The potential problem here is that if there is such a thing as first person consciousness, and if first person consciousness is essentially private, then by necessity there can’t be any sort of public, scientific evidence of or explanation for it. — Michael

The easy problems of consciousness include those of explaining the following phenomena:
the ability to discriminate, categorize, and react to environmental stimuli;
the integration of information by a cognitive system;
the reportability of mental states;
the ability of a system to access its own internal states;
the focus of attention;
the deliberate control of behavior;
the difference between wakefulness and sleep. — Chalmers - Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness

Neuroscience has nothing to say about phenomenal consciousness. — bert1

The really hard problem of consciousness is the problem of experience. When we think and perceive, there is a whir of information-processing, but there is also a subjective aspect. As Nagel (1974) has put it, there is something it is like to be a conscious organism. This subjective aspect is experience...

...Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does. — Chalmers again

What I don’t get is the hatred for sock puppets. — 0 thru 9

I assosciate it with people in their teens and early twenties. — Caerulea-Lawrence

Which isn't to say it isn't true, kappa. — Caerulea-Lawrence

green flag was unbanned after a lovely email pointing out an error that we made. Allegedly they asked to be banned in the days of yore, and it would be strange to keep someone banned if they weren't banned for any misconduct. — fdrake

We now have the "suspended" role, which can be used to stop someone posting. — fdrake

Ah. I see. So all we have to do is wait for Noble Dust to create a thread about PKD. Damn, that's like a big responsibility. Not easy to create a thread about one the most philosophical of sci-fi writers. Wonder how that will go.

But no pressure. — Manuel

Thank you for providing this example — Pierre-Normand

So on a rough line, which approach, which perspective, comes closer to the interests you express here - Bunge's "real man" approach, decisive and practical, or Midgley's open, piecemeal, remedial approach? — Banno

You seem to imply that the intellect has little to do with ethics and politics... — Banno

@Well, I mean, what did you make of it? — Manuel

Woah, you read it already? Ok, I’ll see what I can do… I would like to re read it though, especially since I need to gather my thoughts in order to make a decent OP. — Noble Dust

Can you provide one or two examples of the "significant figures" that it couldn't handle? — Pierre-Normand

a UBIK by Philip K. Dick thread. — Noble Dust

With regards to English, it is my second language, and even though I believe I have a decent grasp on the language, it should be relatively apparent in these kinds of high-level conversations that I am a non-native speaker. — Caerulea-Lawrence

Why I'd like to join is a bit similar to what Wayfarer writes in this post.
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14024/meta-philosophy-types-and-orientations — Caerulea-Lawrence

My perspective on it would be to find others that want to harmonize not only different perspectives and insights, but also experiences, moral and everyday life as well. In that sense, my objective aligns with the concept of Intentional Community, but I am more focused on finding people that have a meta-vision with regards to their life, and have a longing for co-creating with others as well. — Caerulea-Lawrence

This is just wrong. Much work has been done in reshaping man's relation to the world and conception of himself from the point of view of the environment as a whole. This gives rise to an entirely new value system which is necessarily in conflict with capitalism and scientism. It is very little discussed on this site, because it has been successfully marginalised, sidelined and ridiculed to a great extent. But there is a philosophy of ecology, that is even called Deep Ecology, and much related material on the concept of wilderness, and Ecosophy, and all sorts of interesting stuff that the Man does not want us to talk about. — unenlightened

Daniel Dennett updated the quote 50 years later with - "90% of everything is crap. That is true, whether you are talking about physics, chemistry, evolutionary psychology, sociology, medicine – you name it – rock music, country western. 90% of everything is crap." — Tom Storm

Mary Midgley: Philosophical Plumbing — Banno

I think his view of Metaphysics is the only meaningful one. After all Philosophy's goal is nothing more than our efforts to produce wise claims about our world(etymology). In order for any claim to be wise it needs to interpret verified knowledge and reflect on the consequences of it. So by default Metaphysics provide solutions to questions and problems.
The best example of how good philosophy can be in problem solving can be found in Scientific Frameworks (Theories). — Nickolasgaspar

Carrier is an atheist and a materialist. I felt similar to you at times. But, overall, I liked what he said and found it interesting. — Art48

Carrier defends philosophy and makes several points I found very interesting. — Art48

There is much here that I agree with, but his criticism is guided by a questionable assumption, that the goal of philosophy is to address and solve problems, to contribute "new knowledge", to be useful in the narrow sense of problem solving. — Fooloso4

There are some people who treat others badly because they enjoy doing so. For example: compulsive and manipulative liars. In my own view, there is a lot of "evil" in such an act. I think being an asshole is more related to a lack of basic morals and education. — javi2541997

Let’s start with the golden rule which leads to a reciprocal relationship between two entites.

