Astrophel

No, no; knowing is justified true belief, so says the standard analysis, but it is not wrong. And justification is essential to belief, and justificat...

I have no doubt at all that utility lies in the "saying"; or better, the saying lies in utility. Thinking is doing, and I think this right. Is all doi...

Is it? When you think at all, thought is attending by feeling, but then, not just this: To say it is attended by feeling is to impose on the experienc...

Well, since you brought up evolution, consider that at the current evolutionary stage, we are faced with a world constructed out of pragmatic response...

Put it this way: Philosophers are certainly not in the business of discovering affective "truths".

It is not simply a matter of understanding that there is an aesthetic dimension to thinking, and experiencing. It is a question of HOW one therefore p...

You mean I should cut to the chase? I do find it a little puzzling that comments I made were in no way suggestive of "a mutually profitable dialectic....

One has to ask what a foundational existence could even mean, first. Simple description comes first. description of the world at the basic level. Abso...

Plain language in an exotic philosophical setting. Exotic because this kind of thing is almost anathema in Anglo American philosophy, as I have read. ...

Not so much looking for, as if set out to find one. But I do think the encounter with the world that is discovered is revelatory. It is a revelation t...

Revelation: something revealed. Intuition: something intuited, and something intuited reveals that which is intuited, doesn't it? Nothing ambiguous he...

I am taking the notion of intellectual intuition to task. Intellectualism gives undo privilege to cognition, and the term cognition, like all terms, i...

Well, it is the point I am raising. Consider what a pure intuition would be. We are so used to absolutes belonging to the "certainty" of logic, and lo...

And how are we to define a "true essence" of "pure intuition"? If you define this as a kind of qualia, then the question is begged: for "being appeare...

It's an odd question to me. One is simply directed to purify one's gaze, deliver observation from the presumptive thinking that generally steps in and...

Foundational intuitions? We have to know what these are before choosing in favor of something else. It is important to see that it is not going to a c...

But consciousness is a problematic term, because ask what it is, and you refer to something else, like knowledge relations and occurrent experiences, ...

To visualize anything is not to be an infant with eyes to see only. One implicitly KNOWS it is a sunset prior to witnessing, that is, sunsets, like tr...

As a thought "exists" and constitutes a presence, a language presence of inner auditory qualities, it stands irrefutable. However, what I can say abou...

Cheerio, old chap!

I have no issue with paradigms shifts and an evolving understanding. But there is an untested assumption in all of this, in whatever scientific field ...

Well, I like sushi, that is a bold statement. I wonder if Being and Time can be called meaningless twaddle in the context of an examination of his tho...

I would first ask that the history of this thinking be put aside. Philosophical ideas are timeless, which is why even the pre Socratics still have rel...

Of course not. But one has to see that, first, tautologies are vacuous. Logical validity says nothing about the world, but is self referential. Second...

Well, you have just admitted to having intuitions. You find this kind of thing anathema among analytic philosophers, for it implies something directly...

Keep in mind that "one thinking mind" is a language construct. How, it may be asked, did one get this? And where does its authority find its basis?

There is a serious question begged here: what is the litmus of knowing at all? the very concept of one standard generating conditions for deviation br...

Well, I read most of it, and I know this history, though not as well as Kelly Ross. I don't get it, this is the kind of thing a Buddhist should run a ...

But notice when you refer to physics, there are the underlying terms of your perceptual/cognitive system that are always already there making the perc...

I'll have to read it. Just a bit...

It is care that unifies dasein. This is from The History of the Concept of Time, and I read the chapter and can see here why Heidegger might be accuse...

Heidegger more radical than Husserl? I wonder if you would say a few words about this.

But the concept of noumena is not a fiction. But not Kant, rather Husserl et al.

It really does depend on what a person is looking for at the outset. Phenomenology has this whole mysterious side that can be either be ignored or ela...

Way beyond, really: ...an infinite realm of being of a new kind, and a sphere of a new kind of experience: transcendental experience......a universal ...

Here is what Eugene Fink (Husserl's protégé) had to say at the beginning of his 6th Cartesian Meditation: .......instead of soaring up over the world ...

What is the world? We certainly know it, but what is it that we can know it?

But then, he wasn't talking about what is "really" there. His was an analysis, and he would be the first to say that such analyses are not true noumen...

That IS a loaded paragraph. For one, "spacetime" is an empirical concept. That is, its justification is traced back measurements of physical events, t...

This one I find curious. Is reason relative? Judgments are, but not in their form, rather in their content.

But all eyes are on the process that produces the understanding. It's not like a person is some kind of epistemic mirror of transparency of the world ...

Okay Foucault. And grades are the punitive consequences, the threat, that keeps you line. The classroom is a microcosm of Christendom.

I occasionally go back to The Phenomenology of Spirit. I have to if I want to understand Kierkegaard, and it is not entirely nonsense, though it's not...

If they're off base, they will fail the exam. If you are studying the history of philosophy, then your exam will be dogmatic, you could say. The point...

That is a tough call. There are those who think explanations are all references to other explanations, not to put too fine a point on it. The proof li...

To ask the question, e.g., why are we born to suffer and die can be authentically encountered, and can actually bring one to the threshold of deeper m...

Of course. But they also lead to other ideas, and perhaps there are meanings in play that are not invented, but there to be witnessed, discovered. Tru...

You sound like Foucault. Is there nothing substantive beneath the propaganda?

Heh, heh....this certainly can't be true. It would assume authentic inquiry is no better than myth.

Yeah, that is the despicable nature of popular religion. Philosophy, one like myself would argue, is the true religion. In the East they call in jnana...