Zen and the art of hylomorphism…

I just finished watching Erleuchtung Garantiert (EG) (Enlightenment Guaranteed), a 1999 film by Dorris Dörrie, recently best known for her 2008 film, Die Kirschblüten – Hanami. I was struck by a quotation from a book on Zen featured in the film.
Let me first give a brief synopsis of EG. It charts the spiritual growth of [...]

Your mouth bone is connected to your stomach bone…

http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/your-mouth-bone-is-connected-to-your.html

What’s your punt, exactly?

http://veniaminov.blogspot.com/2009/06/and-your-punt-exactly.html

My soul is not I…

I recently came across a quotation from Graham Oppy that included the following statements:
“…I take it that our ‘mental’ states are nothing other than certain kinds of [1] states of our brains. … the welter of information that we possess concerning neural deficits, and the nature of various kinds of physical impacts on our ‘minds,’ [...]

Beware the Magnevonian Myth!

In an earlier post, “Actions and events…” (at my FCA blog but also available here), I described three bodily motions (a., b, and c.), which, though they all look the same and produce the same effects, are not the same action at all. I claimed that intentionality, as a non-physical ascription of formal coherence, needs [...]

The Four Horsemen of the Causocalypse!

(Hmm… “the Causocalypse”… I am reminded once more how some things sound better sung to heavy metal in one’s head than they look on a computer screen. Bu the show must go on!)
“Not all that glitters is gold,” as they say.
Now let’s “Aristotelianize” the saying: “Not all that displays finality is conscious.”
Point being, AGENCY IS [...]