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Re: Astrology » alexandra_k

Posted by Larry Hoover on January 1, 2006, at 23:14:38

In reply to Re: Astrology » Larry Hoover, posted by alexandra_k on January 1, 2006, at 21:08:32

> i'm sorry larry...

Okay, now I'm wishing I refreshed the page before I posted about belief.

I'm sorry too.

> i've been 'indoctrinated' (yes, perhaps it does amount to that) regarding naturalism and the place of philosophy as on a continuum with the natural sciences...
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> it is sometimes known as the 'canberra plan' of philosophy, and it is a style of philosophy that is accepted at other places too...
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> and it is a style of philosophy that some people don't like. don't like at all. and... well... if the canberra plan was to make *all* philosophy part of the canberra plan then there might be a problem or two... and perhaps... well perhaps they do this by ignoring / casting aside all other kinds of philsophy... i don't know.
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> my point is just that...
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> i am interested in explanation.
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> i am interested in the cause of your experience.
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> and...
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> i accept naturalistic explanations (ones that cohere well with current naturalistic explanations)
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> over supernatural explanaitons
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> where supernatural explanations involve us making changes to the assumptions of the naturalistic explanations
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> (which have helped us out rather a lot you will admit with modern advances in medicine and technology and tv and computer and sattelight and radar and rockets to the moon etc etc)

True. But need everything have an explanation? Is it inherent to the Canberra Plan, to explain everything?

I suppose that what I was trying to describe has a naturalistic explanation. It wouldn't have happended otherwise, would it? We just don't yet know what the explanation is. I don't, anyway.

Lar

 

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