Philosophical Speculations

I am particularly interested in the following question: Other than convincing philosophical argument, what development is likely to push or pull the currently dominant cultural narrative from materialism towards idealism? (New quantum physics experiments, contact with intelligent extra terrestrial ...

There's another thread about this debate as well - viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44

I am not a 'formal philosopher' by any stretch, but my 2 cents is to think of knowing and knowledge as process rather than a state. Can you give an example of such a process ? Knowing requires a dynamic process of developing internal models of the world That is science. Science is not knowledge imo...

This video is so artfully and beautifully created that I first thought of posting it in the art-form section, but given its thought-provoking ideas about polarity, good vs evil, individuality><mutuality, etc, it surely warrants a place here too ... William Blake // Dostoevsky: Marriage of Heaven &a...

I really cannot persuade myself from the Darwinian mechanisms of evolution; and as an objective idealist I do think that consciousness cannot have been evolved by means of natural selection. Maybe there are other means by which evolution can produce adaptive phenotypic characteristics. Saltationism...

"Many existential philosophers were arguably idealists, such as Kierkegaard, {maybe) Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Jaspers, W. James, H. Arendt, Colin Wilson, Paul Tillich." Do or did these existential philosophers really entertain objective/subjective idealism, meaning th...

Can one reconcile absurdism and existentialism with idealism? Many existential philosophers were arguably idealists, such as Kierkegaard, {maybe) Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Jaspers, W. James, H. Arendt, Colin Wilson, Paul Tillich. There is nothing incompatible between the two. Ob...

Would you say that mathematical platonism and metaphysical idealism are compatible? If yes, to what extend are they compatible and how exactly? Mathematical platonism argues and postulates that mathematical objects/entities exist objectively in a platonic realm of existence. Idealism argues and pos...

I am not a 'formal philosopher' by any stretch, but my 2 cents is to think of knowing and knowledge as process rather than a state. Knowing requires a dynamic process of developing internal models of the world with certain assumptions, exploring the world, unlearning some assumptions when encounteri...

Ashvin ... Thanks for taking the time to watch it, and giving your usual perceptive feedback, as I was a bit concerned that viewers may struggle with the interviewing style, and give up on it. 'Atlas' is not my favourite interviewer ~ a lot of pregnant pauses ~ but he does seem to have an intuitive...