This sounds like a structuralist reading of language as distinct form of perception. Poststructuralists(Lyoptard, Derrida) would disagree that percept...
Historical evidence wont tell you how to interpret Nietzsche's philosopy. A reading of those philosophers and psychologists(Dennett, Adorno, Rorty, Fr...
"Language is not a general purpose communication tool. Language is better at communicating some kinds of things better than others. This makes intuiti...
"I would like to clear up the issue of whether computation is emergent or epiphenominal." Maybe its neither, once one jettisons the representationalis...
Tell me more about "infinitely-many life-experience possibility-stories, one with you as protagonist". Is such a story like any of the narrative disco...
No, many of them think that standards of objectivity, and the validity of opinions, can be legitimately determined within cultural groups, but that su...
There are so many different styles of philosophy. Some depend on endlessly close reading of texts. Others see themselves as close allies of the scienc...
Reading Nietzsche's thought as 'nihilistic' is probably the worst misinterpretation of his philosophy you can make. The whole point of his philosophy ...
"So differing worldviews are incommensurable? Applying the golden rule would seem to suffice for any person, as long as they aren't aliens of some sor...
'Do unto other as you would have them do unto you'. And if the other behaves toward you in a way counter to your ethical standards do you attribute th...
Everyone justifies their behavior within their own moral compass, which derives from their larger worldview. When we encounter actions by another pers...
You left out something about life goals. If you examine the .lives of those who have achieved the kind of goal that many long for(wealth, fame,etc) , ...
"social behavior is determined by the chemical and physical processes in the brain and that would indicate they are just as much a part of natural law...
Even if its not self consciously understood as progressive by its fans, an art form can stagnate. Take popular music. Think about the past 50 years, f...
I dont think its a matter of the composers so much as the era. Two well known art critics, Clement Greenberg and Arthur Danto, both believed that inte...
There are many variations of materialism, and many variations of theism, and many variations of something that lies between the two. What these terms ...
The thing about getting Derrida is that you find yourself recognizing what others miss about the way we use language. Heidegger was the first philosop...
So forget about Derrida and give me a sense of what family of thinkers inform your own philosophy. I'm curious. Since Henry offers a theological appro...
Derrida's argument is not that we transcend metaphysics and not that we're stuck in it, but that we perform a kind of dual move in moving through expe...
You may as well say people are forced into socializing with each other, because economic relationships are just subsets of the dynamics of social ties...
Is a social context something we are 'in' , or is it something that we move through? Do we not alter the normative context every time we participate i...
Have you read Jean Francois Lyotard, or Jean Luc Nancy? They are closer to Derrida's ideas than are Deleuze or Foucault. (I dont see Badiou and Henry ...
I think we should discuss Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False,” That sets out t...
Im not sure how to start here. The complaints against major philosophers from Leibnitz and Spinoza through Kant, Hegel and Heidegger are legion. It is...
Derrida's works are very difficult to read. You don't stand much of a chance without some background in Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger. The most r...
I'm a therapist who deals with sexual issues, and while I don't deny the value of psychoanalytic tools, I find the core sexual problems clients deal w...
I dont understand how one separates 'whatever a theory claims' from 'whatever might be claimed about a theory's practical or metaphysical significance...
If you think Nietzsche is over-rated, then you also think Freud, James, Heidegger, Derrida, Rorty, Foucault and Merleau-Ponty are over-rated, because ...
" the actual humanists were those like Erasmus, Pico Della Mirandola, and Ficino - they're worlds, civilizations, apart from the likes of Dennett." Th...
You may be familiar with the history of architectures of cognition within the cognitive sciences and philosophy of mind. Going back about 5 decades, t...
I like this. Imagine a group of 10 physicists gathered together in a room. Then point out that each of these persons has a different political point o...
You dont explain why a group of people need to have power over another in the first place. It's significant that this group can organize itself in the...
Derrida said there is nothing outside the text.By text he didnt mean literally written language. He meant context. There is no meaning that escapes it...
That's the ground of being you're talking about,i presume, our situatedness or thrownness. And the most rigorous form of awareness for Heidegger, what...
You seem to be approaching the topic of increasing sexual self awareness through a broad socio-cultural perspective, while my interest is in the the w...
I would make one comment about phenomenology. There is a common understanding of it that simply sees it a private, subjective experience, as 1st perso...
Yes, Feyerabend said that when Enlightenment science emerged in the 18th century, it acted as a corrective to the dominance of religious authority ove...
Did you know that the leading edge of cognitive science is just now catching up with and integrating its models with that of philosophical phenomenolo...
Yes, and they are replaced by new theories as a result of changing world views, which bring along with them new understanding of scientific method(Bac...
When I speak of science as ideology, what I mean is worldview, paradigm, gestalt. Since scientists are human beings who do not exist outside of cultur...
I encourage you to listen to the YouTube lecture titled 'science as ideology' by the reknown biologist Richard Lewontin. Pay special attention to his ...
of course philosophy answers the most profound questions. But the progress of philosophy ( as well as science) consists in formulating more interestin...
I wonder if it's a wrong step or merely a necessary preliminary step. After all, in order to think outside of the box, you have to first define a box,...
Rationality defined as being wedded to the evidence of data from a supposed objective world out there, is itself a metaphysics, There are self-proclai...
The concerns you mention above owe their existence to formulations of concepts like environment, population dynamics, etc, that stem from sciences who...
"The danger is that the conversation becomes too precious and distant, and outsiders rightly suspect that (often enough) nothing important/living is b...
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