A Reply to Richard Wolin on Suicide Bombings

A reply to Professor Richard Wolin on his views on suicide bombings is presented. Professor Wolin refused to acknowledge any cause of misery in the poor world. He elevated Osama Bin Ladin to the rank of a god. The article considers these views as literally, wholly, and absolutely false. The article proposes that avoidance, falsehood, implication, and omission are not a proper response to moral inquiry

Consciousness as Existence, Devout Physicalism, Spiritualism

Consider three answers to the question of what it actually is for you to be aware of the room you are in. (1) It is for the room in a way to exist. (2) It is for there to be only physical activity in your head, however additionally described. (3) It is for there to be non-spatial facts somehow in your head. The first theory, unlike the other two, satisfies criteria for an adequate account of consciousness itself. The criteria have to do with the seeming nature of this consciousness, and with subjectivity, reality and non-abstractness, mind-body causation, and the differences between perceptual, reflective and affective consciousness. The theory of consciousness as existence is not open to the objection of a deluded brain in a vat. The theory explains its own degree of failure in characterizing consciousness. It releases neuroscience and cognitive science from nervousness about consciousness, and leaves all of consciousness a subject for science. The theory is a reconstruction of our conception of consciousness. It may be that we should carry forward several theories of consciousness. But they will have to be compared in terms of truth to the criteria for an adequate theory.Articl

Terrorism for humanity : inquiries in political philosophy/ Honderich

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