That certainly describes part of the "far-right". And it would be fair to say that POMO is often used selectively. Arguments against the institutions ...
If you are defining superveniance with B-minimal properties or P Regions this is not the case. Any change in P, the (relevant) brush strokes (or their...
I slogged my way though a lot of Kant asking this question. So I found it amusing to find out that there are a significant number of Kantians who say ...
Ok, so since Hitler never murdered anyone, and wasn't even in the room when anyone was murdered, he cannot be a criminal. All he did was speak words. ...
A bitterly ironic area to consider considering that most POMO thinkers tended to be far to the left side of the political spectrum. For decades they s...
I'm not sure what he is referring to but if collapse/decoherence is real (not a limit in possible observation, but an ontic change) then the Schroding...
An example might be helpful. Consider the experience of seeing an apple. It seems plausible that physical constituents of the apple could vary dramati...
Ha, not to go back on my OP, but I am now thinking that B-Minimal Properties do not rule out multiple realizability in an important sense. If we consi...
Certainly. Yes, but I don't think it's exactly the same. We can, in a roundabout, absential way, observe these processes. If you look at how people de...
That's a fair point. I suppose it's also worth considering that while B-Minimal properties remove the possibility of multiple realizability, perhaps t...
I edited to clarify. In general, we want to use superveniance to explain in some way how the mental is in some way dependant on the physical, whereas ...
For Hoffman, the core mistake would be the presupposition that experiences must necessarily be of objects "out there," which in turn leads to the conc...
This, or maybe a Bohm-de Broglie guy, retrocausal, or one of the new "super determinism" types (who I've never quite wrapped my mind around)? The prob...
It's not this, my comment was just about the context in which math is consistent within assumed axioms. Saying "if these are the rules of the game, th...
Actually, having written that, I wonder if it might be more accurate to say that mathematics is one of the origin points of the POMO perspective and t...
By no means. It's just that a lot of people into POMO are very open and vocal about wanting their work to achieve some sort of positive "social change...
There is already a lot of pluralism and "questioning all assumptions," in the foundations of mathematics/philosophy of mathematics, so it's hard to se...
No, I'm aware of that. I think there are good issues to raise there. For example, Donald Hoffman does a good job bringing these issues to the fore in ...
I haven't read Brewer's paper so I cannot speak to it. If that's how the phrase is intended, then it seems like a silly position to advance, and I wou...
I have not expressed a "doctrine." I have expressed what follows from your claim that "words cannot cause people to act." This is not an either/or dis...
I would agree that this would be a very difficult problem if this is what is being implied in the bolded text, but I don't see how that is the case. I...
No, we are dealing with an infinite regress in cases where we have to posit an infinite number of past causes for something. E.g., X began because of ...
Right, but my point is that multiple entities experiences don't need to be identical or even particularly similar to share a direct relationship with ...
If you look at the part of my post above under the heading "Supervenience Relations," perhaps that might be helpful in elucidating such a "bridge." It...
I don't disagree with anything you wrote. However, contemporary versions of direct realism, intentionality theories, and phenomenological theories all...
But how do they know what they are being employed to do without words and laws? How do they know what their job entails? It can't be because they read...
If you don't want to call is causal it still seems like you'd need to explain the counterfactual. How does B fail to occur without A, and when A occur...
It can't involve both? It seems prima facie unreasonable to me to assume that someone who responds to the question "what is the capital of Florida," w...
So the genesis — begining — of the process that ends up with the bank teller giving the robber the money begins with the teller, not the robber? This ...
If I ask someone "what is the capital of Florida?" and they respond "Tallahassee," would they have uttered the word Tallahassee if I hadn't asked the ...
The definition is sort of besides the point, I was just trying to express what I intended to you. Although for future reference you might consider rev...
Yes, I am aware of how ways in which Popper specifies the term "falsification" vis-a-vis scientific theories (although in The Logic of Scientific Disc...
And only scientific claims can be falsified? The claim "the Goldbach Conjecture is false," wouldn't be falsified by a successful mathematical proof de...
But then all the semantic meaning of the word bachelor isn't derived from (Male(x) & Adult(x) & ~Married(x)). If it were, you wouldn't need multiple u...
Do they? It seems to me like intentionality theory was developed precisely because indirect realism makes naturalists uncomfortable. That is, it's a m...
So, a bachelor's degree is equivalent to an "unmarried man's degree?" But then how do married men and women have bachelor's degrees? It seems like the...
We have had a great many threads on this topic. In general, I think your line of reasoning works. However, proponents of uncaused existence generally ...
If agent's actions were actually determined by "nothing outside the agent," then it should be the case that agent's actions have no relation to the wo...
Is the "elimination of the impossible," or discovery of "ways the world necessarily could not have been or cannot be described," not, broadly speaking...
The statement that reality does not exist simpliciter, or that there can be no canonical representation of reality as it exists simpliciter, advances ...
I am confused by this interchange. Is your claim that words cannot play a causal role in people's actions or that this would amount to magic? The asse...
It doesn't seem unquestioning at all. I was referring back to your statement that: "only within a taken-for-granted , unquestioned set of normative pr...
I don't want to sound like a broken record, but my reading on emergence has caused me to question if the concept might be fundamentally broken. It tak...
It doesn't always suppose multiple different acts. I've seen it framed as a single act preforming multiple "functions." Other schemes are more categor...
Gotcha. If imagine = visualize, it makes sense. Although I think it might make it sort of trivial in that it would seem to hold for the essential elem...
Is this true though? I feel like I have a pretty easy time imagining abstract objects without having to attribute extension to them. I don't know if I...
Right, and this is validation of what? Validation that something is or is not the case. Or in more fallibilist terms, that something appears or does n...
You seem to be missing my point, which is that experiences of truth and falsity are (initially) prephilosophical. Every human has some conception of t...
It's just a comment on methodology in the field writ large. I was thinking this makes it, in certain respects, quite different from apophatic theology...
I mean that all makes sense, although my understanding was that the question of whether or not space-time is infinitely divisible was an open one. I k...
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