Philosophy Now Forum

mm, not so sure. kant had a premium that reasoning beings like us would, through rational thought, think in the same way to arrive at the same conclusion. This, in turn, is a direct consequence of us having free will which, despite all attempts at debunking the idea, is true. The problem of two-worl...

Quite. It really is a one-world view.Kants point was that the complete view of the world by definition is the real noumenal one that our phenomenal observations of it can approach but can never be complete. this seems to me what rational observation-science- does, something kant would have approved ...

When Kant talked of the 'noumenal' universe which is logically 'out there' and the 'real' one as opposed to our Phenomenal universe perceived through fallible senses, did he come close to the multiverse theory of cosmology which states that there are endless universes which we may be able to travel ...

Can anyone suggest an introductory book on philosophy of the mind; one similar with a slant on psychiatry; one on health ethics (not Singers which i have read)?
Dr Paul Caldwell, a GP and amateur philosopher when he gets time.