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Do you get the sense that some of the more strident critics of Israel on this thread are using the Palestinians more as symbolic props than as real pe...
May 13, 2021 at 21:06
Where did you get this from? It sounds vaguely familiar. What specific political writing does it plug into?
May 13, 2021 at 20:55
I think cognition and perception are normatively , anticipatingly structured . We perceive the world in relation to what we expect to see, which is wh...
May 13, 2021 at 19:55
Perhaps things are only there in an interaction between subject and object pole. More specifically , perhaps what is there directly for us isn’t a thi...
May 13, 2021 at 19:12
Intersubjectivity is quite a going research concern in psychology and philosophy. It has to do with trying to make sense of the differences between ‘I...
May 13, 2021 at 19:04
When you engage in a discussion with someone you have never met , have no background context on , and especially when the topic is something as comple...
May 13, 2021 at 18:37
The foundation of politics is philosophy, also the name of this site, and I’ve heard nothing about it from you so far. As far as being beyond good and...
May 12, 2021 at 22:08
This is ostensibly a philosophy site. I’m aware that political philosophy and straight out political fights are also a part of what goes on here. I te...
May 12, 2021 at 21:42
You say it’s unambiguous and I say it’s ambiguous. How ever are we to get to the bottom of this? Perhaps by actually having a discussion about it? No,...
May 12, 2021 at 20:22
You have to excuse me. I’ll need to know the secret handshake before I can join the authentic political radical’s club, where self-righteousness flows...
May 12, 2021 at 20:14
It really does? It really really truly does?Indubitably and forever more ? Are you sure? Will you send me a candy bar if you’re wrong? Can I guess whi...
May 12, 2021 at 20:08
Its early leadership didn’t go the direction of terrorist Begin. When he was elected , he moderated somewhat. The right in Israel now is unquestionabl...
May 12, 2021 at 19:57
Although I’m a liberal, I agree with Conservative commentators like David Brooks, Ross Douthat and David Frum that the Trumpist republicans are a sink...
May 12, 2021 at 19:50
Let me see if I understand you. You’re saying that the new, populist Trump -dominated Republican party, as opposed to the party of Bush and Reagan, is...
May 12, 2021 at 19:36
The more I read your cartoonish takes on complex political conflicts , the more I get the sense that you’re not talking about the large political worl...
May 12, 2021 at 19:32
No wonder you don’t like psychology. You’re incapable of nuanced empathic insight.
May 12, 2021 at 19:25
They wouldn’t have expected them to give up and leave if they knew how to get along with them. The Israelis didn’t expect or want the tremendous diver...
May 12, 2021 at 19:17
There were atrocities on both sides , which I think resulted from profound cultural differences and distrusts. Heres an interesting discussion on the ...
May 12, 2021 at 19:04
Chomsky’s the kind of guy who, if stuck on a desert island, would alienate the pragmatists, steal the conch and form a cult of personality.
May 12, 2021 at 18:54
It’s painful for me to read this. I’m not saying I completely disagree with it, but something is missing from the historical context. My father’s pare...
May 12, 2021 at 18:46
I get the impression you’re not happy with any existing state. That’s a dangerous place to be in from an emotional health point of view. If you’re not...
May 12, 2021 at 18:26
You sound so naive. It’s not. a question of being ok, but of how groups respond to the rhetoric of the opposing side. It’s thing to commit an action o...
May 12, 2021 at 18:25
What are you , some kind of utopian idealist? I don’t know that Israel’s form of democracy is that much different than what U.S. democracy started off...
May 12, 2021 at 18:17
So one side threatens and the other side , the one with the power, accomplishes. I lived in Israel for a year. I don’t think it’s possible for a state...
May 12, 2021 at 18:13
As I recall, rhetoric concerned with annihilating a population, or ‘driving them into the sea’, has been heard for years from certain non-Jewish quart...
May 12, 2021 at 18:01
Interesting read. I notice there is brief mention of a handful of philosophers. I mention this because whenever a philosopher offers a hermetically se...
