Tom Storm

Here I am assuming I have avoided stating the relativist fallacy. Either I suck at expressing this or I failed to properly “tidy up” Y. @"Joshs" is th...

Nicely put, I’m not sure what this means for me, however. How do you see this sitting with phenomenology and Thompson’s descriptions of us enacting re...

Much of philosophy seems to be a desperate scramble for foundational justifications that will 'beat' the other guy’s argument. The best one, of course...

Yes but the point is that Platonists appeal to a mind-independent order/realm to ground values like goodness, while antifoundationalists hold that we ...

Philosophy is divided into camps - some of which believe humans have access to facts or truths outside of human experience (eg, Platonism) and those w...

That there is no final or ultimate ground for our knowledge, meaning, or justification. I think that's how philosophers like Rorty, Lawson, or Brandom...

Indeed although they clearly don’t understand them the way we do, so while they might recognize the same shapes and perhaps risks as us, I’m not sure ...

Thanks. Nicely articulated. I’m not done yet, but I have a meeting.

if he’s right, that’s great, I like different views to my own even if I can’t get on board. But saying “everything comes from social practices and cha...

Thanks. Do you recall if there was a thread on intuition? I seem to have a memory of this.

Yes, I would say connected. Everything arises from social practices and contingent factors; the possibilities of our experiencing anything, perception...

You make a common enough criticism of Thompson's position (and I guess that of many pragmatists and post-modernists) and it is a good one. All I can s...

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I need to listen to those.

I find what I can understand of his perspective very sympathetic to my own intuitions, but that only speaks to my own prejudice. It is hard material t...

I always loved the opening title sequence too.

I'd probably share Evan Thompson's view that reason is situated, embodied, enactive and emerges from our lived, affective engagement with the world. R...

Ha! Well, reason is just a tool, the atheists and the theists often assume they can demonstrate the superiority of their metaphysics with reason. They...

Ha! We don’t need a structured show for this. It’s probably more about putting cameras in real world hot spots. For a tame example, look at what YouTu...

Interesting points. Do you hold a similar view about reason? I fell out of love with reason some years ago.

Good point. Some people are happy to judge others from the warm fug of ignorance. I’ve certainly done this myself. I’ve known many career criminals, s...

So how do you understand an ideology that says a certain race or group of people must be wiped out for the good of the world? Is this merely a point o...

I can see why you went in this direction, but that wasn’t exactly what I intended. What I was really trying to say, albeit unclearly, is that reason i...

No. I am not arguing that delusion is an issue. I said reason and destiny. Not madness and destiny. By the way, Hitler was a homeless dude (in your wo...

Not sure if this is relevant, but I've often held that the notion of evil depends heavily on perspective and motivated reasoning. Many years ago, I me...

It almost sounds like you resent the fact you are not immoral in an immoral world?

Does this mean you are anti-relgion?

I think that’s actually a keen insight.

Thank you; that’s very succinct and helpful. Nice.

This is a very interesting point. For Aristotle, how does the practical man provide a foundation for his virtue if not through contemplation?”

I can see why you’d say that, but as it says in Matthew, “Ye shall know them by their fruits.” That sentiment applies equally to politics and religion...

Is there a religion in the present era that exemplifies the good?

Yes, it's a fairly frequently made argument and I think it's a reasonable point It's often argued that fundamentalism is a reaction to modernity. That...

We’re here to name what we can see, what we half-see, what we might only sense out of the corner of an uncooperative eye, or possibly imagine sensing,...

Perhaps. But isn’t it also the case that religious and political groups will hold beliefs that allow for those things - think underaged marriage, wife...

I'm not confident it is. The idea of human flourishing is dependant upon whose version of eudaimonia one privileges. Eudaimonia is objective only if, ...

Nice.

Ok. Maybe you’re an optimist then. Firstly, I think this is entertainment and it doesn’t have an ultimate moral. But if I had to provide a reading, it...

I’m not really sure I see the issue. Storytelling (set aside media) has always promoted the extension of our choices and options. One of the first nov...

Maybe. The quesion I keep asking is if there's a big hole in modernity, just who chooses what we fill it with? We can’t just overthrow the status quo ...

My view would be that most people can tell the differnce between entertainment and the world they live in and most do the right thing in life. Maybe i...

Oops, typo - should have written, "it raises the quesion". Sure but this isn't just about you and your individual take on the meaning crisis. How do w...

No. I think it is important to separate entertainment from what most people do.

It interests me that Hart has called fundamentalist Protestant Christianity (as is practiced widely in the US and throughout MAGA lands) a cult and he...

I live by my intuition and don't really justify my views. I am an atheist and tend to hold simple minded pragmatic positions on most subjects. For now...

Are you simply saying that some stories explore complex moral problems and that the outcomes are unsatisfying from your moral perspective? Isn’t Break...

This is a particularly interesting subject.

A TV series is about emotion, pulling us into dilemmas and relationships that keep us guessing, speculating, and wanting more. The best ones show us s...

If it isn’t already, this is a great idea for a thread. Quick question on this. Who will catch up first - mainstream philosophy, or culture?

I remember the book but not this particular event. So is your focus on the function of trolling rather than following the money?