This runs into Derrida: in even the simplest utterance, the most primordial, the meaning issues what is not uttered. There is no "true" affirmation at...
I would ask Dennett and his ilk Rorty's question: how does anything out there get in here? Of course, the "in here' part is the brain, and Dennett thi...
No, no; not that at all. It's a long, long story. And it is far more fascinating than I could possibly say here. But if you take a given perceptual ev...
I think Dennett cannot make that dramatic move away from a scientist's model of the way the world is put together. He cannot prioritize meaning over m...
I mean when we make statements about the world, the first place basic inquiry begins is the beginning: the language event that produces meaning that i...
Keep in mind that Dennett does not believe that his assumptions about science's knowledge claims are absolutes, but that, following Russell, he thinks...
You said:The takeaway: There's something nonchemical about biology and there's something nophysics about chemistry, so on and so forth. Phenomenology ...
Of course, there is something "non phenomenological" about phenomenology, which is really why phenomenology rules the day at the presuppositional leve...
Half right Constance. It is a myth that the rural poor are happier. In a world where entertainment does not run cheap, the only ones happy and poor ar...
The reason why philosophers have muddled the whole affair is that they refuse to acknowledge the ontological primacy of caring and its "objects". Qual...
That is a wonderful rationalization for the perversions of capitalize. Next thing you'll be telling me is that Jeff Bezos actually deserves a quadrill...
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