Tom Storm

Nor me. But what we do have is free medical and hospital treatment and a guaranteed welfare payments and pensions. I work in the area of addiction and...

This interested me although we may have moved past it. Is Trump immoral, should we take a stand against him and his cronies? I ask because it seems to...

I understand that Buckley took a very principled position on antisemitism in the Right and was instrumental in reforming American conservatism.

Whatever the issues may be, it seems pretty clear that left and right don’t see the same world or understand each other’s views very well. The only co...

Interesting. I would place him as a right-centrist, certainly not a communist. It’s amazing how McCarthyism continues to define American politics! Who...

Interesting well written OP I'm Australian so forgive my somewhat tangential response, but your OP does suggest some questions to me. Is there really ...

Interesting and an important point.

I’m not sure that’s my experience but maybe Australia is somewhat kinder. There are certainly neoliberal trends along those lines but also opportuniti...

Cool. I think what I needed from films was achieved in the 1980's and 1990's and now I just don't crave them or find them engaging. It's like a stage ...

Fair enough. It would be odd if we all agreed on art. If BR came out today it wouldn't really interest me. When it came out it was a revelation and I ...

Fair enough. Sure. I am neither inclined to practice nor to theorise, but I am interested in understanding the range of perspectives out there. I find...

The theory; trying to make sense of Husserl or Merleau-Ponty is very difficult, especially if, like me, you don’t particularly enjoy theory and have n...

This is one reason why it attracts me. If only it wasn't so fucking difficult. :wink:

Nice quote.

Thanks for your detailed response. It all alludes to a broader perspective and reading than my own on this, so in reading you, it’s a bit like listeni...

Seems reasonable. Thanks.

Interesting. This analysis surprises me. I hadn't thought about science-idealists who reject models when they are uncertain. It does make sense.

Fuckin' weed smoking hippie! Pretty big in my city of five million as well. Of course, it’s mainly the middle classes and the literate blue-collar typ...

I find the implications of phenomenology for the question of dualism interesting but somewhat difficult to understand. I also note that there've been ...

But what is the transcendent ground of being; God, Brahman, the One, or all of the above? And how could we ever know that such a foundation exists? It...

You remind me of Searle too.

What about dingos and babies?

I'm interested in this paragraph. Forgive my meandering and uninitiated response. We often hear this kind of criticism of the present era from religio...

Got ya. Thanks. Or perhaps just evil (do we need ultimate?). It sounds like you might be recovering from a harsh form of Protestant Christianity and, ...

Midnight in Paris was ok. No Country for Old Men and The Killer were diverting but not exciting. I want the big electrical experince I got when I saw ...

I'm not sure I have faith in truth or ultimate goodness. A talking serpent and donkey wound almost as plausible. I wonder what ultimate goodness means...

Can't say I've seen a film I've enjoyed in around 25 years. My own theory is that for some of us only have a limited number of films we can watch befo...

But who are these originators? Can you actually sketch the process because it seems a bit vague? The founders are not generally in this vein: the Budd...

I’m sympathetic to this line of thinking, but I don’t think we have good reason to assume that any religion has a single, unified goal. One of my clos...

But isn’t that the question which matters? How do we cocreate our reality as opposed to see reality? Whether the question matters is a separate one. A...

I can see that. I’m no Kant expert but I was referring to that argument specifically. Mind you, if we what we see is phenomena not noumena then what m...

Thanks. :up: :up:

Kant’s concern was more structural and general: he focused on how the mind contributes to experience. Our sensibility provides raw intuitions, structu...

A question out of curiosity: do you have any views on the idea that certain spiritual states or "higher consciousness", might allow direct (whether pa...

I don't mind who gets implicated, as long as it's interesting. :wink:

I have sympathy for the position you are expounding. It's tricky stuff because to discuss it we are already deeply immersed in human framing, possibly...

I think you’re making the point that Haack argues: there is nothing intrinsic to the scientific method that other disciplines cannot also employ. We s...

Wasn't the Holocaust also a product of scientisitc thinking and misapplied rationalism with a technocratic final solution? Zygmunt Bauman ( a philosop...

We need a thread on this alone. :wink:

Sure but interestingly there are different views on the scientific method. Susan Haack (a philsophy of science and epistemology stalwart) takes the po...

Midnight is about four hours away. I live in the center of the city. Fireworks are set to go, and roads are blocked to vehicle traffic. Small children...

That’s a fun line, and I can see why you might lean that way, though it feels a bit slippery. Does science not rely on the assumptions mentioned above...

Isn't it the case that all epistemic frameworks rest on metaphysical commitments? Science provides a particularly clear illustration. Scientific inqui...

I hear you but I think K is being polemical here and is making an equivocation on the world naturalist. Yes he believes consciousness is natural and t...

Personally, I wouldn’t compare K with S. As already noted, K argues that mind-at-large is similar to Schopenhauer’s Will. But his view is still evolvi...

Interesting, I always assumed that binary, dualistic or black-and-white thinking was a human flaw and, perhaps, unnecessary. If we do privilege dualit...

I've also heard it argued that objects persist in idealism (not because a mind is always perceiving them) but because experience unfolds according to ...

Interesting idea for a thread. I’ve never been a science or math guy, so I don’t have strong views on these. I don’t know about the others, but this o...

Good question. Isn't the idea that the “world” we perceive is not independent matter imposing itself on us, but a manifestation of mind, or a universa...

Not sure I understand this but is the point that, at an ordinary level of thinking, dualities appear to us?