Manuel

The usual way of speaking about the world is in terms of a "physical world", because there is more to the universe than matter. But the word "material...

I believe the gist of the issue is that of "receptivity". Although it is, in a sense, true that we are receptive to these properties of the phenomena,...

In some respects yes. One property that seemingly most minds do, is attribute a permanent existence to objects in experience. In reality, we know that...

Yes. Thanks for the correction. Here it becomes tricky. Yes, objects-as(the grounds of)-representations do things to us - provide stimulation. I would...

Strictly speaking, your dog sees phenomena which he can't pass through, we call it a "WALL" or a "STEP". If the object can be moved by a certain motio...

Yes, that's what I'm trying to get as. Having read the CPR, it seems to me that the "the a-priori sensible intuitions", include more than space and ti...

I don't think this is the case. That's something we do to objects. There is no reason to think that absent us, there is any difference between a mount...

I am blurring the lines here between conceptions and absolute presuppositions, I'm aware of this. Nevertheless, along with space and time, I cannot im...

That's fair enough. I think that by now, intentionality in general should also be such a presupposition as well.

Yes, that was not the correct phrasing. I'm talking about actual real life, everyday affairs. How could we tell that space and time are a priori witho...

I used those terms in that post broadly, attempting to point out that without something in the world to contrast with out experience, it would not be ...

I anticipate a lot of interesting exchanges, though this may be my imagination going rampant. I agree, pre 1905, space and time were absolute presuppo...

The only thing that would be required given the constraints of the thread would be the pre-supposition that everything that is, is made of matter. In ...

Amen man. :clap:

Thanks for sharing that beautiful review. I can handle tough, I think. But not boring (for too long anyway). Hopefully we could exchange some further ...

I have heard of Night Watch, but have not read it. If you want a mixture of Russian culture with Buddhism, I think you might very well like Viktor Pel...

Back then I'm not sure if they even calculated how much of the universe was knowable. But the point you bring up, is extremely important to stress. Al...

It's a way to learn about Japanese culture that is entertaining. The book was pretty good, she knows Japan very well. But there are others that are mu...

Despite most people's intuition on this topic, I don't think the topic is trivial. In fact, far from it. But the fact the it isn't trivial does not me...

We come up to the point raised in the title of the thread: the metaphysics of materialism. If you say that studying the universe as was done in 1905 i...

I agree with some of this, others not. There is very good evidence to suggest that is not true: the universe cannot be understood by human beings, at ...

Let us get all our spiritual sustenance from STEM then. Because of course, during the pandemic, we all made it through because the humanities did noth...

It's a very good OP, with the only caveat that it is a bit long. It seems to me that, if you haven't done so already, you should go ahead and read Sch...

I suppose it depends who you ask. One could explain it in terms of which areas in the brain are directly responsible for consciousness (frontal lobe, ...

It's too long to explain here again (I've discussed this too much here), there is a thread I started in which I shared an essay by Chomsky that explai...

I haven't seen a poll of professional philosophers in relation to this question, so I can't vouch that "most living philosophers" accept the hard prob...

What you point is very much true. Those of us not gifted in math, have no choice but to rely on physicists to try and explain this at some level of ge...

Well, there's a whole lot of things science cannot prove, nor even sensibly talk about, which we take for granted: Literature, the arts, issues pertai...

Are you arguing for the sake of it? He should be popular because he made important contributions in epistemology, metaphysics, morals and aesthetics, ...

He sure is, as he should be. All I'm saying is that people vary wildly in what they get from him - either a great deal, something or very little and e...

Parts of it were discussed, not the whole book. There was more emphasis on obscure phenomenologists and the Ancient Greeks. Maybe related tot he fact ...

Currently reading: Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (finally and damn, it really is hard-going even knowing the main ideas before reading it)....

Yes. One need not have to be put in the default position of *having* to say, "Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a major crime.", every time one want to m...

I won't do it now (@ him), but, Baden's contributions here seem to be level headed. Maybe comes with his position here. One would just want this war t...

Yes. The first one (it being illegal) is just a fact. But not morally wrong at all. As to the convenient moralizing, yes, with the caveats mentioned.

It is illegal, as a matter of fact, in Russia. It's an empirical affair. Not morally wrong in the least, actually the opposite. Correct. Where you liv...

I own things I say and have retracted if relevant information arises, as I did at the start of this invasion. But I will not retract things I did not ...

I haven't said nor insinuated that one cannot speak about Russia's actions, of course one speaks about Russia's actions, that's part of the thread. Uk...

What do you take metaphysics to be? And who does good metaphysics in your opinion?

I'm not sure I'm understanding what you mean by showing this link. I agree metaphysics is a branch of philosophy, and that work is done in the field. ...

I don't think it's even possible to have a modern day war, without committing war crimes. It comes with the territory. I do agree that the evidence ne...

They sure are. It's not clear to me however, that many of these questions pertain to metaphysics exclusively, that is, that we're going to find some k...

That's probably true. It is however, fiendishly hard to pin-point what it actually is, outside of saying that it's about the nature of the world. Epis...

I agree. Therefore, I do not think metaphysics can be eliminated. One aspect of what the positivists did, and latter Wittgenstein (in opposition to hi...

By pressuring our governments, voting our politicians in or out, engaging in demonstrations that could push or stop legislation, sending letters to ou...

Who supplies the arms to Saudi Arabia? You think SA would dare due this if they US didn't allow it? Iran is blown way out of proportion due to Israeli...

Well. If you get rid of metaphysics, you will also need to get rid of epistemology. Epistemology has to be about something, and if you remove the worl...

Correct. There are obvious biases, proclivities and lenses through which we look at this war. It is tempting, because if it often true, to say that a ...

I mean, these types of threads lead to thinking that suicide is a good thing, because there's nothing else that can be extracted here that is positive...

You can define a word however you like. Doesn't mean that that definition maps onto what people who are interested in philosophy and those who engage ...