Re: Dreaming On

2009-09-03 Thread Flammarion
On 3 Sep, 09:41, Quentin Anciaux allco...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/3 Flammarion peterdjo...@yahoo.com: On 3 Sep, 01:26, David Nyman david.ny...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/2 Flammarion peterdjo...@yahoo.com: and is thus not any particular physical object. A specific physical

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-03 Thread John Mikes
Dear Peter, the Yablo-Carnac-Gallois-Quine compendium is an interesting reading - except for missing the crux: You, as a person, with knowledge about the ideas of the bickering philosophers, could do us the politesse of a brief summary about who is stating what (very few lines) which may increase

Re: Against Physics

2009-09-03 Thread Rex Allen
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Flammarionpeterdjo...@yahoo.com wrote: Dennett's main goal is not to show that determinism is compatible with free will (which it isn't), actually it is, although I don't find it very convincing Asking whether free will is compatible with determinism is like

Re: Against Physics

2009-09-03 Thread Rex Allen
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Stathis Papaioannoustath...@gmail.com wrote: Dennett didn't invent compatibilism. It has a long history and extensive literature. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/compatibilism/ I was aware of these facts. But a good SEP article nonetheless, thanks!

Re: Yablo, Quine and Carnap on ontology

2009-09-03 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 02 Sep 2009, at 19:35, 1Z wrote: Yablo on Quine ... Yablo argues that each aspect of Quine's critique is flawed. Firstly, one does not need to hold that rules making up a linguistic framework are analytic in order to be able to understand the need for a framework in order to