Why Is This Different in Philosophy?

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i like to cite a study b done in two thousand nine of professional philosophers and philosophy graduate students. They surveyed all 36 hundred philosophers on the different positions. And 59 % said compatibleism, libertarianism or no free will. Youno, 99 point ninepert, it true. Point o, one percent, it's not true. No, no, no, i i'm following it so much. This depends on your starting pointke,. Of concluding about my debates with depoc, you know, he's starting, has a different world view starting point than i do. We end up diverging, mainly because we started at different places.

In this expansive conversation, Michael Shermer speaks with Bernardo Kastrup, the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). Shermer and Kastrup discuss: materialism, idealism, dualism, monism, panpsychism, free will, determinism, consciousness, the problem of other minds, artificial intelligence, out of body and near-death experiences, model dependent realism, and the ultimate nature of reality.