All this assumes procedural constraints and shared norms can be willed into existence on the basis of some imagined neutral playing ground. I can play...
Nietzsche was known to say his philosophy was for the thinkers of the future. From "On the Genealogy of Morals" "The man of the future who will redeem...
Not so fast. Seems it would first be necessary to determine the origin and structure of affect and its relation to values, knowledge, ethics and will....
Yes, the religious phenomenologists (and we could include Henry, Scheler, and perhaps even Zahavi and Levinas in this group) believe that to exceed th...
If it is true of Modern man (and I include among this group Nick Land and Mencius Moldbug, despite their superficial aping of postmodern philosophical...
What you say about Badiou’s disagreements with French postmodernist philosophers is true. The shared features of their thinking he highlights here are...
That notion only begins to make sense when we have a way of peering within what is taken for granted as an irreducible basis for philosophy. In Willia...
We don’t need anything external to our preferences to fix them. While the analytic methods Williamson chooses to apply to world are considered as exte...
For Husserl reason returns to itself in the self-affecting presence to itself of the present moment, the speaking that hears itself speak in the same ...
Thought without physics still has the substrate for physics, which is experienced phenomena. Thought is always about something, always has its object....
I admit that Husserl’s work is extremely arcane stuff without a proper introduction, but let me ask you this. Williamson is concerned with progress in...
It does correspond if we follow Husserl in taking concepts like mind-independence, non-institutionality and the physical as subjectively constituted i...
Understanding Witt’s ‘therapeutic’ project in the context of consonant efforts in phenomenology and poststructuralism allows us to see that he doesn’t...
All brute facts about things in the world are subjective, relative and contingent. Even so, they rely on idealizations. Where does the conceptual cate...
I’m sure you would agree that in order to justify dismissing the intellectual worth a philosophy, you have to first demonstrate that you have read it ...
Whether we like it or not, and whether we intend to or not, we cannot will ourselves to confine our method to the study of bread rather than the world...
Big new philosophical theories came pouring out of Germany for 200 years, until they destroyed their intellectual infrastructure through world wars I ...
It sounds like you’re talking about the kinds of general social know-how that allows us to navigate in interpersonal situations without having to have...
I am thinking of situations where, as you say, two gensuses ( genera) differ subtly enough that the second can be reasonably mistaken for the first. Y...
I don’t have any disagreement with this. What I have in mind are situations where the other is ‘not even wrong’, where the opponents are talking past ...
Which philosophers are exemplary in this regard, in your opinion? The philosophers I am most influenced by provide tools (a method) which presents a w...
Isnt there a danger of relying too heavily on the validity of the other’s reasoning and too little on the possibility that the other is making use of ...
What exactly is this scientifically rooted view of biology you claim prevails? Let me characterize the most recent thinking in biology as I understand...
Let’s say that two parties who embrace sharply opposing philosophical, political or religious positions are bought together to engage in earnest dialo...
Right. The idea that we only have indirect access to the world through internal representations is a cartesian, reductionist view of emotion, and stan...
What matters isn’t whether you call it an explanation, the god’s eye truth or mere speculation, but what you can do with it. Today’s iron -clad scient...
The key thing about affect is its character as change of disposition, as a being exposed to the world in a fresh way. That doesn’t seem to be adequate...
The relation between affect and cognition has been my thing for a long time, and I’ve collected so much ‘flesh’ for the enactivist view it would make ...
I don’t know that Witt would want to separate the perception of things from the things themselves. He discusses this in relation to the duck-rabbit dr...
No, but there is evidence in how one feels about the movies, songs, plays and novels that one gets one’s hands on. You’re an engineer. I’m sure you’re...
There are no hard and fast distinctions to be made between what passes as art and what is considered philosophy, or between philosophy and poetry, fic...
Artistic movements are themselves grounded in philosophical worldviews. Any innovation in rhe former presupposes annd reflects innovation in the latte...
Feelings aren’t inner senses sprinkling their subjective coloration over experiences , but activities, doings. They are our ways of being attuned in s...
And I would add, this death of innovative thought is apparently not restricted to philosophy, judging by the popular press. There have been so many bo...
The situation is even worse than you depict it. It is not just that new ideas in a chronological sense are in short supply, but philosophical ideas wh...
Perhaps a form of life can be understood via Witt’s description of a family of resemblances, which ties together discrete games on the basis of common...
I’ve always thought that language games and forms of life were synonymous. I beleive there are many. But if so, how did Wittgenstein come to know that...
The above caught my eye. Given that you believe humans have the same nature, and by this you apparently have in mind a powerful facility to understand...
The issue is whether it is possible to make a distinction between the organism's perception of its environment and its evolution with respect to its e...
I get that that is your point, but the point of Lorenz’s comment is that we evolved sense organs for adaptive purposes , organs which allow us to see ...
Interesting that you would use the word abstract to describe an approach whose aim is precisely to bracket and see beneath the abstractions that are c...
For the phenomenologist, there is no ready-made world of objects. To perceive trees, squirrels and rooms with tables and chairs is to constitute them ...
What’s missing from Lorenz’a account is the more recent appreciation on the part of biologists of the reciprocal nature of the construction of the rea...
I love your explication of logic by way of your 4 stages. My only problem with it is that the very first stage already relies on an unrealized supposi...
If one is to take this fact seriously, then one has to understand what we call affect (including mood, emotion and feeling) and what we consider Reaso...
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