The evolutionary goal of any particular organism is not simply survival, but the maintenance of a normatively stable way of interacting with the envir...
It depends on what the surgeon’s goals are, doesn’t it? If knowing too much about the patient would distract from performing the surgery, then it coul...
Where do you think ‘caring’ comes from, a mysterious substance of ‘fellow feeling’? I like the enactivist definition of caring: How do we differentiat...
How about “be insightful” or “be a good psychological investigator”? I think all of us always want to be kind, to the extent that others appear to be ...
We can’t function in society without an ability to anticipate to at least a minimal extent the behavior of others. We also must anticipate our own beh...
We didnt evolve to have this capacity, as though empathy were a physiological gimmick. Empathy is just a sophisticated example of anticipatory sense-m...
There is a big difference between acting to retain someone else in order to protect oneself and doing so because one considers their actions to be mor...
I think that eventually any system of belief will come to be seen as superstitious and doctrinaire relative to what has replaced it. As my favorite ps...
The pure ego only shows itself to consciousness by reflection, that is, by treating the ego as an object. One has no direct, pre-reflective awareness ...
This all gets very complicated, but the upshot is that what is immortal is not an individual ‘I am’ , but a pre-individual ego. This ‘absolute ego’ ha...
It’s good you put psychological in scare quotes, because Husserl took pains to avoid the accusation of psychologism. The difference between treating s...
Thompson seems to have struggled his whole life with how to unite Western philosophy, empirical science and Buddhist insights in a way that doesn’t le...
Thomas Nail is an advocate of Karen Barad’s agential realism brand of new materialism, which I think provides us with a way to unite inorganic matter ...
Where do you think Thompson stands on this issue? He came out in The Blind Spot as opposed to postmodernism: And yet, I don’t see him as embracing met...
For Husserl, things as they are is utterly contingent and relative, so there is nothing for phenomenology to state about ‘apples’ in themselves which ...
This is kind of a mess. The very presuppositions making the hard problem a problem at all are all on display in Chalmer’s split between ‘inner’ experi...
Immersing involves a kind of openness or sensitivity toward the evolving felt senses of situations. We only run the danger of being ‘carried away’ or ...
I agree with what you said in general, but I want to put into question the quote above. What exactly does ‘I am’ mean to you here? It isn’t a static s...
By ‘world’, Husserl means any notion of an entity ( world, reality, universe, etc) presupposed by the natural attitude. I. his 5th Cartesian mediation...
I would prefer to say that scientific concepts are themselves qualitative ( mass, motion, energy,’etc), and what characterizes them as leaving out wha...
In order to understand the basis of quantity, we have to see its relation to quantity. We can only count instances of something that remains qualitati...
Husserl certainly grants subjectivity ontological primacy, but the content of the ego changes with its acts. What is unchanging about it is its struct...
The nature of the flow that Husserl described is not without order, even though it lacks formal features. How can this be? Husserl is not the only phi...
The issue for me is that incorporation of the insights I mentioned can inform and transform the content of the hard sciences, just as it has already b...
It is not as though this flow were devoid of textures, of consonances and dissonances. When we slap abstractions like self-identical spatial object an...
The world is not a static frame with objects in it, it is a process of reflexive self-change , and our sciences, arts and other forms of creative nich...
We can’t invent out of whole cloth.Wr invent what we want to invent, but what we want is already conditioned and informed by ways of understanding the...
Different sciences talk about things in different ways. Some rely on reductive causal abstractions, some begin from the contextually particular circum...
Everything science says is a statement of subjective experience. Your subjective experience sits smack dab in the very heart of scientific concepts, b...
You want to know what is out there as the underlying reality for Husserl, apart from iintentionally constituted objects? An utterly formless, structur...
If I understand the aim of your OP correctly, you’re trying to get to the bottom of the relation between subject and world. Inn order to do so, we mus...
Something seems to be missing here. This description focuses solely on an ‘inner’ mental aspect of perception, as though there were the objects out th...
It’s not just that the different uses of the land bring with them their own real dimensions of meaning. The concept of parcel of land is itself alread...
Certainly we are able to see things as they truly are. There is no way the world is ‘in itself’ The world shows itself to us in our practical engageme...
Law and other structures of authority hold society together only to the extent that they refer back to societal consensus, and the glue holding societ...
I believe that both empirical knowledge and ethical understanding undergo a historical evolution. Therefore, I think a classical education is importan...
I dont like the metaphor of lens as a depiction of the relation between mind and world. It implies a detached, subjectivist view of how we make sense ...
Perhaps it’s not Nietzsche one needs to grow out of but a shallow, post-pubescent reading of his ideas and his character. I’ve recently discovered som...
Heidegger shows how the common notion of time dates back to Aristotle's derivation of time from motion. “The thoughts of motion, continuity, extension...
I understand it to mean "something that persists identically in time". Heidegger is defining what he calls the ‘present-at-hand’ (Vorhandenheit), whic...
It is also us who invented the clock, and it is the clock that doesn’t have past, present and future. It sounds like you’re getting your notion of tim...
Thompson is simply reiterating Davidson's claim that “with a correct epistemology we can be realists in all departments.” As to Thompson re-introducin...
Davidson rejects the view, held by both metaphysical realists and anti-realists that persons represent the world (scheme vs content) to themselves. Hi...
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