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"Where can one demarcate the difference between psychologist accounts and antipsychologist accounts?" Psychologism is a perjorative term, like scienti...

Kant's position was that the empirical by itself(pure content) is blind and the transcendental(pure form) alone is empty. Thus both by themselves are ...

If you and i are in a room with a dog, a child and an old woman from an Indian village in Equador, how does the flow of interaction proceed? There are...

Notice that Guattari is relying on mechanistic, machinic metaphors in attempting to unseat the Cartesian self. Of course, the causal logic of machinat...

Derrida has been known for deconstructing discourses that assume self-identical structures, forms, objects, meanings, the presence-to itself of intent...

I would give anything to hear an academic philosopher say that just once.

This sounds like Kant, but not very much like current thinking in psychology(or philosophy)

You're trying to understand self-consistency via a conception of time imported from the natural sciences,i.e. self as an object in motion. But organis...

Yes, but if the meaning of what is experienced in conscious is always different. then what exactly is continuous? Or does continuous here just mean se...

James argued that, Hume couldnt find any unity in consciousness so he cheated by imposing a metaphysical unifying factor externally. There are differe...

Some sense of meaning that can return to itself identically in relfection.

The unity of the 'i' that Number2018 is talking about was a common presupposition in philosophy and psychology from Descartes and Kant to Sartre. It w...

on the other hand, Shaun Gallagher talks about socially distributed cognition: “Such institutions go beyond individual cognitive processes or habits: ...

William James put it thusly: "Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it f...

There is an alternative way to think about the social than the via the violently arbitrary immanence of Deleuze. There is a more radical way to think ...

You seem to have a good understanding of Deleuziam thinking. I’m wondering what other philosophers and approaches you find particularly relevant to yo...

as long as Mazarotto doesn’t end up letting a form of behaviorism back in (which I doubt very much unless he wants to protect the sources of this ensl...

Deleuze’s translator Brian Massimi gives the following account of the relation between affect and perception-language: "Formed, qualified, situated pe...

i like Deleuze. He understands the idea of radical temporality, the way that time as difference inserts itself into every stability of meaningful bein...

Of course we're not reading the same book. Thats the point. Every word of Nietzsche's you're interpreting according to certain presuppositions and I'm...

Maybe it’s time to abandon epistemology and follow Rorty. Could be the confusion originates in the metaphysics grounding epistemology.

lets take a break from Nietzsche for a moment. Could you tell me if you are familiar with Karl Popper and the difference between his approach to scien...

"You seem more interested in the critique than the results of his investigation." Im interested in the method of his investigation, because the result...

Alrighty then.

." Who or what is the agent of repetition of a thought in consciousness? Am I the agent, the operator of this repetition? How is this repetition relat...

Gendlin's solution was "The past is not past because an observer determines that it happened at an earlier position on Newton's absolute time line. Th...

There are two parts to your comment . The second part, concerning policy toward those openly contemplating suicide on this site, may be open to debate...

Oh fer Chrissakes. You don't think the op, as articulate and thoughtful as they sound, hasnt thought about the pros and cons of suicide? Their comment...

I agree with Leo. Honor the choice that simmerdown made to open their views up to discussion here.If it appears that contributions by others to the di...

You should mention (oops, you did)how many of those descriptions have had to be crossed off over the years the more we understand about the abilities ...

"Are you suggesting he was just kidding"? He wasn't kidding . He was offering a 'useful fiction', His view of science is akin to(although more radical...

It would help if i understood what you have in mind when you refer to objective experience. Do you mean an empiricism that can ground itself in a view...

I'll let Heideggerian scholar Eugene Gendlin answer this: "The past reshapes itself in the course of the body's(and mind's) present performance. Of co...

Yes, but is this knowledge of a 'you' a knowledge of something that resists its own moment-to-moment transformation? Descartes needed to postulate a n...

There are ideal instance all the time. But in order for an ideality to continue to exist as itself it has to repeat itself. What happens when you try ...

I'm using transcendental as metaphysical a-priori (not derived from experience). "The Transcendental Deduction is Kant’s attempt to demonstrate agains...

I think we could devote our entire lives to trying to keep our position as rigidly fixed as possible, and in spite of our best efforts, we would find ...

Testicles produce testosterone. Testosterone vs estrogen equates to manliness vs femininity. Castrati, with their higher voices, are seen as feminized...

All we have, according to Nietzsche , is an aptitude to develop a perspective and to exhaust ourselves, our will, in and through this perspective, Wil...

I believe that Husserl referred to this synthetic activity of mind with regard to concepts an 'idea in the Kantian sense', a meaning that can be repea...

Then what is God supposed to mean in this instance? Just a colorful expression for an existing being with impressive abilities? Any abilities or attri...

I never met anybody who did not have a fixed position. Let me explain that. By fixed position I don't mean a script they can rattle off. I dont even n...

Nietzsche wouldn't say transcendence is impossible, he'd say it's an incoherent notion. People assert transcendental bases all the time, but what they...

"One must determine something which remains unchanged for a period of time, and this is continuity". What you are describing is a mathematical abstrac...

Not sure what TheWillowOfDarkness meant by "causal unity in the world" What I meant was that Nietzsche attacked the presuppositions behind objective c...

I think James is understanding continuity in a different way than you are. If we look at the contents of consciousness, whether past actions and habit...

"To say there cannot be a transcendent God doesn’t preclude any sort of casual unity in the world. One might, for example, have some sort of being who...

Heidegger wasn't the only one who raised the issue of the entanglement of truth and value, language and reality, epistemology and empiricism. Some of ...

Your thinking is rooted in a particular metaphysics (worldview, paradigm, personal construct system) just as is everyone else's. That worldview evolve...

Past may be determined and fixed, but it must also enter into the very horizon that we experience as the 'present'. Otherwise there would be no sense ...