"Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism" by Richard Fumerton (review) (original) (raw)

Undefeated Dualism - Philosophical Studies 2013

Philosophical Studies

In the standard thought experiments, dualism strikes many philosophers as true, including many non-dualists. This ‘striking’ generates prima facie justification: in the absence of defeaters, we ought to believe that things are as they seem to be, i.e. we ought to be dualists. In this paper, I examine several proposed undercutting defeaters for our dualist intuitions. I argue that each proposal fails, since each rests on a false assumption, or requires empirical evidence that it lacks, or overgenerates defeaters. By the end, our prima facie justification for dualism remains undefeated. I close with one objection concerning the dialectical role of rebutting defeaters, and I argue that the prospects for a successful rebutting defeater for our dualist intuitions are dim. Since dualism emerges undefeated, we ought to believe it.

The Trap of Dualism -The unanswered questions

God is No-thing: An Apophatic Assertion, 2020

Attaching to relative reality and duality is one of the causes of not Awakening. Instead, at a non-dualistic level, one knows Oneness. Oneness or the concept of Emptiness is about all things —including every atom in the “infinite” or the “non-infinite” universe (whichever it is.) The apophatic tradition emphasizes the unity, wholeness, interdependence, and interconnectedness of all things. Written and copyright claimed by Rodger R Ricketts, Psy.D. May 2020

What Is New in Non-Dualism? Advancement and Criticism between 2013 and 2018

Five years after the publication of the second special issue of "Constructivist Foundations" on Josef Mitterer's non-dualism I discuss his 2014 paper on " paradoxes of the new, " criticize his inconsistent definition of one of his core concepts, and present an overview of texts that have been published since the special issue.

After dualism

2013

Prepared for discussion at a conference sponsored by the Gulbenkian Foundation on Challenges to Dominant Modes of Knowledge: Dualism, SUNY Binghamton, 3-4 November 2006.This talk concerns issues of time and dualism in academic theory and the real world. The dualism in question concerns people and things and the habit of thinking of them as distinct ontological orders. In contrast, I explore various projects of ‘ontological theatre’—projects that variously thematise nondualist engagements and stage them in a variety of fields including brain science, the science of complex systems, psychiatry, management, politics, spirituality, the arts, music, architecture, and so on. The examples are largely drawn from the history of cybernetics, and locate the engagements in question as constituted in reciprocal becomings in time