Favorite Philosophers?

[Edwardo Piet]

Oh interesting point.

He's still wrong about some stuff though

But he is fucking amazing and the modernist of modern science and logic is founded upon his principles.

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Spinoza is great!

I like the Jamesian theory of emotion but other than that... meh.

Between Spinoza and Descartes, give me Spinoza.  Descartes' questioning doesn't seem sincere, more of a set up for an answer he's eager to peddle.

Oh Decartes sucks.

Although the think therefore I am thing DOES make sense... the people like Dan Dennett who think it's wrong don't seem to even understand the question

Dennett thinks that the self is more than just conscious experience (which he calls illusory LOL . . . the user illusion he speaks of isn't exactly an illusion lol.) and therefore you can't even know the real 'you' exists . . . because the real you includes more than just qualia which he doesn't even think is real!

I can't stand Dan Dennett. Except there are a few good points he makes . . . it's amongst a million digressions. And he can be funny, but it's usually part of some digression.

I bought an audiobook of his first book on free will. It's nearly 10 hours long and I've listened to half of it and I'm still waiting for him to get the free will part

The Sam Harris one is an hour and a half and I agree with it 100% and I have listened to it on repeat.

I don't consider Sam Harris a philosopher though.

And Galen Strawson, another one of my favorite philosophers, makes an argument against Free Will even more concisely than Harris anyway:





By the way, I love how Dean Rickles explains something I already figured out myself all by myself! :