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We tend to accuse others of hypocrisy when we are unable to understand their thinking from their own point of view. It’s one of the favored words of b...

Would you say that your characterization of those who are named by categories such as racism, misogyny and homophobia is compatible with Gergen’s char...

Could you elaborate on why it is a strained comparison? The point I am trying to make is that in order to assess moral blame one must have a justifica...

If moral claims are not attempts at describing reality, are they not grounded in certain assumptions concerning the nature of reality( universality, t...

One would hope.

I would agree that intentionality was effectively begun by Brentano. Kohler and Koffka studied with him and were inspired to found gestalt psychology,...

Yes, but the issue here is how such notions as responsibility and agency are to be understood from a social constructionist perspective. Gergen ( as w...

Not sure how to respond to that since I don’t know what olp means to you. I’m on more familiar ground with Wittgenstein , and I’d say that a fair amou...

You can complicate the picture by thinking about those with multiple personality disorder , who are a number of different personalities. And what abou...

What would it mean to believe that you are someone else: ‘I am someone other than myself’. What are you really asking about, the arbitrariness of iden...

Dan Zahavi is among a group of philosophers who believe that there is a subjectively personal aspect of experiencing. Referencing Nagel’s argument tha...

Again with the attack on philosophy. Since I can’t give you a list , I’ll give you an incredibly skimpy summary of my claim justifying the continued v...

I sent the link to the OP of this thread a few weeks ago, and he seemed quite enthusiastic about reading it. In fact , we debated a number of the auth...

More off-topic than this? No, it would be terribly unhelpful. The nerve of me. A recent paper by one of my random philosophers, Shaun Gallagher: Doing...

They didn’t have to read it to have absorbed the essence of its advances. Do you think that olp’s ideas are proprietary, that they don’t belong to lar...

I’m saying exactly the opposite(unless you’re just referring to analytic philosophy, in which case I agree) and here’smy list of philosophers who abso...

Except that philosophy didn’t die with Wittgenstein. It absorbed his ideas and reinvented itself as post-metaphysical ( Derrida would say there is no ...

‘Writing’ for Derrida means that what is spoken is not immediately understood but is deferred, delayed in its reception. “ When he writes himself to h...

So ‘original intent’ is a thing?

Husserl made a distinction between free and bound idealities. Mathematical logic is an example of of a free ideality. It is designed to be able to be ...

We only know what is written by reading it , and reading involves interpretation. Each time we return to a written page to read it , we interpret it s...

The whole point of interaction theory is that standards don’t have any existence outside of their use, and in their use they are altered to accommodat...

I’m going to see if I can contribute anything helpful to this discussion. It seems to me that your understanding of understanding is compatible with f...

Everyone knows what a homophobe is except the homophobe. The definition of a homophobe is someone else you accuse of having malevolent intent because ...

Homophobia is a pc word. Why? Because It was created after standards of correctness emerged on the cultural scene following upon an evolution of think...

If it isnt I’m going to have to return my car placard.

I think this has been a rather robust discussion of the ethics surrounding the use of the word ‘defect’ with regard to gender (thanks to your efforts)...

Let’s look at the quote again. Are you seeing the rhetorical move Heidegger is making? He does this often. When he wants us to realize that he is sayi...

Are you saying that you interpret Heidegger as believing in a notion of self as an isolated subject-thing?

Ah, but don’t forget the paradoxical nature of individuation for Heidegger. Look at the rest of the paragraph you quotes from: “ For as attune­ment, a...

We hypothesize such things and see if the resulting anticipations bear fruit. We know how we are likely to act when we ‘feel’ any particularity way , ...

That sounds reasonable to me. I agree about Stambough vs. Macquarie. I don’t know how they got ‘state of mind’ from Befindlichkeit

But there is also an authentic being-with. “If the being of everyday being-with-one-another, which seems onto­ logically to approach pure objective pr...

I wouldn’t quite interpret the following from Being and Time as arguing that we are essentially alone. Rather,being alone is a form of Being-with. “Be...

Are there other ways that frameworks get forced on people? If there is a desire for certainty, is this universal , or it it possible some people don’t...

What does it mean to see a better way? If you’ve read Kuhn, you know that embracing a ‘better’ scientific theory always implies a change of subject. A...

Does this make you feel better? “...emotions play a role in constraining and structuring the realm of explicit deliberation, restricting deliberation ...

These are not questions within science, they are questions of philosophy of science, and there is absolutely no consensus on these issues.Not to menti...

This is an awful misreading of Piaget. I highly recommend Mischel’s Cognitive Conflict and the Motivation of Thought. “...there are good reasons for h...

Neuromorphic processors don’t mirror human perceptual processes , according to the current psychological theories of perception , which model percepti...

You wouldn't need an opposition. While there is general consensus among natural scientists concerning the facts of their field, there is no such agree...

It was kind of a test of your pleasure-pain model. Piaget would answer that motivation and cognitive structures are indissociable. Pleasure-pain no mo...

Could the motivational system be reengineered so that social bonding no longer produced pleasure but pain instead? under that circumstance, would ther...

The fact that you’re forgetting what you read is your brain telling you that it isn’t relevant enough to for you to retain. A basic tenet of memory is...

Here’s my take: In the past , growing populations were am indication of prosperity and scientific, technological and economic progress. I think it is ...

After I wrote this post , I read Rorty’s critique of Cavell and realized that he was making a similar argument to mine. https://www.pdcnet.org/revmeta...

Except that it seems to me in the case of Einstein’s theory, or better yet, Wittgenstein’s writings, our lives will have had to agree in more than jus...

Ah yes, I did say that. I didn’t mean to imply that there is no referential consistency from moment to moment. I was trying to convey Derrida’s argume...

Sometimes they believe the voice is being broadcast by a radio signal, or that some audio speaker has been implanted in their brain, These are just so...

I don’t, any more that I would know what Einstein meant to say without a context in common. Context in common means I have already found myself thinki...