At age 15 I developed ideas that I have been elaborating ever since. I hadnt read a word of philosophy at that time, and I wasnt to do so for another ...
It’s true that if one wants to put forth a theory of meaning, one can choose from a range of conventional vocabularies under the rubric of ‘psychology...
Great philosophy is very much concerned with research. The fact that it does not partake of anscientific method of research doesn’t invalidate philoso...
All of my favorite philosophers (who are overwhelmingly contemporary) engage in texts of ‘dead guys’ (and girls) as an essential complement to the pre...
This is the way philosophy thought before Wittgenstein, and before Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and before Nietzsche (I could name many others not stu...
Nietzsche didn’t have to worry about that, since he wrote outside the confines of academia. Does that make him easy to read? Yes, if you dont want to ...
I’m not sure what al-Gharbi is bitching about. That sounds like a potentially interesting paper, dealing as it does with concepts articulated by leadi...
In order to be outraged by the excesses of a system like slavery, one has to be positioned within an alternative system of intelligibility. Most adher...
I want to thank you for pointing me to Al-Ghabi’s work. His thinking intersects some of my recent research, particularly the tension between personal ...
Pointing out that super-wealthy residents of New York are predominately of certain ethnic persuasions while their servants are of another, and that so...
They’ll keep coming until they are replaced by automation. I think the threat of actual civil war is more wishful thinking than a likely possibility. ...
The urban-based economic engine of the 21st century will mainly benefit those with enough education and the right skills, which leaves out much of the...
There’s a fairly clearly articulated position right there. Now, let’s see if we can figure out where you get your view of migration from in a philosop...
We’re talking about Trump, not anti-gay, anti-abortion zealots. Trump is neither of those. But his policy views are to the right of old line Conservat...
Trump thinks like his supporters, so in that sense he is sincere. That doesn’t mean that he isn’t an opportunist, but he’s an opportunist who sees the...
Which is what I said: “But that could never happen , for a few reasons. First, the party would never support an old line conservative.” Of course Bide...
The split in values in America between Trump supporters and those who reject him correlates precisely with population density. I think you’ll find the...
Yep, you are definitely to the right of what used to be considered establishment Conservatism. I would say that the majority of the U.S. shares your v...
Presuppositions are conceptual in nature. And the kinds of presuppositions necessary to do what I outlined are specific to the particular task. Scienc...
I’m curious. Did you vote for Trump or abstain from voting? I’m asking because all of the principled old-style National Review-style conservatives tha...
You know how I think the Democrats could have won this election? If they had nominated an old-style National Review-type Republican in the tradition o...
Unlike you , I make no moral judgements of individualism or neoliberalism as an ‘unrealistic’, ‘unbalanced’ , ‘regressive’ value system. I think all s...
Observation takes place through an apparatus of perception, which includes not just telescopes and microscopes, but conceptual apparatuses of interpre...
I have a slightly different take. I agree that the idea of the autonomous individual, and the values of freedom and utilitarianism that surrounded it,...
You make a distinction between objectively sifting the evidence in order to arrive at truths undistorted by existing prejudices , and allowing oneself...
Across the world we’re seeing the same pattern of a split between social traditionalists living mainly in low density rural areas and social progressi...
There is no such thing as a ‘Post Truth’ era, except as a fabrication of the media based on partisan politics. Ideological combatants throughout histo...
I’m not sure whether or not you are making the same mistake Wittgenstein argued Moore did, by confusing a grammatical proposition with an empirical as...
Hmm, this drive to examine motives for justification. Who do you suppose was among the earliest, and perhaps still most radical, thinkers to situate t...
He also said that he chose physics over biology because of the complexity of the subject matter the latter deals with. The ‘explain it to me like I’m ...
Habermas grounded rationality in a Kantian a priori, whereas Gadamer located the basis of reason in contingent discursive hemeneutical practices. I th...
It would help if you could give some concrete examples of highfalutin language in philosophy. I’ll give some for you and you tell me if I’m off base. ...
Yes, I don’t believe there is any domain philosophy tackles that science can’t venture into. I think we agree it’s just a matter of style of expressio...
Give me any scientific theory, and I’ll show you how philosophical questions can reveal the metaphysical presuppositions making its assertions intelli...
I could point out the danger of not seeing the forest for the trees by spending all one’s time on the ground. You could point out the opposite danger ...
No, I don’t believe there can be philosophy without presuppositions. Philosophers arise out of a contingent culture which shapes the sense of the ques...
In my view, philosophy in its most general sense refers to a mode of discourse melding comprehensiveness, unity, and explicitness. One can make any ki...
Even more to the point, there are many other useful discourses WITHIN philosophy besides that of rationally generated consensus and the primacy of rat...
It’s easy to say that in theory the higher order sciences reduce to an order below them, and all reduce to physics, but the reason this does not work ...
How about opinions that directly challenge the presuppositions of a science? Heidegger’s ideas about emotion, and Merleau-Ponty and Husserl’s models o...
Notice further that framing the essential questions of philosophy in terms of the nature of knowledge, the good, the true, the beautiful and the just ...
Except that these days we’re beginning to discover that such supposed ‘experts’ get their expertise by dipping into cultural practices that we all par...
I’m not denying that. I would say that there is no such thing as a presuppositionless philosophy. If philosophy begins with questioning, it is also th...
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