Tom Storm

I think then, that you and I are in agreement. We certainly know that the phrase, beyond our known reality, is often code for the Platonic realm or an...

This issue may simply be to difficult for me. If the question asks is there a possibility that there is an aspect of reality beyond our known reality,...

This makes sense. But from my perspective reality is a vexed term to begin with. What exactly do we mean by this word - the totality of facts, not thi...

This got complicated. For the non-philosophers, is there a 2 or 3 sentence answer to the OP from your perspective? From my perspective we can’t ‘know’...

Fair. My own view is that if there’s intelligent life out there, distance may not matter given technologies that would look like magic to us. We can i...

I'm a fan of welfare safety nets and we have reasonable ones in operation here in Oz. Rights based thinking is not as interesting to me and I am often...

Where people stand politically is often a reflex action. How committed they are to the actual implications of their beliefs may be an entirely differe...

That's helpful. I’m not sure. I’d say humans generally find suffering unpleasant and therefore try to avoid it. And because we’re social animals, we a...

Thanks, I see what you’re saying, but it never occurred to me that moral positions require objective facts. This deserves its own thread. As a non-phi...

Just thinking out loud. Isn't the way conservatism functions different across cultures and contexts? There are conservatives on the left, for example,...

I’m don't know if there are moral facts or if morality is grounded in anything beyond emotional responses, perhaps emotivism is correct, of which, pre...

I’ve often thought that sin and mental illness are connected for many people. The notion that one is going against nature/god. All interactions can di...

I doubt it. I think we need face-to-face discussions in real time, not the anonymous often polemical world of forums. But who knows? The issue for man...

Yes, but it depends upon what "much better' means. For instance, if a socialist says we need much better conversations about economics and money, then...

People also talk about mental illness as if it is romantic and needs to be defended as merely a kind alternative lifestyle that the evil mainstream ca...

No worries. I wasn't entirely sure what you were saying, so I didn't come to any conclusions. Indeed. In Crisp's time, the conservative mainstream rig...

There is no single project of psychiatry. It's also worth noting that the anti-psychiatry gurus are often psychiatrists themselves; people like Thomas...

Nice. I wonder what qualifies as a moderate leftist. Here in Australia someone like Biden would be seen as a centrist or possibly a conservative. I ha...

If people find concepts difficult to understand, and if the content seems to contradict their core beliefs, they tend to dismiss it as "bullshit." We ...

Except that it is not uttered by so called "alpha males'. So perhaps this is a deflection? Curious.

There’s a plethora of “ways out,” but I’m not confident in any myth-building that borrows from quantum mechanics. I have no expertise in the area. Bas...

I've come to think that almost everything in life depends upon how you decide to look upon it. Old age can be a shipwreck or it can be rewarding. I've...

Maybe you need to go broader. Try phenomenology which understands the subjective and objective not as two separate realms but as mutually intertwined ...

Yes. Isn't one of the present problems that people have private understandings of truth instead of global narratives? Isn't it individualism versus co...

Well I’d say the conclusion is a reasonable one. But it isn’t the new order it’s been the consistent one. You may be on to something. It is sobering t...

I was never taught anything about gender. Nothing I remember. There’s a bunch of threads on the more recent understanding here already. I might add th...

Maybe this varies. The education I had (1970’s-80’s) was borderline relativism. We were taught that things appear different depending on who you are i...

I don’t think we live in capitalism as such, more a capitalist inspired clusterfuck of earth raping corporate barbarism. In theory it is possible to h...

Nice. I’m not sure anyone can escape meaning or purpose. What we may not encounter is a transcendent purpose - a purpose above and beyond anything hum...

We’re not all post-modern mercurial geniuses down here, I can tell you.

Yes, I think those are fairly reasonable and conventional views. I tend to think about the problem of suffering (evil is such a limiting word). I thin...

He was banned 3 years ago.

From most perspectives, certainly. But Bernardo Kastrup, who is not a realist, believes in evolution and seems to address the apparent irreconcilabili...

Hello. I don’t think it is unusual at your age to feel chronic feelings of emptiness and nihilism, regardless of one’s background or fortunes. I had a...

Thanks, I enjoyed the conversation.

No substantive comment from me, except to say I found this post of yours especially interesting and it resonated with me.

The category is usually called agnostic atheist, since atheism refers to what you believe and agnosticism to what you know. It’s a popular category in...

Whether it follows or not may not be the issue. Also, what is meant by “reveals nothing”? And what is meant by “out there”? I’m willing to entertain a...

Atheism is a pretty broad area. Most people are only familiar with the Dawkins/Hitchens approach, which is polemical, mostly non-philosophical, and of...

One area I’m interested in is the idea that certain philosophical approaches (like enactivism and constructivism) argue that the regularities we find ...

Not sure. I wanted to say something more interesting...

Fair enough. Richard Rorty once said in an interview, something like, “We can talk all about justification, but about truth we can say very little. “ ...

I may not have done much of a job of articulating this and have tried to be more precise as I go, But philosophy is @"Leontiskos" interest and so he h...

Thanks for your forensic analysis of my summary of anti-foundationalism. I’ll mull over what you wrote. Maybe someone else will chime in with a view o...

I thought “meta” referred to self-referential discourse.

Interesting. I had a similar experience when I was 15 or 16. My current position is that I have no choice but to accept the reality I’m in and that hu...

Isn't almost everything founded on metaphysics? Science presupposes that there is access to reality and truth about it. Knowledge. Science is founded ...

Yes, that's true. Have you come to any metaphysical conclusions yourself?

Funny. You can understand why people find theism attractive in all this, since it seems to effectively provide a grounding that resolves the confusion...

Thanks. I thought the argument and above statement avoided the relativist fallacy because it doesn’t say “all opinions are equally true” or that truth...