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I didn’t say that humans in such a world would still develop emotions. I said that according to this psychologist , to be motivated purely by logic, t...

There is a psychologist who argues that humans are motivated by knowledge. That is, we strive to make sense of our world, that each of us is like a na...

There is very definitely a world outside your mind. The issues is how we understand the relation between the subjective and the objective aspect of ex...

It’s the best means we have if you believe that science should strive for complete objectivity ( even if it can never attain the thing in itself). Tha...

But when we model the world we’re not capturing it in a bottle, we’re interacting with it, making changes in it for our purposes. I know this seems co...

I didn’t mean to distinguish between the world for us as humans and the world as it supposedly is in itself. This distinction belongs to the abstracti...

Post structuralist philosophy is based on the idea that what gives a pattern its meaning is it’s difference from a previous pattern This difference bo...

Yes, and understanding takes place relative to a personal construction system , which could also be called a value system. There is no direct knowing ...

That does sound like Varela: “ It is perhaps is best to start with the notion of a state or phase space : a domain of variables or measurements which ...

If one begins from a framework of neo-Darwinian empirical causality , then purpose, intention and chance-randomness are co-determinative. Intention , ...

Without emotion as you are understanding it, every major political conflict on earth would remain exactly as it is today. Keep in mind that violence d...

Why do you think the word would be at peace without emotions ? Give me an example from today’s politically polarized situation. Let’s say we remove th...

Maybe you should check out the anti-natalism threads.

The cause of such violence is not irrationality but rationality. That is to say , that there is only one correct version of the rational , the belief ...

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We don’t get eternal peace by eliminating emotions , since they are not irrational. Instead we need to listen to what our emotions are telling us abou...

One could say that math and logic were generated in human brains , but that’s very different from saying that we understood how the brain works. The c...

My view is that what you are calling emotions is based in logic itself. Let me explain. Let’s say I am a scientist and I generate a theory to explain ...

Yep. i think people want to believe in an easy formula to guide their lives.The world is a giant machine and all we have to do is figure out how it wo...

It used to be commonly thought that animals don’t have emotions. Now we know that they are capable of a huge range of complex emotions, just like we a...

Emotions are our body’s way of telling us how well we are coping with situations. But even without feedback from the body we would still be affective ...

This is an older traditional notion of the relation between emotion and logic and it has been discarded by many psychologists today. Emotion was thoug...

The inspiration for making them wasn’t the human brain initially. It was models derived from logic and mathematics. We then turned around and tried to...

You’vegot a lot of catching up to do when it comes to the attitude of science , specifically cognitive science , regarding the role of affective with ...

Well, the altruism would have a foundation , albeit a contingent and local one. This reminds me of Derrida’s response to all those who say that decons...

Just curious , and you don’t have to answer this, but do you consider yourself a Christian? You’re right, postmodernism doesn’t undermine the bias of ...

For centuries these have left US out of the picture , as if our relation to experience was not necessary to the facts of the world.

Well, if I shift back a minute from Kelly to Gendlin, Gendlin would say that in feeling ‘ stuck’ in a new situation where one does not know how to go ...

I have always said the ultimate test of any philosophy is how well it serves as a psychotherapy. What can it tell us about ourselves and others that r...

I have a soft spot in my heart for Kelly His writing is packed with a playful humor which I see as reflecting the implications of theory itself. He is...

The core idea of Gendlin’s is that whatever we experience occurs into an implying. That is , the body is an interconnected mesh of behaviors, thoughts...

Are you familiar with the work of Eugene Gendlin? He wrote about an approach that he dubbed ‘after postmodernism’. His approach , which he worked out ...

I don’t have all that much to defend because I don’t have that high an opinion of myself. I’m just another shmuck on here trying to learn a thing or t...

I don’t know you well enough to pigeonhole you. All I know is you’ve been on this site for less than two weeks and have already managed to show hostil...

Of course one can talk about the individual. The question is what is the relation between the individual and culture. There many different philosophic...

Like what. Please give examples. Otherwise I might take you for a conspiracy monger. For someone who’s big on empirical truth and correctness you seem...

The most liberal forms of theism I know , post-Kierkegaaedian religion after religion , heretical Christianity etc, reduce dating to a desire for the ...

Most books that you read about existentialism probably list Nietzsche as an existentialist because , for one thing, his era overlapped Kierkegaard and...

I’m an independent writer in philosophy and psychology. I only have a masters degree and yet my work is accepted in academic journals. btw, I thought ...

Wasn’t Einstein a patent clerk when he developed special relativity? “ For Einstein, the patent office was "that worldly cloister where I hatched my m...

Ya know , you don’t have to stick with only one group of scholars’ interpretation of Nietzsche. I can introduce you to an entirely different Nietzsche...

There are certainly plenty of Nietzsche interpreters who give it this existential spin. I prefer the poststructutalist readings. From that vantage , t...

Maybe you could elaborate what doing or being better means in the context of the contingency of values. What is an aim to do better outside of goals, ...

Maybe this will help. Rorty explains why the notion of truth needs to be jettisoned. http://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/down...

“Rorty wishes to undermine modern philosophers' conception of philosophy and its place in culture, as did his philosophical heroes, Dewey, Heidegger, ...

What’s the difference between the god’s eye view and justified true belief?

I know Rorty does, but he probably got booted out of the club for that. What about Putnam, Sellers or Davidson? Maybe even Quine?

Here’s a very partial list of philosophers who reject platos justified true belief: george Kelly Derrida Heidegger Husserl Gene Gendlin Merleau-Ponty ...

Husserl made intuition ( the primal impression ) fundamental. Heidegger defined truth as disclosure. What he meant was that what appears in every sing...

I wouldn’t say that the trajectory of continental philosophy over the past 100 years has been a matter of leaving traditional concepts of rationality ...