Theoretically dismantling one mood doesn't leave us without any mood. There is always affectivity as a background comportment or attitude toward the w...
"As I indicated in the OP, broader issues of the place values hold in our philosophies and our lives are not the intended subject of this thread. I'm ...
Your starting point in thinking about the relation of feeling to rationality is an outdated one. All rationality is inherently affective in that ratio...
You missed something here. You left out philosophical approaches that attack the whole enterprise of ferreting out a particular value system and privi...
" I agree with Paul Feyerabned's views of science: "Starting from the argument that a historical universal scientific method does not exist, Feyeraben...
It does often go on for months, but the idea is that the more terms are defined and fleshed out, the more room there is for some general overlap in pe...
Let me give an example. If i'm involved in a discussion with someone who, like me, is thoroughly versed in , say, Sartre, the our disagreement over Sa...
"In order to criticize Western science, you actually have to know and understand Western science". Abandoning the correspondence theory of truth is no...
"So you're not sympathetic to the knowing discussion of imprecisely defined things? Is there a reason why?" I have a background in philosophy and its ...
I'm going to add to my definition of post-foundationalism and you tell me what you think of it .. We need an entirely new conception of truth, since t...
"We don't need to 'think' anti-foundationalism. We just learn to live without some top-level metaphysical justification of our doings. Or we learn tha...
"Very little persuasion happens on these forums as far as I can tell. Personalities tend to settle and harden. I wouldn't even say that one of us has ...
[ Could you do me a favor and offer some comment concerning my philosophy of science questions? I would like to understand better what you mean when y...
"You would still never be able to know the exact moment when an electrical signal turned into a thought, or how that happened." More importantly , you...
I don't think the generality of a term necessarily correlates with vagueness and imprecision unless that general term also happens to be vaguely and i...
"We differentiate between spiritual claims and worldly, objective claims." Heidegger called the basis of modern science onto-theology because he recog...
"And your talk of disabuse lapses back into the objectivity that some of your pomo taken earnestly would deny. If there are no facts but only interpre...
What I would want to try to disabuse you of is the notion that you have found any refuge from the risk of noise and nonsense by enveloping yourself in...
"Popper's notion of falsification has an ethical appeal. I don't see how it can be justified. Just as Turing machines are one way to make the intuitiv...
"To go even further, even ancient tribesman probably thought more present-at-hand. They had relations to their surroundings for sure (themes of ready ...
"I'm not not interested in that (I've looked into Noe briefly already), it's just that I'm more into (and more likely to be paid for) understanding th...
Noise is an unfortunate but necessary byproduct of difficult ideas. In grad school, I thought the empirical trajectory was my best bet for attaining t...
" To live antifoundationalism might just be to do excellent work in something besides philosophy." Or it could be to understand 20th and 21st century ...
"Note that they show us. They represent the notion of accurate representation (accurately, one would hope) as an 'automatic and empty compliment.' Let...
We don't need to prove in order to build. In terms of its effect on society these days, I'd say those scientific and technical fields interlaced with ...
"The truly basic questions in philosophy are not matters of fact. They are matters of opinion. Not truth, but usefulness. "Metaphysics" is a dangerous...
The illusion is that there is agreement in science but not in philosophy, and therefore the hard sciences are more precise and rigorous. The reality i...
Yes, he would say illusion. The problem with that approach is it ignores the 'sibjective' conditions of possibility that have to be constructted in or...
I have to confess I'm not sure how you want to define reality. If I may make use of Richard Rorty here instead of Heidegger, the postmodern pragmatist...
Dennett attempts to sidestep the problem by denying there is any such thing as subjective experience in the first place. At the opposite end are philo...
The hard problem of consciousness is an artifact of our continuing at some level to follow in the footsteps of Descartes and maintain a separation bet...
This is a complex issue. For Heidegger the real has to do with the present-to-hand, and the present-to -hand is the transforming of our relations with...
The issue is how we are to understand what a tool is. You mentioned Heidegger's distinction between the ready-to-hand and the present-to-hand. When yo...
Absolutely nothing is more real than this. And the reason is that the very claims of reality to being able to 'get things done' via its connection to ...
Havent you heard? the 'physical just a construct that we use, and have been using a long time, thanks to Aristotle, Galileo and Descartes. But we are ...
" the minutia mongerer who makes real and useful functions from the science, math, and materials." Every creative soul is a minutia mongerer. Beethove...
My goal in choosing relativistic, interpretation based thinking over mind-Independence is the opposite of obfuscation or continental philosophical sel...
At the end of the day, if we are more conservatively minded, then we reach no far than the imaginative vistas that our current technologies evoke. If ...
What does it mean to 'rely on' something? We certainly rely on technology in a different way than we rely on art, but how can we prioritize technology...
" Is the Lincoln Memorial a mind-independent object? How about the moon? What about what you or I ate for breakfast?" The question is what it means to...
As to the question of the alleged superiority of science-math-technology over other cultural modalities with regard to securing meaning or truth or pr...
" I understand the charm of 'no facts, only interpretations,' but I doubt that we can live or speak without absurdity without such a central distincti...
Later on in Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche says: "Now it is beginning to dawn on maybe five or six brains that physics too is only an interpretation ...
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