Scratch my back and I scratch yours kind of thing.

In this type of social exchange the benefits are mutual for both parties. So all well and good. — invicta

The dilemma here comes to the problem of Evil where one of the parties doesn’t hold their end of the bargain hence broken level of trust. — invicta

The question is can corporate or banking greed be stopped at all or should the government stay away from regulation.

In any case the Rich man will have so much money they won’t know what to do with it.

Question: what role should the government do to protect people on lower wages — invicta

Which is ironic, since we've held several short story contests. — Noble Dust

for those who might not know, Emotivism is the belief that the words "good" or "bad" refers to emotions that we have, not beliefs or true statements. — aminima

(1) if words like "bad" are supposed to express emotions, that we would predict that the stronger the emotion, the more "bad" something would be. however, in some cases this is not the true. for example, I think it is equally immoral to kill my mom than to kill a stranger, however, I have stronger emotions tied to the idea of someone killing my mom. — aminima

(2) the way we form moral judgements is more like how we form other objective belief's, and less like how we acquire emotions. — aminima

for example if I want to know if capital punishment is bad, I think about it, read about it, and talk to other people about it. this is exactly like how I acquire my other beliefs (like the fine-tuning argument doesn't succeed, or there's an external world), and not at all how I acquire emotions. — aminima

not at all how I acquire emotions. we don't read, discuss or think about what emotions we have, much less worry about getting them right. — aminima

Baffling. — Baden

I disagree — Hanover

Does anyone have a good recommendation on CS Pierce? On the one hand, his collected works are free in many places. On the other, they aren't particularly well organized and it's a 5,092 page PDF.

Is there a good "guided" tour that mixes the original writing with a solid framework for studying such a large body of work? — Count Timothy von Icarus

Good luck. — Manuel

Thought I'd quote this quotable quote. — Hanover

We want contact and intimacy with other creatures, especially our own species. We are curious, we wonder, even as newborns, about the sources of sounds and other sensory phenomena. These motivations are not driven merely by pleasure and pain, in fact we will aim towards painful experiences to satisfy our curiosity and social desires. All this in place before any grand narrative to distract or give meaning is put in place. In fact any belief system needs to engage with these motivations - and often channels them, judges them, gives rules to restrict them. It's not that your post is incorrect. These belief systems do do the things you say, but there is tremendous motivation in place before these systems are plopped on top of them. — Bylaw

There is a political reality that cannot be ignored. You can go on about how justice demands the prosecution of every prosecutable crime damn the torpedoes, and we can then end up with failed impeachments and acquittals followed by emboldened politicians who should have lost power.

The Manhattan case is a case about misuse of campaign funds and falsification of records. It's a finance regulatory case.

Prosecute the man for calling the Georgia Secretary of State and asking for fabricated votes and stop with this diversion into whether Form 1876-b (I made that form up, so don't look it up) was falsified. — Hanover

Anyways, the point is that you have a narrative of why you clean the dishes. You have just taken the narrative for granted to the point that to you, it seems the answer was written on high from Moses as to why you must do them. — schopenhauer1

How do you know that? — schopenhauer1

Why do you do the dishes even if you don't like it? — schopenhauer1

Why is "it's just how the world works" connected with you doing a job you would not want to do? — schopenhauer1

Trump is slowly getting repositioned by the Democrats for a second presidency. Impeaching, indicting, or otherwise attempting to disqualify Trump from this election cycle is going to be seen as undemocratic and he'll become a martyr. — Hanover

Exactly, and you are LITERALLY displaying the point I am making in real time. — schopenhauer1

Of course I've done things I didn't want to do. Jobs that need to be done are not necessarily enjoyable. All worthwhile activities include aspects that are unpleasant. I don't see that as unfair or unreasonable. It's just how the world works. — T Clark

I ought to be patient with you, because you are talking to a projection. Seriously, though, your theatrics are misdirected. I'm glad for my friend and his happiness. We just lost touch. Such is life. It's just how the world works.

I don't owe you this clarification. It's a belatedly tolerant response to your indulgent misreading. — green flag