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I am more familiar with Kant than with Plato. Would you agree that for Kant the the physical exists but is unknowable in itself , the mental exists in...

I thought metaphysics was the science of the conditions of possibility of ‘what can be’. As such it includes within itself things and concepts.

Any philosophical approach that utilizes a notion of refutation courts skepticism.

It means true in the context of a contingent and relative value system.

What does it mean to say that the above are ‘certain’ , that they correspond to a subject independent reality? Is that how you are reading Nietzsche? ...

True as in conforming to an unchanging standard or true as in describing and embodying an irreducible complicity between appearance and transformation...

It certainly does

Can’t we just agree with Nietzsche that the ‘real’ and the ‘true’ are themselves only kinds of useful fictions?

In ‘ Human Immortality: two supposed objections to the doctrine’, William James offered a creative ‘empirical’ hypothesis concerning the possibility o...

According to Roger Penrose Godel was a “very strong”mathematical platonist, so even if proof leads to an infinite regress, you can read Godol’s theore...

I’m going to self-plagiarize here and re-post a comment from an earlier thread. Here’s Husserl’s critique of representationalism, the idea that realit...

My point isn’t that bias exists as the opposite of impartiality but that the dichotomy bias-impartiality is incoherent. It is not that pure lack of bi...

As the good Kantian that he was , Im sure all we’d need to do to please Popper is adjust the TOE so that it acknowledges we can never reach the thing ...

From my vantage , the opposite is the case. It is the sciences that are in a kind of stagnation relative to philosophy, especially the physical scienc...

Sure it does. Reality is what appears to awareness as it appears to awareness. Reality isn’t a thing in itself out there that we try and ‘fit’ our rep...

You appear to believe that the striving for absence of bias is the ‘correct’ role of philosophy. Others will suggest that this view is just one among ...

Neither of these are phenomenologists in Husserl’s sense.

I don’t think he actually changed his mind. His intent all along was to found an absolute grounding in subjectivity for science , logic and math, not ...

Psychologism, in the pejorative sense in which it was used to critique Husserl’s work, for instance, refers to a confusion of contingent and relative ...

Absolutely. But experiences can be utterly novel in one sense and yet be recognizable as similar to what one has known. A new experience can belong to...

Husserl may have changed his terminology over the years but I don’t believe he ever treated reality as mind-independent.

That’s pretty much the default position on this site , but it isnt the view of phenomenology or post-structuralism. Their position isn’t epistemical s...

I am in agreement with them. I was too lazy to write my own response.

A ‘naturally occurring objective fact’ implies certain consequences, properties and relations, and all of these only make sense i relation to a body t...

I agree that the pace of cultural change has accelerated. I disagree that one can lift out science from among all of the modalities of cultural creati...

Here’s the problem. One can look at a printed word and perceive it only as a random series of physical shapes, one could recognize it as a string of l...

Here’s Husserl’s critique of Metzinger’s representationaliam, according to Zahavi: Representationalism notoriously courts scepticism: Why should aware...

Here’s a good argument from Hilary Putnam for why the subjective dimension of experience cannot be separated from our objective , empirical descriptio...

Post-structuralism is a kind of amorphous label, but the group of mostly French philosophers who critiques the structuralist models of Levi-Straus and...

Derrida certainly didn’t think he was a post-structuralist. His symbolic rendering of the unconscious seems to be a classic structuralist move.

For two hundred years , from Leibnitz to Heidegger, Germany absolutely dominated philosophy. Then it destroyed its intellectual environment thanks to ...

Do you think Streetlight is a happy person?

Condemnation is easy and doesn’t require thought so much as visceral reaction. You don’t do yourself a service by taking this easy route. The most dif...

Are you serious with this silly over the top rhetoric? Who talks like this? You sound like a walking cliche. You have no idea what my actual involveme...

Your kind of passion and approach to politics was desperately needed 60’ years ago, when there really was something like moral clarity, and the method...

Your bullying hostility isnt motivated by a need to back the weaker against the stronger, it’s driven by your moralist judgement of the MOTIVES of the...

Of course they do. They’re novelties. Only 2.3% of the country are foreigners. And of those, what’s percentage is non-Asian? Let’s see what happens wh...

I think this writer is talking about you. “Just as the overreach of the antiracism movement in the summer of 2020 was enforced on social media with ru...

We SHOULD imagine that this discussion was about slavery, or the holocaust , or serial killers, or Stalin or Pol Pot. That’s the whole point. The mode...

They tend to live in highly concentrated neighborhoods like Willamsburg in New York City or Meah Shearim in Israel. So they are isolated in this sense...

It is except among the orthodox and ultra-orthodox , whose number have grown wildly. At their current growth rate, they may become a majority of NYC J...

Well put. I do think the political character of the country has changed as a result of the massive influx of conservatively oriented immigrants from N...

Where do sympathy and empathy come from? Are they simple ‘capacities’ or do they depend on our ability , rather than desire, to understand worldviews ...

Thanks for that from Zizek. It’s a powerful analysis

Numbers2018 sees through that self-serving interpretation.

Don’t know if you saw my previous post: Israel has become a flashpoint for the left not just because of its subjugation of palestinians but because it...

It does get hot as hell there in summer

This is why I hate these political discussions. What on earth is an ‘oppressor’ and what could ‘Legitimate’ possibly mean? The answer depends of cours...

I will say this. Israel has become a flashpoint for the left not just because of its subjugation of palestinians but because its form of nationalistic...

You’re damn right I’m being evasive. I d rather poke needles into my eyes than be drawn into this ego-fueled bitch slapping contest. You philosophical...