GALEN STRAWSON, BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY AND RADICAL SELF-AWARENESS
Posted on November 13, 2015 by BupSahn Sunim The recent intersection of analytic philosophy and philosophical Buddhism has been a very heartening sign for me. Not only does it move the discussion away from what I’ve always felt to be the dead-end of Kripkean essentialist metaphysics, but it’s also produced some serious thinking about logic and selfhood and […]
DUALIST DOUBLETALK
Posted on November 13, 2015 by BupSahn Sunim Many twentieth century philosophers have argued that we should reject ‘dualism’ and follow some form of ‘physicalism’. Strangely, the same philosophers often reject panpsychism (the view that everything has a mental aspect). Rejection of panpsychism seems itself to imply a dualism, since it means that some parts of the universe […]