Dissatisfaction with Many Arguments for and Against Dualism
Victor Reppert recently posted on his blog the following quotation of Susan Blackmore: How can objective things like brain cells produce subjective experiences like the feeling that ‘I’ am striding through the grass? This gap is what David Chalmers calls ‘the hard problem.’ …It is a modern version of the ancient mind/body problem – but … Dissatisfaction with Many Arguments for and Against Dualism
Joel Steinmetz: The Problem of Intentionality: A Cardinal Difficulty for Physicalism (2005)
A very interesting summary of a lecture delivered to Gonzaga University’s Socratic Club on December 9, 2005. LINK Disclaimer: As always, links do not necessarily constitute endorsement. See also: Craig’s Argument from Intentionality
J.L. Mackie’s Argument from Queerness against Objective Values
In his highly significant book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, the late Oxford philosopher J.L. Mackie rejected moral objectivism and instead defended an error theory.[1] Although Mackie admitted that ordinary moral language and first-level moral beliefs imply moral objectivism, he argued on empirical grounds that moral objectivism is false. Mackie called one of his anti-objectivist arguments … J.L. Mackie’s Argument from Queerness against Objective Values
LINK: What is a Physical Object? by Ned Markosian
I am quoting the abstract of this paper here, without comment pro or con, for interested readers who may wish to read the paper for themselves. Feel free to debate in the combox. Abstract: The concept of a physical object has figured prominently in the history of philosophy, and is probably more important now than it has ever … LINK: What is a Physical Object? by Ned Markosian
Evan Fales: Deepak Chopra’s $1M Prize is a Publicity Stunt
(This is a guest post by Evan Fales about Deepak Chopra’s recent challenge to the new atheists.) This is a publicity stunt. He’s smart enough to have picked what may be the biggest unsolved puzzle for naturalism. At the same time, his challenge is seriously vague in its wording. What exactly does he mean by … Evan Fales: Deepak Chopra’s $1M Prize is a Publicity Stunt
New Paper by Taner Edis: “Beyond Physics”
From Taner Edis: I have been working, on and off, on a paper with Maarten Boudry concerning physicalism and the prospects of detecting nonphysical agents. Well, it’s been published, and I thought others on the list might want to take a look, since it concerns supernatural agency and design arguments but approaches these questions from … New Paper by Taner Edis: “Beyond Physics”
John Danaher’s Blog Series on Mind-Body Physicalism
Overview: Part 1: The Argument from Past Explanatory Success Part 2: Hempel’s Dilemma Part 3: The Knowledge Argument Part 4: Absent and Inverted Qualia