Comment by TKoL on As civilization advances , will the divide between various...
So far, it has widened, BUT in absolute terms, in most countries the people at the bottom side of that gap are still better off than they were before. The rising tide raised all ships, but it did raise...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is Occam's razor a philosophical application of Occam's...
I think this is an interesting idea. I don't have any other thoughts about it yet.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can religious, mystical, or spiritual experiences reveal...
A claim can be true or false, independently from how it originated. The question is “How to check whether the claim is right?” One has to question and to classify each report separately by a...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What is Darwin’s impact on modern thought?
Jo, here's something of interest to your question: geneseo.edu/~everett/….
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is it even possible to know, from the outside, whether a...
If physicalism is true, and most philosophers think it is, then at least in principle it is possible - but the gap between "in principle" and "in practice" is huge, possibly a gap humanity will never...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Do we feel compelled to defend objectivity, but not...
What would defending subjectivity look like? Can you give an example?
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Can religious, mystical, or spiritual experiences reveal...
I don't have the full answer to your question but I do have an answer to this:Furthermore, does the answer depend on whether we directly undergo the experience firsthand or merely hear about it through...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for What is Darwin’s impact on modern thought?
It has to have been pretty huge. According to the 2020 Philpapers survey, over 66% of philosophers are atheists - the vast majority of those atheists believe evolution is the driver for diversity of...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for The concept of evolution as a synthetic tool in science?
How far can one generalize the concept of evolution into the two directions: to the microworld and to the macroworld?Humans have developed many software simulations that simulate the process of...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is it ethical to enjoy old movies with...
Tropic thunder isn't an old movie. It's approximately as offensive today as it was when it came out, and in my completely subjective personal experience, the group that it should offend - black people...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can rocks suffer on panpsychism?
If panpsychism is the case, rocks still can't see or smell. I think pain is with that - they don't have the tools to see or smell. Most panpsychists will think along those lines. I'm not a panpsychist...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Can we bio-engineer freewill?
Depends on what type of free will you believe in. Libertarian free will? Possibly not. Reasons-responsive compatibilist free will? Yeah, maybe.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Term for a Question based an a Fundamental Misunderstanding
I actually think you can answer the question anyway. You can say, "According to Kantian ethics, you don't. You don't compare those things, because comparing those things would not be meaningful in...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Is God’s very existence the ultimate miracle?
Your intuition here is a common intuition many agnostics and atheists have. It's probably one of the reasons why a slight majority of philosophers are non theists, in a world where most non...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Are there published rebuttals of Patrick Flynn's recent...
No, probably not. There might be rebuttals to a lot of his indivudual arguments, if his individual arguments take forms that have been discussed before (which they probably do). If you're curious how...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on What are the main interpretations offered so far of...
My intuitive reaction is to think the biscuit conditional is shorthand for something more like "There are biscuits; you can have one if you want." I wonder if biscuit conditionals take the same form in...
View ArticleAnswer by TKoL for Is God’s very existence the ultimate miracle?
I would like to outline the basic branches of the argument:Some theists may like to say "The universe cannot have come into existence itself, it must have a creator".A non-theist might then say...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why is it "is there free will?" and not "what is free will?"
This post represents only one of the answers in the 'what is free will?' question. There are other answers.
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why are most philosophers non-theists and most...
@Rushi OP didn't say atheist = unafilliated though. I think there's a much more charitable interpretation of his words here, I would interpret it as him saying "15.2% are unaffiliated, which is an...
View ArticleComment by TKoL on Why are most philosophers non-theists and most...
I like this answer. If the powers-that-be tell people "there is a god", a huge portion of people are going to think, "there is a god". If there's a profession which is dedicated to asking hard...
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