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What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:36 am
by Philosophy Now
Benedict O’Connell explores puzzles of perception with Locke, Kant and Nagel.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/131/What_is_it_Like_to_be_a_Dragonfly
Re: What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:33 pm
by Belinda
A good introduction to theories of perception and so to issues of scepticism
Re: What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:33 pm
by Impenitent
I didn't know Dragons wore pants...
-Imp
Re: What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 8:13 am
by ronald green
The first line of the article is already problematic. Asking "how the world really is" implies that there is an objective world 'out there' that can't be perceived by anyone. An ineffable status, akin to belief in a deity.
Re: What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?
Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2019 3:15 pm
by Belinda
ronald green wrote: ↑Thu Jul 11, 2019 8:13 am
The first line of the article is already problematic. Asking "how the world really is" implies that there is an objective world 'out there' that can't be perceived by anyone. An ineffable status, akin to belief in a deity.
Deity is often basically order or structure. Apollo. I don't know of any deity that is Dionysian. Pan maybe.
Re: What is it Like to be a Dragonfly?
Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:49 pm
by ronald green
An objective world 'out there' would necessarily be ordered and structured - perfection, in fact, and thus inaccessible. Such is God for believers; and such is 'the world as it really is' for atheists..