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http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=dennett&topic=freewill I think an important job that Dennett does is to show that it's not true to say your future is...
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Dear Naturalism Philosophy Forum members, I'm writing to ask for your help in supporting the Center for Naturalism, the only organization I'm aware of,...
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I wondering weather it is a commonly held belief amongst Naturalists that traditional methods of living for humans would be the most natural and therefore the...
Alice
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... Get too traditional and you'll dispose of the computer enabling the reading of this email. I'd be interested to hear about your "broader beliefs and...
Bill Brown
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Hi bill, LOL. We'll I'm 5 months pregnant at the moment and I'm sure that is interfering with my thinking processes LOL. is that OK? Or a bit scary? :-) Any...
Alice
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Hey Alice, Great question. :) My own personal take on the issue is this: naturalism and its fruits, science and technology, have greatly improved our lot in...
Rich Lawrence
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Hi Rich, I'm not opposed at all to modern technology - plumbing etc. I was reading about how margarine is made, and the effects of this processing on the...
Alice
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Hi Stephen, We can think of time as a continuous line, the past one way and the future the other way. And we are at NOW in the middle. We are moving along this...
Steve
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Dec 10, 2008
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Hi Steve, Good to talk to you again, I hope I find you well. We can think of time as a continuous line, the past one way and the future the other way. And we...
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[CHDO = could have done otherwise] On Nov 8, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Ken Batts wrote (quoting Stephen): "The problem is all about people believing that when they...
twclark2002
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Hi Tim, Having gone through your post, with less time than I'd like, I think we might agree more closely than it appears. There is a point to making decisions....
twclark2002
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Dec 20, 2008
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I agree with Stephen that compatibilists generally downplay the fact that the sort of responsibility that's compatible with determinism (or lack of...
twclark2002
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I see the mistake that Tim makes, it is the mistake that most wide and narrow CHDO compatibilists make, they overlook the altering of circumstances in play at...
Phil Knight
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Steve, I see the mistake that Tim makes, it is the mistake that most wide and narrow CHDO compatibilists make, they overlook the altering of circumstances in...
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Tom, we are innately?predisposed to think that retribution must somehow be justifiable. I would say the invention of retribution is a fairly recent concept,...
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Dec 22, 2008
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Hi Stephen, In stimulation conversation again :-) I wanted to say something before about a BBC documentary I've been watching, but I couldn't find the name of...
Alice
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Hi Stephen, Yes, I agree that retribution is recent concept, but I think we might be hard-wired by evolution to grant validity to what the concept often is...
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Yep.? ... From: twclark2002 <twc@...> To: naturalismphilosophyforum@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:51 Subject:...
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Steve, Each of us is at the moment of choice only one entity, the other zillion potential entities that we might have been never made it to reality. Ergo,...
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Phil Knight wrote, about my attempt to argue that a broad compatibilist position makes ethical sense: "I see the mistake that Tim makes, it is the mistake that...
Tim Beardsley
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Dec 29, 2008
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In a message dated 29/12/2008 05:53:26 GMT Standard Time, timbeardsley@... writes: Tim, don't rely on that possibility)d So I agree that if you insist...
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<http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/200901/troubles-with-determinism> The author fails to explain the context within which EHR occurs. The ...
Will
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Thanks for sending this, though I take issue with a couple of your points. First, a minor point in that while I agree that academic psychologists will lean...
Alessandro D. Gagliardi
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Jan 2, 2009
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Hey Tim, I've been following this discussion on and off and I'm not sure i fully understand where the disagreement lies. Do you believe in retributive...
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Here's another take on Krueger's blog The troubles with determinism <http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/200901/troubles-wi\ th-determinism>...
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Hi James: In answer to your questions: Do you believe in retributive punishment? No Do you believe that a person should feel guilty about the mistakes they...
Tim Beardsley
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Jan 4, 2009
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James: "Do you believe inserting the premise that a person could have done otherwise will make it easier to determine why someone did what they did and how to...
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Tim, Agreeing that we could _sometimes_ have done otherwise, as I believe is completely consistent with naturalism, Sometimes? Isn't it always or never...
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Do you believe punishing someone is a bad thing the same as killing is still a bad thing when done in times of war? That it is a case of a perceived lesser of...
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One thing I think that would help the centre for naturalism is a definition of what options are in a deterministic universe. I've been thinking about this for...
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