Joshs

“Intentionality has to do with the directedness or of-ness or aboutness of consciousness, i.e. with the fact that when one perceives or judges or feel...

I’ve hear quite a lot of readings of phenomenology, but claiming that phenomenology builds up a barrier between mind and word is about as far removed ...

I imagine your description of intentionality is accurate for certain approaches in philosophy. In phenomenology, however, intentionality and aboutness...

I have no doubt. But even with all these revisions there are still core presuppositions going back to Galileo and Descartes that have not been challen...

Physics works in a certain way and with certain limitations. The limitations are imposed by the fact that physics begins with certain presuppositions ...

It’s kind of hard not to when those psychologists are Gene Gendlin and George Kelly. Gendlin’s major work was ‘Experiencing and the Creation of Meanin...

This sounds like a stimulus-response model of perception A bit outdated, considering the wide range of Gibsonian-influenced models of perception ( O’R...

Tell me what you think the relation is between science and the progress of knowledge , and then compare it with your sense of whether philosophy progr...

That’s very refreshing to hear. Let me be sure I understand you, though. Tell me what distinctions you might make, if any , between evil and blame in ...

Certainly the natural sciences don’t address these questions , but I wouldn’t say the same for certain approaches within psychology, such as clinical ...

It should be mentioned that Sokal’s brand of leftism identifies itself with classical Marxism, which is a central object of critique by French postmod...

Hmm. I like that idea. I was watching a blackbird attacking a crow today, and it made me think of the cognitive assessment the blackbird was making ab...

Not sure I could. But arent there all sorts of fundamental discoveries about human nature bound up with the changes in religious doctrine over the cen...

. I could read Einstein through Kant and Kant as the proponent of a certain form of liberal theology. Or I could connect Newton and Galileo with certa...

I know that’s something Dennett and his band of atheists would say but I disagree. I think this misses the central role of faith and values in science...

I don’t think faith is content-free. It is the expression of a value system. A particular faith can only generate the assumptions you listed above bec...

Ville Horror?

I didnt see that. He edited that last part out .

My definition of evil won’t be a popular one, but here goes. First of all, even though it may seem that the concept of evil isn’t necessarily associat...

Just you just say that Jack used low battery as a relative example of evil?

It sounds like you’re pointing to a theological dimension.

I can’t speak to pomo culture, but pomo philosophy, or more specifically poststructuralist philosophy is a range of ideas united by a common overarchi...

Sorry to trot this out again if you’ve already read it, but I think it demonstrates the difficulty of attempting to distill deconstruction down to ‘ n...

I meant in particular that I find Dennett’s account of color perception much more exciting and useful than Strawson’s intrincality-qualia formulation....

I want to point out that philosophical work is both utterly particular , in its style and language , and an exemplar of a broader approach to thinking...

I was recently following the dispute between Strawson and Dennett concerning Qualia and panpsychism. There are philosophers I prefer to Dennett, but I...

If you were to ask me what Derrida books to read to get the most consistent and clear sense of what he is trying to tell us , I would immediately answ...

No one should worry about getting a philosopher right. A great philosopher is able to reach a wide variety of readers on many different levels. One’s ...

This just smacks of anti-intellectualism. If you can’t understand the French writers, then so be it. But don’t blame them for your difficulties. I adm...

Searle may have admired Foucault but he utterly rejected the common themes of postmodern thought. I am saying that Foucault didnt understand Derrida b...

That’s because Foucault couldn’t understand the ideas, and Searle was and is hopelessly behind when it comes to any of the postmodernism, including Fo...

You can add John Searle and Steven Pinker to that list.

I agree they do good work and I think the difference between them and the postmodernists is slight but still important.

Judith Butler comes to mind , also Hanne De Jaegher, but there are many more. My comments only apply to the range of thinking that I believe is common...

I only use the term postmodern in reference to a core group of French philosophers (Derrida, Focault , Deleuze, Nancy, Lyotard) and those they influen...

All I meant was , Heraclitus said, "You cannot step into the same river twice, for other waters are continually flowing on“ and James said “ Conscious...

Or things continue to be the same differently. You’re not a fan of Heraclitus or James?

Well, to begin with , a good thing to point out would be that there ARE valid and invalid arguments from a pomo perspective, as Derrida just told you....

Not quite: “ For of course there is a "right track" , a better way, and let i t b e said i n passing how surprised I have often been, how amused or di...

I thought Witt was a huge fan of James. And that Feyerabend’s work was in opposition to Popper’s pragmatism.

And so the static notions inherited from classical physics rear their ugly head. Gasset was a student of Heidegger, but apparently didn’t read him ver...

We’re not talking chronology , but similarity of ideas. There are loads of papers connecting MP to postmodernists like Deleuze and Nancy. In fact, in ...

To prove your point convincingly you would have to be able to summarize the arguments of Derrida or Foucault.

. Rorty made this argument also, meaning that most analytic philosophy was simply regurgitating Kant and hadnt absorbed Hegel’s lessons yet. What’s ne...

Who are these non/Jamesian pragmatists? Certainly not Dewey or Mead. Do you mean Peirce? And where do you stand on critical theorists like Adorno and ...

To me that’s like asking what aspect of a present day mammal’s functioning hadnt been articulated previously by a billion year old simple invertebrate...

Good luck convincing this group of that. It’s sounding like a religious revival meeting.

You’re right. If desire always fulfills itself, there would be no experience of negative emotions. I should instead say that desire connects us up wit...

The way I see it , the desire IS the feeling. Why do I say this? Because a mood is always pointing ahead of itself every moment of experience. The moo...

reply="James Riley;568973"] Piaget’s developmental model was heavily indebted to Marx’s dialectic , and of course Marx was indebted to Hegel. In fact ...