The issue that you have with Dennett, and I could only discern one, is one that has always bothered me about his work. I agree with most of Dennett's methods for accounting for mind, but why he insists on a strict materialist ontology has never made sense to me, since he admits that his account i...
@mikkeljs With regard to logic, validity only applies to arguments, which are collections of propositions/statements from which another proposition is inferred as a conclusion. A valid argument is one where the truth of the premises IMPLIES necessarily the truth of the conclusion inferred. Truth ...
...and such a view is not very Christian, and it certainly isn't creation ex nihilo; since if all is created ex nihilo, including moral precepts, then the Euthyphro dilemma is still a dilemma that makes sense, and all moral precepts are the result of fiat; God would be just as praiseworthy if he ...
The issue that you have with Dennett, and I could only discern one, is one that has always bothered me about his work. I agree with most of Dennett's methods for accounting for mind, but why he insists on a strict materialist ontology has never made sense to me, since he admits that his account i...