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The idea is fascinating and appealing. All I can do is share my sense of what the minimal requirement is for the having of any experience, presence, s...

If there is already some thing for Dasein, then there is besorgen. A 'thing' is that which is disclosed for Dasein as a definite possibility, which al...

What about the meaning of a word used in a Wittgensteinian language game? is that subjective, objective or intersubjective?

Before there is made a distinction between the tool-being and object-being, there is the absolutely fundamental and primary structure of Care, which i...

Merleau-Ponty may be more help here than Kant or Schopenhauer. Sensations, stimuli don't 'come from' an outside, nor do they originate in an inside. T...

Thompson makes some use of Merleau-Ponty, but I think relies more on Husserl, who believes that there is such a thing as a pre-reflective consciousnes...

Innerworldly being exists for an individual Dasein out of a totality of relevance. I don't think there can be any innerworldly being that is not part ...

. And even then, what was more true in the past does not always continue to be most true contemperaneously.

In aggressive anger we throw things, shout , destroy , etc. But the basis of anger isn't evolutionary mechanisms, and it isnt eliminated simply by not...

How do you know there is a presence if if it isn't internally differentiated? Presence implies absence. The idea of a presence with no content , textu...

I would modify this statement by saying that if nobody understands consciousness then they don't understand materialism, physicalism and empiricism ei...

If there is no time, there is no change. If there is no change, there is no contrast. If there is no contrast, there is no presence. If there is no pr...

It's not a question of whether there was reality outside of human understanding and activity, but of what in the earth this means? What is the practic...

the difficulty that arises from this is that if our only access to the being of the stone is through Dasein's being-in-the-world, then what would it e...

. I haven't read an awful lot of Kant, but wouldn't he consider subjective sensations to be intuitions? Intuitions would be the things in themselves t...

"Consciousness doesn't cause itself, Will is neither free nor a Determinism: What gives me the right to speak about an I, and, for that matter, about ...

Note that metaphors are 'as' structures, understanding something as something else. i think that's an apt description of the signifiying nature of the...

The sense of agency versus ownership have been studied in schizophrenics. When a schizophrenic has an experience of thought control or hears voices, t...

Could we we instead say that the the intention IS the self? This way treats the self as a transitive process rather than a container.

i'm the one who wrote . Let's see if we can flesh out a little the thinking of those who are truth relativists. Let me throw out a hypothetical approa...

"If my left hand is touching my right hand, and if I should suddenly wish to apprehend with my right hand the work of my left hand as it touches, this...

What Heidegger meant was that it is meaningless to talk about the existence of objects outside of any account of an object. 'Matter' and 'energy' are ...

This reminds me of the difference between Husserl and Merleau-Ponty on the self. Husserl argued that self is an aspect of all intentional meaning, not...

Probably the same things that scores of postmodern, pragmatist, hermeneutical ,phenomenological , constructivist and enactivist writers in philosophy ...

Would you agree that the way that Varela and Thompson interpret Buddhism, so as to interrelate it with phenomenology and cognitive science, avoids thi...

Are you familiar with any of the enactivist writing? It's hardly engineering, especially where Varela and Thompson integrate neuroscience with Buddhis...

Don't know why I keep that angelfire site. i guess so I don't have to run down and change all the links to it I've spread out god knows where over the...

I can think of a better alternative than settling for a dualism between the biological and the cognitive. Combining neuro and cognitive science with p...

A couple of observations here. First, regardless of Kennedy's political affiliations, the fact that she is a public figure in today's extremely polari...

You raise interesting points. A therapeutic-emancipatory rhetoric certainly seems to dominate both religious and secular life. Derrida called that ‘me...

I'm struck by how Schopenhauer1 avoids mention of personal relationships(friends, family, etc). Instead the emphasis is placed on job , task and perfo...

Would this be true also of animals? Do you also have trouble with the use of physicalism to explain psychological phenomena like consciousness?

Yes, but your interpretation of Buddhism is eminently Western . It has to be. We think from and after our own cultural history, which includes all the...

When I was trying to form my own ideas about life, psychology, etc, in high school, the dominant traditions out there were psychoanalysis and behavior...

I'm going to copy my response to Noah Te Stroete and see if that clarifies things: Let me give an example. If i'm involved in a discussion with someon...

The people I'd first want to thank for my home thermostat, computer, refrigerator and lights are the ones who installed them. They are the 'realest of...

I am not claiming that "nothing" and "something" are visual phenomena. i'm just trying to clarify whether you are arguing that 'visual phenomena' is t...

. Or being a visual phenomenon.

i'm not sure I understand why in the context of light vs dark. If one is the absence of the other, don't darkness and light fall within the category o...

Are you referring to darkness vs light? Do you mean trivial relation?

It is not just that something and nothing are both 'things', it's that the unique meaning of 'something' and 'nothing' imply each other , like darknes...

There is more than one way to look at desire besides thinking of it as separated from cognition and experience. It is only when we begin from a desire...

What is the trivial property you have in mind, simply the word 'thing'? My argument is that any concept that we think is also a contrast, an edge. A l...

Lets unpack the adjectives that you use to flesh out your concept of minutia mongering. You've described it in terms of complexity, intensiveness, ori...

Its not a s though some create their own value and others don't. We have no choice but to create values to the same extent that we create interpretati...

The way that meanings emerge for us out of previous meanings goes beyond simply talking about temporal or spatial or empty categorial proximity. There...

How does one possible world, as in Nelson's 'Ways of Worldmaking' emerge, what are its conditions of possibility, in the imagination, other than a pre...

Have you tried meetups groups? Here in Chicago, there are a wide range of philosophical authors and topics covered (James, Dewey, Marx, Freud, Hegel, ...

This may be a historical question. It seems to me one would have to do an anthropological investigation into forms of thinking prior to the founding o...

Nothing and Something both have 'thing' in common. We can't think the concept of Not or negation without also thinking 'thing' or 'substance' or 'pres...