I take @"Luke" to be saying that indirect realists think perception would have to be “untainted by representation” for it to be direct. More generally...
Scurrilous accusations. It isn’t true of the German philosophers I’ve read. Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Marx, Husserl, and Adorno didn’t do it. The...
Yes, and the shifting of the river bed of certainties, which points to historical change, as opposed to Kant’s often ahistorical time—time as the form...
Nice summary. I was—or @"Banno" was—hung up on the connoted attribution of agency to an object that “presents itself.” It wasn’t clear to me how we go...
Are you confusing sublimation with Hegel’s sublation? That said, I see from Googling around that there’s been some talk of sublimation as expressing s...
I like it for that reason, but I’m struggling to justify it. I think it’s to do with an ecological, relational, reciprocal sort of idea of perception....
Since it’s not the lack of evidence that leads me to believe that God is not, maybe I’d need more than evidence to persuade me that He is. What I mean...
The Crunch of my Walk Alone I went for a walk some time ago this year. A glance at the outdoor thermometer showed twenty-five degrees below zero. I co...
:nerd: :razz: Some space news now. I saw this on the Guardian website this morning: Does anyone else think this is really weird? I’m not talking consp...
It would be more boring. Incoherent rambling can be a good beginning, philosophically. Haphazardly throw down the clay, set it in motion, then shape i...
If your point is that according to Wittgenstein there are multiple forms of life, then of course I agree. My point—which was just an aside—was that in...
Almost a good point, but I think it can be used in a non-passive sense. The back of the house presents itself to you when you go round and look. Your ...
I mean, given the right circumstances, I and the hunter gatherer can work out how to live together and talk to each other. Could we do this if there w...
I feel like denying that “the only common form of life is the basic biological form”, but I’m not ready to pursue it right now. Anyway, you might be r...
I like it. It encapsulates direct realism in a way that acknowledges the points made by these naive indirect realists about the physicality of percept...
Thank you for the detailed points. I’m not really interested in promoting the view that Wittgenstein was a linguistic idealist, especially not with re...
I agree. I don’t think I implied anything like that, but it’s certainly worth emphasizing. As it happens I’ve been reading the paralogisms recently. B...
I'd like to read that. Patricia Kitcher is great. I see the abstract mentions McDowell's linking of Kant and late Wittgenstein but I haven't read that...
I forgot about this bit. I'm not sure what that would look like. Wittgenstein is sceptical not only of other philosophers, but even of his own philoso...
Interesting question. They were both engaged in critical projects directed at exposing the emptiness of philosophy, especially metaphysics, but wherea...
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