Comment by TKoL on How can an uneducated but rational person differentiate...
"Science takes the approach of philosophy a step further by rejecting all faith as a valid approach to the establishment of truth" - as someone who is staunchly pro-science and anti-religion, I find...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What should philosophers know about math and natural...
Considering how frequently philosophers bring up Quantum Mechanics when they talk about Free Will... I think any philosopher who wants to do that has an obligation to understand a minimum amount about...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Solipsism and other minds
Solipsism is interesting to philosophers not because it seems likely to be true but because it highlights in an intriguing way the fact that knowledge has no ultimate foundations. -- yes, it's a fun...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why a theory is still used after proven wrong?
+1 for mostly correct answer, but I don't like this phrasing: "Einstein's equations necessarily reduce to Newton's equations under specific, non-relativistic conditions". They don't reduce to them, the...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Isn't the fact that we believe our minds are able to...
corollary question: how could a person who is bad at reasoning, logic, evaluating evidence and so forth discover and verify that they are bad at those things?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is there a stalemate between Skeptical Theism and The...
Skeptical Theism is just a jargon-y way of saying 'God works in mysterious ways', no? That certainly is a compelling argument for many people. It's not universally compelling, however, and doesn't...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What would it be like for a person with no senses and no...
@Howwhye why do you think it's like a p-zombie at all? If anything, it's the reverse of a p-zombie. A p-zombie is someone that acts and moves and speaks like a thinking person, and yet has no internal...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Isn't the fact that we believe our minds are able to...
corollary question: how could a person who is bad at reasoning, logic, evaluating evidence and so forth discover and verify that they are bad at those things?
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Isn't the fact that we believe our minds are able to...
one cannot take reason out of the picture to consider how mind could operate without reason -- i don't think OP is suggesting that.
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Regarding objects being concrete and properties being...
I actually believe there's layers, and each layer is built on something different.I believe the thing we have the most direct access to is our own mind, our own thoughts, which is not concrete.I...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on How philosopher who claims that they not a p-zombie could...
Many philosophers don't believe in p-zombies to begin with, so for those philosophers, it's not really a challenging question - p-zombies don't exist, I'm not a p-zombie and other people aren't either....
View ArticleComment by TKoL on The problem of philosophy?
What OP is saying I think is that all disagreements in philosophy are rooted in language misunderstandings. However, I think he's entirely wrong (and not because I'm misunderstanding his words)
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Existence of counterfactuals (looking for libertarian free...
This question isn't only challenging from a Libertarian perspective, it's also interesting to ask about the ontology of 'possibilities', and how they relate to responsiblity, from the point of view of...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is free will a third option aside from chance and necessity?
@Futilitarian while I am sympathetic to your intuitions, I don't think that the compatiblist account given here needs to be seen as a heavy diminishment of freedom. If free-will is about...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Under reductive materialism, could the same brain state...
My answer to the title is just a brief 'no'. If reductive materialism is the case, then brain-states follow from physical states. If the two universes follow the exact same laws as each other, then the...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is there any kind of consensus among experts about Direct...
@Conifold that poll doesn't even look like it gives an option close to 'direct realism'. Perhaps some signification fraction of "other" include the direct realists? -- edit -- apparently disjunctivism...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Does quantum mechanics make miracles merely coincidences?
It's far, far, far more likely that there was no miraculous parting of a sea at all. If you want to explain biblical miracles, you don't need to stretch so hard - the easiest explanation is that...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Who, if anyone did say it, was the first to say that...
I must be the only person here who thinks the blue/red question is actually meaningful.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What would it be like for a person with no senses and no...
If you think this person doesn't have an internal experience, then it's again just nothing like a p-zombie. It's just a braindead person. P-zombies aren't motionless, speachless, braindead people.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Could Occam's Razor ever favor theism?
@Mark absolutely. All sorts of absurd things could be true. All sorts of UNDISCOVERABLE truths could exist, and nothing is more unsatisfying than an undiscoverable truth. But the other thing about...
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