This is an interesting line, and I think it gets something crucial correct. However, I find that mereological nihilism (i.e. the denial that wholes li...
Presumably, if some group rejects the terms of their labor contract, or a peace treaty, they have reasons for doing so. E.g., China doesn't maintain t...
I think such a trend goes back further than the advent of liberal democracy. If you look at how monarchs became a centralized locus of power, with a m...
My favorite Gilliani soundbite: "But truth is truth right?" "No, truth isn't truth." I also found the title for: "Post-Truth and the Controversy over ...
I don't think everything that might be labeled "relativism," would fall prey to the problems of misology. Schindler is talking about a particular sort...
Right, I would think the relationship to the topic would be that "smelling lemony" appears to be a relation between lemons and people. I don't think c...
Salt is water-soluble. This is a commonly-held property of salt. But salt only dissolves in water if it is placed in water. When salt isn't in water, ...
To try to sum my rambling attempts above I would point to: A. The substantial empirical support for the "process metaphysics view," which is well summ...
I'm not sure what you're arguing for, that there is no real distinction between imaginings and sense perception? No real difference between dementia a...
First, phenomenology distinguishes between imagined/pictured phenomena and sensory experience. This seems uncontroversial since we do not generally ha...
I see the good points of process philosophy as being, in some ways, anti-realist re substances (or at least they are made less fundemental), but allow...
Right, but I would challenge the entire legitimacy of distinctions like raw/doctored or internal/external. So many of the arguments for indirect reali...
I think this is exactly where the disagreement arises. If something essential to experience "comes from outside," is caused by what is "external" then...
Balthasar is interesting here which sort of flows from the older conception of Kantian Pure Reason, Practical Reason, and Judgement as Theoretical Rea...
Maybe, but it was certainly a very large trend in the enviornment he was writing in. That said, plenty of students of Wittgenstein who bought into the...
Even if our eyes were windows, direct passthroughs to some sort of humonculus, they would still introduce bias by being only on the front of our heads...
They are similar because how we learn is similar, and because the proximate goals of "reinforcing x behavior," are similar. I'd argue that they can't ...
Au contraire, metaphysics being onanistic is a central point of contention re misology. That's where claims about the limits of reason started — the i...
Wittgenstein is a product of his time, and the thing in philosophy at that time was to call all sorts of things "meaningless." I think Putnam makes a ...
:up: It brings up the same question as the "What Is Logic?" thread. We have our formal systems, mathematics as a field of inquiry; we have the possibl...
Consider Alistair MacIntyre's description of how proponents of Rawls and Nozick's ethical theories end up talking past one another: MacIntyre goes on ...
Context might be helpful: Does he have things backwards? Do we know cause first, in experience, and then abstract logical necessity from that? Arguabl...
You might find R. Scott Bakker's "On Alien Philosophy," to be an interesting read. He speculates in how these same issues would likely crop up for all...
I will attempt two more illustrations that might be helpful. Can a person "drive a car," or can they only "move a steering wheel, push pedals, and adj...
Well, in an important way, it doesn't seem to. Everything bleeds into everything else, there are no truly discrete physical systems. We have a "blobov...
I guess I'm just not understanding why you say Nature exists at all. If all we ever have access to is Mind, and this is empty fiction, wouldn't Nature...
Exactly. And from the naturalist frame this community exists in nature, and it's evolution is not arbitrary or unrelated to nature to begin with, so t...
I guess I'm not understanding, "out of images stored in memories." Is Mind ultimately empty because everything in comes out of images and memory and t...
The original question seems sort of trivial on second thought. Math exists in thought. Thought is part of the universe. Ergo math is in the universe. ...
It's interesting though to ask, what makes something or someone capable of engaging in "triangulation" with us? Looking back at the SEP quote on Donal...
There are similar arguments against systems being complex versus simple. But once you start deciding that key ways we cognize the world are illusory, ...
Thank you. I am not sure about this. The "passions" are generally associated with emotion, and I am not sure these always have "ends". Consider being ...
I feel like Truman is generally underrated. If you look at his dairies, he absolutely knew he was going to lose his shot at a third term over Korea, b...
Well, if they are skeptical regarding reason itself, as a whole, they might have their reasons, but they certainly shouldn't put any stock in them. :r...
A Brave New World world might be a good inroad for the problem I see with Rawls. It's a society that does extremely well at fulfilling everyone's appe...
I don't think Popper even believed that. A criteria like "objectively measurable, verifiably repeatable evidence, that capable of being falsified," wo...
How can you tell if it's dogmatic or not? It's a brief conversation that is starting "in the middle." Does he "presuppose" the appearance of God in th...
What would constitute a direct physical interaction? There seems to be plenty of mediation involved in two billiard balls bouncing off one another if ...
So, it'd be experiencing reality-as-it-is-not? If the mind is a barrier to experiencing reality-as-it-is, would this imply that reality-as-it-is is wh...
Determinism doesn't necessarily rule out many conceptions of free will. Many philosophers argue that determinism is a prerequisite for free will. If o...
The use of "analytic" here bears little resemblance to the normal usage. As far as I can tell, any fact is "analytic" so long as it can be defined as ...
I don't see where I stated otherwise. The point is merely that desire drives the ship. What "would we want?" is the framing, not "what should we want?...
I think this is partly an accident. There are still a large number of Catholic universities with large philosophy programs, and that's where a lot of ...
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