Monday, May 30, 2011

Pan-Psychism: Absurd On the Face of It. Yet How is it Any More Absurd Than its Alternative?

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Pan-Psychism is the view that nature, out there in the world and away from one's own mind, is conscious on some fundamental level. On th...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

On Tying Together Activities

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"How any given tone is understood, then, has at least as much to do with what people make of it as with the physical properties of sou...
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Monday, December 27, 2010

Just Your Perception, Man.

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Recently reading Chalmer's Character of Consciousness I was struck by one of those enigmas that sends question marks rising to the furt...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Part I: Subjectivity and Objectivity: Where the Line Is Arbitrarily Drawn

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I'm going to take this slow in order to work out the bugs that will no doubt pop up. I'll give one example here and then wait for an...
Monday, December 6, 2010

What sees “change”?

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If we conceive of our selves as a pack of neurons, ones which guide our thoughts, then even this conception of ourselves is itself a thought...
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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Aristotle's Virtue Ethics: Is There Only One Right Way?

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"Failure is possible in many ways, but success is possible in only one." --Aristotle Is there just one right answer for success? T...

Compatibilism is Nonsense: W.T. Stace's distinction between free acts and unfree acts is like picking between aspects of a Necker Cube

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The compatibilist philosopher W.T. Stace defines free will as follows: "[Free acts] are all caused by desires, or motives, or by some s...
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