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There are two kinds of philosophers: the really great ones who write about it and the rest of us who just try to live it. I hope you don't come across anyone on this web site who will call down on you for being wrong, unless it's a simple matter of logical form which can always be amended with a lit...

That whole idea of supervenience was introduced in the early 20th century. It reminds me of a line from The Sound of Music , Nothing comes from nothing, and nothing ever should... Apparently the phenomenon of conscious experience (as Chalmers limits the term 'conscious') is not physical but nor is i...

I have always had a keen interest in science and philosophy and was delighted to come upon Philosophy Now about a year ago. I have read many of the classics. My favorites are Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Kierkegaard's Fear & Trembling and Heidegger's Being and Time. I can't say I either under...