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...
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,...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
<http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/one-among-many/200901/troubles-with-determinism> The author fails to explain the context within which EHR occurs. The ...
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...
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...
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>...
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...
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...
Tim, Agreeing that we could _sometimes_ have done otherwise, as I believe is completely consistent with naturalism, Sometimes? Isn't it always or never...
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...
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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