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I don't know if this will help. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/analytic-philosophy-and-the-return-of-hegelian-thought/
February 12, 2019 at 18:55
The interpenetration of fact an value means that in order to cope with, adapt to and anticipate new situations, we have to construct schemes of interp...
February 12, 2019 at 18:22
"Will the ideal pragmatist select values which are in his estimation pragmatic or try to determine goals based on his values and strive towards those ...
February 12, 2019 at 09:41
Use and form interpenetrate each other, They cannot be separated, any more than scheme and content, or fact and value. Every fact is organized within ...
February 12, 2019 at 09:29
Husserl says what we perceive primordially are the things themselves, but this means that we perceive perspectival variations and modifications , that...
February 12, 2019 at 02:30
With "objects don't exist in nature, they are our constructions of nature" I had in mind Kant , Husserl, current theory in perceptual and cognitive sc...
February 12, 2019 at 00:59
"I still find it impossible to experience that which would be required to provide a definitive answer to my original question." Of course you can't fi...
February 11, 2019 at 22:47
Succumbing to Das Man may be a temptation, but it doesn't work. That is to say, evefn when we try our hardest to conform, we are applying norms that w...
February 11, 2019 at 21:44
You defined pragmatism only as a means to an end. That's an accurate reading of the common definition of the pragmatic. My only point was that it is n...
February 11, 2019 at 20:47
" I, therefore, cannot explain empirically why the latter circumstance should generate fear, while the former does not. All other conceptual explanati...
February 11, 2019 at 05:25
"We're grounded in the other, and a part of us will always think as "they" do. " But I think the point Heidegger was making is that neither pure auton...
February 10, 2019 at 22:41
Keep in mind that for Heidegger Das Man isn't simply being-with, it's a particular way of thinking about Being-with, a way which presupposes that comm...
February 10, 2019 at 22:29
We don't fear nothing as a pure concept . We don't even think nothing as a pure concept. Meanings are comparisons, contrasts. Notice that the word its...
February 10, 2019 at 20:53
“Even if we had a perfect way of observing exactly what a brain was doing, we would never be able to understand how it made us have the kinds of exper...
February 10, 2019 at 01:05
You're not making your pragmatism self-reflexive. Philosophical pragmatism is not just the means to an end. It also recognizes that the ends (values, ...
February 10, 2019 at 00:19
"Simply, the formula of this transcendence is to say that something neither x nor not-x, because it is beyond both. Derrida adopted this formula and i...
February 09, 2019 at 23:16
"One recognizes that all past experiences are caused by unconsciously taking part in a variety of machinic assemblages. Therefore, to avoid a mechanic...
February 09, 2019 at 19:22
"Essence precedes Being" From Wiki: "The proposition that existence precedes essence (French: l'existence précède l'essence) is a central claim of exi...
February 06, 2019 at 20:02
Do you think you could elaborate on this? What writers do you find more consonant with your own thinking?
February 06, 2019 at 19:34
"To overcome a pure positivistic –behavioristic approach to a human as a cluster of subjectivities, we can apply the Deleuze-Guattari thought. Before ...
February 06, 2019 at 04:34
“Live objects do not necessarily have a finite number of outputs","the live dog will necessarily take a larger number of actions over a long enough du...
February 05, 2019 at 02:40
" nature still unfolds (also for Heidegger) even if there are no clocks or clock-time." What do you think 'nature' means for Heidegger? What on earth ...
February 04, 2019 at 23:33
"Heidegger is hell bent on finding something that is is as the meaning of time. But time is anything but what is." Heidegger doesn't construe time as ...
February 04, 2019 at 23:13
"We're shaped by others in the account, through discourse and das-man, and this capacity to be shaped by others is a fundamental moving part in the ac...
February 04, 2019 at 22:59
"The shift in emphasis changes the subject of interpretation from a socially/culturally/experientially conditioned understanding of being distinct fro...
February 04, 2019 at 20:55
Maybe you should take up the issue with Lee Smolen , who recognizes the dependence of physics on its own worldview(Heisenberg recognized this too), an...
February 04, 2019 at 09:22
Heidegger will give you some: ""Of course, the question of "being-in- time" is exciting, but it was also raised prematurely. The question is exciting ...
February 04, 2019 at 09:14
"social sciences have all a normative element." So do the natural sciences. They are founded on presuppositions that they are not equipped to recogniz...
February 04, 2019 at 08:45
Seems to me Marxism has a normative and a descriptive element. Dialectical materialism is a non-normative model of the historical mechanisms of econom...
February 04, 2019 at 07:27
Hiedegger rejects both objectivism and subjectivism. He's not saying the world is a construction of mind. He unravels the traditional notion of the su...
February 03, 2019 at 22:16
" It seems, then, that whilst Heidegger can tell us a lot about what it is like to be a human being, he cannot tell us what reality itself is like?" H...
February 03, 2019 at 21:38
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February 03, 2019 at 19:21
You're trying to use a mode of description(mathematical description of motion of physical objects) designed for one purpose, and apply it to an entire...
February 02, 2019 at 23:31
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February 02, 2019 at 22:10
Nietzsche on Will to Power: Value is, according to Nietzsche's words, the "point-of-view constituting the preservation-enhancement conditions with res...
February 01, 2019 at 04:19
"Present a case from those texts to show it was his intention." I'll start with Heidegger. 1)The Word of Nietzsche:" God Is Dead" in The Question Conc...
February 01, 2019 at 03:59
" But he was pretty clear that "perspectivism" was not a thesis as such." Heidegger argues that "The will to power is the ground of the necessity of v...
February 01, 2019 at 02:00
"I'm generally familiar with most of the historically prevailing qualitative and quantitative interpretations of value; which one do you think is bein...
January 31, 2019 at 21:25
NIetzsche's perpsectivalism is related to American pragmatism in its recognizing value as more important than truth. It is not that we cannot choose b...
January 31, 2019 at 19:32
Your attempt to assess value via a calculative procedure reduces the 'value' of value so severely as to make it useless except in extremely narrowly d...
January 31, 2019 at 19:00
being true’ with regard to knowing is being in accord. Beiing ‘ true’ to the facts as being in accord or correctness is a matching between an actual s...
January 30, 2019 at 22:49
Heidegger did not say that beingness only becomes a reality when it is affirmed by another being. On the contrary, he argued that being always already...
January 30, 2019 at 22:22
what’s the difference between psychologism and cognitive science?
January 30, 2019 at 21:51
Let me try to deconstruct your account of Deleuze-Guattari. In doing so i'm going beyond Merleau-Ponty and instead channeling the thinking of Heidegge...
January 30, 2019 at 20:02
Terrapin wrote: "Transcendent" as it's used to make excuses for the idea of a god, for example, is just nonsensical." It is the opposite of nonsensica...
January 30, 2019 at 18:47
I argued a similar point above, that one has to understand the pre-suppositions involved in the use of 'transcendent'.
January 30, 2019 at 18:16
He probably wants to argue that a 'worldly referent' is not what adherents have in mind, so your interpretation is sort of cheating, a diversion.
January 30, 2019 at 10:54
You have defined transcendent in a particular way, as "that which does not pertain to or does not occur in human consciousness and is inherently outsi...
January 30, 2019 at 06:18
All value is already sentiment. Valuation is the way we are affected by something or someone. The value does not originate in the thing nor in ourselv...
January 29, 2019 at 08:19
"why this idyllic scene does take place in faraway Ecuador?" I don't know Maybe because it's 5 degrees and snowing here in Chicago. "Most of the machi...
January 29, 2019 at 02:41