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Hey gang, I just joined. Wanted to introduce myself. I'm twenty-nine, live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and got my psychology degree a few years ago. Philosophy was...
Epistemite@...
Sep 26, 2004 2:19 pm
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In a message dated 9/26/2004 7:20:41 AM Pacific Standard Time, Epistemite@... writes: Philosophy was my second choice for a major but provides a great...
Hey Richard, I don't even really try to relate work to philosopher. I have simply noticed some interesting individuals in the field of philosophy. Yes, Monk's ...
Epistemite@...
Sep 26, 2004 6:04 pm
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Friends-of-Wisdom -- Neuroscience will never take the place of psychoanalysis, never completely, although it flatters the neuroscientists to imagine that they ...
brent@...
Sep 26, 2004 7:41 pm
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Brent: Neuroscience will never take the place of psychoanalysis, never completely, although it flatters the neuroscientists to imagine that they have finally...
In a message dated 9/26/2004 11:05:16 AM Pacific Standard Time, Epistemite@... writes: I've also been looking for a bio on Sartre and his amphetamines ...
Hi Richard -- Thanks for your interesting responses -- you've made it easy for me -- I though I was going to have to track down a copy of Gazzaniga's book,...
brent@...
Sep 27, 2004 7:13 pm
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Brent: Neuroscience is a wonderful field -- I took 10 units in college and would loved to have taken more. My most salient point on this issue is that there is...
Richard -- I enjoyed reading your responses and have, I think, only one comment concerning the treatment of psychological disorders. Humans are gregarious,...
brent@...
Sep 28, 2004 3:25 pm
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One last comment (for now): I certainly don't understand most of my dreams, but they do have a logic and represent the mind thinking at night. Dream thoughts...
brent@...
Sep 28, 2004 3:35 pm
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Brent: I don't see how medicine or science can replace the need that we have as human beings for the company of other human beings. People who end up in a...
In a message dated 9/28/2004 8:36:56 AM Pacific Standard Time, brent@... writes: Not everthing in dreams makes rational sense -- the dream mind isn't all...
Brent: One last comment (for now): I certainly don't understand most of my dreams, but they do have a logic and represent the mind thinking at night. Dream...
... There's a bias in much of neuroscience - in much of science in general - that first-person stuff is just plain suspect and secondary to whatever's really...
... that ... Whit: There's a bias in much of neuroscience - in much of science in general - that first-person stuff is just plain suspect and secondary to...
... - but ... (Brent) There's a very good book on the subject called, "The Unconscious Before Freud," by a guy named Whyte. Jung gave lots of credit to a...
brent@...
Sep 30, 2004 3:21 pm
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... Well Richard, when Searle suggests there's something pathological going on in the way philosophers and scientists tend to completely discount even their...
Richard -- I think that dreams have a logic of their own, that when we sleep the organizing ego of waking consicousness is less active, and that there is ...
brent@...
Sep 30, 2004 4:23 pm
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... Hi Richard, I'm just joining this discussion but I think I know what Whit means (we'll see in his own replies): It was the dogma that there must be a ...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Sep 30, 2004 4:36 pm
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Daniel: I'm just joining this discussion but I think I know what Whit means (we'll see in his own replies): It was the dogma that there must be a corresponding...
... Richard, How about a unity? Is a unity simply an aggregate of things heaped together in a random collection? Granted there are such things like piles of...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Oct 1, 2004 11:40 pm
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... Richard, How about a unity? Is a unity simply an aggregate of things heaped together in a random collection? Granted there are such things like piles of...
... Richard, I'm not even addressing the mind/body dualism issue here. I'm simply asking whether we understand things that are never given in sense experience,...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Oct 4, 2004 5:26 pm
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... I should have added "person" to this list as a concept we are all familiar with. I want to avoid all discussion of "consciousness" for that is fraught with...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Oct 4, 2004 10:22 pm
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Daniel: We we could debate whether all these ideas of things having intrinsic ... Richard: Need you ask as to the ontic presence of abstractions (any...
... By no means. Nor am I making a particular ontic claim about the status of non-empirical things. You are. ... I wasn't circumscribing human/non-human. I was...
Daniel Scuiry
Daniel.Scuiry@...
Oct 8, 2004 11:12 pm
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Daniel: It's hard to say this without repeating myself. Are there persons? If so, does such an entity have a different ontic status than all its individual ...
Hello gang I just joined…and found John's (or Newbie's) question most interesting. Is not Richard's answer a bit too quick though? My work compels me to...
Hey Claude, Thanks for your response. You clearly understand where I am coming from. I totally agree that many philosphers' lives were as interesting as their ...
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