being off-topic.

Ah, gotta love the MDMA! I don't usually associate its use with paranoid states, though; did you have it tested to make sure it was pure?

Feeling a bit paranoid today are we?

Care and love? Or perhaps I should simply have said 'love', since love obviously involves care.

Whoa...you've never heard of formal logic or mathematics!?

You haven't attempted to answer any of the question posed in the post you are responding to here. If you won't engage directly with what your co-discu...

That's right, and the same goes for materialism and physicalism, despite what any methodological assumptions that are made in the practice of science ...

If all you want to say here is that human experience is always already concept-laden, then I would agree. The salient question is as to what conclusio...

This is a nice analysis, and a very apt quote from Kant. I have also long thought that we think freedom of the will because that is what our experienc...

Yes, I agree; it would be anachronistic to say that Hume was simpleminded just because his views seem simpleminded today. I'm not sure what you mean b...

It seems strange that you should say this, when it seems that you are proposing a narrower conception of "observation". What exactly do you mean by "g...

The issue is not about who ("who" here to be taken in the broadest possible sense) is capable of "doing physics" but about who can act as an "observer...

That's an interesting question; is respect a feeling? We may respect others, which if it were a feeling, would be a positive feeling, even if we don't...

My understanding is that Kant grounds the practical belief in human freedom on the universal fact of moral responsibility. You cannot live in any soci...

Thanks boundless, I'll have a read of it.

Artworks embody experience, emotion and thought. Experience, emotion and thought may be more or less fine, beautiful, subtle, complex, intense, radica...

"You say that to all the boys" who disagree with you. the "problem" as you see it exists only on your particular set of presuppositions, which apparen...

I am far more familiar with Kant's CPR than with his CPrR or his CPJ. So my understanding of duty may not be in strict accordance with Kant's (and it ...

Moral agency, intention or action would seem to be pretty meaningless without community. If one were alone in the natural world one might form worthy ...

I don't see those formulations as "tautologous" so much as expressing the logical relation between actuality and truth. I agree that morality, if it i...

"Observer" does seem to imply a studied separation or distance form what is observed, and that seems inappropriate in the context of lived experience....

Yes, I do believe that perceived phenomena "are consistent, or otherwise correlate, with "things" that are external from...(my)...own mind". I would s...

The best definition of truth that one hundred years of analytical philosophy was able to produce would seem to be Tarski's deflationary T-sentence: “'...

If moral stances are merely personal emotional responses then they would have no need of inter-subjective justification, and if they are in no need of...

I'm not sure what you mean by "defender of science". If you tell me what materialism consists in according to you, I'll tell you whether I am a materi...

I would not put it quite like that. I would say that empirical truths are real relational potentialities that become actualized (discovered) in our em...

As far as I can tell the notion of an observer in QM is a specialized one; so 'observer' would be a metaphor, not a literal definition in strict accor...

I can't see any evidence in the article you cited that the notion of "observer'' in QM is thought as having anything to do with being "an intentional ...

The allegation of bias is a moral judgement, but obviously the allegation of mindlessness is not unless you mean that the other is not using, as oppos...

Well yes, of course everyone who disagrees with you must necessarily be both biased against you and mindless, even though the whole morality thing is ...

Yeah, why not; I'm not personally invested in what you do or don't think. Maybe, but I'm not sure what the prize is. :roll:

It's rather rich that you, of all people, complain about others delivering insults! In any case, by all means carry on with your idiocy; don't let me ...

Your thought experiment is garbage for two reasons: firstly it lamely attempts to shift the argument away from the universally agreed upon. Secondly i...

Try using your brain with a bit of a sense for nuance for a change! Do you think the slaves agreed with slavery, those whose whole race was wiped out ...

This is rubbish. There is no evidence that everyone ever agreed with the things you cited; and you are persisting with trying to shift the goalposts; ...

People all generally agree that other human beings should be treated with care and respect. If there were a society whose members were all racist, it ...

Everyone doesn't think that racism is right, anyone who thinks about it will soon see that it is not. Surely you can do better than that. This is a ra...

This is nonsense. Of course people take the words of others to be true if they trust them. Obviously consensus, in terms of actually checking, can onl...

You believe it was true, but you could be mistaken. Obviously consensus can have no purchase in regard to some matters than can only be known to the i...

So what? Perhaps they haven't thought about it enough. Are you now appealing to consensus? In any case it would be helpful if you gave an example of s...

What have I said that you have rejected?

What could truth be if not "truth for us"? The things that are true in human life are the things that all of us (the sensible ones at least) can agree...

I haven't accused you of anything; I said "IF you are that kind of moral relativist". But really, it's so obviously trivially true that moral truths a...