Joshs

The only 'knowledge' that can't be manipulated is knowledge that is utterly ignorant of the contingent conditions of its production, and so blind to i...

"To my mind, science has nothing to say on the existence of God." They may not talk about God, but science has plenty to say about metaphysics, in the...

Pragmatic necessity, in the sense it is used by American pragmatist philosophers like Dewey and James, is a contingent necessity rather than a metaphy...

" But the God that Nietzsche declared dead was his society´s traditional God; when people become atheist, they are atheist of the god of their parents...

Why do we identify with and care for children if there is not evolutionariliy adapted brain module or predisposition for it? Nietzsche calls into ques...

I would love to hear your position in particular. How important is Lacan, as you understand him, to you? Do you find Deleuze's appraoch to be more rig...

"Derrida points to the Real but is stuck in the realm of concepts." This is a common misreading of Derrida. Just as "nothing outside the text" is comm...

You miss the essence of Nietzsche, which was his discovery that truth, rather than being sovereign, is handmaiden of the will , and will is non-self a...

Doesn't time apply differently to us, too, in different periods of our lives? How long did a year seem to you when you were a child? How many times di...

I don't see a whole lot of Derrida in your description, certainly not concerning cleaving off from the Real. i dont think we ever get to the Real with...

Vaihinger? Buber?Sartre?

The speed of time as psychologically experienced requires the simultaneous having of a horizon of past, a present and a future in awareness . We know ...

Time as it is experienced phenomenologically by a living creature cannot be reduced to time as modeled in physics, since the objective scientific mode...

You dont get rid of beliefs, because beliefs arent data and the memory iisn't a filing cabinet. Beliefs are subsets of larger frames of perspective th...

Does that mean you disagree with Hilary Putnam? "Many thinkers have argued that the traditional dichotomy between the world "in itself" and the concep...

Its not a question of having a right or wrong view, but that all views , as perspectives, dictate the limits of what can be seen, what counts as evide...

Absolutely. Heidegger also understood how the way physicists accept uncritically their results, without recognizing the way their truths are condition...

Heidegger critiqued the notion of time that modern physics inherited from the Greeks. " Einstein's theory of relativity established the opinion that t...

Searle was not happy with the results of his encounter with Derrida. He likely would have been as unhappy had he been engaged in argument with Heidegg...

" In short, treat any and every criticism of Kant with much suspicion." Do you not have any significant criticism to make concerning the limitations o...

Enlighenment science may have gotten rid of one ‘fog of metaphysics’ only to replace it with the fog of physicalism. At least , according to a differe...

Here's a blog comment by Evan Thompson summarizing his interest in a post-physicalist science: "in my own work I follow the trajectory that arises in ...

Strawson is among many within the analytic community who have been unable to make the leap to a post-Nietzschean way of construing objectivity, causal...

If the process is one of endless self-differentiation over time then one would expect to find infinite variation of pattern and structure within cosmo...

"Dawkins' conclusion is not a conclusion from biology, and as I said, I don't quibble with the biology. Dawkins' conclusion comes from Dawkins practic...

Here's a link to a constructivist approach. It may give you a feel for the discourse. http://www.oikos.org/mairstory.htm Also, check out Vaihinger's '...

Thanks for the response. The challenge in our discussion I think is this: I'm familiar with the history and nature of the ideas you're presenting. Im ...

ok. Sometimes you just want to b*+ch-slap Derrida, with all his preciousness. Do you remember how he refused to have his picture taken for many years ...

Wanna talk about psychoanalysis( my previous post)?

I was thinking of Heidegger, who argued that Nietzsche was the last metaphysician, and didn't consider his own philosophy a metaphysics. Derrida, on t...

If 'Natural Philosopher' is to indicate an acknowledgement of the entanglement of fact and value on the part of scientists , what name should philosop...

"I wasn't quibbling with the fact of occasional greater variability within than between, I was disagreeing with the final implications usually drawn f...

Never mind. Turns out he was just babbling.

If you disagree with the statement I quoted, then your disagreement is only based on science if you can show me evidence that your claim is the scient...

"I do not only see the rose, the rose also sees me." Sounds like Merleau-Ponty's flesh of the world.

"Sounds like the whining of someone with some agenda they're too scared to lay out so they hide it behind a lot of flowery obfuscation." translation:I...

What aspects of reality do you think are not discussable and describable(ineffable?)? Are you referring to a spiritual dimension? To me what is of int...

"Being is 'that which knows', never 'the object of knowledge' (a fundamental insight of non-dualism. But this is why it can be said that we 'forget wh...

"Many people, known as Science-Worshippers, want to apply science outside that valid area of applicability, and have a belief that science describes, ...

"It seems like race, biology, etc. are a much more important factors in all sorts of ways than received opinion thought for much of the 20th century"....

I hate to break it to you, but there are plenty of religious denominations that don't believe in life after death.

Boredom, monotony, weariness and exhaustion connected with redundant experience would be, paradoxically, of the same species as the shock and trauma o...

I would hope a feeling can be seen as a meaning.

There are a lot of people (certainly in the U.S.) who protest strongly against what they see as censurious, anti-democratic tendencies among groups al...

Anti-science could mean ignoring the research entirely. Or it could mean disagreeing with a particular scientific interpretation. Because it seems to ...

You undoubtedly know that feminism, and in particular that variety which sees gender as socially constructed, would reject all the assertions above, t...

Keep in mind that the people who believe that reality is like this(James and Dewey, phenomenology, poststructuralism, modernist hermeneutics, Karl Pop...

You know that optical illusion where you can see the young woman or the old woman but not both at the same time? There is a sudden shift that takes pl...

What counts as evidence is itself framed by the terms of the question that drives the search for validation. There is no such thing as value-independe...

I highly recommend Shaun Gallagher's work on consciousness: "How the Body Shapes the Mind is an interdisciplinary work that addresses philosophical qu...