Joshs

Isnt this what we are told words are supposed to do, give us only this generic dictionary meaning? But is this really how each of us experience the me...

“A number of Nietzsche interpreters argue that Nietzsche was using irony and other devices to make points that were not on the whole intended as anti-...

The subject-object boundary is none other than the finite, discreet nature of time. Time is nothing outside of the experience of time , and the experi...

I can also talk to myself , as if I were speaking to someone else, neo sued in fact I am speaking to someone else. I can also think ‘pre-verbally’, us...

Is it anything like this?: “Our usual way of thinking divides experience into discrete entities: thoughts, feelings, memories, desires, body sensation...

I’m not suggesting this is your belief, but according to a long-standing Western tradition, which continues today in cognitive neuroscience, science, ...

But feeling is already an expressing , and as such it IS a kind of talking.

In a flow experience , am I melding with the object or is the object melding with me, or is it not necessary to choose one or the other option? I thin...

Not sure I follow. The subject doesn’t decide to experience an object as outside. The outside imposes itself on the subject. The ‘subject’ here isn’t ...

Maybe I said the same thing, but what phenomenologically informed cognitive science wants to emphasize, in contra distinction to computational, repres...

Including this sentence, because this sentence is also a product of subject-object interaction. Except rather than half truth I would say contingently...

My fault for trying to respond to a critique without an argument behind it.

I don’t know that words trap to any greater extent than thoughts do. It’s the construing that constrains ( as well as enables) , whether that is verba...

That’s being in itself in a nutshell. Irreducible subject-object reciprocal relationality.

Andy Clark on phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty: “Merleau-Ponty stressed the importance of what I have called "continuous reciprocal causation "- viz., th...

Could you give me an example of ‘being in itself’ for Heidegger or Husserl? What do you suppose they had in in mind?

Welcome to phenomenology. Husserl writes: “Certainly the world that is in being for me, the world about which I have always had ideas and spoken about...

Notice that when you talk about experiencing the past or the future , you emphasize a certain style of approach , a certain mood or attitude. I am ‘pr...

You’re confusing side issues with the main issue, which I see as the following: what are Nietzsche’s supporters claiming as his main thesis, and how i...

That’s right, and much more like it. “…anyone who has ever really looked with an Asiatic and supra-Asiatic eye into and down at the most world-negatin...

The only way any philosophy stands the test of time is if it is constantly transformed and reinterpreted anew in each era, which is what we see with e...

If we truly lives in the moment, we would experience absolutely nothing. A single experienced moment of time has three parts. It consists of the immed...

Before you judge its power and elegance , I’d be interested to see if you have the slightest idea of what he’s talking about here. Of course , my read...

I agree with you. I think it’s possible to keep Nietzsche’s central ideas without having to articulate the movement of history in terms of weaker and ...

I’d rather explain the validity in the statement below, which I, along with many philosophers, find to be brilliant. “During the longest epoch of huma...

My point was that I think you would find their work interesting and I’m betting you would relate to it. They reject just about all of the traditional ...

What you just wrote is quite similar to the postmodern perspective of ‘religion after religion’ philosophers like John Caputo and Simon Critchley.

No, I was focusing on your claim that there are just evil people doing evil things. That is a quintessentially theological notion. Even if you don’t t...

The ‘real’ doesn’t come and slap us on the face. It must be interpreted. There are thousands of ways of interpreting any event depending on our aims a...

Do you identity your notion of evil with any particular religious or spiritual faith?

One might even venture a developmental model of a cultural history of morality. connecting empathy with a gradual evolution from one-dimensional found...

Not only are they worried about what’s morally permissible, their actions are bound by a strict moral justification. See Mein Kampf or the old and new...

I think all of the critical observations you have made concerning the limitations of phenomenology are absolutely valid. That is, they are valid for w...

Let me give you what I think is an example of representationalism and you let me know if it is consistent with your understanding. Beck's cognitive th...

I agree wholeheartedly with your take on postmodernism. I’d just like to add something to your comments on Derrida. What I would describe Derrida doin...

Tell me more about what you mean by a condition. What are the absolute rock bottom requirements for a condition that can act as a cause? (Or , if you ...

It isn’t a question of paying attention to the changing flow via introspection When we move our head , our entire visual field changes, a d the object...

For me the key to the concept of blame is a belief in the arbitrariness , capriciousness and fickleness of the qualitative variations in shifts of per...

Yep, kind of. Intestines function in relation to other digestive organs as part of a larger system of digestion, and that larger system coordinates wi...

Strictly speaking , without consciousness there could not be intentionality, although an ‘aboutness’ and self-organizing anticipative directionality w...

Except that the changes in the flow afe precisely what affect is. That is to say , the flow or stream of consciousness consists of continuous qualitat...

Let me ask you this. Do you think affectivity , which has become a major topic in psychology these days, plays an important role in the understanding ...

I don’t mean to come across as angry. I’m not angry, I’m enthralled with ideas and use every opportunity to discuss them. I chose to debate with you b...

You may find the following from enactivist Evan Thompson from his latest book, Mind in Life, useful: READERS FAMILIAR WITH MY EARLIER BOOK, The Embodi...

Yes, let’s note that more closely: “ it might be more misleading than helpful to do so is encouraged by Husserl's intellectual affinity with the Carte...

No, there are four choices. The 4th is interactionism, which doesn’t begin, like Pierce , with a ‘firstness’ consisting of an intrinsic in-itself cont...

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Husserlian intentionality is very different from natural causality. To intend an object is to anticipate forward into its occuring, so in this sense t...

There are as many definitions of information as there are of intentionality , so in order for each of us to know what the other is talking about we wo...

Good question. I subscribe to approaches to understanding living systems that impute a kind of aboutness even to creatures with no cognitive capacitie...