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Neither science nor philosophy provide a view from nowhere, but what Williams has done is to take applied and derivative thinking (empiricism) and mis...

We can be subjected to all manner of physical pain from non-human causes, and yet never develop the depression that results from abuse. Why not? Becau...

Nietzsche bothered to work ( he was a professor) until his severely ill health made it impossible to continue teaching. Until the 20th century the gre...

That doesn’t seem to be enough for ceo’s of many corporations. Even while Trump is actively dismantling dei , many ceo’s are maintaining or even stren...

Here are some places to start: Depression, Guilt and Emotional Depth https://philosophyofdepression.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/guiltpape...

Kelly provides various techniques that help us 1) loosen our failing schemes without abruptly abandoning them and leaving us in emotional chaos. 2) ex...

Others here have mentioned CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) and its relation to stoicism). I want to point out the commonalities with phenomenology....

What we want to keep , and will keep, from concepts like intersectionality and implicit bias, is that there is no such thing as a neutral playing fiel...

I’m sure you’re aware of how the left might critique this view, but let me mention the main points. First, Identity politics isn’t just about biology ...

Yes, but the diagnosis of depression gets its sense form a set of grounding psychological hyptheses, and one can then delve into the philosophical und...

This reminds me of Foucault’s research showing that the Victorian era, which many see as a time of the repression of sex , was also time of incessant ...

Notice that you start with the assumption that 2 entities are identical on some qualitative basis, even if that basis is merely imagined. Then you pla...

This is where Heidegger’s idealism (and Derrida’s) becomes conspicuously notable, in spite of the fact that his work moves beyond a traditional ideali...

If the mystical implies contact with a faculty separate from the mental, then this is quite different from Heidegger’s intent. His project critiques t...

The ready to hand forms a totality of relevance, which is what Heidegger calls world. We use the hammer in order to hammer the nail, in order to build...

You’re right that Wittgenstein equates philosophy with metaphysics and metaphysics with theory, but the situation is different with Heidegger:

These patterns are neither external to us, nor are they merely internal to us. The order emerges out of our discursive and material interactions with ...

I guess I’m trying to emphasize that concepts like truth, certainty and impossibility, whether applied to stable forms of life or more rapidly changin...

Don’t discount odd facts, because what makes them odd connects them to the functioning of a metaphysics. Let me explain. In another thread, Banno poin...

I think you’ve captured well the phenomenological move, common to writers as varied as Henry, Husserl, Heidegger and Derrida, abandoning the need for ...

One can generate a theory in physics , such as the Newtonian or the Quantum model. It can then be revealed how one’s theory is guided by certain metap...

I’m equating metaphysical system with paradigm , worldview or Wittgensteinian form of life. Is the duck-rabbit’s not being a lion is simply true, is i...

These are standards of correctness, no? It is incorrect to interpret the duck-rabbit as a picture of a lion. Why? Because we are applying a pre-existi...

A more interesting comparison would be Cezanne and Warhol. Is Pop art a variation of impressionism or does it involve a more radical rethinking of the...

Peter Hacker, Gordon Baker, David Stern, John McDowell, Crispin Wright, Norman Malcolm, James Conant, Cora Diamond, David Pears, Stanley Cavell, Peter...

I’ve read it. It may be stunning but it is widely rejected by scholars of the later Wittgenstein as a rigorous reading of his work.

As others have pointed out in this discussion, you begin from a concept of the real as something that is presumed to have an absolute status in itself...

Kripke failed miserably to grasp the later Wittgenstein, whose central ideas appear anything but mystical to me, being grounded in pragmatic interacti...

If one defines regressiveness as the regurgitating of older systems of thought, then Kripke’a work is no more than a variation, a slight twist on phil...

Let me address this by making a distinction between the content of a set of ideas and their mode of organization. To illustrate this, I will place on ...

If I place two identical letters side by side(aa) is this a difference which doesn’t make a difference? In formal logic the answer would be yes. For D...

That was kind of the idea of the Chicago Sky Chapel. https://images.app.goo.gl/PB9r5v6ycLD54yWx9

Phil-bro’s?

It’s not idealizations that are the problem. I agree that they are very useful. The problem is when philosophy takes them as its starting point and ad...

I would think the question for a rigorous philosophy is how to navigate between formal logic and natural language but to highlight features common to ...

Intention and intuition, potency to act and action are not separated in poststructuralist thinking, except artificially. Repetition and difference are...

Absolutely. It’s hard to explain to someone , especially if their standards of clarity are shaped by the corporate world, how a set of ideas can be ri...

Don’t get your knickers in a twist . I’m not in philosophy to insist on do-or-die, right or wrong ( Heidegger spent his career deconstructing the conc...

I think this distinction between the what and the how is very important. It is what allows us to see that meaning is finite. It is not just that, as G...

Wayfarer is trying to give a taste of Husserl’s view of the relation between consciousness and the physical. Given that the OP topic isnt about Husser...

If you’re going to argue that, you may as well add that there hasn’t been a progression in science and technology either.

The Middle Ages and the Renaissance are categories encompassing many forms of art, including literature, poetry, architecture and music. Given the fac...

I’m not sure how much of a space Husserl provides for metaphysical and spiritual doctrines. He is very clear that what one uncovers at the end of a lo...

I know it sounds like he’s celebrating obscurity for its own sake, as critics of postmodern writers have a field day accusing them of doing. But what ...

Exactly, we must begin from where we are. But if we take where we are in a traditional way that understands temporality in static terms as an endless ...

Yes, good point. But the ready to hand can itself reify experience. My response to J focuses on Heidegger’s critique of technology, which turns everyt...

Are you comfortable with an approach to philosophy which takes as its subject matter not claims for universally true content (a dogmatically correct w...

You have to appreciate these remarks in the context of Heidegger’s critique of technology. When he says that the “immediate effectiveness must remain ...

The point isn’t whether Nietzsche is right about the status of his work, it’s the very idea that concepts aren’t bits of data and we arent data-proces...

Neither Heidegger nor Nietzsche said they did not want to be understood by their contemporaries. They wanted desperately to be understood, tried every...