Joshs

Phenomenologically oriented writers like Husserl and Heidegger insist that none of the advances in modern physics(and for Heidegger that included theo...

I read the figures in physics that you mention as residing within a philosophical space somewhere between Kant and Hegel. Nome have ventured into phen...

What I am questiong is the coherence of the "itself'. I can accept if you want to add that the intrinsicality or in-itselfness of an object is unique ...

Kant's subjectivization of the empirical world didn't go far enough. It left intact the notion of objectively causal world in universal space time, ra...

There is a difference between arguing that there is more to an object than the form I give it, and arguing that it subsists in itself. One could say, ...

In order to understand consciousness, it is necessary to recognize the inextricable interdependence of subjective and objective aspects of all experie...

Could you elaborate on this a bit? Does this imply that objects subsist in themselves, that they have existence independent of a subject experieincing...

Any explanation of intelligence that doesnt understand conscioussness is not an explanation, only a superficial description.

Do you mean this in the same way that everything humans talk about now can relate to what Hegel, Nietzsche, Plato and Descartes said, that current kno...

Its idealist in a particlar way, but not anthropomorphic if we have reduced the anthropos to a process of temporalization in which the human disappear...

There is something significant in the phrase 'what it is like', but this significance isn't picked up on by thinkers like Nagel and Searle. Nagel mean...

You might want to mention that TT(theoy theory) is just one of three main contenders for explaining the relation between empathy and mirror neurons. T...

Are you familiar with the work that Fresco mentioned above? In case you are not, let me quote a few passages summarizing 'Where Mathematics Comes From...

I agree completely about Lakoff and Nunez.. i was going to mention them.

Are you a platonist? Are you comfortable with Kant's notion of math as originating from the a priori categorical formal attributes of a transcendental...

To give you a little background, I adhere to radical pragmatism (Rorty) and Husserlian phenomenology(starting with his Origin of Arithmetic). From the...

That's an awful lot of differentiated terminology for a practice without meaning. It's true that mathematics abstracts away meaningful content but it ...

There are no transcendental subjects. What there is is a transcendental in-between, between the subjective and the objective. This is the space, the o...

I never said that human experiential temporality acted before the evolution of humans. I said that temporality acted before the evolution of humans. I...

Sorry for the late response. I noticed in a recent post you made reference to Badiou. If his approach to history is one you are comfortable with, then...

I want to make sure I understand you. What is the relation between what you are arguing and, say, Thomas Kuhn or Paul Feyerabend's thinking about the ...

Keep in mind that Heidegger's Dasein is not a human being, He was adamant that it is not an anthropomorphisim. Husserl made the same argument about tr...

is inherently a pragmatic quest in that knowing is transformative interaction. The desire to know is the desire to adaptively reshape.

We can always pretend that we have access to , or can make coherent, an account that bypasses "late arriving structures". The problem with that notion...

"To describe the "world" phenomenologically means to show and determine the being of beings objectively present in the world conceptually and categori...

Every understanding of nature is successful within its own terms and given the limits of its aims. Naive realism's unexamined presuppositions limit a ...

The subject is of the world and the world is of the subject. The subject enacts the world that it is 'of' . Our senses are interpretations. There is n...

I think what Husserl meant was that Gallleo took for granted, as a 'ready-made truth', the ideality of geometric concepts. Thus , he established an ap...

I find Husserl's work to often be so difficult that I don't feel justified in complaining about long-windedness. I do find Derrida to be typically ext...

I think a good test of whether a discoure is long-winded is whether a more succinct, but accurate. version of it can be produced. Do you understand Hu...

Husserl was frustrated that his attempts at introducing his brand of phenomenology had up till that point (he was already 75 when he wrote the Crisis)...

Husserl isn't saying that geometry is just based on these activities. he's saying that such pragmatic embodied activities constitute its original mean...

I prefer Husserl's way , grounding the ideaized shapes of geometry in historical constructive intentional acts of the life-world, out of which emerged...

I would like to think that it is not necessary to create a barrier between the supposed human and the animal in order to affirm the worth of humanity....

Yes, it is an immanent process, but as Thompson would argue, at the same time that enactivism eschews metaphysical foundations, it challenges the obje...

What about approaches to evolutionary theory that don't posit survival as the end all and be all of adaptation, but consider creativity to be the defi...

Evolutionary theory is not a static science. There have been innovations in thinking about evolution among biologists since Darwin. Jean Piaget, Steve...

Here ya go: "Da-sein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this...

1) You give up really easily. 2)if you go back over this thread and consolidate every positive statement you have made delineating in your own words, ...

I like Husserl a lot , and think that he was enormously important to the advent of Heideggerian thinking, and through Heidegger, to Derrida's project....

You repeat the same sentence over and over again, disagreeing with me without offering any detailed definitions of your terms, quote Heidegger at leng...

So far you have made the following argument: “The issue under discussion is whether acts such as baking a potato are examples of or expressions of non...

Using the word "intended' is a bit confusing in relation to Heidegger's use of the word. Heidegger explains that included in Dasein's inauthentic invo...

In dong so, what I am distinguishing are 2 patterns of significations, bound up within a larger totality of significations. The Heidegger scholar Dani...

No, they are not the same thing. And attunement and understanding are not the same thing. They are equiprimordial, though. As is discourse. IF mowing ...

It comes into the picture in an important way a quarter of the way through the book as an introduction to being-with-others in average everydayness an...

How do you know that someone is mowing the lawn? Describe the ways of knowing that a lawn is being mowed(by someone else or by you), that don't involv...

i don't know what you mean by reducing mowing the lawn to discourse. What is it you want mowing the lawn to be besides a significant meaning within a ...

How about Rorty or any of those who say language is prior to perception?

Is there for you any sense of the meaning of or existence of a lawnmower, grass and cutting apart from how they are interpreted in the context of your...