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I explained why it would make a difference in assigning blame. The very definition of blame is inseparable from , and incoherent outside of the pragma...

Would you say that Barrett’s model is consistent with Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy or Albert Ellis' rational emotive therapy, in that each of these ...

No wonder he’s depressed. He’s trapped in a Cartesian nightmare of his own making. I’ d be depressed too if I bought into the idea of human experience...

I found free online and read it. The paradigms of cognitive- affective interaction the article is operating from ( ther are more that one cited but th...

Indeed

You should run that by a Wittgensteinian or a Pragmatist.

Which behaviors and attitudes? What does Strawson advocate in terms of dealing with crime?

I think the more interesting question is what in practically terms does it mean to be morally responsible ? How many different ways can we look at the...

I just read a bit of Knutson. From my quick sampling, I gather that Knutson analyzes affect in terms of arousal and valence within a cognitive-behavio...

The neuronanatomy and neurophysiology of brian structures associated with affectivity offer o my impoverished models of how affectivity relates to cog...

I f we don’t it’s only because we sacrifice a particular longing for the sake of a richer and more fulfilling longing.

Maybe he means ‘over hill , over dale’?

It sounds like you’re making all this up , because it runs directly counter to current research on the relation between consciousness and feelings. Ca...

I want get back to what you wrote last week as an example of a moral assessment: My favorite psychologist George Kelly argues that individuals always ...

Gergen has a belief, or more precisely a theory, called social constructionism, the view that all truths are contingent constructions of local culture...

On the contrary , contemporary research in cognitive neuroscience and consciousness studies both point to the idea that the notion of unconscious feel...

Since you mentioned Heidegger , I might suggest that he would find the idea of philosophy as description problematic. Description implies a neutrality...

It’s only an objective account if the person formulating the account is an objectivist. We have a moral realism if we , like Sophisticat, are a moral ...

Value is not ineffable any more than the ‘objective ‘ is transcendentally true. Moore was a Kantian, still caught up in a subject-object , feeling-thi...

Yes, but it’s only fair to look at Darwin in a larger philosophical context. Even though I assume he didn’t read Hegel, darwinism belongs to the Hegel...

Yea, but these are inseparably intertwined. Value isn’t an ineffable internality, it’s a function of intersubjective patterns of relation , and questi...

What I’m talking about , what the whole point of the OP is, is that how people ground their claims in terms of what ‘is’ has everything to do with how...

I could argue that quality remains for both the religionist and the atheist. The difference is that the religionist wants to ‘fix’ the quality as THE ...

Isn’t quantification simply an act of measurement itself? What is it that allows for precise measurement ? It seems to me that the only requirement is...

I thought you were a fan of Nietzsche.

While I agree with your geneology of the origin of the modern scientific split between objectivity and subjectivity, I don’t think one even has to go ...

Bringing this back to the theme of the OP, what is your view of Gergen’s social constructionist treatment of ethics? Do you agree that moral claims ca...

I certainly agree with that sentiment.

I think it is fair to talk about a divide within theories of consciousness that runs parallel to that within cognitive science in general . On one sid...

I looked up adversity index and couldn’t find anything about it. It sounds like you’re talking about the fact that our perceptions and cognitions are ...

I like Evan Thompson’s way of putting the issue. “Many philosophers have argued that there seems to be a gap between the objective, naturalistic facts...

To be fair , I’d need to go over the thread you linked to. I would only preliminarily say that anything reminiscent of Roger Penrose’s formulations of...

I’m still working on my grasp of your grasp of my grasp of your grasp.

[ No, it’s my turn. If you read carefully in the history of science, you’ll find that it is not a cumulative enterprise , as if there are fixed truths...

What do we know with certainty? How bout , recognizing that facts are pragmatic hypotheses that are subject to continual revision and that can lead to...

I think you got that backwards. You dont want to model subjectivity on the physical but show how models of the the physical emerge out of subjective p...

If you understood philosophy the way I wish people would , you would realize your claim is exactly the same as saying that science hasn’t really solve...

First impressions are no less biased than later impressions , in fact they are more so. With regard to understanding and getting along with others, re...

Saying they are a mixture doesn’t make things clear. Objectivity is a matter of intersubjective agreement on events which appear in different guises t...

First talk to your neighbors in your local community. Most likely the government and the medical system are making the choices you mention with the su...

Actually, objective reality is a derived product of subjective construction. In essence, we trick ourselves into believing that the empirical entities...

Naive realism is the belief that when we perceive the world we take in data that comes to us in a pure form from the outside world. But this is not wh...

I think it's a portal to Naive Realism.

Give me an example of what it could mean to hold someone morally responsible without a commitment to moral objectivism. More specifically , give me an...

I wonder if pornhub has a discussion section.

Yes, but this impressive feat is the result of rigging the deck to some extent. The method of physics restricts the criterion of ‘activity of somethin...

Great story. Ok, here’s an idea that comes to mind. It may or may not apply to your friend , but I think it gets to the heart of at least one aspect o...

No no no. I believe they’re absolutely your true reasons. I’m not saying you’re making anything up or fooling yourself. To demonstrate what I mean we’...

But logic is meaningless apart from the opinion( axiom) that it applies to. Your axiom or hypothesis concerning certain others is that they are espous...

I’ve heard tell that logic is grounded in intersubjectivity.