u/ReadingSubstantial75

Has Sam ever spoken or touched on the argument from reason? The argument has had such an effect on me that I don’t believe I can remain in the materialist camp anymore. Even more than much of the free will argument Sam makes.

The argument is formulated as such:

1. ⁠No belief is rationally inferred if it can be fully explained in terms of non rational causes.

2. ⁠If materialism is true, then all beliefs can be fully explained in terms of nonrational causes.

3. ⁠Therefore, if materialism is true, then no belief is rationally inferred.

4. ⁠If any thesis entails the conclusion that no belief is rationally inferred, then it should be rejected and its denial accepted.

5. ⁠Therefore materialism should be rejected and its denial accepted.

Has anybody read Hart’s takedown of material reductivism in All Things Are Full of Gods? I haven’t been able to find many objections to most of Hart’s critiques in the book and I’m not going to lie, it’s turned me completely off to material reductivism.

I’m wanting to find a way back, but there’s just no way right now unless Sean Carroll speaks on it or something haha.

Anywho, if you haven’t encountered Hart’s arguments, I would stay away from his interviews. He is abhorrent and smug, but my lord that book destroyed my reality and has me totally lost on consciousness.

Has anybody read All Things Are Full of Gods? I haven’t been able to find many objections to most of Hart’s critiques in the book and I’m not going to lie, it’s turned me completely off to material reductivism.

I’m wanting to find a way back, but there’s just no way right now unless Sean Carroll speaks on it or something haha.

Anywho, if you haven’t encountered Hart’s arguments, I would stay away from his interviews. He is abhorrent and smug, but my lord that book destroyed my reality.

Edit: typo