Joshs

I agree that some physicists have moved beyond naive direct realism , but I can’t find any who have left realism of all stripes behind, Do you know of...

Peterson grossly misreads most of the postmodern authors he pontificates about. Zizek’s a windbag but at least he has a solid background in figures li...

What is there outside of the meaning of the term? Put differently , unless you maintain a dualist perspective, positing an objective ‘real world’ exis...

Yes, and this means he denies that the aim of science should be the attainment of truth, which amounts to a direct critique of modern physics and most...

Then how are we able to understand the meaning of the word ‘universe’?

Indeed, as well he should respect them, because they represent the foundation on which his own philosophy is built. Let me clarify what I mean by disp...

From Gerhard Thonhauser “Thinker without Category: “The first volume of the Black Notebooks is exemplary for Heidegger’s hostility against an anthropo...

These were published as 2 two volume books of 200 pages each. Past , present and future are the same moment, what Heidegger calls the three ecstasies ...

Keep in mind that Heidegger didn’t want to equate Dasein with anthropos , the ‘ human being ‘ as biological entity. Yes, It emerges and is constructed...

I think he was much more influenced by Nietzsche, who he wrote two volumes about , than kierkegaard, who he only mentioned disparagingly. Unfortunatel...

I didnt realize comparing the value of different cultural modalities came down to a processof elimination.

In what way is it not reflected philosophically?You mean you can’t name a single philosopher whose ideas have the ‘maturity’ of the fields you mention...

If you look at the painting Starry Night you’ll notice that Van Gogh didnt just paint rings around lights, he painting a veritable network of streamin...

Look. My sense of what a color is changes in subtle ways in relation to my own previous perception of it all the time , in response to changing contex...

Then so does Wittgenstein. Look. My sense of what a color is changes in subtle ways in relation to my own previous perception of it all the time , in ...

Strawson believes in the usefulness of notions like veridicality and mind-independence of experience. Phenomenology sees them as derivative abstractio...

I did not mean to suggest that they are mutually exclusive. What I meant was, following Husserl and Merleau-Pontus, the ‘physical’ is a higher order d...

Colors are not physical phenomena, they are perceptual phenomena, and as such are the achievement of a constructive process. They are intentional acts...

Even better, philosophy discloses the strangeness that is an intrinsic feature of experience but is covered up by everyday living and thinking.

You make it sound like profound life meanings are some finite set of propositions that we either grasp or fail to grasp. Let me offer two suppositions...

Why is the eternal present God, rather than God-sin as the inseparable poles of every present? Something I wrote on Caputo; “to maintain a faith in ex...

Contrary to many misinterpretations, Husserlian phenomenology is not an idealism but a radical subject-object interactionism. Husserl says the followi...

I agree that science has made progress in catching up with where philosophy has arrived( and why not? I don’t think there are any hard and fast distin...

This is a longstanding presupposition in philosophy, the idea that feeling is somehow immediate and non-intentional. Value is a differential, as is in...

In Husserl’s early work his analysis of the primal impression , the experience of the ‘now’ , appeared to position it as a dull presence to self , apa...

For Husserl and Heidegger the present is a fulfillment of a past which comes out of the future, so it is the present that is inessential rather than p...

Since everybody is bringing Christianity into this discussion as the salvation for the powerless, I can’t resist mentioning Nietzsche, who turned this...

I’ve read it. I know Tom Sheehan pretty well. He’s kind of a wild man of activist philosophy, a real character. But as I said before , the route to an...

Maybe not this: From Wittgenstein’s biographer: “...it is clear that for most of the time when he talks of , Jews' he is thinking of a particular raci...

From Heidegger’s biographer: “ In the cultural field, competition anti-Semitism genera]]y includes the as-sumption of a specific "Jewish spirit." But ...

No, his contempt for the Jews is NOT well known, it is up for constant debate. He never bought into the virulent Nazi anti-semitism that presented Jew...

She never complained, so who the hell are you to pass judgement? I suspect you’re probably as morally suspect as Heidegger. perhaps more so, since I n...

I agree completely. If one is going to attack a historical figure, it’s usually a good idea to at least do one’s research.

Sure he was, according to his biographer, Hannah Arendt and many others , Jee and non-Jew, who knew him. He never bought into Nazism as a political id...

How do you feel about Wittgenstein?

This is what Husserl is proposing: “ The epoche creates a unique sort of philosophical solitude which is the fundamental methodical requirement for a ...

“Show me the way to the next whiskey bar”

My degree was in cognitive science. To me psychological discourse is simply a less self-aware ( or ‘naturalized) form of philosophical thinking.

Or perhaps Heidegger understood phenomenology better, and took the epoch to a more primordial beginning , than did Stein. “The lightest of the slight ...

That may be so , but that hasn’t stopped me. I don’t have a PhD and never took a single course in philosophy, and yet I have been able to publish my p...

Neither Nietzsche nor Spinoza or Kierkegaard made their living in philosophy or were part of academia during most or all of their writing careers. BTW...

I notice there is no mention in your treatment of analytic philosophy’s view of the fact/ value distinction of writers like Quine, Wittgenstein, David...

Only the real philosophers know the secret handshake.

I don’t have any work to show, Just wanted your quick take on the subject, which doesn’t have to be done on this thread.

I understand that, but I’m asking because I was impressed with Deleuze’s book on Nietzsche and am curious as to whether you think Deleuze might have d...

Wouldn’t Deleuze side with Nietzsche on science? I thought you agreed with his philosophy.

quote="StreetlightX;515183"]If it cannot, in principle, be proven wrong by further observation, that's not science, that's religion. Nietzsche would b...

“Some science will just never be correct.” Ah, the ascetic ideal rears its ugly head.

Of course, I can still make a distinction between my perspective and someone else’s , but only as filtered though my vantage on their outlook. I’m not...

You and I have no choice but to trust our own perspective because that is the only perspective that we have. Even when we trust someone else’s , we st...