Janus

I can't even "name any statement in that metaphysical proposal" that I could either agree or disagree with. :-} How about you present a 'keystone' sta...

It's not a question of whether the physical "comprises all of reality"; different answers to that question will be given depending on different interp...

And your own actions have demonstrated that this is erroneous?

Abstract facts are only inevitable from the "point of view" of existence. You will object that if there were nothing, then there would also be the abs...

Thanks. I would say that self-knowledge consists in knowing which wants lead to dissipation and which to flourishing. Since we are social beings, desi...

Looks interesting, may be a way into Lonergan, thanks. :)

That seems a very strange way to conceptualize feelings, intuitions and tastes. What kinds of things do you think they symbolize?

I agree that our feelings, intuitions and tastes are conceptually mediated, but the primordial affective dimension of being must be thought as pre-con...

"Would have"! What, you didn't vote on your own poll? Anyway I think we basically agree on the kind of progress that occurs in philosophy. I have had ...

Something like that I guess.

Don't you mean you believe in an afterlife? The question is whether you want to call that afterlife transcendent, i.e. supernatural, and what you woul...

The problem is that our explanations of how things work, and how they are possible, are comprised by the kinds of causal explanations that science con...

That's exactly right. But proponents of compatibilism will say the libertarian conception of free will is incoherent. I don't believe that, but I do t...

There is another, more interesting, possibility; we can see philosophical issues as consisting in invitations to come up with new ways of understandin...

The problem with compatibilism is that on the assumption of universal determinism the distinction between human and natural agency is not rationally j...

I'm not saying we cannot talk coherently about experience and knowledge; but experience and knowledge are presupposed in, and by, any discourse whatev...

Hard to say without using the word "red". I would include cognition; a relation between cognition, behavior and the way things are. For me the salient...

Thanks, Cavacava, I see now that you are distinguishing between the author's intentions as they operated in the creation of the work, and the author's...

I voted 'Yes' and 'other'. First, I voted other because I most identify with emobodied/enactive, semiotic and process philosophy, and for me these are...

The circularity would apply equally to your questioning here as it would to Cava's answer that you are questioning. SO, if some of our philosophical d...

This is how it seems to me: Individuation is inherent to experience. Experience is obviously possible without an explicit concept of individuation. Th...

Yeah, they were the ancient mongreloids.

You're way off, dude!

Yes, and it also seems to be reflected in the remarkable eclecticism of the English language.

Different reds could be recognized in the environment even if the word "red" were nonexistent.

Exactly, the English (or really the British) are the arch-mongrels. They are mongreloids.

To follow the 'Watercourse Way' and realize the resolution of non-resolution. Or as Camus liked to say "Find an excess in moderation".

I would say yes; your imagination and memories of a person or thing are part of that person or thing. That is part of the point of the Manzotti articl...

When you read you are partaking of input from others. When you write poetry you are addressing the reader. They are thus forms of social engagement. I...

My point was that when you do such solitary things it is experienced as an interaction with others. We also interact with others when dreaming. I'm no...

I'm confused, Cavacava, because earlier you said this: My own view is that the author's interpretation should be closer to what she or he intended the...

Absolutely! All those meditating, praying hermits were raised by mothers and fathers or in orphanages or whatever...by others in any case... and schoo...

Ahhh...New Year resolutions...we'll see... >:)

I can't accept that argument because it rules out any interpretations of texts that do not perfectly accord with the author's intent (and that is some...

Yes, that's along the lines of what I was referring to by "thick legs", although it seems I didn't read carefully enough; I read Agustino as saying th...

Okay, but what if the author intends to say something in a work, but fails to say it in any coherently determinable way? For example, he may think he ...

Yes, I agree, and I want to read the other articles in the series. Re "new thread" I would say that judging from what I have read so far, they would m...

Well for one thing if a solitary artist or thinker produces work that is read by others, that is a form of engagement. On the other hand if we think a...

Sorry, Banno, because you replied to Wayfarer re the article, and I found the article via your reply, I incorrectly addressed my thanks and comment to...

I enjoyed that interview, thanks. It doesn't seem to be the kind of article you would favour, though. Are you breaking out? 8-)

Don't forget the thick legs, man, thick legs!

That's a staggeringly egregious over-simplification. It seems more like senseless hyperbole. >:O

I already answered your question about social engagement and loving your neighbour below. You were presuming a meaning I didn't intend is all.

For me it is obvious that to the degree that one lacks empathy for others one will be more likely to commit immoral acts. Sure, on the presumption tha...

I said that salvation (and I would add here, in it's fullest expression) consists in loving your neighbour as yourself. You say it consists in loving ...

I can't understand you here; you seem to be contradicting yourself. Did you mean to say "the author's intent is NOT exactly the same as the meaning of...

Does prima facie evidence differ from 'evidence at first glance' or apparent evidence? The question is, whether on further examination and analysis, i...

I don't think hermits are even as close to salvation as properly socially engaged people, unless they are of the rare breed of human that genuinely ha...

What does salvation consist in then, other than loving your neighbour as yourself? it is the removal of focus from the self that saves, as I see it.

Sociopaths and psychopaths characteristically lack empathy and are thus more likely to be lacking conscience and moral intuition. I wasn't referring t...