Yes, but it seems debatable if this is itself good, no? Or, in virtue of what are new possibilities good? It does not seem to be true prima facie at l...
I'd say the two only seem similar because the ends pursued in chess are obvious and fixed. Indeed, I'd say being good at chess is a skill/techne, not ...
They might find it stifling, but it does not seem to follow from this alone that it is necessarily better for those who do find it stifling to act con...
What exactly do you mean by "identify" here? I suppose one issue might be circularity. How do you know what belongs in a set? Suppose we take "justice...
Broadly, I think the perennialists have a very strong case. There are very strong similarities across disparate traditions, and in particular a sort o...
Good question. Many thinkers think that falsification's role as the core criterion of science was badly weakened by an argument from Quine (and refine...
Would intelligence be desirable in itself, i.e., worthy of love? Intellectus is not so far from sapientia, but in common parlance it seems to me that ...
At least in the Western context, it's generally letting go of bad/evil/unworthy/less fulfilling desires, and thus being free and able to fulfill good/...
Oh surely. Just the names on that list is enough. "How did Michel Foucault become the most assigned person in all of academia and by such a huge margi...
I'll just mention two influential traditions. In the Jewish tradition, human wisdom (chokmah) is thought to be a participation in divine wisdom (e.g.,...
Do you mean in analytic philosophy of mind in particular (where that exact term tends to be used), or more generally? Because of the exclusion problem...
I think you're right and bring up some good points. My point would be that other maladaptive thymotic outlets are not so straightforwardly corrosive f...
@"Joshs" Having read further, I now agree that as the chapter wears on Landa seems to have difficulty with conflating the philosopher and the broader ...
The "Nietzschean Hero" isn't a "hero as per Nietzsche," it's a fictional hero inspired by Nietzsche. And we might suppose that pop culture versions wi...
I don't know if it has to suppose that neoliberalism is "complete," just that it is hegemonic. Well, Fukuyama's End of History thesis, despite often b...
That's an interesting thought. But what do you think then about the fact that a lot of this stuff springs organically from economically marginal commu...
It's also shrunken some differences. For instance, I've heard the sentiment expressed, and even seen it in op-eds, where bourgeois Americans (or Europ...
Right, and I can see where @"Joshs" is coming from because I think Landa's thesis is somewhat obscured here because we are starting with Chapter 6. Th...
So, for the sake of clarity, the Boltzmann brain comes in because our experiences and memories are consistent with both our living in the world we thi...
The point on divine freedom: freedom of indifference versus freedom of excellence, is an important one. I would just add there that "freedom of indiff...
I hadn't, but I think it's a good example of the sort of left-ward glorification of crime. Now, in one sense, that case simply represents the enduring...
I haven't made it through the whole thing yet. I agree in part; I am not wild about the "Marxist" framing either. The part that originally grabbed my ...
I think that's part of it. I am interested to see where Landa takes it. I think another factor is a sort of perspectivism that justifies just about an...
What's the argument here: "There is no problem with identifying pseudoscience because in these examples scientists came around to calling out the pseu...
Well, it's not actually my main point. Only the last third or so is about a particular solution. I would summarize it this way. Arguments from underde...
Yes, but just to clarify, and I realize the OP didn't do this very well because I thought it had gotten to long, the point isn't that underdeterminati...
I think it depends on how far underdetermination is allowed to roll. If you pair these arguments, their reach is far greater than scientific theories....
Thanks! :up: So, I think Pasnau is right that the identity doctrine has, at least vis-á-vis Aquinas in particular, more often been used more to deal w...
I am not sure if it works to simply claim that appearances are of something, and that this relation is wholly simple and cannot be further explicated....
Well, I pointed out that many advocates prefer these results, just as the ancient skeptics thought skepticism was a preferable outcome. But, for the m...
Reminds me of a passage: Of course, Bakker can make up whatever sort of connotations he wants for his presumably unique fantasy languages, but in Engl...
It also reminds me, maybe it isn't the love of Beauty (philokalia) that is the problem, but the misapprehension of beauty and the prizing of the lesse...
I see what you're saying, The reason that I picked these is because they are influential and fit the basic idea, and because they generate theses that...
I was going to say, this seems like a rather strange statement. Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Mitch McConnell, etc., along with most ...
But that's precisely what critics say he is doing, and I think they have a point. If an appearance is not caused by what it is an appearance of, if it...
Well, in the book (which is the only of his I've read) he only mentions Kant a few times. But I would gather given his general outlook that when he is...
I agree. And we have the question: "from whence these structures?" You cannot make an appeal to natural selection, or human biology, or physics, becau...
Ah, I see the disconnect. I should have clarified, I mean "definition" in the sense Aquinas or the later Neoplatonists/Scholastics tend to use it. So,...
That's a very interesting post. By "Platonism," do you mean the idea of natural laws as a sort of eternal, active "shaping" of causal interactions? Th...
Well, that's a thorny area in Kant scholarship, right? I have read many contradictory takes on the exact relation (or "negative" or "limiting" relatio...
The other thread reminded me of another contributor here. There was also an explosion in logical work in the late middle ages. Partly, this is because...
Off the top of my head, this seems to hold for Ezra or Maccabees. I have seen this trend remarked upon as well. God goes from being a direct parent fi...
That's an interesting thought. Relation is one of the categories in the Categories though. It isn't a "thing." That would be substance. This is quite ...
That's probably a more fair genealogical take. Clarke isn't really clear on which "version of Kant" he is referring to, and there are many. The refere...
Given your affinity for neoplatonism, I'm quite surprised it doesn't at least make some sort of sense. In its broadest sense, the general idea is quit...
Anyhow, for another topic of conversation related to my confusing example: we might question whether we can really avoid a solution more like Ockham's...
I just brought that one up because it is an example that seems like obvious equivocation that is not actually equivocation (or false) depending on how...
Yes, exactly. :up: So if we say an essence is a definition, it'd be a bit like saying New York City is the name "New York City," or that smoke, as a s...
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