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You can change the gender -related behavior of animals with hormone replacement. This is an effect on the brain, not the sex parts or genes. Male mamm...
June 21, 2021 at 21:40
Because our sciences substitute idealized abstractions for a more immediate and intricate experiencing of our world. The way we have carved up the wor...
June 21, 2021 at 21:32
If you’re arguing from the position that specific behavioral and affective dispositions are associated with biological gender, are you also making a d...
June 21, 2021 at 21:20
Husserl wrote a book called Formal and Transcendental Logic. In it he attempts to untangle centuries old confusions concerning the origin and nature o...
June 21, 2021 at 19:50
I may have misunderstood you. I thought you were arguing that logic is grounded in a transcendent platonic category of mind. If you are saying instead...
June 21, 2021 at 02:57
There are nothing but myths. To dismantle one is to erect another. Sometimes , for the purposes of certain discussions, it can be useful to offer an a...
June 21, 2021 at 02:50
While he’s at it , he may as well add analytic philosophy’s failure to address in a primordial way values, affectivity and the body.
June 20, 2021 at 21:57
I don’t see Heidegger as an agnostic. It seems to me that God is only a coherent concept if it implies the good, and the good is only coherent if it c...
June 20, 2021 at 21:53
I suggest you tell these homosexual men you know who act effeminately that they look exaggerated and silly, and that you think they are deliberately a...
June 20, 2021 at 21:46
Do you mean lesbians do not normally act that way? Why do some gays act that way?You never answered my question.
June 20, 2021 at 20:43
Yes but why are you attracted to men but some women are attracted to other women? Can the brain be ‘wired’ to produce same-sex attraction? Can the bra...
June 20, 2021 at 20:29
That’s right. So what’s all this fuss about homosexuals demanding equal rights? People just aren’t ready for it. Oh, wait…
June 20, 2021 at 20:17
Do you believe that your vagina makes you attracted to men rather than women , and makes you feel and act feminine? Or do you think this happens in th...
June 20, 2021 at 20:15
Of course, this came along a while ago , with works like Butler’s Gender Trouble more than 30 years ago.
June 20, 2021 at 20:11
A number of current economists argue that compared to the industrial revolution, the digital revolution has produced paltry results in terms od the ra...
June 20, 2021 at 19:50
The key phrase is “beyng occurs essentially not as cause and never as ground.”
June 20, 2021 at 19:17
Heidegger on God: GA 73.2: 991 2. Of Being The lightest of the slight is beyng. The most entity-like of entities is God. In beyng, the distinction bet...
June 20, 2021 at 18:42
a) an episode of the Twilight Zone b) Classic Cartesian thinking
June 20, 2021 at 17:46
They are idealized constructions derived from perceptual interaction with a world. They would. it be possible without our first having constructed the...
June 20, 2021 at 17:13
But however unknowable to us the self/mind is , can we assume that it is constant in itself , unlike intentional objects which are contingent , relati...
June 20, 2021 at 17:08
If we correct the last line to read each person is all of these myriad perspectives , then it applies to numerous philosophies , starting with Nietzsc...
June 20, 2021 at 17:05
I don’t see an abstract endpoint in Being and Time. Thinking Being fundamentally, primordially, is not stepping out of time and history , or beginning...
June 20, 2021 at 17:00
reply="khaled;553477"] Constituted by a subject means all we first perceive are undetermined phenomena with no particular order or pattern to them , j...
June 19, 2021 at 20:39
Sloppy use of terms. Not you, me. This is a good question. Let me elaborate on this and then see if that helps us figure out what to do with the word ...
June 19, 2021 at 19:51
He wasnt strictly speaking a behaviorist though. From Wittgenstein’s biography: Those problems centred on the issue between those who assert and those...
June 19, 2021 at 19:14
Is the same true of the experience of a cup? Is there an intrinsic meaning of fight club , one that transcends time and context? Even for the author, ...
June 19, 2021 at 18:33
Maybe you could elaborate what you mean by fundamental. Heidegger’s does make his brand of philosophy fundamental ontologically , as the ground of Bei...
June 19, 2021 at 17:46
I’ve spent the past two years writing about the ideas of five phenomenologists, each of which has their own account of understanding. But if I were to...
June 19, 2021 at 17:26
This is a reasonable summary of neo-Kantianism , or representational realism. I’d really love your take on this paper , which critiques this approach ...
June 19, 2021 at 17:08
We have to get away from the whole notion of understanding and truth as mirroring , correspondence , representation, adequation to ‘ what is’ independ...
June 19, 2021 at 16:58
It sounds like your view of the subject is compatible with that of Zahavi and Michel Henry. From a recent paper or mine : “ Zahavi(2005) says he is am...
June 19, 2021 at 16:41
I agree completely. Yes, but does our observation create the content of that reality: the object and its properties? More specifically , is there a no...
June 19, 2021 at 16:17
QM modifies the terms of realism but stays within its bounds. Phenomenology argues that the subject is not separate from the object. What wayfarer’s m...
June 19, 2021 at 01:37
I’m trying to tease out the contribution of the subject not just to the appearance of the object but to the essense of the object.
June 19, 2021 at 01:24
Sorry for the length , but I couldn’t possibly say it better than Zahavi and Putnam.
June 18, 2021 at 23:30
Is the appearance of the configuration unique to each subject or can the configuration be described as existing as what it is independently of any giv...
June 18, 2021 at 23:27
I wouldn’t say he worked his way past it so much as pushed it to its limit. It took phenomenology to get past dualism.
June 18, 2021 at 23:24
yes I agree
June 18, 2021 at 23:22
Yes, Heidegger believed that science is unable to make explicit the presuppositions governing it.
June 18, 2021 at 23:14
I don’t think Karl Popper would agree with you here. He was heavily influenced by Kant in his philosophy of science. He would want to say that the inf...
June 18, 2021 at 23:12
I thought materialism was a form of realism
June 18, 2021 at 22:29
and flippancy makes my balls itch.
June 18, 2021 at 22:27
The video errs in claiming that we don’t know what such things as understanding or consciousness or language are. We do know, but according to a large...
June 18, 2021 at 20:37
I’d reverse that. Neuroscience always operates at a delay with respect to more abstract psychological subfields. When cognitive science came on the sc...
June 18, 2021 at 19:31
This is an adequate model if youre programming a computer , because computers don’t have to understand what is programmed into them. We do. What you d...
June 18, 2021 at 18:41
Are you then making the argument that the most satisfying explanations of aspects of behavior such as cognition, motivation, affectivity, empathy and ...
June 18, 2021 at 18:28
It would certainly be a mistake to think this is a theory about being in relation to time understood in any conventional sense. It is a theory about B...
June 18, 2021 at 18:05
This is the issue that Derrida went on and on about. Spoken and written language, and all other sorts of gestures and markings which intend meaning, e...
June 18, 2021 at 17:47
Do you suppose that’s where Sartre’s famous dictum ‘Hell is other people’ came from?
June 18, 2021 at 00:36