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I’m surprised you didn’t mention current dissenting views in physics, like Lee Smolen, who argues that the presuppositions that have dominated the fie...

I didn’t mean to be rude. Am not sure how to answer your question without summarizing the whole of Heidegger’s philosophy. (Although did strike me as ...

I believe it did permeate all his thinking. We live in a much more interconnected world than past philosophers did. They had limited exposure to group...

I’m saying that all us carry around our own personal worldview through which we interpret the world and through which our values and opinions are dete...

A sensory construct is the way that the things we experience meet with our extant construct system. That meeting is the new construct. There are no ‘t...

I don’t know if it’s used that way deliberately, but it is a sign of badly thought-out ideas, and there is a lot of that in philosophy. There will alw...

Do you have any cats?

You may want to read Levinas’ Totality and Infinity. The whole book is essentially an attempt to show how Heidegger’s way of understanding Being lent ...

I disagree. The personal actions of philosophers don’t occur in spite of their expressed worldiview but because of it; they manifest the possibilities...

Did you go beyond that? Do you think you have assimilated the ideas of the American pragmatists, the phenomenologists? We can’t go beyond the past tex...

For me , the irreducible basis or ‘unit’ of all experience is the construct. A construct is a dimensional axis by which we experience an event in term...

My argument would be that the kinds of evocation to be found in poetry and discursive explication are different ways of going about the same general t...

Their claim is based on a model of attention as separate from intention. If one shows this separation to be untenable, as the phenomenologists have, t...

From Heidegger: “Nietzsche's thinking sees itself as be­longing under the heading "nihilism." That is the name for a historical movement, recognized b...

Nihilism is the belief that cultural values are meaningless. The rejection of metaphysical Christian values in the West led to nihilistic movements. N...

But Nietzsche believed there were all manner of valuations and he saw his task as the overcoming of nihilism,precisely through that realization.( tran...

Since when are affective experiences those of which we cannot speak? We speak them in our attitudes, expressions, gestures. Since when is an affective...

[reply="frank;487349" Not sure I understand. We may have to turn this into a real conversation. It seems more like a cross between a tweet and a haiku...

You’re saying that by claiming mindfulness is non-neutral I’m doing the above? No, I’m not giving preference to love over hate. I’m saying that all ma...

And you could probably deepen your knowledge of philosophical jargon. Not trying to be snarky, just reminding you that it works both ways. I agree tha...

I guess what I’m trying to say is that when you mediate you don’t ‘switch off’ thinking, you shift your focus to a particular kind of abstractive thin...

That’s right , it can’t be both. I say it is non-neutral, despite its claims to be.

Do me a favor and simply correct your your sentence to read “You need to back up what you are saying with reference to the experiences of life so that...

I’m defining it as Contemplative attending , which is a neutral observational gaze occurring prior to and separate from intendings of specific objects...

Could you give me a sense of your understanding of phenomenological theory? The main point of the OP is that Varela and Thompson claim that ‘unconditi...

Your post is keeping me up at night

According to Piaget, he decentered his thinking, by the same process that a child eventually learns that the moon doesn’t actually follow him when he ...

I'm assuming you want to keep both readings. So let me ask you this: Do you really think that neither my position nor the other's is central to a norm...

I've always liked DG's style.Utterly original. Let's say that we think long and hard about what is the simplest, most irreducible and primordial thing...

I would prefer to say , with Rorty, Dewey , phenomenology , hermeneutics and radical constructivism that it doesn’t make any sense to talk of that whi...

No, he didn’t. “ After such a synthesis of Wittgensteinian philosophy and Merleau-Ponty' s phenomenology of perception, where Wittgenstein grows silen...

You may have to clarify what ‘science’ you’re referring to. A wide range of social sciences as well as biological disciplines , and even within physic...

It took Merleau-Ponty and Derrida to rescue Husserl from this often used charge of Cartesianism. Fortunately , a growing number of writers in philosop...

My impression was that rather than taking Husserl anywhere , Caputo simply misread him. I have to question whether Caputo ever fully grasped the impli...

You misunderstood me. I agree with you. The view that thinking is reflective cognition is the view Wittgenstein is opposing. My point was that there a...

There is always a subject of experience for Husserl, or more precisely a subjective ‘pole’ rather than a constitutes ‘person’. There is such a thing f...

I can read this in two ways. According to the first, humans perceive events by filling in based on prior expectations. Thus, another person’s viewpoin...

Husserl wrote: The attempt to conceive the universe of true being as something lying outside the universe of possible consciousness, possible knowledg...

Do you have in mind a kind of hermeneutic process of fusing of horizons?

You need to make your point yourself, instead of throwing a long quote at me and then concluding that I completely misunderstand Wittgenstein, without...

Everyone on this forum ( at least if they have anything interesting to offer) attacks unceasingly. That’s what makes it fun.

I think they’re singing ‘Kumbaya’

Part of the worldview you construct includes your construction of the worldview of others. If their worldview is radically different than yours, there...

Actually , those quotes came from an article by John Shotter (IN DIALOGUE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM AND RADICAL CONSTRUCTIVISM). But I’d recommend Gerge...

Let’s get specific. I’m going to take Kenneth Gergen’s approach to psychotherapy as reasonable proxy for Foucault-Deleuze. For? Gergen, we only exist ...

But that’s an information processing view of memory associated with first generation. cognitive psychology , which modeled human cognition after the c...

I think the Wittgensteinian as well as phenomenological argument would be that if we believe that a role of language can be to represent extant meanin...

I’m not disagreeing with you, but the way I would put it, it is a disagreement about the obstacles that lie in the way of forming a consensus of what ...

I’m glad that you used Derrida as an example. I agree that he effectively questions Austin’s assumptions concerning intention of meaning. I think the ...

How does a social determinant have its effect on my behavior and thinking? Does it operate as a form of conditioning, behind my back so to speak , in ...