I think we should relate to nature in a manner of mutual respect. Not adoration, despite our destruction of the environment, after all if most of us w...
Sure. It's just that some parents think kids should have guns is a sign of love. I talk about nukes with some frequency, people say "oh that's so horr...
People disagree about objective facts now, so it's not possible to include "everybody" on a single political cause. Society can surely feel (and in so...
It's a secret :rofl: If Europe had its own separate army from NATO, then things might be a little different. The US would still have BY far the bigges...
Only economically, which is why there is (or was) all this brouhaha with tic-toc and Huawei, Silicon Valley doesn't want competition. But militarily, ...
Why childish? I don't think the US would like to have China occupy Guantanamo and have their navy patrolling the seas between Cuba and Florida. I don'...
These words - concepts really - have some overlap related to location, trivially. We have similar, though probably not exact, intuitions as to when he...
Not to the number 7 or conformity, we agree. Hmmm. How far off is the International Brotherhood of philosophers from you? 1000 miles to the east, 200 ...
Yes, I think so. I assume you're using the club as a metaphor for the universe. I'd ask, how do I know I'm a member of the club? Am I the club itself?...
Hmm. We have a location here on Earth, as I understand it, the Universe doesn't really have a location, you can't say it's to the right of nothing or ...
We don't know if such a thing is possible. There's no instances of consciousness absent body and dreams reflect stuff we got from the world, in terms ...
We could be a brain in a vat, we cannot know. But we need senses to get data for our brains. The vat would stimulate the senses too, as senses all go ...
Funny you mention that. I did not have solipsism in mind, but (paradoxically or non-sensically as this sounds) I think if we are to interpret the natu...
Quite a bit of good stuff to go into, I'll pick out the relevant stuff. Some things can be put in the forms of questions: "why is there nothing?", "wh...
Raymond Tallis writes about this in some detail, I'm forgetting the book now, or books. I don't think that's possible to answer without postulating a ...
It depends on the relation you want to clarify. If you ask such a general question like "where are we?", you have the choice of narrowing the topic do...
I mean, this approach has its merits. Him stressing the present at hand and our day to day absorbed dealing in the world and points out (as I read him...
It all depends on how you set about in thinking about God. As you point out, we have the usual all powerful all knowing arguments, which don't make an...
Well, in that case it makes sense I suppose. It's not as if there's some hard criteria that forbids people from being pragmatists, though Rorty does d...
Oh no, you most certainly are. :sweat: Just that there's more room in politics to get really upset at some people. It's a bit harder (though not impos...
I'm not convinced of that, though I do agree that this has to do a lot with nomenclature, but I'll drop it. I guess we're not connecting here. Just li...
That a colour is not a "thing" does not mean a colour is nothing. A colour is a quality. Again, do people say "I saw a red" or "I'm seeing a yellow"? ...
Interesting. I never knew what you though of Heidegger. He has useful things to say, I think that is not too controversial if you just read B&T with j...
I think I get that. But eternity is a bit much. The "saving grace" for people in this world, is that there is no hell that exists which they must endu...
He tempts himself. You should add Erdogan and Netanyahu to that list. Though this latter one is gone for now. They're all disgusting. Putin may be wor...
That asshole, Bolsonaro, is a monster. When he cast his vote against the illegal coup ousting Dilma Rousseff (the previous president) he said he did s...
I mean, it's one thing if they condemn you (or anyone) for 1000 years to push a damn boulder up the mountain. Then I can sort of understand being happ...
Reason is telling you one thing, that there is "the one", the senses are telling you there are many. When these are in conflict with each other, trust...
Is red a thing? I think we can say there are red things, or I can say look at the red object or red landscape, but I'm unclear if red is a thing, if b...
It's too broad. I'm far from being a prescriptivist with language use, but if the word is used that amply, its meaning can lead to mistakes. I think i...
We have certain capacities to do something with the world. One kind of "thinking", whatever this may be, is to try and find what's the nature of the w...
Yeah, she's right about Rorty. I don't know Quine well either, but his focus seem to me to be more narrow than the traditional figures. Might be wrong...
That's fair. And I also agree that B&T (and some of his lectures) is quite better than his Contributions and latter work, which I don't even get the p...
As I interpret the topic, it's to try to give an account of lived "reality", in such a manner that what is taken for granted can be seen as a stupendo...
The classical ones. Probably more Peirce and Dewey than James. I have in mind C.I. Lewis and am currently re-reading his Mind and the World Order. Ins...
Dreyfus' Being-in-the-World is quite good. He is pretty clear. Another thing is if you find the whole account convincing. I used to be a huge fan, but...
Yep, which is why with Heidegger one has to be a bit careful. He can be interpreted many ways, but sometimes some who read him pose questions that can...
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