Tom Storm

Our ongoing and tentative understanding of our situation. I would suggest this amounts to a range of evolving inter subjective agreements. But I suspe...

Well, I think your example points to the perspectival nature of beliefs. I would not accept that they have identified order outside themselves. More l...

Could be. But maybe conceptual frameworks need renewal too. If by science we hold the belief that the universe is intelligible and that science mirror...

Reification fascinates me and mainly because my philosophical journey and intuition has a focus on the idea that we make many assumptions. I find it f...

Well peopel like Hilary Lawson would likely argue that the world is inherently open and indeterminate, so our minds create patterns to impose some ord...

I am suggesting a constructivist view. Even the notion of "order" itself is a contingent human artifact. My instinct is that our knowledge, meaning, a...

We're all making this up as we go. :wink: I've been wondering, is our aesthetic appreciation of the world partly responsible for why one might privile...

Sure. I suspect that what we call intuition is really a shorthand for unconscious processes shaped by underlying preferences. These preferences are of...

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I suppose there are people who believe that truth, goodness, and beauty (the transcendentals) are intrinsically linked, all originating from the same ...

Nice OP. I tend to hold that our beliefs are shaped primarily through the affective and aesthetic dimensions of our engagement with the world and that...

Maybe a virtual group hug instead?

Yes, my language is sloppy and I'm writing in the gaps of other activities. (I should also write "may not" rather than "is") I'm saying there are patt...

I’m not saying I understand Hart or Tillich, their work is quite recondite, and in my life, it has little practical use. But it is very interesting an...

I'm not saying there are no patterns, it's about how we tend to perceive things and that our predictive model change over time and may not map onto so...

There might be various models offered as alternatives. One would be to invert physicalism entirely and argue (as Bernardo Kastrup does) that physical ...

Good questions. I’d guess that humans are pattern seeking, meaning making machines. We see connections everywhere and this often helps us manage our e...

Or can it be both?

At present, I tend to believe that the idea that the universe “behaves in an orderly way” reflects a human tendency to project patterns and impose coh...

Was going to say the same thing. Language used makes implications which may not be accurate. There are also the infamous "laws" of logic, or as I pref...

Silly wording, but I think this can be reasonable. I identify with both conservative and progressive issues in politics. I support some traditions, po...

Fair enough, I avoid art which tries to teach or works hard to make statements about life. Do you think these artists coveted media tales of perversio...

That should start the usual disagreements about scientistic physicalism and how this has collapsed the richness of conscious experience into merely co...

I am largely immune to art (it mostly bores me rigid) but why would you argue this? Is your dislike of modern art rooted in a preference for classical...

In my view, there are no results or consequences other than the deaths (and suffering) you facilitated. Of course, there is the possibility that you m...

Cool. Thank you.

Maybe your expectations of philosophy are as naive as a young friend of mine who says medicine is useless since it can’t cure cancer. At least with me...

I wasn’t arguing your whole model was Hobbesian.

Yes, this would seem to be the case... although maybe it's others who, rather eagerly, seek to fill this space. I wounder what @"Joshs" would observe ...

Nicely put. I have no real sense what philosophy is for and as far as the average person is concerned, I think we inherit presuppositions, and even ou...

Would you describe Husserl as a secular philosopher who avoided metaphysical and spiritual claims altogether, or as someone who bracketed such matters...

We often talk about philosophy as if it’s a single activity. Traditionalists would probably argue that many versions of philosophy aren’t truly philos...

I think you might be right. Are we witnessing the end of one order and the beginning of another, or is it just the same preoccupations, endlessly repa...

Wasn't Alain Badiou largely motivated by a strong critique of postmodernism and a concern about the rise of relativism and the disappearance of any co...

It is. In Chapter 28 of Leviathan, Of Punishments, and Reward, he writes that without fear of punishment people would simply follow their own interest...

I’m not smart enough to get the most out of po-mo but our mutual friend here - Streetlight - was right into it and gave me some insight into the brill...

Well yes, idealism is the ‘collapse’ of physical reality. I’m not an idealist but the case can be made and Kastrup seems to do a better job than most....

Agree - I left it at demonstrated because who knows what this would look like?

I think it matters more to those folk who fester quietly over the 'really real'. I'm not one of those, so there is no feeling I get from this. I guess...

That’s an interesting subject and could be a thread in itself: does philosophy lead or follow? I suspect it leads though it probably depends on the ex...

Indeed. And all around us now people are trying to get nostalgia projects up and running as the antidote to some 'meaning crisis', and even the Thomis...

I have no idea if machines can replace humans, or what that even means. Replace in what way? But setting AI or simulation theory aside, the original p...

Why would philosophy eliminate the diversity of viewpoints? Do you believe there’s only one way of thinking and that philosophy should get us all ther...

I'm not sure what philosophy has to do with world peace or orderly behaviour. Can you explain the connection? Humans hold beliefs, and some of these b...

A Hobbesian position. You're arguing that there is 1) morality and 2) it's implementation, which are made up of two separate domains - cooperation and...

Agree. And also, what constitutes 'beneficial to the species' is itself contested. Maybe it’s better to say that morality may have established itself ...

Why not? Moral philosophy comes attached to a range of worldviews. It's not unified, and it shifts over time. So there's room for all kinds of foundat...

I think a lot of people hold a similar view. I've rarely met anyone who reads or takes interest in philosophy: it's a boutique interest, one that attr...

Do you mean by this that philosophy has moved from the boring to the derivative?

I've often thought that the notion of 'reality' is what some of us chase in lieu of God, and it's probably every bit as chimeric. Reality is simply th...