For me , the problem of evil is that people believe there is such a thing. There are those who call themselves atheists and still have use for this co...
Zahavi argues that Chalmers sees intentionality and phenomenology as separable properties in the world. It seems to me the paper you linked to also do...
So are you saying that Chalmers is arguing the following?: “One way of formulating the hard problem is to ask: if we had a complete, canonical, object...
Of course, It doesn’t have to be used this way. Ideology can be synonymous with worldview, paradigm or philosophy, which is how I am using it to apply...
It is possible the reason physics and the life sciences do not seem to converge on each other is not that there is something intrinsically different a...
Science is many ideologies , or. more precisely, a historical continuum of transforming ideologies, moving in parallel with transformations in all oth...
I would modify that statement to read: science is a word which points to a historically developing progression of worldviews rather than a single worl...
Since when is the ‘scientific method’ not itself a worldview.? More accurately put, is there any such thing as THE scientific method? A quick glance a...
That would be the realist position , which starts from the belief that the hard problem really is a problem rather than a result of a dualist metaphys...
You mean psychoanalytic theory, S-R theory and cognitive behavioral theory are also inconsequential, or did you mean that it would be difficult for yo...
It depends on what aspect of our experience you have in mind. Our natural sciences don’t seem to suffer from their dependence on realism, but then tha...
I know that Heidegger would phrase this differently , and I think so would Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. For Heidegger, Being isnt ‘a’ being, a subject, ...
It is describable though. I’m more familiar with Zahavi’s phenomenologically- based pre-reflective awareness than Nagel’s notion of the feeling of wha...
There are some approaches to therapy that don’t pathologize the client , but instead see their difficulties as arising out of the inevitable stuckness...
By definition, scientific theories are based on evidence. And what counts as evidence is based on a pre-existing framework defining what counts as evi...
Don’t you think a pretty good indicator of how many died due to Covid , who would not otherwise have died , is by looking at the average overall numbe...
Within the next 4 weeks , 600,000 people will have died in the U.S. in the 12 month span since the pandemic began, which will tie the total estimated ...
. Barrett, Friston and Seth’s work doesn’t amount to an explicitly conceived overarching philosophical model, because they are not philosophers. But i...
This needs to be clarified. First, there is a distinction to be made between the views of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, and the current crop o...
Let me suggest the way that Husserl and Merlea-Ponty would answer the question of whether there can be any such thing as a non task-relative sensation...
Heidegger agrees with Husserl and Merleau-Ponty that there is no such thing as a task-neutral sensation. But his reasoning differs from these authors....
As I was saying, the question now is whether the more radical interpretations of phenomenology represented by Merleau-Ponty, Varela, JJ. Gibson and He...
That’s good. According to my definition of understanding as subsumption I’d have to say that you do understand phenomenology in some form in that you’...
Not sure I’m following you here. Can we just say that a gestalt shift not only opens one up to a new approach but changes their interpretation of thei...
Because the particular widespread agreement I’m talking about is informing the Chemero link I sent you as well as the ‘smallism-localism’ link. The la...
Yes, that sounds right. Body-brain-world as single, reciprocally causal gestalt , with no piece alterable without affecting the configuration as a who...
Wittgenstein’s work is brilliant. He is among the first modern thinkers to see past the paired facades of idealism and realism to the intimate context...
quote="baker;501308"]Appealing to people's compassion generally doesn't go well. Better to appeal to people’s ego. People like to feel important and r...
Everyone justifies their behavior in their own way , and the best fuel for this is when some one appears hostile to or critical of them. You best bet ...
That’s a tough one.First, I should say that the disagreement I have with writers like Varela and Thompson over their reading of phenomenology is what ...
Here ya go: Edmund Husserl, the founder of modern phenomenological philosophy, attempted to chart a course between realism and idealism by grounding a...
Yeah, but what about orgasm? Intense pleasure morphs into deep relaxation(depending on who you’re with, of course) and then maybe sleep. No necessary ...
Here’s an an interpretation of the eternal return from Deleuze that kind of plays havoc with the above thought. According to Deleuze , what is returni...
YES, but does happiness always result directly in sadness? Does any particular emotion or mood state necessarily follow another? It seems to me that w...
It seems to me most on this forum who call themselves moral relativists are only relativist up to a point. I’ve. found very few full fledged postmoder...
Yes, absolutely! But I realize I’d have to prove that to you. I’ve been reading more Barrett and Clark, and listening to her youtube lectures. I’m get...
Why, because communicating with oneself is so profoundly different from communicating with others in terms of its goals? Only if you start from a sepa...
I’m curious. Are you a realist when it comes to scientific progress? Would you say that a science describes a real world independent of the theory, an...
If you assent to the idea that you know when you’ve learned something new,( regardless of whether it turns out later that you were mistaken) , that is...
We do create private language all the time , for instance when we create new theoretical ideas. ‘ Private’ here is a bit of a mis-nomer though. When I...
Yes, they are quite popular. During its long reign as the dominant paradigm, S-R psychology represented an overwhelming percentage of citations in exp...
Is this what you mean? “Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing sea...
I would say the feeling of truth and the feeling of hedonic satisfaction are inseparably co-implied. Truth isnt a match between inside and outside, it...
Thompson seemed to be pretty thrilled when he announced on his twitter feed a research paper which he co-authored purporting to show that predictive p...
Let me put that differently . Can a variable outside a markov blanket be defined by a property in an objective sense, the way we would define a physic...
Kelly’s model isn’t dealing with causes but intentional motivations (construals). And he isn’t dealing with states but processes of transformation. An...
I was being a little underhanded there, setting up CBT for critique. Now, this may not apply to Barrett’s model, but let’s see. The aspect of CBT that...
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