I can agree that morality is dependent on ethics, although I don't think it has anything to do with "structure". All moral rules have their ethical pr...
As I see it you seem to fall into the conflation of ethics with morals. Ethics has nothing to do with permission; it consists in the consideration of ...
By "abstract thinking" do you mean thinking generalities? I mean, we can only think about particulars in so far as we can think generalities. We could...
The problem here, Willow, is that what I said doesn't hinge on whether these words "point out existing states" ( whatever that might be taken to mean)...
Since God is conceived as an absolutely uniquely necessary and infinite being, even the words 'being', 'infinite', 'unique' and 'necessary', whose sen...
He certainly does! I have an old quarto hard cover Inferno illustrated by Dore on my shelves somewhere...haven't looked at it for years and years...Th...
Yes, the philosophical stuff very much loses its taste, and begins to appear like sheer wankery, if you are facing terrible loss or death; and that go...
Csalisbury, I would have thought that it is at least as much to do with testing one's ideas against those of others who share a fascination with the f...
I agree about those being legitimate questions, but I think for me their legitimacy has nothing to do with realism; it is, rather, experiential as wel...
I don't know what it could mean to be a "realist about metaphysical questions". For me metaphysical questions deal with what different possibilities w...
I was not familiar with the term, and I was hoping you would explain it. Wiki definition: I don't believe that there are "sharp cut offs" which determ...
No, I haven't said that a pre-linguistic baby (or a suitably equipped animal) does not see colour, but I would say it does not experience seeing colou...
I would agree that the kind of physicalism that seems to go so well with modern science (specifically QM) is evidence that the older materialist views...
Of course, I take it you are speaking just for yourself here, or at most including others that have avowed to experience much the same 'account balanc...
Can you give an example of some evidence (presuming here that you mean empirical evidence and not merely 'evidence' from a theory's "clarity, coherenc...
And I would not word it that way. I would say that not seeing something as distinct is seeing something as indistinct; in both cases something is seen...
If there is no possible evidence against it, then it must be correct, no? 8-). But then again, we are supposedly talking philosophy, and philosophical...
You're misunderstanding what I am saying; I am not saying you have to explicitly think about what you are seeing in order to see things. Animals see t...
They are not examples of not seeing something as something. You see an afterimage as an afterimage. a light flashed at you as a light flashed at you, ...
I would say that we have no reason to think that prior to seeing anything as something, for example seeing a blue sky, it is any more a case of seeing...
Great images, csalisbury! I agree with you about the aesthetization of suffering which is characteristic of such narcissistic figures. It would seem t...
I don't see how 'other things being equal' applies here. Can you explain? But that's the whole point of why I said we have no right to intentionally b...
Why do think the things you list are qualia? Remember qualia are defined as something like 'qualities of experience'. I would say that when you see th...
I would say you have no obligation to either bring pleasure to, or remove pain from, others, your obligation is only to refrain from (to the best of y...
I don't think so. Consciousness is ordinarily understood to be consciousness of oneself, other people, animals, things, thoughts, bodily feelings, emo...
I'm coming to this thread rather late, but it intrigues me as to why TGW thinks that consciousness must be defined in terms of qualia. I wonder whethe...
Sorry for the delayed response; I missed this before. To deny the suffering available means of ease would be perverse unless it was driven by doctrine...
Is the notion of 'will' or 'hunger' the best way to conceptualize being? Primordially, there is conflict/ concert. Is presentation primordial? Will an...
That's good; I'm glad we cleared that up. But for the sake of conversation, I hope we may find ourselves disagreeing (or at least appearing to disagre...
As soon as we start to recognize differences, similarities and regularities, reason is already well in operation. Of course none of this is possible (...
I think that's where we diverge Agustino, I think the regularity of experience, and indeed custom itself are, at least partially, always already matte...
Firstly, I wouldn't agree that the regularity of our experience is something that "we arrive at (purely) by custom". To argue that would be to claim t...
That's funny; I seem to remember arguing against your position that inductively inferred beliefs are never rational, that, on the contrary, they are r...
This is an inconsistent claim from one who argued so tenaciously against the rational justifiably of any generalized inductive inferences not so long ...
To practice contraception is to be practically 'anatalist', though not necessarily theoretically, so neither contraception nor celibacy are necessaril...
What do mean "carb free diet"? An empty carb free diet (with sufficient fat intake to provide ready energy) will certainly cause you to lose weight fa...
If I have understood you, you are saying that freedom consists in acting, or believing, for reasons. It is the very determinative character of reasons...
I still don't understand why you (I think correctly) agree that we have no good reason to think that causation is rigidly determinative, and yet conti...
If determinism is rigid, then it follows logically that there is only one possible future. If indeterminism, then there are alternative futures. Of co...
But, I have not said that cause and effect is merely logical; if it is real, then it is also ontolgical, metaphysical, even physical. But that cannot ...
No, that two correlated empirical events are related as cause and effect is purely inferential; there can be no empirically observable causal relation...
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