Time can also be understood directly, phenomenolgically, which I suggest is more fundamental an experience of time than via pre-packaged quantitative ...
There is an entirely other category of philosophy besides physicalists, idealists and dualists. This category is not well known among Americans becaus...
I agree that power isn't the crux of the problem of sexual harassment. The main issue is un-evolved sexual self-awareness among men(and women too), pa...
I can see how Buchler, with his focus on distinctions and groupings of meaning, relates to Wittgenstein's questions about language. But I read Heidegg...
I agree with Paul Feyerabend's critique of Popper's claims for a single method of science : "Combining this observation with the insight that science ...
I agree. I don't think it's contradictory to ground a natural history of mathematical and language structures in evolutionary processes and still insi...
Varela was a rare species in the realm of science, someone willing to synthesize ideas from a range of disciplines and push their implications in a re...
Science isn't a method, it's a name for a tradition with a history of changing methods and evolving views of what an object is, how it relates to the ...
Maybe at this point we should ask what we want the term 'real' to do for us. And I suppose also the concept 'physical'. Do either of these notions bec...
It's true that To me it's not a question of logical consistency in the formal sense, but of self-consistency, of the relative inferential compatibilit...
They did emerge from a living world context, but when we engage with that world in an attempt to understand it , we are participating in the further e...
Although you're trying hard not to, I think you're putting the cart before the horse in placing abstract logic before the world. What I mean is, what ...
Think about what you're saying when, on the one hand, you want to use the notion of nature to secure our propositions to something foundational ( yes,...
The notion of subatomic particles as forms or ideas rather than things can be situated more accurately under Kantian categories than under Plato's ete...
I'm wondering how your model of if-then abstractions as a description of reality accounts for what it is that these abstractions are derived from. I d...
Husserl said that each moment of experienced time( time consciousness) was a tripartite structure of retention, Immediate presentation and protention....
Your view of mathematics has been referred to by Lakoff and Nunez as mathematical Romanticism, the idea that concepts represent an independently exist...
bum the origin of the meaning of the word 'number' is the Proto-indo-European word for 'to divide' In other words, it is an operation performed on obj...
Number is a concept that humans developed that requires the notion of a pure identity. Numbers are purely self-identical abstractions. Humans didn't a...
I'm perfectly fine with a position stating there is nothing outside of this universe. The issue for me is what sort of materialism is up to the job of...
"I generally refer to criticisms of Dennett (which are not hard to find) as arguments for why materialist theories of mind are doomed to fail." Let's ...
it isn't time taken as a measurement system of identical units Smolen is talking about, it is the aspect of time as transformation. One could say that...
The thing about Dennett's materialism is that it is made possible by a rethinking of such concepts as representation and object, and this is reflected...
We don't have to resort to imagining an ideal physics. We could instead imagine the possibilities of an embrace by physicists of arguments by scientis...
"If we want to speak generally and objectively, then absolute Anti-Realism is out." I though you were on the right track there with your 'relevant and...
You could deal with mathematical operations the way Lakoff and Johnson do in 'The Embodied Mind'. Rather than extra-mental platonic essences, they are...
Seems to me the physical vs non physical question is a product of the philosophical heritage of object-subject dualism, a world 'out there' split off ...
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