Manuel

Yeah, on one side we have "Putin Apologists" and "Kremlin Agents". Ok, fine. If, regardless of how many times we condemn Putin - an act that has zero ...

Sure, and in that moment such awareness kind of dissolves into activity. I was referring to most people most of the time, in ordinary conversation and...

Thanks and likewise!

I agree with transcendental idealism. How? By mentioning Carnap? I don't like this work. If language makes the world, then animals have no perceptions...

Well, it's connected to self-consciousness, and I think it is evident that we are aware that we are conscious, in our own case. We infer the same for ...

I had in mind more how NATO would get directly involved - if they ever did. They've said that it wouldn't be a good idea to go nuke for nuke - in the ...

And an enthusiastic cocaine and meth user who is for harsher jail terms. Well, Canada had a mayor who indulged in crack.... Nevertheless, onto the thr...

I think this is standard game theory, if I remember correctly, but the details could be off. The standard interpretation would be that he now has no o...

I think we have good reasons to believe that talk is the "vehicle" of thought, so prior to all that, is thought. The actual processes of language use ...

Well if that is true - as some people here are gambling on, which is what it is, - then tell me, why hasn't NATO decided to implement such a no-fly zo...

As I said, they have probably considered and dismissed this option. Every time any type of No-Fly Zone has been proposed, it has been immediately reje...

And how would they decide what missiles count as rouge or not? There is very little margin of error here. If the margin were as big as you imply, such...

It's not an easy situation, that much is true. But what should be clear to him, is that getting direct NATO involvement would signify the end of Ukrai...

Yes, we know that now that Russia was not deliberately aiming at Poland. That's not what Zelensky and people in his cabinet said at the time these mis...

What Zelensky did yesterday was insane! Does he not understand that such reckless acts will harm Ukraine much more than the current war? A nuclear war...

I don't think it works that way, that is, I don't think that because we can't have two ideas in our minds at the same time - at least not in a very cl...

Here we disagree from the very beginning. I don't think there is one fundamental task for philosophy, there are several, and the most important of the...

Yeah, looks that way.

Now this explosion in Poland. Right before winter. Cool heads must prevail.

Sure, and I've said so too, in this very thread: The added italics are new, not in the original post. That's true, and I disagree with him on that poi...

Likewise.

Maybe Nagel? I recall him saying something about that in his Mind and Cosmos, but I read it years ago and forgot much of it. These are views I very mu...

Sure. I don't deny that human beings are capable of the most horrid actions imaginable. Animals will tend to behave as they have done so for thousands...

Then you have to say the same thing about Kant. If not for Newton's discovery on physics, he wouldn't have come to the conclusion that space and time ...

Sure - that is the way we tend to proceed in scientific investigation. What is taken for granted here, is the presupposition, that we can only attribu...

This is one of the issues of using "physical" as is used in contemporary philosophy, in more or less arbitrarily stipulates that the physical is whate...

I don't think my view gives us a more precise meaning of materialism, I think it merely dissolves what is called the "mind-body" problem and in doing ...

I mean, I don't have issues with that way of expression or thinking about this problem. If anything, those things not immediately in our heads - objec...

It's not a standard of the scientific method, it's saying how much more the physical is compared to the view of the physical presented by people who c...

Sure.

I'm the odd one out here. I either think Galen Strawson's "real materialism" is correct, namely that everything is physical, including or especially e...

We will need considerable historical distance to see which of these names mentioned gets historical recognition. Back in the time of the classics, peo...

I don't know if you can "meet" systems of neuronal activity, or any biological activity for that matter, at least if you have in mind anything that pe...

Well, what has been conveyed to Russia is that NATO would reply seriously, taken to mean, destruction of the Russian military by conventional means. H...

If they use them in Ukraine, not as a reaction to NATO getting directly involved, then by using them they will get NATO directly involved. Which would...

Yep, very much so. One could add Whitehead, James, C.I Lewis, Nagel and so on. But I'm sure some here will say we are missing the real geniuses, Derri...

Yeah, it could well be sable rattling. Nukes would only be used if NATO fights Russia, in Ukraine they would serve little purpose outside of mass murd...

Those other articles aren't paywalled, you should be able to see them. A similar one was published in the NYT, about 3 days ago.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/senior-white-house-official-involved-in-undisclosed-talks-with-top-putin-aides-11667768988 That's the article which speak...

Not nuclear weapons as a first response. What I heard was that the US would sends troops along with other NATO member countries to fight inside Ukrain...

Supposedly someone inside the Biden administration, not Blinken, had discussions with a high-ranking government official, discussing "red lines", alle...

By the way, pal, we will have to iron out our differences concerning new perceptions, my reply was made on my phone, which limits how much I can write...

I think that the imagination is a topic which deserves more discussion- it is a very curious fact of human beings, true that Hume kind of posits it as...

Is that so clear to you? How can you tell what is contingent from what is necessary? For instance, Hume points out that: "When we press one eye with a...

In a trivial, non-New Age way, yes, we create the world. We use our concepts, our reasons, our perceptions and our judgments and apply it to the sense...

I think I may have misread your own quote originally, when you said "Even from a Hume-ian point of view...", I took that to mean that what followed ne...

I think A Scanner Darkly was his best, or at least, tied with Ubik, certainly not worth watching the animated film of Scanner, it was garbage. The nov...

Yes, I missed putting in that word. But to be more precise, experience is a product of a person, realized in a brain.

A Scanner Darkly, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Palmer Eldritch, Dr. Bloodmoney, A Maze of Death, etc., etc. He's fa...

There is a claimed mind-body problem, it doesn't mean this claim is true. There are many problems in our understanding of the world and our minds, but...