For Heidegger , subject implies self-consciousness, S=S. Dasein is neither subject nor world, but the in-between. The self does not pre-exist its worl...
This may be true of Kant’s work on time, but Heidegger’s notion of temporality deconstructs both subjectivity and objectivity, replacing the subject-o...
It isn’t necessary to use a notion of flow to address the necessity of the inclusion of past in the experience of the punctual now. Regardless of whet...
I want to distinguish two uses of the word ‘opposite’. The first use includes both binary ‘black vs white’ oppositions and differences of degree withi...
The experience of any thing is the consciousness of time. When we think or perceive an object , we are synthesizing the ‘now’ of its existence for us ...
I recommend Klossowski’s ‘Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle’ for insights into his thinking that may be new to you. You might also enjoy Daniel Smith’s...
I view Nietzsche as the father of postmodernism, and as a critic of existentialism. I am not alone in that assessment. Some of Nietzsche’s most notabl...
Rouse believes both animals and infants have conceptuality. The distinction he makes between humans and animals is between what he calls one-dimension...
I would add that a central point of Rouse’s is that our animal nature is not pre-conceptual at all. Also, the Yo and Lo book was by Kukla and Mark Lan...
The fact that neurological damage can manifest itself at different levels of perceptual processing doesn’t mean that the ‘lower’ levels of processing ...
Joseph Rouse entered into the debate involving Davidson, Brandom and McDowell, concluding that while McDowell was right to accuse Davidson’s approach ...
The schemes dont have to be identical , they can be similar. And they can be alike when it comes to superficial aspects of behavior that don’t matter ...
Ziporyn’s claim is that what monotheisms and the atheisms of the ‘three horsemen’ (Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris) have in common is belief in a single ...
For an alternate atheistic take on Taoism , especially the thinking of Zhuangzi, I highly recommend the recently published book by Brook Ziporyn, one ...
The awareness of the incessantly changing nature of experience is not a hinderance to, but the route of access into a robustly ethical involvement in ...
There are always standards to be consulted in matters of competing arguments, but these standards get their intelligibility from within some discursiv...
Every moment we are conscious our perceptual system translates a constantly changing kaleidoscope of sensations into stable meanings, and the way we t...
I deny Quine’s version of naturalism, but I affirm Joseph Rouse’s naturalism, which doesn’t force the normativity of scientific inquiry into the const...
The choice can never be arbitrary, precisely because our attitudes, values and actions must always conditioned from within a specific system of discur...
Let's see if we can flesh out a little the thinking of those who are truth relativists. I’m not saying that Astrophel is a ‘radical’ relativist, but I...
If one sticks to the view of language as representative symbol this is true, but in the approaches to language we find in such figures as Merleau-Pont...
Many who are included within a postmodernist camp use one form or another of a practice-based approach (Foucault, Deleuze, Rorty, Heidegger, Wittgenst...
As you know, it’s not just Husserl’s version of phenomenology that Henry objects to, but Merleau-Ponry and Heidegger as well. And one could imagine th...
Which is one reason Heidegger is not an existenrialist. For him, authentic angst is not something to be ameliorated, since it is the wellspring of tra...
I should mention that what I had in mind with that quote was not neuroscience but Husserl’s phenomenological analyses of perception. The fact that it ...
Could have fooled me. Every point I have made that you have shot down comes directly from either the phenomenologies of Husserl (the reference of sens...
What about optical illusions that involves gestalt shifts between one way of seeing a scene and another, like the duck-rabbit? Is one way more correct...
I’m aware of two kinds of empirical accounts to describe perception, representational and enactivist, and versions that combine aspects of the two. I ...
When I perceive a red ball in front of me, all that I actually perceive in front of me is an impoverished, contingent partial sense experience. I fill...
I didn’t say a coastline or an ant didnt exist until painted. The word coastline implies a particular sense of meaning, and there are as many senses o...
The word ‘bus’ implies a system of interactions with the object ‘bus’ based on our understanding of what it is and what it does. Someone who doesnt kn...
It depends on the system of convictions that underlie your beliefs concerning what is good and what is bad for a baby, just as what constitutes genita...
He’s summarizing Henry here, who’s a tough nut to crack. What he’s getting at is the association between objectively causal , representational models ...
Our scientific theories are not immaterial idealizations, they are intrinsic components of our material interactions with the world that we are trying...
Scientific advances in understanding gravity, mass and energy from Newton to Einstein changed the meaning of these concepts in subtle ways. The notion...
Let me give it a try. Astrophel is basing his view of relations between subject and world in part on phenomenologist Michel Henry. Given the respect f...
By ‘game’, Wittgenstein meant a discursively produced and reproduced system ( convention) of intelligibility. I consider math to be a discursive conve...
I was equating “system of convictions” with the expression you did use: “truths that are part of our background certainty.” Do you distinguish between...
You say that the system of convictions that form the background certainty of a language game can be used as propositions in an argument . Banno says t...
A language game like chess has built into its assumptions the looseness of the relations among its rules. This looseness is what makes it permissible ...
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