I think there's enormous consensus on the shape and nature of a middle ground scientific understanding of the world around us - insofar as it relates ...
Agreed. What are your grounds for deciding if a joke is funny? Or deciding if a painting is pleasing to the eye? There are no grounds, per se. There a...
I would have thought 'truth' was the take home concept in terms of an "inherent purpose other than propagation." Only human beings have intellectual i...
I disagree. It's a consequence of omitting a causal reality from evolutionary theory as a form of selection, but it's rather obvious when you think ab...
None of the above. — counterpunch Glad to. Thanks for asking. To my mind, the organism evolves in relation to a causal reality, and has to be 'correct...
You're not though. It's like I said earlier: I posted Strawson's Basic Argument and commented on it. You have ignored Strawson's argument, and dismiss...
Good to hear. I need £10bn to start with, and a further £20bn over 10 years. The plan is to drill through hot volcanic rock, and pump water through, t...
Your guesses hide a multitude of sins. It beggars belief that Descartes would uproot his life and move to another country, were he not assured of a we...
You're right, I did. When all I can realistically defend is, that unlike Galileo - Descartes was at liberty to accept such an invitation, and not on t...
I'm unable to help you with your incomprehension. They are English words, plainly spoken. Where is this from? You attribute it to Strawson, but I did ...
The argument seems to turn on this pivot; and therein lies the weak link. (5) But one cannot really be said to choose, in a conscious, reasoned, fashi...
A more cumbersome statement of the Basic Argument goes as follows. (1) Interested in free action, we are particularly interested in actions that are p...
At the risk of confusing the OP for my elbow, I'm going to have to ask you to be more specific about what you consider interesting and novel - because...
I don't deny facts, ever. But the fact Descartes died is somewhat incidental - (unless he really was poisoned by a Catholic missionary, as apparently,...
Well, if it's cod psychology, I thought we could just cut straight to the argument about the argument. Isn't that what every one of your discussions d...
You don't know. You really don't. You don't know that the religious, political and economic ideological architecture of society is just made up, and c...
Important in what regard? It remains, Galileo was grievously suspect of heresy - which is about a hair's breadth from being burned alive, while Descar...
It depends on what you mean by philosophy! My interest; in correcting our relationship to science in order to secure the continued existence of humank...
You have failed to defend your thesis. And ironically, done so by failing to act in a morally responsible manner. You have acted, as I would have expe...
I could just read Descartes - and extrapolate slightly. It's not like any subjectivist could ever have anything new to say, is it really? That's the p...
You expressed no agreement with Strawson in the OP. You expressed strong disagreement; and then asked me if I agree with you and Strawson. Either you'...
I also think more than one thing. Given that I had already expressed a view that we are morally responsible, when you asked me: You must have assumed ...
Yeah, you do that. I'll be thinking about being reduced to words of one syllable to get past your apparent incomprehension - and then being told, that...
In the hands of Descartes, a means of asserting the primacy of the subjective - to undermine the significance of the objective, such that science coul...
Not quite. I mean failing to appreciate that science is a valid understanding of reality, relative to overlapping religious, political and economic id...
I really couldn't say. I'm not so well versed in math that I could judge the significance of Descartes algebraic geometry in the history of mathematic...
Galileo's Trial for heresy was 1634. Descartes didn't publish Meditations until 1641. Galileo had already made the necessary distinctions between subj...
I have some slight suspicion that your congratulations are not sincere, and yet - I accept your congratulations sincerely because I am a philosopher, ...
You're almost there. It's about conserving energy when food is scarce. In winter, there's less food around, so the natural tendency is to conserve ene...
Humans left Africa 70,000 years ago, and migrated all around the world. We have adapted to local conditions; most obviously, the amount of melanin in ...
I've just figured out something that's been bugging me for quite a while; that is, why - when it's cold do we instinctually want to curl up - rather t...
Oh, right - so is this book one long advert for Buddhism? I'm not in the market for a religion. I value existence..., I think ego is healthy....., 'st...
I don't get this passage in the way I got the last. I can comprehend the idea of the evolutionary organism, inventing god, nation and socio-economic c...
I'm learning, slowly, that imagining you can change someone's mind only leads to frustration. You've presented your arguments, and it seems like you w...
There seems to be some truth to your concerns, but - I assume you're talking about the work of Chien-Te Tseng, Elena Sbrana, and Naoko Iwata - which w...
I see your dilemma but if all you have is uncertainty, would you not weigh that against the public health implications - of voicing those concerns, an...
Analogically too, there is a blind-spot, but the essay is completely wrong about its nature and cause. — counterpunch Its the difference between scien...
That's fairly convincing proof you are a medic of some sort. I can't find it anywhere on the web - so possibly not just plagiarised. I apologise and w...
Right, but the configuration doesn't exist of itself; it exists as a configuration of three balls, a pen drive, a brain. What's at issue here, ultimat...
But science does account for subjectivity - admittedly, as an obstacle to understanding to be accounted for and subtracted from the objective, but the...
Right, but what you're asking me to do, is imagine three balls - and then take them away, and suppose there's some substance of configuration still th...
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