Ok, but to be clear, it's not anonymous, it's just confidential. That is how they're able to do longitudinal analysis. Actually, IIRC people could mak...
Well, the 2009 survey results are pretty similar and those were based on the academic departments/sub-departments people work in at the top programs f...
English speaking (not necessarily as a first language) academic philosophers from around the world. This doesn't seem that implausible to me. I have u...
It's a survey done in 2009 and 2020 https://survey2020.philpeople.org/ You can see all the questions and correlations. On this topic, it isn't that su...
No it doesn't, per your own explanation. There is a state before which there are no prior states. Call it S1. Now you claim that some thing or things ...
In post-modern programs maybe, but that itself is a "camp" that appears to be in significant decline (the "Spirit of 68," having lost its resonance I ...
Well, historically, this is how logic was developed (both Aristotlean and the parallel Stoic development). Questions of truth sit in the bucket of "me...
Might you be conflating foundationalism with monism here? Hegel has a circular and fallibalist epistemology, but it is monist. Artistotle thinks that ...
I think you might have logical, metaphysical, and nomological (physical) necessity mixed up. "The universes spontaneous generation is a brute fact," d...
Well no, it's how she defines the entire problem, and it's how she defines it in her introduction on nihilism. It's also how Clarke-Doane defines it, ...
What do you think the term "correct logic" means in Russell's papers, G&P, Clarke-Doane's paper, etc.? I know you don't like the term, but you refused...
Just to be clear, this isn't my term, but the term employed through much of the literature on this topic, including the papers discussed earlier in th...
Me too. However, I also think the sense of "contradiction" here is quite far from that invoked by religiously motivated dialetheism or those motivated...
Correct, although not everything in the Logic follows the formula of "thing" ? "negation" ? "negation of negation," some get a good deal more complex....
It's about the number of correct logics (i.e. logics that ensure true conclusions follow from true premises). In general, it's a position about applie...
Not all necessary facts are brute facts and not all circles are vicious circles. As for merit, no one accepts "it's a brute fact, some things simply a...
I am not sure of this. The Physics, from which we get the term "nature" and other early forms of naturalism focus on "things acting the way they do be...
:up: I started a thread once on how Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument(s) seem like they could simply be dismissed as question begging by the "L...
How unknown is it if you know what it causes and that it is red? What things do we not know through their effects/acts? How could we know anything imm...
C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image, developed from his lectures on medieval literature. It's quite good. He does a good job capturing the sense in which ...
These are generally good, although some are certainly better than others. I particularly like the one on Wittgenstein A.C. Grayling (originally publis...
If you are not aware of it already, you might be interested in the "received view" of scientific theories and some of the more mathematical responses ...
On that view, wouldn't flight also not be a thing, since it is just "cells in wings responding to chemical signals." The same for "running," or "life"...
Well the Physics is a study of phúsis, "natures," by which things do what they do and are what they are. I think it's only a particular sort of natura...
This just strikes me as mapping the common presuppositions of physicalism onto "what a complete metaphysical theory should be." It seems to presuppose...
This is exactly what is meant by "axiomatic dualism." Color and pain are "in the mind," thus they are not "in the world." I'd rather say the relations...
One way to look at it might be to ask, "was Artistotle a physicalist?" By many measures, we might say yes, given his focus on immanence and thinghood ...
I suppose your probably right, although rigid atomism and causal closure have the benefit of being a very clear thesis about what being is. And I woul...
I put "physical laws" in scare quotes because many physical laws are simply close approximations of behavior. For instance, Newtons Laws are "good eno...
I guess another way to put it is that in many versions of representationalism the inability to tell if thought ever really corresponds to being is axi...
Well the following: Seems at odds with: If all the contents of experience cannot be said to "exist in the world" in virtue of "only existing in the mi...
Well, the bolded might work in a (Neo)-Platonist, Aristotelian, Thomistic, etc. context, depending on how we define "real from their own side." The ap...
IIRC, it's Metaphysics 7, about midway through the chapter to the end where he really gets into essence and identity. Unfortunately, it isn't super st...
Articles on this topic generally refer to it as such at any rate. B&R is normally brought up as the landmark case for pluralism and it is fairly recen...
It seems to me that the idea that there are specific logics (specific entailment relations) for specific areas would be pluralism (at least as they de...
I wonder if we might think of Hume and co. as a symptom of Taylor's "buffered self," to some degree. Over here is a thing in the world and I (or "my b...
Quite right. This seems to me like a manifestation of the classic problem of the "One and the Many." That is, how can being be in one sense "one," i.e...
Well, I think many physicalists have abandoned the idea that phenomena are extrinsically "determined by" natural laws. Rather, natural laws are our de...
For the most part, although his book on universalism got some pretty firey criticism from the ol' infernalist crowd :rofl: I skipped ahead in Taylor's...
I'd add that collapsing these sorts of differences really makes Odysseus's taking 10 years to make it to Penelope inexcusable. :rofl: https://i.ibb.co...
We haven't chosen this arbitrarily though. The difference between North America and Europe is not something we simply stipulated. If there is good emp...
Having not read the paper, what do they mean by "causal?" This seems a lot more plausible if they are making the common contemporary move or only cons...
Well to be clear, I don't think: this is what she is doing. To do this would be to ignore what the most popular pluralists (B&R) and what most monists...
Well, it seems like disavowals of reductionism are increasingly common. However, if the schema is not replaced by anything positive, it seems to leave...
You can tell when things were created down to the year just by looking at them? When you drive through a neighborhood you know the year each house was...
The "effectiveness" of beliefs is tied to the world on the one hand and our own nature on the other (and of course the separation here is not hard and...
I mentioned this in another thread, but once you allow "it just is," for some explanations you lose the ability to exclude it for any other. If things...
A professor I had told me about a reading of Kant more in line with an Averroist "material intellect" shared by all men. That's another solution for t...
Barry Mazur has a really neat paper on this question, and at least parts of it are quite accessible. He ends up advocating (maybe just "showing the be...
Hegel's contradiction is pretty far from most paraconsistent logics, given the unity and "development" of opposites. If you're interested though, form...
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