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...
Because our sciences substitute idealized abstractions for a more immediate and intricate experiencing of our world. The way we have carved up the wor...
If you’re arguing from the position that specific behavioral and affective dispositions are associated with biological gender, are you also making a d...
Husserl wrote a book called Formal and Transcendental Logic. In it he attempts to untangle centuries old confusions concerning the origin and nature o...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A number of current economists argue that compared to the industrial revolution, the digital revolution has produced paltry results in terms od the ra...
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...
They are idealized constructions derived from perceptual interaction with a world. They would. it be possible without our first having constructed the...
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...
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...
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...
reply="khaled;553477"] Constituted by a subject means all we first perceive are undetermined phenomena with no particular order or pattern to them , j...
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 ...
He wasnt strictly speaking a behaviorist though. From Wittgenstein’s biography: Those problems centred on the issue between those who assert and those...
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, ...
Maybe you could elaborate what you mean by fundamental. Heidegger’s does make his brand of philosophy fundamental ontologically , as the ground of Bei...
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...
This is a reasonable summary of neo-Kantianism , or representational realism. I’d really love your take on this paper , which critiques this approach ...
We have to get away from the whole notion of understanding and truth as mirroring , correspondence , representation, adequation to ‘ what is’ independ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I’d reverse that. Neuroscience always operates at a delay with respect to more abstract psychological subfields. When cognitive science came on the sc...
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...
Are you then making the argument that the most satisfying explanations of aspects of behavior such as cognition, motivation, affectivity, empathy and ...
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...
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...
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