Hegelian Darwinsim? I like this because evolution as a physical process fails to see that the theory itself is produced IN an evolutionary manifestati...
It is from Rorty, frankly. And he took a very disputatious issue and made a simple remark that really has nothing at all to do with schools of philoso...
It is also found in Kierkegaard's body, soul and spirit. The spirit is the dialectical tension that manifests as anxiety and alienation once one disco...
Yet Ideas I seems to take a different position: The tree plain and simple, the thing in nature, is as different as it can be from this perceived tree ...
Depends on what is meant by a proposition. S knows P, but this knowing has to be unpacked, and it certainly is not as if when I see my cat I am explic...
But then, this divests the self of agency. What is the utmost me and mine becomes a public me and mine. I take Kierkegaard's side on this, modified: I...
But Nietzsche had this weird love of the gladiatorial. Really? If one is going to make that "qualitative move" into making value-as-such (not that the...
If it's clear, please tell me, in a nut shell. No Lionino. None of these. The question posed here is presupposed by this physicalism, for it is more b...
And no one is denying that you see a lamp when you see a lamp. This is never brought into question. The question is, how is knowledge that you see a l...
Yes, there is no outside. The idea is patently absurd, as if, as Rorty put it, the perceptual apparatus were a mirror of nature. But then, it is clear...
The matter goes as far as the reduction can take it. Husserl said the natural attitude pov understood the world and its objects as transcendental, and...
Well, an agent judging a proposition is an agent of a propositional nature "it" self. Agency conceived apart from propositional possibilities is metap...
But one does not know a truth. Knowing IS the truth. My position is that knowledge, belief, truth, at the level of philosophical inquiry, which is the...
The trouble as I see it lies exactly in the unfolding itself, as if unfolding were a cognitive discovery. Which it certainly is, and I have to affirm ...
Yes, I understand your position. But asking "does it pop into existence randomly?" is not an argument. It is a deficit. If not causality, then what? W...
I have trouble with this notion of representation. If a proposition represents some state of affairs, then one has to say what it means for something ...
Which does not sound like aboutness at all to me. To conceive of a world such that the foundational epistemology is causal in nature will not be susta...
There is a lot in this. When you say no assumption is made, I disagree. It is implicit in the premise "P is true" that being true is of a certain kind...
Yes it does. Just ask how a causal relation produces a knowledge claim. Can't be done, simply because there is nothing in the apodictic principle that...
But there is nothing abstract about it. It might appear abstract based on the assumption that a pragmatic understanding vis a vis "a world" remains "a...
The alternative is to do a philosophical examination of truth, and unpack the notion of justified true belief. Yes, disentangling is the right word. F...
Not simply because of the observer in the sense that "I love haagen dazs." Objective in the sense that there is agreement in language and gesture and,...
Do you honestly believe that propositions are somehow IN the things we talk about? I don't know why this is not clear. There are no propositions over ...
No, no. You said, " the cows are only over there when acknowledged" and I said, "when I acknowledge this as true, this true event is a logical constru...
It's not that there are no cows and trees over there next to the barn. But it is that when I acknowledge this as true, this true event is a logical co...
It is to say that truth occurs in the proposition, and there are no propositions "out there". Discoveries are events of constructing a truth. It seems...
No, not really. It is not as if there are conditions in the waiting for discovery that are true outside of discovery itself. But ruling out thnigs tha...
You did say the Gettier problems had their possible solution " only if there is a true causal connection between P and your justification." So how is ...
Well, that is the rub, for causality is not an epistemic concept. If it were, then the world would be a very different place. Does the dent on my car ...
Looked around for the best way to look at this, and found in the chapter on noesis and noema (Ideas I) where he speaks of the transcendental object on...
Can't argue with that. But this goes to the very point I am trying to make: This embeddedness of our affairs in complexities that defy categorical ans...
If you are looking for a way to breathe some life into phenomenology, perhaps you would find Michel Henry helpful. I for one find the epoche is only a...
Hard to remove one's perspective from scientific orientation that is ingrained in us through our education. Not many out there telling us how to analy...
Right, and I think you get the idea. "I think" is frankly vacuous if plain thinking is going to be the ground for existence, because thought's purest ...
I think close, yes, but the devil is in the terminology. When I observe the pain, it is not a biological description I am observing. Nor a moral fact....
Well Bob, the way to understand moral realism is to first go an account of what it is for anything to be real. I ask: is the pain you feel when someon...
I would pull back form invoking Buddhism, a method, really, that leads to enlightenment and liberation that has little to do with an analysis of the s...
But you can't really take something like Kant's pure reason as a basis for understanding what our existence is about. Reason doesn't give one knowledg...
Share in its necessity. But this which is shared is, for Kant, found in logical necessity, not in the full reality of what we experience. One problem ...
Well then, there is some sense in calling it realism, but generally this is not the way the term is used, which is not the affirmation of the reality ...
Disrupting or liberating? Consider that these are the same. What you call QM disruption is reducible to "the question," the piety of thought. It prece...
Heh, heh, I don't mean historically. I could equally say the post Heideggerian insights of Michel Henry are entirely missed by the positvism that seem...
Yes, I ma sure this is right, but it is not going to be a causal connectivity, as causality in itself is a term that belongs to finitude. What causali...
But of course, you know this is miles from Kant. Ryle thinks within a tradition that explicitly against Kantian phenomenology and those who follow thr...
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