Well, scientists helped developed the atom bomb. Now that weapon could destroy us all at any moment. Should we stop doing science? Althusser murdered ...
To be clear, it's possible for there to be something after death. It's also possible that before birth, our souls lived in some other realm or differe...
"Both worlds are materially identical by definition. However, they differ in who one *is* in this world. If I am person A or Z, I have the body and th...
Thanks for sharing, these are quite helpful. Yeah, it's hard to comprehend how it is that we do all kinds of things, which we do not know well or even...
"You could not think if materialism is true." Yes. If by matter, one is referencing the "matter" that was postulated to exist prior to Newton's discov...
Yes Cudworth is very hard to read. Which is why I suggest you take a look at his A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality. It's not too lo...
I'll go on as much as necessary, I agree that arguments of this kind are good, if only to make us think about our views better, and hopefully catch a ...
So it's kind of, what question do I think we should ask ourselves so that we could all be better off, something like that? Because perfection implies ...
Going back to the OP: I think the question you are trying to frame assumes that the questions we may find most interesting, must have, by necessity, m...
I've read a bit about Husserl by scholars such as Dan Zahavi, who seems serious, but very little of what Husserl himself wrote about. Aside from his o...
I think we agree more than we disagree. Those physicalists you are talking about, tend to be people like Dennett, The Churchlands, the most extreme of...
Sure, many of us have felt the terror of being aware of our own mortality at a young age, maybe 2 is very young compared to most, but I think that ove...
Yes, I said that about electronic music, but I cannot substantiate because it remains an intuition. But I wouldn't say that because of this, it can't ...
By itself? You can make that argument if you like. But I don't think this holds true for higher mammals at least, they live with some kind of basic in...
We don't really know what any word means, definitions only sketch there meaning, outside of natural numbers, which seem to be true by definition. Havi...
I think science is the best founded knowledge we have, but it's far from the only knowledge we can have. Scientific enquiry if valid for theoretical u...
I entirely agree with most of the first portion of your analysis. It's evidently true that we can't see things like inferences, or abstractions or any...
It may be a cop out, but I think the idea of "things-in-themselves" are interesting , which could be explored in relation to such themes. Of course, i...
It's am mystery. But it's something we do automatically. Perhaps it might even be the single most unique thing about us as creatures in the natural wo...
@Wayfarer: I take it that when you talk about content, you are describing aspects or architectures of the mind, therein you are describing mental facu...
This touches on the question of expertise. Someone who knows music well, will be able to appreciate Mozart in a way that most people born after WWII-i...
Materialism (which can now be used interchangeably with "physicalism") used to mean roughly mechanistic materialism. It was thought that if an artisan...
What I should have said from the outset, is that I'm essentially formulating Priestley, Galen Strawson and Chomsky in slightly different terms, but th...
It seems to me that although it is very hard to argue about what type of aesthetic activity constitutes something as being more "objective" relative t...
Reminds me of Raymond Tallis' On Time and Lamentation: Reflections on Transience to a large extent. That constructive project you describe is quite co...
Yes. We'll probably not find much by way of agreement here. I don't think metaphysical dualism is tenable, maybe a kind of dual aspect epistemic duali...
Well, can "physical laws" say anything about psychology or literature or even the consciousness of a dog? Yet it seems to me that psychology and dogs ...
That depends on if you think consciousness emerges, or if it's there at the beginning, which would be panpsychism. I don't find panpsychism convincing...
Sure intentionality is mental, but the mental is physical, no mental property suggest dualism at all, it only highlights ignorance. Our physical laws ...
How are they different in kind? It's not at all clear to me. We always presuppose intentionality, true, but it's all we have. So when we analyze gravi...
I may be way out of my depth here, but these are my initial thoughts. I suppose part of this depends on how you define "content", depending on the def...
That's quite fine. In so far as I understand what he's saying, it seems sensible. I mean, Bertrand Russell in Analysis of Matter says something simila...
The hard problem more than presupposing dualism, presupposes that it's obvious that certain problems can be distinguished between "easy" and "hard". N...
Sure. But I meant the moment before conception, when there wasn't anything that could be thought of, not even potentially, as a person. I don't see wh...
The same thing that happens before consciousness arose, it is simply absent and ceases to exist. The state prior to birth should not be any different ...
I don't think so. This depends, to a large, extent if you agree with Kant, although others before him have also denied that we have access to reality ...
It seems to me here that Chomsky and Haack are correct on this topic, namely the word "real" is honorific. When we say this is the "real" truth or the...
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