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That’s a good start. Give me a better word to describe his understanding of the public.

I’m not sure you’re ‘engaging’ with the OP. I should have added: no gratuitous comments on Heidegger’s politics as a substitute for having read the wo...

I think Thomas Metzinger should study Shaun Gallagher, Matthew Ratcliffe and Dan Zahavi for a more enlightened approach to cognition

Thank you Heidegger

We will never know what a philosopher ‘really means’, but I don’t think that should be considered the aim of reading them. What we should aim for is t...

[reply="RogueAI;508743" Much of what you are listing as ‘good’ philosophy seems to belong to the conventional style of thinking of analytic philosophy...

Derrida was once asked why , given all the other contemporary philosophers Derrida wrote about , he never devoted any time to discussing Lacan’s ideas...

His view actually comes pretty close to naive realism. He certainly is not much of a constructivist, believing as he does in innate semantic primitive...

You agree that someone with no background in physics is not in a position to tackle QM or Einstein’s general relativity. Why should it be any differen...

If you’re referring to Kant , the Quinean formulation amounts to a critique of Kant’s idealism.

Putnam, following Quine said that is and ought cannot be disentangled since fact and value interpenetrate.

In the same vein, people agree that there is such a thing as the familiar and the alien, the understandable and the strange. The problem is that moral...

That would explain why they think the notion of ‘doing good things’ is objectively definable in the first place.

I always get that from corporate types( not that you’re necessarily a corporate type). If an idea is worth anything it should be explicable in a simpl...

Metaphysics in the way authors like Derrida mean it has to do with organizing particulars via a category some sort of a priori , that is , irreducible...

Here’s an example from Nelson Goodman describing the relationship between our accounts of experience and the experience in itself: “To be objective, t...

metaphysics in its most general sense is just the formalist gesture in thinking. Derrida recognized that there is no escaping this gesture , even for ...

I would have thought you’d prefer Kuhn to Popper. There just aren’t enough Kuhnians on this forum. Popper is too much of a realist for me. Let me ask ...

Norm is referring to a different philosophical breakthrough than that of enlightenment era science( the later Wittgenstein , and I would add to that a...

Thanks to analytic philosophers like Quine , Sellers and Putnam, it is now commonly accepted within at least some quarters of philosophy of science th...

As I started to say in the previous post, but want to expand upon now, I don’t think there is any stable way of defining the difference between a conc...

Yes, but if that is meant to refer to norm’s comments here concerning the relation of language in a Wittgensteinian sense to issues like mind versus b...

Still. for Dharmi there is a range of contexts that he is likely putting together with his concepts without realizing the synthetic act he is pulling ...

William James thought Hume came close to recognizing the difficulty of maintaining an ideal separation of self and world , but settled for a tradition...

That’s true, but for me the significant point is that the scientists are usually playing catch-up with the philosophers. I’m glad they don't feel the ...

Pointing to oneself and recognizing this as a unity body requires an intersubjectively shaped concept of one’s body. Before looking in a mirror, a chi...

Sounds simple but may not be so. Have you heard of the research on extended cognition? Drawing a boundary based on the physical body is somewhat arbit...

There is a difference in meaning between ‘it is warm’ , which doesnt necessary require a subjective experience ( I could be looking at a thermostat) a...

We all do, according to studies. And what about the use of the world ‘I’ here? We can talk about the feeling of warmth in the abstract , in third pers...

You are not only aware of the warmth. You are also aware of the mode of subjective access to the experience. Did you experience it directly or recolle...

That’s an interesting question. There’s a consensus forming among a community of phenomenologically influenced writers in philosophy of mind that self...

My aim with the Hume quote was to show that the assumed pure interiority of consciousness falls apart when analysed closely, because when we search fo...

My favorite quote from Hume: “ For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or ot...

I’m not sure I understand the distinction you’re making between the act of representing a feature of the world , and learning. Isn’t all representatio...

Could you elaborate a bit more on your philosophy of science stance with regard to your assertion that facts remain unchanged forever? Are you saying ...

There are many forms of physicalism. For instance , what allows Barrett to reject naive realism is her indebtedness to Kantian idealism. That’s why sh...

It sounds like you are using a combination of Stimulus Response theory and a notion of prewired innate categories to explain animal communication. But...

One could say that the world is a constantly changing flow of events that never repeats itself identically or doubles back on itself. Our challenge to...

Sounds reasonable , but are you taking into account the problematics of the scheme-content distinction that motivated Kuhn, Rouse , Fine and others to...

I was talking about perceptual and conceptual contents, not the innate biological capacities for experience( but even these biological structures are ...

It’s a conceptual question before it is an empirical question, meaning that you would probably have to change your definitions of what a psychological...

How can we bring anything to the world prior to experience? I know that is Kant’s argument but the phenomenological argument is that only IN experienc...

Does it cause you displeasure?

This kind of discourse on desire and hedonism treats these terms as substantive entities which mechanistically push and pull a passive psychological s...

It sounds like you’re retaining Kant’s reification of subject and object here. What do terms like ‘information’ and ‘given to us’ imply here? It sound...

That’s not saying very much. Most 20th and 21st century movements in philosophy are inconceivable without Kant ( Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Whitehead, ...

Husserl’s work represented an explicit critique of Kant. Kant invested the transcendental subject with formal (categorical) contents and the world wit...

Which is why phenomenologisits argue that idealism and empiricism are two sides of the same coin, and both depend on dualist assumptions.

We don’t ‘share’ the material world because the notion of a same world for everyone is incoherent. We each interpret a world relative to our unique va...

Wiki says : “Materialism is a form of philosophical monism that holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, includi...