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This version of masculinity has a place among those who think such a thing as masculinity exists as a set of behavioral attributes grounded in biology...

We use logic to work within normative rules that define a the conditions of ‘truth’. But the normative conventions that determine what is true for us ...

And all of which we feel in the same moment ‘as’ the present moment, retaining the just past within it and anticipating beyond itself. As William Jame...

The video introduces metaphysics this way: ‘Some say experience and feelings are the clearest way to truth, but I need rational analysis.’ He thus equ...

Before you get bent out of shape , you’re right. I initially didn’t read your first post carefully and assumed you were making a moral judgement about...

How to think the meaning of the word ‘enemy’ that is not already fraught with affects of alienation and threat. What I’m trying to do is tie terms lik...

If you see character flaws as , does this mean that this represents the best that the person can do at the time , that their efforts and intentions ar...

Its not the correctness or incorrectness of the terms Im focusing on, it’s that they are terms of hostility masquerading as neutral descriptions. You’...

‘weak’ and ‘stupid’. It sounds like hostility is embedded in your articulation of the issue. If we could just get people to stopacting so stupid, weak...

As you mentioned, there can be a variety of motivations for alienating other persons or groups, but I think the central motive for harm, violence and ...

This reminds me of psychologist George Kelly’s description of punishment as a way to brand others as less than ourselves. “People are threatened by ‘e...

We could say that there are as many dances as there are dancers, but each dancer is attempting to mesh and intertwine their dance as harmoniously as p...

From a paper I wrote : While our experience as individuals is characterized by stable relations of relative belonging or alienation with respect to ot...

The key question. for me is is how you understand the flow of experience moment moment to moment , both yours and your interpretation of the ongoing b...

Where does the perspective come from that identifies the dance which transcends the dancers? A view from nowhere, everywhere?

Let me see if I can help out here. Undoubtedly one could link phenomenal appearances, memories, dreams, fantasies, etc to neural pathways stimulating ...

In the following remarkable passage in response to a question from Thomas Baldwin concerning the relation between the alterity produced by temporality...

If there is no dynamic aurnonomy , what makes an organism a dynamically functioning unity? Is it just a loose conglomeration of modules, or is there a...

Is Strauss championing empiricism ( the discovery of nature) over what he is reading as a subjectivism in Nietzsche?I think the causative dynamic of w...

Galen Strawson argues that the self is always different from one moment to the next, and there is nothing outside of the larger social norms to unify ...

I agree it is contingent. But as a temporal flow its contingency unfolds as a synthetic unity from moment to moment. Not a soul or self as something u...

I was a counselor years ago, but since then I have been writing and publishing in psychology and philosophy, with a focus on the relationship. between...

I’ll try. You could say I practice it, in that it low behind all of my thinking. Where it really comes in handy is in psychotherapy. Two of my favorit...

I know is you’d like something f you can wrap your hands around, but its a real bitch to provide a summary, at least for me. The best I can think of a...

What differentiates naturalism is its presupposition that the person holding a meaning can define it as ‘information’, which presumes that the person ...

Maybe not , but then its ‘lonely dream’ may be misunderstood by those who are wont to attribute it to an idealist solipsism. Husserl wrote this a few ...

No, this is a common misapprension of phenomenology as introspection into an inner subjective realm. It is an accurate depiction of the everyday use o...

If we substitute the ‘I’ or ‘self’ for mind , then I think the issue of a unity comes down to whether perspective, interpretation and ‘ for-me-ness’ a...

But keep in mind that the evidence will itself be a product of the narrative. New evidence only becomes evidence when the narrative changes. So in a w...

I see them as both as hominem and a reflection of his political work because I think his anarchism conveniently allows him to see cartoon villains aro...

Yes, but do you view a scientific theory as essentially a value narrative? And do you then see empirical facts as sub components of those value narrat...

I apologize for this in advance but I can’t resist. This is basically my view of Chomsky. Welcome to my alternative universe: “Chomsky is a very unatt...

Yes, but only if you can put yourself in their shoes and see their intent as justified from their perspective , a perspective that you can build a bri...

What if I say there is a hard problem of the relation between God and nature? If as an atheist you re-label the relation between the divine plan and t...

I readily admit that I may be projecting here. When I began a sincere attempt to investigate the foundations of Chomsky’s political philosophy, I had ...

You’ll notice that this enlightenment tells the researcher nothing specific about the development of ideas over the course of human history. Why not? ...

Let me turn this thinking on its head a bit. Instead of the choices being those indicated by the so-called ‘hard problem’ , either a mysterious inner ...

That may be. i’m not jealous of Peterson, I’m jealous of philosophers who produce remarkable ideas I wish I thought of. There are untold interpretatio...

I guess what I’m saying is that we always have a certain account in mind when we think about what perception isor how we talk about the processes that...

Btw, please don’t tell me you prefer Jordan Peterson to Nietzsche. I will have to come to your house and hurt you. However one wants to define methodo...

In life everything we do, no matter how trivial, is guided and informed by overarching goals that themselves belong to to normative , valuative worldv...

When I think of the expression ‘ anti-science’ , I of course think of Trump. But I also think of the attitude of conservatively minded writers toward ...

It is equal parts subject and object. Unlike idealisms, the subject pole doesn’t dominate or determine in any transcendent sense( categories of percep...

ok. So you’re saying apprehension of a universe is not a matter of adequation or correspondence with an independent reality but of construction?

Would you say that for Wheeler the universe is participatory in a materially causal way or in a valuative way?I realize that ‘value’ would have to be ...

I guess if I agreed with his political philosophy I would notice his passive-aggressive style of argumentation less. Normally I try to get away from f...

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Yes, the notio that the universe is a place that we exist ‘within’ is a realist notion, which I think Nietzsche is implicitly critiquing in the quote ...