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When something is missing or malfunctions and it disrupts our seamless ready-to-hand involvement with tools , we don't revert to a present to hand mod...

Scientists don't build on previous discoveries so much as upend previous accounts and the definitions that go with them. Empiricism is not a mirror of...

I think this is the crux of the matter. If people believe everything is fine within their local community, they are less likely to want to change the ...

I'm wondering if you would apply your explanation of monotheism as an arbitrarily conditioned beilef system to the history of scientific theories, too...

I haven't read Rovelli, although I enjoyed Lee Smolen's book 'Time Reborn'. I find particularly satisfying Heidegger's account of temporality, his mod...

Piaget differed from Kuhn in one respect. In his little book 'Structuralism' he contrasted his philosophy of science with Popper, Lakatos and Kuhn. Th...

I do have one question. If pragmatism is about what works, that implies a normative fitting process between pre-existing framework of understanding an...

Indeed, Kant showed us the dependence of science on formal conditions of possibility for such grounding concepts as logic, causality and objectivity. ...

Don't you think there's a difference between theory in the metaphysical sense and what Nietzsche, Heidegger and the poststructalists were trying to do...

Bennington is one of the best interpreters of Derrida and is able to correct many of the grossest misreadings(like the common misinterpretation of 'no...

Instead of debating Kant vs Hegel, how about we compare Hinton with Dennett, Gallagher, Hutto, Thompson and Varela? In terms of topics of active debat...

Its not that secondary sources are bad in themselves. It's just that someone who spends their career in slavish devotion to translating and interpreti...

Didnt mean to sound snarky, but it would be fun to go through it briefly and see what we come up with.

Doesn't any 'scientific' theory already imply a valuative stance implicating poltical ,spiritual, ethical considerations? That's the difference betwee...

Ah, but is the inauthentic for Heidegger a matter of being phony? That sounds like an existentialist reading of him. Beware of secondary sources. Many...

Wow, you managed to name just about all of my philosophical heroes in one post. Pretty rare for this forum.

pomophone has exclusively quoted from Heidegger's post 1920's writing. I would agree that this later period of Heidegger's career consisted of mostly ...

It sounds to me like you've already committed to a position, that being the recognition of the interprenetration of fact and value. Posting an indepen...

Empiricism is not necessarily anti-metaphysical. Abandoning subjective idealism for subservience to the real can end up trading off one form of metaph...

I read Heidegger as saying that that the idea of the present to hand object is a contrivance. In 'What is a thing' he talks about how it has become in...

. When something is missing or malfunctions and it disrupts our seamless ready-to-hand involvement with tools , we don't revert to a present to hand m...

There's no getting around metaphysics, and certainly Hume was not able to do so. As William James pointed out, Hume was not able to resist the temptat...

Heidegger discusses this in Being and Time. When we go from experiencing a world in terms of our significant, concernful, involvement 'for the sake of...

If that's the case, then are Hume, Hobbes and Bacon merely footnotes to Plato and Aristotle? Or do you want to imbue these Enlightenment thinkers with...

The world for Heidegger is less depressing than uncanny and astonishing. Heidegger from Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: "Man is that inability to...

. I don't know that dread is pessimism. In terms of cognitive-affective processes, it is connected with anxiety-fear, which functions cognitively as a...

Certainty in itself isn't the end all and be all of understanding and getting along well with others. Older forms of philosophical and empirical theor...

There is an alternative view of pleasure and suffering, espoused by Nietzsche and poststructuralist philosophers, among others. This view does not tre...

I agree, no particular relationship with a thing is a necessary relationship. All relations are contingent and temporary. What is necessary is relatio...

In my conversations with you on this topic, these are some of the comments I've made in an attempt to show goodwill and respect: " I find your contrib...

This is where I found a study. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/surge-of-brain-activity-may-explain-near-death-experience-study-...

I never recommend reading secondary literature before attempting the original work of an author first. But in situations where I have difficulty in in...

Actually, Heidegger and Derrida are my personal pet philosophers. Nietzsche is of only secondary interest to me. . In defending Nietzsche here, what I...

I am not the keyboard, I am the pragmatic relation with the keyboard. No 'i' apart from this relation , and no keyboard apart from it. Both the 'I' an...

The level of discussion here concerning Deleuze vs Derrida-Heidegger is too abstract to make any headway in getting to the crux of the argument I am t...

What does Derridean regurgitation have to do with enaction? None of the enactivist writers I mentioned are even interested in Derrida. I know you have...

When Deleuze introduced to the world his 'philosophy of difference' which puts difference before identity, this exposed him to the same sorts of criti...

Daniel Dennett respects Nietzsche, as does Rorty, Heidegger, Alva Noe, Evan Thompson, Deleuze, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, Lyotard, ...

How does one determine if someone understands an author? And understand how? There are many different readings of Nietzsche. I don't claim that there ...

I know. I was trying to be provocative.

Your argument starts with your conclusion, that Derrida and Heidegger don't begin in the middle of things. Well. I agree with half of that. They don't...

And perhaps those who embrace something called "scientific method' could do with a bit of postmodern clarification of the conditions of possibility of...

If you don't get Nietzsche, there's an entire universe of approaches to literary criticism that will be off limits to you. I would recommend Heidegger...

I must confess I don't have much of an interest in postmodern literary criticism. I'm much more intrigued by postmodern philosophy of science(Joseph R...

i believe what you're saying is that what SX refers to as a normative region would be the forms and relations a given difference performs in its prese...

Who in your opinion was the first post-modernist? Kierkegaard? Nietzsche? Merleau-Ponty? Were Dewey and James proto-postmodernists? IS radical constru...

Your complaint is an old one, Just replace 'postmodern' and Derrida with 'Ideallsm' and Kant, or 'rationalism' and Descartes.The establishment is alwa...

Interesting argument. If you were to set up a critical divide among philosophers on this issue who would you put on each side? Streetlightx mentions W...

America inherited the British inclination for philosophy in a pragmatic style more closely associated with the empirical disciplines than the humaniti...

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