Ok. We are on the same page, yes "due process of reasoning", I agree. In the sense, reason is something to be refined and grown even more by experienc...
No no no, sorry for my lack of clarity. I agree that our attitudes and beliefs are shaped by our patriarchic society, no doubt. What I'm saying is the...
Correct. He also rejects the notion of transparent ideas, or the notion that we can introspect into our ideas perfectly clearly, this is also common w...
"The epistemic naturalism of the seventeenth and eighteenth century was science, and attempt to construct an empirical theory of mind…” (Chomsky, 2000...
Eh. I wouldn't phrase it like this, nor do I think he would agree. I don't think he would mind being called a "rationalistic idealist" like he labels ...
I mean, I agree with you if by naturalism you mean what is meant by Dennett and Carrol and so on. I don't think that's "real naturalism", but this is ...
Because they assume that all there is is “understanding” in the theoretical sense. Therefore, if we understand a theory, we understand everything that...
I mean, it’s not interesting to me, insofar as I agree with this approach to philosophy and see people who disagree with the main points to be very mi...
It was part of a way for the US to take over Europe's security concerns, probably to prevent another war. But its mission was explicitly to stop the U...
I saw a video about this but did not read a study - at least not one I can recall at the moment. Given that the exposure of the dogs to certain words ...
Yeah, the book and science are very good. His philosophy isn't, it's the type of thinking you and I very much disagree with. But don't let that get in...
Very little, I think. Maybe sometime in the future some great technology will arise that may help us make sense of it, but I'm skeptical. My take on t...
There's neurophysiological evidence for this: "Consider speech processing. Babies are immensely attracted to language. They probably begin to learn it...
This is a problem, one need not say for the millionth time, why Putin is bad person, war criminal, etc. As far as I can see, this applies to all leade...
Nobody does. Ideally NATO could back off wanting to include Ukraine while boasting that they "stopped Russian aggression", whereas Russia can then cla...
I don't deny that thinking - whatever it is - can be different for different people - including women and I also recognize that much of what we value ...
:up: Yeah, his CTMU is a word salad. And him saying the Universe is a language is not even wrong. If by language one has in mind the stuff people do. ...
It is very worrisome. I know these topics can be very tiring - the boy who cried wolf type of thing - but, there's only so many risky situations that ...
Yep. It's extremely dense though and its value is very questionable, but there are lectures and books written about it. What physical object wouldn't ...
Well, the Netherlands is, all in all, pretty advanced in terms of human rights, more so than most other developed countries, which does not mean there...
Sure. And it's also the case that housework and caring for children is still very uneven. Though if you look at professional philosophers today, there...
Sure, the issues addressed by different groups of people will vary and having a different perspective will make you have a different way of viewing th...
I don't get the impression that reason has a gender. On a serious not, though, it is true that even today (not even mentioning the Western tradition),...
This sounds awfully close to Lacan's conception on the subject. You'd only be missing what he calls "the symbolic", the other two are as stated. We co...
Thanks. Yes, I think this essay is very important, it points to historical aspects in philosophy which are barely known. Because of this, a lot of deb...
I didn't know that. Thanks for informing me. He thought some groups of people were superior to others in certain respects, thus speaks of the lack of ...
There are no saints here. I've read that perhaps Spinoza was an extremely ethical person, but surely he must have shared a few of his societies quite ...
We can't. It's part of being the creatures we are. For Kant, roughly, the thing in itself is an object of thought. For Schopenhauer it was something w...
Well, it it's modern form, correct. However, Berkeley pointed it out in a forceful manner. As did Schopenhauer and Kant, to name a few. Without us, re...
I think we should be skeptical of drawing too much massive conclusions about QM. It's true that the particle-wave phenomena is strange and utterly uni...
:up: I don't know much about the Middle Ages or the Dark Ages, but I'm guessing that given the socio-economic dimensions, the church would want some w...
It get's quite tricky with him, because he does appear to imply that in having experience, we are acquainted with nature of the world itself, through ...
:up: I tried to attribute a metaphysics to him in my work. :groan: That quote is practically a classic for me. The issue is that, his conclusions seem...
It's in the final part of this essay, but is only touched upon. You can continue here or start a new thread. Both are fine with me. I'm thinking a few...
As far as I know, I don't believe they have a "ordinary camera" on it, by that meaning any type of camera which can give us images like we got images ...
I think that those are perhaps too many distinctions, which makes the topic more difficult than it needs be. The first sentence you write makes sense ...
I mean, it helps to read Russell, Locke, Hume, Cudworth in addition to all you mention, lectures, interviews and so on. Not that he can't be understoo...
He's speaking of naturalism a la scienticism, think Dennett or the Churchlands. On this view, then UG does seems at odds with "naturalism". But that n...
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