May 11, 2021 at 21:56
That’s the interesting thing about attention.It’s not just a neutral beam of light with a certain capacity to illuminate. Attention is an active inter...
May 11, 2021 at 19:58
There is a tendency in psychological theorizing to reduce emotion and attitude to some sort of extraneous coloration or content that is added onto exp...
May 11, 2021 at 18:22
Children can also be relentlessly , impossibly bored. I have never been so bored as an adult as I was as a child. I think that’s no coincidence. Diffe...
May 10, 2021 at 21:43
Everything we experience has value. We are sense-making creatures so what we experience matters to us in some way, whether it is boring or interesting...
May 09, 2021 at 20:16
Yes, but is this subjective experience not at the same time an objective experience? What I mean is this: I can think of myself in relation or opposit...
May 08, 2021 at 20:21
Doesn’t this destroy the subjectivity of consciousness, the very essence of awareness? From cognitive science there are suggestions for a ‘mutual enli...
May 08, 2021 at 19:51
The only way to effectively challenge CRT is to either show how it deviates from valuable ideas in Critical theory, or critique the foundational ideas...
May 08, 2021 at 19:44
Are you familiar with any of the writings in Critical theory of Continental authors like Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse or Habermas? I’m wondering if you...
May 08, 2021 at 18:41
How does one define behavior, as change in space-time of an observed object? Is there a notion of behavior joe that cannot be defined in terms of move...
May 08, 2021 at 18:34
The following are all available free here: https://ku-dk.academia.edu/DanZahavi Zhavi: We in Me or Me in We? Collective Intentionality and Selfhood. M...
May 08, 2021 at 02:50
I’m not sure what you mean by a pure idealist. You mean like Berkeley? Is Kant a pure idealist in your view? At any rate, Heidegger isnt saying that t...
May 08, 2021 at 00:33
I’m not sure if ‘recognizing experience as an issue’ is a thing. That is , some special capacity of thought above and beyond good old fashion reflecti...
May 07, 2021 at 22:38
If it truly is a linear progression then, yes, it makes sense to describe science as in the ‘solving’ business. But as far as I can see , with a linea...
May 07, 2021 at 22:30
“...this traditional hypothesis which takes the infant’s experience to be initially impersonal and anonymous has been rejected unequivocally by domina...
May 07, 2021 at 22:23
which used to be a typewriter , and before that pen and paper , and before that a feather quill , and before that a stone tablet. Did each invention s...
May 07, 2021 at 22:13
I don’t agree with Zahavi’s version of a pre-reflective self-awareness. He calls it ‘for-meness’ and deems it a self-identify of self , an ongoing fee...
May 07, 2021 at 22:09
There has been a fair amount of work in recent years on what has been called a pre-reflective form of minimal self-awareness. Dan Zahavi has made this...
May 07, 2021 at 21:35
I didn’t mean that you contradicted yourself. I meant that your position may contradict an enactivist or postmodern account of subjectivity. I’m not s...
May 07, 2021 at 20:11
The understanding of philosophy or science that believes that either of them are in the business of ‘solving ‘ problems’ is a problem for me. Solution...
May 07, 2021 at 19:14
You just gave a good description of science, which claims to ‘solve’ a problem and then refashions itself over and over to ‘solve’ again. Except the s...
May 07, 2021 at 18:57
Except that the op could just as well have been ‘Can someone name a single solved scientific problem?’. Converting natural philosophy into physics did...
May 07, 2021 at 18:52
Yes, I think there is. Your model maintains a fact-value distinction that can’t justify itself, according to analytically trained philosophers like Qu...
May 07, 2021 at 18:13
Kant believed that there was an objective world independent of the subject that the subject could come to know more and more perfectly as an asymptoti...
May 07, 2021 at 18:02
Physicalism thinks it leaves dualism behind, when in fact it simply ignores the subjective dimension of experience that is built into , but hidden wit...
May 07, 2021 at 02:25