John Hand's, in his magisterial and quite contrarian book, Cosmosapiens, explains all candidates for the origins of the universe, which includes Penro...
Sure in classical theism it's assumed that he's all good. But then I'm a bit confused, why would it make sense to ask him/her why is he a cunt? Doesn'...
Something like the conditions of the universe are such that, given a specific set of circumstances, phenomenon X happens. For me, the only way to avoi...
Ah! Good to know! It's sometimes looked down upon, but I always thought it was an obvious position to take. But, in philosophy, I guess nothing is obv...
Ah, there's a fellow mysterian in here. I'm unsure if other view, minus eliminitavism are explanations as opposed to ways of thinking about experience...
Not a question per se, but give me the capacity to understand why the universe came to be and how is it possible to have innate knowledge. But in a in...
I think theMetaphysical Foundations of Modern Science by E.A. Burtt says something about the topic. But it's been a while since I read that and I coul...
Maybe not in that article, but it is not a secret. To be fair, it's not quite common knowledge. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=...
This is true. The term "science" was introduced because "philosophy" was too broad back then. If you consider that philosophy has been around since (a...
Reality is a problematic word, as it is rather elastic and can (not must) be empty or honorific at best. If you have in mind the world we know and lov...
I'd guess I'd also add that whatever it may be, will be discovered by reason alone. Our sense perceptions have finite capacity. Granted our reason mus...
Rereading: Inborn Knowledge: The Mystery Within by Colin McGinn Not much philosophical literature on innateness, unless it's technical linguistic rela...
The War on Terror unlike the War on Drugs is a war on the word "terror", liable to the fancies of powerful states. The latter war is a war with chemic...
:up: I think we might be creating more confusion than clarity by distinguishing "ultimate reality" from reality. It may cause people to think that sub...
Hmm. :chin: I think a phrase like "up needless heterodox for vagaries" is a meaningless sentence. There's nothing to take out of it. In your "red the ...
I was answering the question of the thread. Looking at the OP, I don't think saying "red the apple is" is unintelligible. It is poorly phrased, but it...
Seems to me that saying something exists is merely vague. Whereas nothing exists might just be empirically wrong, there isn't "nothing" in the univers...
Yep. But it's become a big industry in pop-science books, like Davies'The Demon in the Machine, Gleick's The Information or Loewenstein Physics in Min...
One could approach the question by saying, like Pauli did, that these things are "not even wrong." They can't even be evaluated along a right/wrong ax...
I'm quite familiar with panpsychism. It's a natural alternative that may be intuitive depending on how it's articulated. You don't even need informati...
I'd be careful with this whole information-centric approach. It's often not clear what is meant as it is used in a technical manner in engineering the...
You can be a materialist like Strawson and then the "hard problem" can't be posed. Alternatively, one can agree with Chomsky who provides extensive do...
Ah. You already believe something akin to BIV when you say "there is no moon... only hidden states which we model as being the moon...". We are liable...
I haven't been as clear as I would've liked. When I say there doesn't need to be a world, I mean the world we take for granted so you look outside the...
Loosely speaking, in a model in which all sensations (stimulus, sense data, etc.) of the type X are interpreted as the moon, things that resemble X cl...
IDF Jets Attack South Lebanon After Earlier Fire Exchanges The Israeli army said it targeted launch sites from which three rockets were fired toward n...
I don't believe I said it was an error of interpretation. We would say that the moth made a mistake, on the assumption that living creatures generally...
Fair enough. The stimulation could come from the world or it could come from a brain in a vat. We assume, very plausibly, that these come from the wor...
The thought experiment suggests that we don't need the world to have representations that we have, these could be stimulated and it would appear as if...
I think so. Look at Bryan Magee's work, he did an excellent job in explaining philosophy. But as far as the modern technical stuff goes, I'm not so su...
From a super scientist or an alien species, or God (for those who believe in Him/Her/It). Yes, you can always ask that where is that super scientist o...
I think that in principle, if we knew enough about the brain we wouldn't need an external world. You would just need to stimulate the appropriate are ...
It's difficult to generalize in this respect, there are philosophers who accept internalism without much problems such as Strawson, Chomsky, Haack, Mc...
Which is why I used the term "strong" behaviorism, one which would do away with any innate mechanism. I agree that I doubt any proponent today would h...
Under strong behaviorism, how would you know that? Any movement made by the amoeba can be taken as sign that it is reacting to the poem. But of course...
It rules out almost everything. A human being is reduced to a stimulus-reacting nothing. You wouldn't be able to tell a human from an amoeba under str...
That's a hard solution to avoid as "strong" content externalism just seems like a version of behaviorism. I suppose that one can argue that the conten...
Ah. Yeah. It's not always easy to keep one's cool about when people say really crazy stuff regarding vaccines and such, but moralizing is usually a ba...
I don't quite understand what's the argument here. I think most of us here - with some exceptions - agree that most people should get the vaccine. For...
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