counterpunch

Your argument implies the opposite. Your argument suggest that consciousness is a consequence of the configuration of the brain. Can you download your...

I don't know where you are, but my country is in lockdown, businesses are failing, the bills are piling up, and people are going stir crazy. There's 1...

Granted, but in contrast to what? Galileo developed scientific method to contrast with revelation as a means to truth, and Descartes immediately rubbi...

Physiologically, sure! Physically, there is a blind-spot. It's where the term blind spot comes from! Analogically too, there is a blind-spot, but the ...

I've been looking at the essay on your profile page. That's what I'm talking about. The blind-spot is not a consequence of objectivism and physicalism...

Why let mere incomprehension stop you? Others here are unconcerned by such trivial impediments.

They may have stopped threatening Galileians with torture, but they continue appointing Cartesians to the Royal Court!

We are not mere robots, with pre-programmed characters resulting in unexamined behaviours. Doing anything requires thought, and an effort of will. We ...

If the question were, in a universe with a lot of floating rocks - you throw a six sided dice, what are the odds of getting hit by an asteroid in the ...

So, no reply, huh? Fair enough, but at least ask yourself - if it's because you disagree with me, or that you fear the retribution of the mob you help...

The first questions epistemology asks are: What can we know? and How can we know it? Those questions are, in my view, fundamental to any and every oth...

Three Cubans were just rescued by the US coastguard - having fled Cuba on a tiny raft that sank, and cast them ashore on some desolate island. That's ...

I don't buy into the whole political correctness thing, or equality as a virtue. And there's a very strong left wing contingent here - who only seem i...

I've pretty much managed to alienate everyone already, so in practice I would have to say, no! But I would rather it were not so. Me, I value a divers...

No-one can take a compliment anymore either! I don't know him all that well, and I'm not particularly diplomatic at the best of times. I don't know ho...

Thanks, but it looks like you made much the same argument before I did - so it's like you're saying your own observations are interesting. A little se...

I made a sandwich that was too big to eat! That's gotta count for something!

I like the passage. It communicates very well how depression feels - while posing an interesting philosophical question about the nature of reality an...

Don't do that. Don't pretend this on on me. I could see you had a lot going on, and I offered to butt out. You responded anyway, and you fucked up. Yo...

There's no assumption on my part that you're a raving nutter because you're a woman. To my mind, you're a raving nutter first, and incidentally, a wom...

The science is clear on masks preventing an aerosol of water droplets sprayed into the air by you, and breathed in by other people. You don't know if ...

Try telling him that! Communism is dead. The correct political ideal to take its place is Truth; relative to Freedom, and the consequence of the democ...

The virus may be 1.25 microns, but it travels in much larger water droplets that you exhale into the air, if not wearing a mask. Wearing a mask preven...

Why do you think it's useless?

It was either/or for those Cubans when they put to sea on a raft made from coconuts stuck together with bird shit. Either they get to a country that d...

Sorry Wayfarer. I'll butt out. I'm not making any progress with Constance anyhow. The more rational and specific I get, the more emotionally esoteric ...

I'm speaking in scientific terms of religion as an evolutionary, political and sociological phenomenon. God knows what you're doing! I just suggested ...

Three people believed to have been stranded on an uninhabited island in the Bahamas for 33 days have been rescued, the US Coast Guard says. "Unfortuna...

In the archaeological record there's an event, called 'the creative explosion.' Beforehand, about 1.5 million years of stone hand axes, and almost not...

It's a good question. In theory, we are all the same species, all evolved, and living on the same planet; so why should we not have global government?...

What? Like... how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I wasn't addressing that question. I was addressing the question ...

Religion is the politics of our ancestors - made necessary when hunter gatherer tribes joined together to form multi-tribal social groups. Hunter gath...

Why would it be a problem for empiricists? If you see two apples and I see two apples - there are, empirically speaking, two apples. Assuming two exis...

If you were able to somehow go back in time, and map every mathematical thought in chronological order, surely it would begin with the relationship of...

"Thinking about geometric objects is perhaps the clearest way to think about abstract objects. A line segment (a true, geometric line segment) is a pe...

Twice the size! I read the essay, and the answer came to me. Numbers exist in the relations between objects. One apple is one apple. One apple and one...

I was just looking to prove that 2+2=4, but it seems like I've cracked open a whole other can of worms. I've read a couple of short essays, and I'm no...

I seem to have missed your post somehow. Sorry about that. Ah, I see. For me, philosophy is a means to an end - and that end is the continued existenc...

I can. Let's use apples, no, oranges. No, wait - apples. Take two apples - put them in an empty bag. Take two apples - put them in the same bag. How m...

Think about what you read after you read it. Take notes. Write papers. Walk up and down and talk to yourself. Rehearse the ideas, and they'll stick.

Yes, I agree with that. It's not that I never mention God, but I know I don't know if God exists. I know I don't know where the universe came from, or...

I'm inclined to suggest, the moral sense is not reliable. It takes work to develop a moral sense for yourself. Either that or painful experience. You ...

That's the slogan for the Labour Party conference sorted!

I found a really good essay on the subject. https://philarchive.org/archive/PETDOT-3 Get this: The importance and degree of certainty that Descartes a...

This is very helpful to me because I can't make head nor tails of Willow's post and don't know how to handle it politely. "I think I get what you're s...

"Baseless" is a strong term. The moral sense is a very real basis for human action; but often, people are quite ill-informed, or worse yet, deliberate...

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Here's what Hume said: "In every system of morality, which I have hitherto met with, I have always remarked, that the author proceeds for some time in...

Yes, they do. Descriptive statements do not necessitate normative statements. But they do imply them, and they do so because morality is fundamentally...

What is Russel's paradox?