It didn't occur to me at the time, since I know you tend to comment on Kant discussions. Had I known you don't visit this area much, I would have tagg...
The traditional issue of mind being "non-physical" reckons back to antiquity and even early modern science, in which the concept of the soul was used ...
Agreed to a large extent. It seems to me this question hinges on two different, albeit related issues of what "touching" is, that roughly corresponds ...
"We have the ideas of matter and thinking, but possibly shall never be able to know whether any mere material being thinks or no; it being impossible ...
No comment from Mww. :scream: What a travesty. It's fair to point out criticisms of many philosophers regarding how they interpret Kant. Say Schopenha...
Quite. There is a misguided tendency to take physics way outside of its purview. If getting cut by a knife or tickled by a father doesn't register any...
"Inside" and "outside" become obscure terms as applied to the universe. A bit like speaking of up or down or east and west. Not exactly, but similar. ...
I don't see why "all of existence" should include or not include an open or closed system, I don't personally see empirical evidence to suggest either...
With something as vast as the universe, the meaning of a "closed system" is obscure in a way that does not arise, say, in a heat engine, or other smal...
Where does it say the universe is like a black hole? In any case, if the universe is open system, then we are being mislead by insisting on analyzing ...
I read two of his short books In the Miso Soup and Audition, both were quite good and strange, though perhaps Miso Soup was a bit better. This one loo...
Sure entropy exists. What's not clear to me is how far it should be extended. It was originally used to describe the behavior of particles in heat eng...
Sounds nice, but is problematic. If you don't know what you are looking for, it will "find" you eventually and is necessary in so far as you have ques...
I see a problem, because I think Sellar's distinction between the Manifest Image and the Scientific Image to be quite right, yet the truth of a theory...
I fear replying you to you on occasions, your sophisticated way of expression could make it easy to misunderstand (or rather misstate) what you are sa...
If someone adds a chemical solution to what we call a river, it hardens and if I paint yellow lines on it, it becomes a road - and can be used as such...
But you are hitting on a most interesting point, often overlooked. What you say about animals is indeed correct. It raises the same issue, the animal ...
It's something like that, I've yet to read the official English translation, which is allegedly coming out this year. As I understand it's "as if" (an...
Yeah, he's quite dark. But I think his account, when read secularly is quite coherent. But the problem of how out of one many arise, remains, no matte...
Correct. And, incidentally, also Kant's flaw - which they could not have predicted. I think modern physics shows that space and time exist external to...
"Here we have a wide ocean before us, but we must contract our sails." As Cudworth puts the matter. You give good arguments on a most difficult topic:...
Sure, and even here, one could make the Cartesian argument that even mathematics could be deluding us, some demon making us think 2+2 is 4, maybe it’s...
The example of Schopenhauer pointing out that Kant assumes plurality when he argues for the existence of "things-in-themselves", isn't an intuition. I...
It's a bit like what Descartes said, I forget the exact quote, but the gist of it being some philosophers try to complicate things so much to hide or ...
I think something like what you suggest is quite true. We have to purge ourselves of the idea of "dead and stupid matter". To be clear, such a view wa...
I find it funny that there's discussion about materialism in relation to Schopenhauer, for the very thing I quoted is quite relevant, I'll post it aga...
Sure - I was only commenting on that specific quote which Mww provided, if you add more context then that often changes things. Schopenhauer does freq...
Again, will as the closest approximation we have of the "thing in itself". Willed actions, as felt phenomenologically, could be labeled representation...
I agree, it need not follow and is false as can be appreciated just by merely looking at how other organisms interact with the world. Unless he has in...
Not a machine no, a creature of nature - not his exact words, but that's what he means. He appears to have something quite similar to evolution in min...
His second publishing of The World as Will and Representation, which now included Volume.2, supposedly establishes his complete view on the matter. It...
It's important to keep in mind that for Schopenhauer, the will as thing in itself is the closest approximation to the thing in itself "unaltered" as i...
As far as I understand, the person who first adopted neutral monism, though I don't believe his used this term, was William James. Russell was influen...
Yes, he even mentions something to that effect about not knowing the intrinsic nature of physics and that this intrinsic nature is irrelevant to the c...
There is a lot here. But as Bertrand Russell points out, in a long quote, worth citing in full: "To return to the physiologist observing another man’s...
I suppose a trivial thing which could be said about a "scientific method", would be to look for simplicity within complexity, you'd want to eliminate ...
Maybe more than ever. We face problems the human species has never seen before, and are also at the very cutting edge of new discoveries in almost all...
I think it's factual, and there's an interesting history behind this. Granted everything I say is my opinion, unless I'm quoting someone else. The deb...
I'd say contained within rational idealist doctrine. It's not as if it's an established school like Rationalists and Empiricists, but I think Lovejoy'...
It's a very long story, but worth sharing: He's the guy Chomsky always references instead of Kant, because he says he finds his ideas to be "richer" (...
I'm not a fan of reductionism. I'm a rationalistic idealist, like Descartes or Cudworth or Chomsky - along those lines, though not metaphysically dual...
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