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CONSCIOUSNESS: 1. What-it-is-like-to-be*, for a suitably complex living organism, i.e., for an animal (Nagel, 1979). 2. The innately specified basic capacity or power of an animal for spontaneous subjective experience, also necessarily including the innately specified basic capacity or power of immanent reflexivity (Frankfurt, 1988). *Controversy: The definition in this entry is iconoclastic and provocative, in at least four ways (see Hanna and Thompson, 2005; Hanna and Maiese, 2009: esp. chs.

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY: the social-institutional Other for post-classical Analytic philosophy, i.e., Analytic philosophy from 1950 to the present.

Plato's Philosophy Kings? Project Yourself - Another planksip Möbius. Project Yourself Sophia: Twain, I’ve been reflecting on power and leadership. You once said that all kings are mostly rapscallions. Do you mean that authority inevitably corrupts, or that human nature simply refuses to bow completely to decorum? Twain: Sophia, it’s less a moral judgment than an observation. Power tends to bring out the mischief in men.

MIND: (i) the global dynamic intrinsic structure of a suitably complex living organism, i.e., of an animal, (ii) that’s necessarily and completely embodied in that animal, such that mental and physical properties are essentially complementary to one another in it (aka essential embodiment), (iii) that both activates and also normatively guides that living organism in its spontaneous future-directed activity, and (iv) that’s also necessarily characterized by (iva) immanently reflexive...

OBJECTIVE (used as an adjective or as an adverb): anything that’s (i) not mind-dependent in any way that inherently deceives human cognition or undermines human cognitive access to manifest reality or truth, (ii) non-idiosyncratic, and (iii) universally intersubjectively cognitively accessible by rational human animals.

Becoming a modern philosopher with Daniel Sanderson — Episode 002 On Air with Sean McStay This was a fun discussion with Sean McStay, we talk about my career journey and how I became a philosopher. I hope you enjoy this episode. We want to change the way people engage. The planksip organic platform is dedicated to supporting your voice as a writer and a thought leader.

Resolving a Self-Contradiction in Neuroscience It’s hard to imagine a more rationally stimulating area of science than the study of the brain. Yet the remarkable field of Neuroscience seems determined to deny itself. Recent research points to the influence on our decisions of a vast array of innate, genetic, experiential and motivational factors of which we are unaware. The conclusion – the “rational” mind does not make decisions – it is merely rationalizing our pre-determined choices.

DIGNITY: the absolute, non-denumerably infinite, intrinsic, and objective value of persons, especially human persons, by virtue of their possessing a unified set of basic innate cognitive, affective (aka caring-oriented, aka emotional), and practical capacities that are jointly constitutive of their free agency (Immanuel Kant)—see also the entry on “free agency.” Controversy: It’s sometimes held that either (i) the notion of human dignity is conceptually confused and mythical, hence the...

More than Youthful Innocence Loss Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go? I am gone and never come back to you. I never return. Sappho (630-570 BC) Translated by Willis Barnstone Wonder Wrapped in a Smile Loss Virginity, virginity, when you leave me, where do you go? I am gone and never come back to you. I never return. — Sappho (630-570 BC) In the ethereal realm where twilight dances with the veils of time, a whispered tale unfolds, adorned with the splendor of youthful innocence.

On Playing the “Mental Health Issues” Card in the Crispin Sartwell Debate. By W1 and X1. In the well-known professional philosophy blog, The Daily Arse, and elsewhere online, some people have been claiming that Crispin Sartwell is suffering from “mental health” (what an awful, but aptly Foucauldian, euphemism) “issues,” and that this explains away whatever is going on. The charge has the triple-benefit of: 1. Making the charger appear so very nicely liberal and sympathetic. 2.