Philosophical Speculations

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...

In connection with BK's comments about Thomas Kuhn and that "most people did not understand Kuhn", I just came across this passage worth thinking about from Barfield: "I have had to mention science, because science (I mean the causality-science which is all we yet have [1962]) is clea...

There was a time in my late teens, then an art college drop-out, when I went through some psychotic break for about a year, extreme anxiety with panic attacks; bat-shit crazy/vividly 'real' hallucinations, including envisioning committing mass murder of ex-classmates; periods where I could be stepp...

C. S. Lewis once made an analogy between a person's worldview and a map. Your worldview is your map, by which you make life decisions. The more accurate your map, the fewer wrong turns you will make in your journey through life. He was a Christian philosopher, and as such, IMO recognized that Chris...

Wrong link above, more excerpts below - https://www.academia.edu/21414895/A_Psycho_ontological_Analysis_of_Genesis_2_6 Science excludes Ethics from its Purview—but Ethics is not Necessarily Epiphenomenal A very pragmatically powerful and apparently internally consistent argument can be made that the...

How can you have a community if some members remain "fierce, untamable and wild"? Such people are not necessarily members of a community, but outsiders. There are outsiders for sure, only increasing in number these days, but no one wants to or should remain on the outside for very long. “...

My question concerns the hard problem of consciousness at its deepest level. According to Bernardo and the philosophy of mind, what is the hard problem of consciousness? I would say that it is why and how we do have subjective inner experience that we call consciousness. Why and how comes that it f...

I have a very small lounge (you'd probably call it a closet from a US perspective), but I have a great AVR setup which goes some way towards a theatrical experience. It's definitely one of those films where you feel like you've seen a new experience. I think the problem I had is that I'd read a few...