That's the right one. We know that we can't know the truth as to whether all truths are knowable because no matter how many truths we know we have no ...
"It" denotes how the body/ brain is apparently affected by the environment to produce perceptual experiences. We can tell the scientific story about h...
If you think Socrates' example shows that philosophy is not about how best to live then we are so far from being on the same page as to make respondin...
The difference I see is that ecology, economics and politics all necessarily have real world consequences. As I've acknowledged I see that metaphysics...
I'm not sure what you mean here. If you mean that metaphysical attitudes can influence how folk think about ecological, economic and political issues ...
I really do think there are stakes when it comes to ecological, economic and political issues. I'm not convinced there are stakes (other than the feel...
I see philosophy as a process of firstly getting clear as to just what my situation, epistemologically speaking, is. What can i reasonably be said to ...
Because it is interesting? Why do you bother? Also I think it may be possible to get clear about the alternatives and what they each presuppose, even ...
To take one prominent example of long-standing metaphysical disagreement some say mind is foundational, while others say matter is foundational. The t...
Of course there is a sense in which our perceptions are always already interpretations. But we are blind to how the body/brain does that. It is pre-co...
You speak as though that purported "end goal" is a given. How would any philosophical truth ever be demonstrable such as to gain universal assent? I h...
Right and the very fact that there seems to be to both sides "plenty of grounds for doubt and belief" respectively shows that it is not a subject whic...
The question was posed to @"J". I know how @"Wayfarer" thinks of "higher". He thinks we moderns have lost, not merely an older set of cultural attitud...
I see philosophy as being concerned with understanding the human condition in the broadest and most comprehensive ways. It is different from psycholog...
It's not a matter of justified true belief but rather of the common usage of a word which demonstrates a certain range of understandings. We have no r...
We know what we mean when we say such things as "I changed my mind", "I made up my mind", "I don't mind", " I did that task mindfully", "mind your ste...
:cool: The problem is that we all know what we mean by 'mind' in the ordinary context. In the extraordinary context the notion is nothing more than a ...
Coherence exists within some context or other. Philosophers have invented language games wherein they purport to be somehow saying the unsayable. Perh...
This reminds of one of Ashleigh Brilliant's sayings: "My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I can't do anything about". Perhaps the ph...
I think of different selves as being nothing more than different kinds of disposition or orientation. Do we need a notion of soul to understand that o...
I just noticed this thread and have not read it through so please excuse my question if it has already been asked and answered; what do you mean by "h...
Democracy Song by Leonard Cohen It's coming through a hole in the air, From those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel That this ain'...
:roll: :yawn: Does he claim the conditions and the responses are the same for all or not? Edit: I suspect you won't answer this because to do so would...
Sure we know we die. That fact may cause some to suffer and not others. As I said earlier its a matter of attitude and disposition. I don't know what ...
I'm not sure what you mean. I would say that absence of pleasure brings suffering and that absence of pain brings pleasure. Life is inherently pleasur...
Suffering is not inevitable merely on account of being aware or self-aware. Awareness may be a necessary, bit not a sufficient, condition for sufferin...
Suffering is not caused merely by being conscious or being self-aware. You could be conscious and self-aware and not suffer, if by suffering you mean ...
Firstly I'm not defending physicalism but refuting the claims of its supposed inconsistency. You haven't explained why there can be no objective good ...
In the case of the real cat there would be light reflected from it which enters the eye, etc. You know the story. In any case I have never had such a ...
The hallucinated cat is not a cat at all. The perceived cat is a cat. I'm not conflating lawgiver and afterlife. I'm asking how physicalism could unde...
The hallucination is a neural process and hence physical. Of course it is not a physical (real) cat. I see no inconsistency there but rather a conflat...
By "inconsistencies" I take it you mean that physicalism is not consistent with our "normal' intuitions about the nature of mind and consciousness and...
Right. I think this is the nub. 'Not-A' should strictly be the negation of 'A'. We cannot say 'if something is alive, then it is dead' even if we can ...
OK thanks. It does seem to be a propositional statement in ordinary langauge. 1. If there is life (A) there is death (not-A) 2. There is life 3. There...
Thoughts are widely considered to be neural events or processes. That they do not seem to be such to the thinker is no guarantee that they are not suc...
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