Tom Storm

What do you make of the phenomenologist's position, articulated so well by Joshs? In philosophy there seems to be a constant game of 'did we discover ...

Arguing about the true meaning of Nietzsche often seems like arguments over the meaning of Bible versus. Not keen on this approach. It seems medieval....

I wonder what is the evidence that there is much difference to culture between alleged nihilism and Christianity? It's not like Europe under centuries...

It makes sense that young people and disaffected folk really love him. He's so dazzlingly iconoclastic, with vicious and sparkling prose even in trans...

Isn't subjectivity and objectivity this - The last James Bond movie stared Daniel Craig. (objective) I think James Bond films are shit. (subjective).

What some philosophers might call communities of intersubjective agreement.

A shared subjective account. :wink:

Gender neutral since 2015. The very fabric of our collective childhoods is being abraded by post modern Marxists.

Not yet but I think a hunter may have killed his ma.

It's an intriguing idea for me as a non-philosopher. It has often struck me how people's professed beliefs bear little similarity to their actions (an...

Yeah, he was. I think it's so unfair when people call Deep a bloated, drug addled, child who has lost all control in the manner of his hero Cunter S F...

Best not to overstate the case. Sometimes it is indeed madness, with risks to self and others. Also, what society doesn't understand it is quite capab...

Are you an Objectivist?

I have no particular interest in the matter, but I know that Peterson fans talk this kind of shit all the time. Are you a Peterson neophyte or do you ...

For this one may need to attend the virtual university and youtube tabernacle of Jordan B Peterson, via Stephen Hicks....

We're good. You've helped me clarify my thinking. Cheers.

Of course - I should have included UFO's but I had moved on from that part.

Even if the supernatural (correction -or UFOs) are true this does not mean that every claim is true. People can still have hallucinations, mental illn...

This seems obvious to me. If we are talking about modest supernatural claims like 'my mum appeared to me as a ghost' then what you say is true. If the...

Can you clarify your question?

Indeed.

Indeed. Which is why skeptics often raise this one. We hear a lot about healers curing cancer - but this happens in nature, spontaneous remission, etc...

Are UFO's supernatural claims? It's an interesting position but I don't think I agree. The most I can say is that we have not established here what wo...

You'd have to demonstrate it was clairvoyance first. It would just be an event that has no current explanation. In the 1997 my mother said she had a s...

Good evidence for me would be something like my dad's thumb being brought back (he lost it 60 years ago). Or my mum coming back to life. Not repeatabl...

I’m not hung up on science, just good evidence. If something can’t be explained I am not afraid of 'don’t know', which seems better than ‘because magi...

Don't think I agree. If we stop talking about generalities and deal with specific claims, then we can look at evidence and assess it. There is often e...

I'm a methodological naturalist (my metaphysical claims are modest), but yes, as I have already said, I require some physical evidence or something te...

I'd say we have to look at an individual claim and assess the evidence for it rather than posit an abstract and overarching, 'what evidence is there f...

But the issue isn't what ghosts can do - it is the existence of ghosts in the first place. If my dead mother appeared that would be much more notewort...

Are you able to be specific? I am willing to be convinced but I'd appreciate some examples. What supernatural claims seem to be more realistic in the ...

Yes, my presupposition would be that there be robust, testable physical evidence. I don't generally accept anecdote, stories, feelings or claims as pr...

No. But I'm willing to be convinced if there were good evidence. Tease that out. Not sure what it means or how it would work. And it sounds like a fan...

I think it grounds it. For me 'Implausible' hangs in the air without any precision.

I don't think 'implausibility' of supernatural is quite the right frame. It is more of a case of 'unlikely given the available evidence'. That evidenc...

That's one of the most helpful insights I have seen on this matter to date. Appreciated.

Absolutely not. I think resorting to evil to to deal with evil as a general approach is stunted and just smacks of a person who is aroused by and inte...

This makes sense to me. Yep, it's the 'what is it like' that I find intractable.

Yep. I think this has been said by a few folk here when Nagel's stuff comes up. Personally I have no idea what it means to be 'like' me.

Good for you trying to articulate your thoughts on this subject. But do we need yet another text on morality? I think the work would benefit from bein...

Going to bed with a smile for the first time in years.

They are both. We’re socialised into values and norms. We find ourselves attracted or repelled and select from them.

So do you have a functional definition of truth? I understand that some things are (or not) the case regardless of words. I also figure that to some e...

Interesting discussion. Just by way of summary - are you able to outline in a few dot points what your current tentative account of consciousness is (...

Ok, thanks. Not sure I understand the argument. Sounds like I probably need @"Banno" and some Austin...

Are you being snarky? Please don't if you are. Well... it's not a 'mouse' or a 'tree' or 'running' if there is no web of linguistic relations operatin...

You might be right. I put it out there as a perspective, I know many hate RR as a decadent SoB. But I am interested to know how you can hold a true be...

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I have spent around three decades working with people (generally in psycho-social and addiction settings) who have various forms of psychotic illness ...

"Truth is a property of sentences, since sentences are dependent for their existence upon vocabularies, and since vocabularies are made by human being...