The OP is a response to the rising popularity of ways of thinking about how the individual relates to the environment, both bodily , physical and soci...
We have to ask what is the pragmatic use of the categories we construct. Prior to Darwin, species were kept separate in neat, fixed categories. Those ...
Actually, what I would question here are the assumptions embedded in the claims concerning the effect social negotiation produces on the participants....
But Heidegger’s long exegesis on idle talk and das man seems to make your notion of public language into idle talk. His notion of “primordially genuin...
But the most important function of language is to understand others’ behavior. as well as our own. The events that are of greatest impact on our lives...
So tell me how you would describe the self, this entity which cannot be isolated but which you still have a name for. But before you do, I’m curious a...
Unity doesn’t have to depend on holding onto the idea of a single categorical fixity. Isn’t the unity that science looks for a unity within change ? T...
Again, you’re beginning from a presupposition of self and social as distinguishable entities . By unraveling self, Derrida also unraveled the interper...
Wittgenstein is making a distinction between thinking as classical reflective cognition and his notion of practice, which is comparable to recent noti...
Welcome to the worlds of Derrida, Heidegger and Husserl. Derrida writes: “And so, must we not think, and think otherwise (without objecting to it fron...
Who is this ‘one’ who puts the shopping list in ‘one’s’ pocket? Who is this ‘oneself’ who is interrupting ‘oneself’ by changing the very sense of the ...
I interpret Derrida as saying here that the same (word) is the same differently WITHIN one person from moment to moment. This doesn’t take place accid...
Or that two physicists in a room play it by their own rules, that there is no singular game called ‘physics’. As John Shotter wrote: “ So, although tw...
I do agree. The issue for me is that I reject the whole concept of introspection when it comes to what takes place when a person experiences the world...
And someone has to interpret that lexicon. Each of us. Differently. What secures and justifies the use of the word ‘same’ rather than ‘similar’ here? ...
But isn’t this merely a truism? We begin by pre-supposing that there is such a thing as a single language that we each subjectively interpret. So the ...
‘We’ are our ways of construing the world. Those dimensions of sense are implicitly available to us at some level of awareness, because they ARE us. T...
Interesting. I wonder how much of a modification of language that , as you say, is to used as a memory aid , is required in order to design it for com...
I can pick one to keep you from having a coronary ( talking with you is always so relaxing ) . Or I can make a vain attempt to open you up to the poss...
The why not say it is a similar language. There are thousands of languages in the world. They all began somewhere, and it obviously wasn’t instantaneo...
But it will never be understood in exactly the same way by each user of the language, so it is in fact not the ‘same’ language, only similar. I’m remi...
If indeed the social begins at a more intimate site than what you’re calling the public , then there is no society in your sense to enclose the indivi...
If you could describe in detail an example of public language in its actual functioning, I could attempt to show what it is an ‘imprecise abstraction’...
Public conveys a meaning determined within a context determined as a field, ensemble or gestalt. The private language argument thinks of this field as...
In my reading of Heidegger the content of word meanings is only determined collectively in the mode of idle talk , which Heidegger says is not genuine...
No doubt our interchange with others leads us to expand our personal meanings.It is true that each party’s participation in interaction changes the ot...
I’m saying both that unspoken thought is not private language in the sense that Wittgenstein means, and that spoken thought is not public in the sense...
What if I write it down and refer back to it. What if I am a philosopher who has gone as far as he can go in studying the works of other writers becau...
We don’t have to learn it, it is presupposed by experiencing. “ just as a man’s body and “soul” are but two aspects of his way of being in the world, ...
If the use of a ‘public’ language like English is idiosyncratic to the individual users of it , that is, if the precise sense of each word used either...
He is absolutely right. I could t agree more. I want to take his direction further. If you radically dissolve the basis of identity , you don’t end up...
Let me clarify how I view Heidegger’s use of understanding in relation to conventional uses of terms like thinking, intentionality, cognition, percept...
Your account t seems to assume one can separate thinking from language and expression, but I follow Merleau-Ponty and others in arguing that all think...
So let’s say I discover a fruit I’ve never seen before.If i try to label it to my self or someone else I may say that it looks a little like an apple ...
I reject the notion that it makes sense to talk about a ‘real’ object. There are only construals of objects. I like Husserl’s definition of a ‘real’ s...
Heidegger wrote: “ In terms of fundamental ontology it can also be expressed by saying that all understanding is essentially related to an affective s...
I’m co fused about the use of the term ‘referent’. How do we keep the referent separate from the concept? That is to say , don’t we have to assume tha...
Are you familiar with the work of Eugene Gendlin? He began as assistant to Carl Rogers and then established his own version of client-centered therapy...
This is true, but then I think there are close analogies between moral standards and scientific theories, if you take a Kuhnian position as I do. Cult...
I'm glad you brought up Deleuze. Declaring himself to be a philosopher of irreducible difference, he presents a good source of comparison with those I...
I found an interesting counter-argument to Benatar’s position that clearly respects it as a legitimate moral stance. https://philosophy.osu.edu/news/a...
try refreshing your browser. Meanwhile, I’ll repost my reply. I was trying to point out that the fashionable hypothesis these days in psychology is th...
You’re probably aware that anti-natalist movements have cropped up numerous times in different cultures through history. From Wiki: The Manichaeans, t...
I was trying to point out that the fashionable hypothesis these days in psychology is that sociality can be seen as more primitive for humankind than ...
Here’s another quote and then I’ll try to interpret. For we certainly believe ourselves to be directly acquainted with another person's joy in his lau...
I’m assuming your formulation of moral consensus based on natural grounds wouldn’t be accepted by someone like Rorty because he would consider the not...
w Do we have an outer experience first and only later internalize it, or is our very access to the ‘outer’ already filtered , directed and thematized ...
Yes indeed. Not only that, future events have causal power over my past, because my past as it participates in forming my present is reshaped by my an...
Except that for Heidegger the cognitive and attunement are not separate constructs or processes. They are co-implied aspects of a single event, the ev...
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