Re: [FRIAM] experience monism

2023-02-09 Thread Eric Charles
While Dear Professor Thomspon has, over the years, become good at understand the experience monist position, I feel he has yet to become great at it, and so I feel the urge to put on my William James Hat, and give more forceful answers to some of the queries the Ever-Enthusiastic Professor West has

Re: [FRIAM] experience monism

2023-02-08 Thread Nicholas Thompson
to friam Dear David and other helpful persons, Thanks again for your help here. Man! Do I look forward to your definitive work on experience! All this cogitation is exhausting me. Your comment that I might dismiss your questions has an edge that I didn’t see when you first made it. There is,

Re: [FRIAM] experience monism

2023-02-05 Thread Nicholas Thompson
David, Thank you David for helping me think. I don't know about anybody else, but your questions certainly tend to my edification. I am going to take them for coffee and try to answer them, if only for my self. You are VERY, VERY kind. NIck On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 8:46 AM Prof David West wrot

[FRIAM] experience monism

2023-02-04 Thread Prof David West
The eloquence and perspicacity of Professor Thompson has convinced me to become an *Experience* monist. In my naive sophomoric enthusiasm I have set about writing THE definitive work on *Experience*. But I have a few questions ... 1) Is an *Experience* a whole or a composite? I.e., (scent of cin