Joshs

Have you read Beyond Good and Evil? Lots of commentary on women there. I dont see it as metaphorical. He simply says it is one man's opinion. My concl...

They say that when you ask a question, the question already presupposes a certain type of answer, not just yes or no, but a tacit acceptance of the wa...

For some reason, I didnt see your response till now. The subject of social constructionism had come up earlier in our conversation. I had included my ...

I think there is no primal and animalistic part of our brains. Thinking is wholistic. Our predicaments are the product of our very best intelligence. ...

of course, you could argue that power is morality, depending on how you define it. Foucault's truth/power hybrid , inspired by Nietzsche, defines trut...

We choose, which is to say we find ourselves choosing. You could say we are thrown into choice. We find ourselves always already in motion, in an anti...

What if we tried the reverse tactic. What if we attempted to explain the dynamics of rat societies via the perspective of a Marxist scientific materia...

The issue isn't whether god exists or not. There are many variations of theism, many variations of atheism, and everything in between. Each of these p...

I was sorry to hear that John Shotter died. I was exposed to Vygotsky and Bahktin through his variant of social constructionism. There doesn't seem to...

Piaget argued against claims by Chomsky and Fodor for a genetic basis of semantic language content. He didn't deny that capacity for language was inna...

All good philosophy predates and anticipates advances in the sciences. If this is mind-boggling, it's not because a mind is mirroring, copying or repr...

But the thing is, it wouldn't be difficilt to add a correction to Dennett's model that recognizes an irreducible interrelarionalty to all experience ,...

Or maybe he just invented it, and the nature of his invention dovetails with the inventions of this generation of physicists. It makes one look forwar...

I guess the question is what are the minimum requirements of a consciousness? Are ofher animals conscious? Which ones, and where and how do we draw th...

I'm rusty in it myself, but as I recall Hisserl's transcendental ego is not an object and also not a subject in the way that Hegel understands it. It'...

is this Husserl's argument? If not, how does it differ? Is it closer to Hegel' absolute subject?

I just finished reading Massumi's 'Autonomy of Affect' http://www.brianmassumi.com/textes/Autonomy%20of%20Affect.PDF I quite enjoyed it, It mirrors Ge...

if you want to understand the meaning of an external relation for me( and I'm not worried about my use of the word internal. It was obvious it would t...

We have ended up discussing two different topics, but treating them as if they were the same topic. That often seems to happen when Derrida is brought...

Does this mean you're a republican?

"Derrida can only ever gesture towards possibility, opening, otherness, without, for all that, providing any means to show how otherness is, as it wer...

*From Malabou: "It is surprising to see that in his article “Différance” Derrida does not recognise an essential, even if banal, meaning of the word “...

We're not understanding Derrida in relation to Deleuze until we compare how they guide our understanding of pragmatic behavioral contexts. I have sele...

"This whole discourse is itself bound to picking apart oppositional differences, of sounding out, as you put it, the articulatory hinge between distin...

Sounds like Nietzsche's eternal return of the same.

A couple of thoughts. First, I like what Derrida has to say, obviously, but out of all the so-called Derrideans out there, (and as you know, there are...

I find it difficult to tease out the substantive arguments of many philosophers, especially those who write in a an evocative style( Deleuze, Lyotard,...

My central interest in philosophical and psychological theory from the time I was in university has been the relationship between affect and cognition...

" it can be frustrating when people continually misunderstand what I'm writing. This happened a lot in my thread on Wittgenstein, so I'm use to it." T...

"the meaning we can create isn't proportional to, and doesn't fit, what the desires of the heart demand." Desire is always relative to a personally co...

Why is there a someone?

"Hell is other people?" You'd have to be a celebrity to really get it.

Let's say a grand unification theory (Theory of Everything) is achieved and Hawking's dream of running the whole damn thing on a computer can finally ...

Let's talk a little about Protevi. From waht I've read, he believes in a Pinker-like evolutionary psychology supporting a cognitive-behavioral framewo...

You might be interested in literature(most of this falls into the category of 'poststructuralism' ) that runs directly counter to the presupppositions...

"The "affective turn" is hardly revolutionary in the history of psychology and neurology. " How would you want to define revolutionary? As far as I ca...

I didnt mean to imply (although that's what I wrote) that the 'feeling of what it is like to be', is something that is intrinsic to the world, I agree...

"This view solves the hard problem of consciousness by killing two birds with one stone". What it does is kill any chance at understanding the origin ...

" the scientific approach is predicated on the objective analysis of quantifiable entities and relationships." I dont know what a scientific approach ...

This gets a bit complicated, but it has to do with seeing every person's understanding of the world from moment to moment as a holistic gesatt, and ea...

RIght. It comes down to the question of how we make things work based on our designs, how the plane stays up in the air, if those designs are understo...

What about inorganic process? IF these are not purpose-driven processes, then I assume you are arguing that beings with purposes emerge out of process...

This reminds me of the line that there are no postmodernists on an airplane in flight. The lesson we should learn from the knowledge that perception i...

I think you should drop the dualistic logic and adopt some recent thinking from perceptual psychology. The interesting question would be not whether s...

I think a whole generation of philosophers, and an increasing number of those considering themselves scientists, would question in what way verifiable...

Would it be considered a panpaychism to theorize that what we consider unique about consciousness, its 'aboutness' and 'feeling of what it is like' , ...

I like using self-organizing systems metaphors. If the universe(or multiverse) is an auto-peiotic development, then it moves progressively from a stat...

Its a delicate balance. Too little structures and life is incoherent. Too much structure and you end up with a moral code instead of a pragmatics that...

Have you ever read Levinas? I imagine his notion of the Other that precedes my ipseity, my simple being-as-self, has resonance for some Buddhist adher...

It never even occurred to most people before a century or so ago in most cultures that life was supposed to be rewarding and fulfilling. Life was to b...