Scientism runs rampant! There's no point in my attempting to address your arguments because they are based on starting assumptions I don't accept (the...
If you say that you are assuming that the scientific picture is correct; i.e. that it gives us real information (or in other words shows us reality), ...
That's a truly pointless objection Wayfarer; Dennett's position represents one of the metaphysical scenarios that may be imagined, and it might even b...
Ok, fine, I live in Australia too, but what has what you like got to do with "the worth of an intellectual"? Perhaps his or her worth to you or accord...
Actually this was not the argument at all. There are also twelve months, twelve kinds of fermions, Kant's twelve categories of the undertsnding. Of co...
Thanks for your response Aaron. I think the underlined part hits the nail squarely. I don't think naturalism has to be defined in terms of science, bu...
There is an inherent contradiction here, because the argument that what we experience is not reality because it is constructed by the brain/mind depen...
If that were true, the materialist perspective would fare no better than any other. The point is that even if all perspectives are, ultimately, illuso...
I don't know what you mean to be indicating here. I favor a phenomenological approach, so I don't personally hold to a physicalist view, as you should...
I take Dennett to be saying that the mind is just the brain and that illusions can occur in brains; so there doesn't seem to be a contradiction inhere...
Most of those quotes and links seem somewhat sensationailzed, and in any case, I did not find any statement to the effect that Nagel "must be religiou...
What argument, and what insult? It was a play on words; I thought we were just havin' a bit of fun! I mean I didn't think the OP was meant to be taken...
You generally seem to suggest that Dennett is somehow dishonest for holding to the ( from your point of view, it seems, somehow monstrous) philosophy ...
It mostly does seem like that. Language is a tricky one. I've long loved the idea. And yet I have often heard people claim that a state of permanent s...
Sure, but historical events are not revelations; they are either the reports of actual or purported eyewitnesses or written reports of what had been p...
It's basically the Hindu conception of Brahman: Satchitananda. I have said all along that theology is worked out from imagination and experience via l...
An infinite being absorbed in absolute ecstasy, for example. ;) In the Christian vision God creates the world from nothing at a particular time, in th...
But the idea of there being a revealed truth is either a feeling or a thought that is part of the experience of revelation, or it is a feeling or thou...
God is not necessarily merely a creator, though. So his necessary existence does not logically depend on him creating anything, whereas the existence ...
If you are a creator your being does not depend on that. You might create paintings for example, but you will still exist if you do not. On the other ...
A feeling is an affect; it is being-affected, moved. Not all feeling are emotions in the ordinary sense of the emotions we categorize: fear. anxiety, ...
And yet this possibility of 'synthetic a priori judgements' tells us nothing, ontologically speaking. You say the mind "has the ability to penetrate t...
Don't we all know what feeling is? An emotion that moves us? For example do you know love if you have not felt it? Why should it be different with God...
It seems to be irrelevant what heading we discuss it under. How would we discuss it "under the heading of philosophy of religion" other than by thinki...
You have misunderstood what I said very well here! God is known to us only as a feeling, however faint or profound. and an imagining or intuition, how...
OK, it seemed you were implying that I was one of them, but if not then I misread you. It could seem liberating in an arbitrary kind of way I suppose....
Sure, but I didn't say God must exist, I said he must be. If God is, then God must be,which means that God is a being (albeit not a finite being). Thi...
If God is omniscient then he must first be, right? You can't be omniscient unless you can first be. You commit your own error of saying "he is this ra...
Speak about ad hominem! This is one example of your failure to address Dennett's work on its own terms. Can you show us an example of where you have p...
How is that an "ad hom"? Criticisms deal with arguments on their own terms not on yours. That's why what you say about Dennett looks more like a conde...
Is it "murky" because it doesn't accord with the interpretation you have arrived through you own readings of Hegel's works? From the article you cited...
Astrology is a very profound symbolic system that may be elegantly mapped onto the twelve tones of chromatic musical harmony and the significant patte...
I wasn't referring to your Sun sign; I knew what that was from the Astrology thread. In any case it's Janus, anus, schmanus...and so on...ad nauseum.....
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