Manuel

Yeah well, Newton was not awarded the Nobel Prize, for several reasons, but he might have deserved one. Descartes, Locke, Leibniz and Kant surely dese...

Yeah, sure, you'll get directed to several sites with lots of information, sometimes conflicting, sometimes not. I'm not saying there's nothing to it,...

Then it won't matter much. It's a bit like Leninists, there can be left wing or right wing Leninists. Zizek claims to be a left Lacanian and categoriz...

Well this is likely the ultimate metaphysical question, the biggest of them all. Many perspectives can be given. The best I can do is, we are not equi...

I'd like to add here, though I maybe already said it: what is gained by saying "material" in between "external world"? Does it add anything that is no...

Russia and Ukraine near to grain export deal: UN, Turkey https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/13/russia-and-ukraine-near-to-grain-export-agreement-un...

I went down that rabbit hole for about two to three years, and could salvage very little information of value. But, I do have a tendency to really dis...

Thanks for sharing! What an amazing, amazing achievement. One can only be in awe of these images.

There's a lot of territory covered in your post, much of it of high quality. But I'm unclear on the main question being asked. These answers obviously...

It's insane. Finally we are getting the images after several months, I think they are going to share 4(3?) pics tomorrow. Can't wait to see what new t...

The interaction problem boils down to defending monism or pluralism. The monist can ask "what is gained in saying that there are multiple properties t...

The Mental Life of Modernism by Samuel Jay Keyser The Patient's Secret by Lorenth Anne White Keyser's book is extremely interesting, very provocative ...

Sure man, it's something that took me (and continues to take) time to figure out. One may disagree with a lot of what the positivists believed in, but...

I suppose we could, but, if the tree isn't placed in dirt it cannot grow.

It's merely a matter of emphasis: I would add that picking out a TREE by the features we pick out it by, is very curious. We don't, for instance, cons...

Yes, and this is quite an interesting case you point out. I'd even argue that this is even slightly more philosophy than science, in so far as we are ...

I am not evading anything here, I'm replying to what I think you're asking, by giving you answers that approximate what happens in my experience, that...

I don't posit a gap between human beings and the rest of nature. In so far as you include all these topics (identity, etc.) as belonging to nature, I ...

On the topic of the self and the continued existence of external objects. It's in the Appendix of the Treatise.

Yes. And I don't think there is an unbridgeable gap between human identity and the natural world. Human identity is something we have to deal with, it...

I agree. And one can speak and write coming from a perspective of being angry at something or someone, it's allowable and even normal - on occasion. T...

A person who has been here for 7 years? No, it cannot possibly have been an easy choice at all, clearly we've lost a good contributor here. However, t...

Wow, a bit surprised. He treated me quite well when I got here. He's a smart guy, no doubt. But that kind of rhetoric is not conducive to anything, ou...

We have, as have other species. The biggest changes emerge rather quickly, instead of slowly over long stretches of time, as is often believed. We cou...

It depends on how rigorous or loose you want to be when using the term "science". Yes, there is "political science", but it's very far from the "hard ...

This "Supreme Court" want everybody to die: https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-limits-environmental-protection-agencys-authority-11656598034?m...

Not at all. I think there is an unfortunate trend to associate the word "nature" and "naturalism" to mean whatever science says there is. But there is...

What about those things that don't exist but have an effect/affect?

I borrow Sellars' terms because I think it's a useful distinction, but aside from that, I'm not a fan (nor do I dislike him), and he has not he been a...

No. Although it is tempting to put forth such distinctions, as it looks neat and saves us from doing more work, I don't think it holds up. There is pl...

It's a good question. It doesn't really have a label per se, recognized as such by most of the historians of philosophy, save for Arthur O. Lovejoy, n...

Sure. But the plucking can happen by something "external", say, seeing a stone, or a hallucination of a stone. The actual object need not be in the wo...

Well, as presented by Lucy Allais (it's a long quote to quote by hand at the moment), it seems to me that a Cartesian account of perception is correct...

Ah, then it is a good point. Ah well, if its behavior, then, that's a different thing. But behavior can be very misleading, in terms of, not confusing...

Oh, that's interesting. It looks tricky to me, because, why use consciousness when intelligence can be way more efficient?

That's probably true. The issue then become, to what extent is it intelligible to create a separation between consciousness and intelligence? Because ...

I think the problem here already lies in the premise, that consciousness is a kind of AI. Or that it could be somehow transcribed to AI terms and rele...

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke

Sure insights come in all shapes an sizes. But I'm guessing the OP had in mind the deeper kind of insights, which, for me at least, are difficult to v...

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume II by Descartes The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

Ah. Ok. Good. You pass the culture test. Phew.

Coke float is OK. Root beer float, better! It is a fine American invention, that no one should deny, because it's a fact. Unless you dislike life's pl...

Not just the US, if that makes you feel better, Europe too. Send as many weapons as possible, care virtually nothing about diplomatic negotiations (mi...

The point, so far as the US is concerned, is to weaken Russia as much as possible, paying for it with Ukrainian lives, not just dollars. Nevertheless,...

Which is all very good. But who supplies most of the weapons in NATO? Who controls the vast majority of budget in NATO? It's not Europe. This article ...

"...but a moment of the brutal attempt to change our entire geopolitical situation. The true target of the war is the dismantlement of the European un...

I sometimes find him entertaining. But he is not a serious scholar, there are many instances of pretty BAD scholarship in his work, with very sloppy r...

That is quite remarkable. Not that I should be surprised, what with all papers submitted at the pressure to publish or perish. It's a (very) slight re...

I think the issue is here is that the topic is made to be more complex than it is, often with good reasons. When it comes to matters of will in genera...

It's a very interesting question. I agree that they can (but it doesn't mean they will) produce insight, but it's not the type of insight that can be ...