tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8965341.post111367687078164762..comments2021-06-11T10:50:10.605-04:00Comments on The Web of Belief: Uwe MeixnerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8965341.post-58448344147227237642008-10-29T21:38:00.000-04:002008-10-29T21:38:00.000-04:00Hi, congratulations for your excellent philosophic...Hi, congratulations for your excellent philosophical blog.<BR/><BR/>Meixner is an interesting philosopher. Specially, I like his views on philosophy of mind. A paper by Meixner against physicalism can be read here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.newdualism.org/review/vol1/DR1-1-U.Meixner.pdf<BR/><BR/>As you know, dualism is unfashionable in academic philosophy; but recently, dualism have been given more respect by some renowned philosophers. For example, materialist philosopher of mind William Lycan wrote a paper (in 2007) admitting: "<B>I have been a materialist about the mind for forty years, since first I considered the mind-body issue. In all that time I have seen exactly one argument for mind-body dualism that I thought even prima facie convincing.<1>. And like many other materialists, I have often quickly cited standard objections to dualism that are widely taken to be fatal<2>—notoriously the dread Interaction Problem. My materialism has never wavered. Nor is it about to waver now; I cannot take dualism very seriously.<BR/><BR/>Being a philosopher, of course I would like to think that my stance is rational, held not just instinctively and scientistically and in the mainstream but because the arguments do indeed favor materialism over dualism. But I do not think that, though I used to. My position may be rational, broadly speaking, but not because the arguments favor it: Though the arguments for dualism do (indeed) fail, so do the arguments for materialism. And the standard objections to dualism are not very convincing; if one really manages to be a dualist in the first place, one should not be much impressed by them. My purpose in this paper is to hold my own feet to the fire and admit that I do not proportion my belief to the evidence</B>"<BR/><BR/>http://www.unc.edu/~ujanel/Du.htm<BR/><BR/>William Vallicella, another professional philosopher, have argued for dualism too:<BR/><BR/>http://maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com/philosophy_of_mind/<BR/><BR/>It seems that philosophy of mind is a very interesting philosophical area to research and think.<BR/><BR/>Keep the excellent work!Jimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12817742150756784876noreply@blogger.com