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The river-bank analogy refers to the way that empirical propositions can harden and change into conditions of possibility for empirical propositions. ...

The riverbed is bedrock. Bedrock changes slowly, because it itself is held in place by its relation to a slowly changing surround.

Of course they are true or false. Wittgenstein isnt denying this. He is making a distinction between a micro and macro level of analysis. A particular...

He is linking hinge propositions with forms of life and language games. They are all incontrovertible for the same reason. Not because they are true, ...

Wittgenstein is arguing that we conventionally equate the fact there can be no dispute concerning the meaning of a mathematical proposition with its b...

An important difference between Gödel and Wittgenstein is that for the latter the synonymous concepts of hinge propositions, forms of life and languag...

I wonder if you could flesh this out a little. Doesn’t philosophy attempt to answer its own question concerning what (as well as how and why) reality ...

Philosopher of science Joseph Rouse is one of Barad’s biggest champions. He considers her notion of materialism to be a version of naturalism that avo...

Suit yourself. Barad's Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. She held a tenured appointment in a physics department befor...

It may not satisfy the requirements of apokrisis, but the model of causality it expresses is designed to apply equally to the micro and the macro leve...

You likely wouldn’t refer to the scientists whose work leads to replicated, accepted results according to the consensus of a worldwide scientific comm...

Let’s look at an example where this dependence of a higher on a lower scale of explanation falls apart. Newtonian analysis of colliding billiard balls...

That isnt a source of evidence concerning the views of most everyone informed in the life sciences, its a source of evidence concerning the views of a...

I certainly do, but it involves a familiarity with the substance of scholarship integrating naturalism with phenomenology. And again, the issue of use...

. I didnt say that all physicists are not up to the job. There are a handful who try to force an interpretation onto the established body of results w...

So I think the point here isn’t that psychology and biology are not in principle reducible to a more fundamental description like physics. It is that ...

As you are aware, the Continentalists are fond of ontological groundings that have built into their very premise the genesis of perspectivalism as an ...

What you’re calling the lower level physical description, the irreducible ground floor for the understanding of all higher order descriptions (chemica...

And why not? Physics was until recently ( and for many still is) a reworking of Leibnitz and Kant.

Physicist and philosopher Karen Barad is among the community of ‘new materialists’ who argue that “relations are not secondarily derived from independ...

Actually, the most complex scale of existence grounds our use of math. Mathematics is a conceptual invention. The billiard ball model of causality doe...

I prefer the somewhat less reductionistic account of intersubjective coordination that enactivism offers:

How do you reconcile the notion of person with philosophical and psychological approaches which deconstruct the concept of self?

Both Heidegger and Nietzsche felt isolated from the ways of thinking of their time. Heidegger believed that Nietzsche and Holderlin were closest to hi...

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You sure about that? Is the sense of why and how something matters to us ever absent from a task? Is there ever such a thing as an absence of mood? He...

In principle it is true that physics grounds all ‘higher’ scales of natural phenomena , but in practice it is not true that that a mechanistic account...

How does Peirce understand the relation between model and what is to be modeled? Would he agree with the following from Rouse? Rouse follows Wittgenst...

Don’t forget Nietzsche here. …and Heidegger’s interpretation of Nietzsche:

Then perhaps we must let it run aground. Beside, I think I’m getting seasick.

I happen to believe that the functionally unified, normative, goal-oriented organization of living systems is what consciousness is in its most primor...

The chair certainly produces predictable constraints and affordances in response to our engagement with it, but the meaning of ‘chair’, that is, what ...

It sounds like you’re getting your idea of the primacy of emotion in evolutionary history from this model: The above account suggests instead that aff...

i certainly agree that the way that we characterize the genesis and nature of human reason and logical understanding serves as a model for our underst...

As my favorite psychologist, George Kelly, said:

Positivist approaches in psychology were based on the same assumptions concerning human behavior, which is why they excluded ‘unobservable and untesta...

The paragraph does seem to be consonant with recent thinking on the relation between affectivity, cognition and values. For instance, enactivist appro...

I suspect the lion’s share of those intuitions are formed by early adulthood , which may explain why philosophers like Heidegger, Nietzsche and Kierke...

And I suspect Rouse would consider Peirce’s view of the scientific image as an epistemologically-based first philosophy:

Th epistemological for Rouse is secondary to the ontology of agential materiality, what he calls ‘intra-action’. This ontology erases the boundary sep...

It’s from Is Internal Realism a Philosophy of Scheme and Content? https://evanthompson.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/j-1467-9973-1991-tb00717-x.pdf

Not all naturalist thinking is limited in this way. Joseph Rouse’s radical naturalism is one example of alternative paths that are being taken by new ...

Thank you for adding the link. It’s a fascinating paper.

Most people would use the word physical here, and then add their preferred term. Many non-dualist philosophers, however, would insert their preferred ...

I’m not sure that such a distinction between self and world can be made. Heidegger would argue that the self is projected back to itself from its worl...

My deodorant must be wearing off.

They call it common sense for a reason. It relies for its validity on normative conventions, which are a mixed blessing. They allow for social cohesio...

The translation of physical processes into the language of human intersubjectivity may be made easier if we start by asking ourselves what we are doin...

The author of the paper you linked to writes Thinking of metaphysics this way as split off from empirical truth perpetuates a dualism between ideas an...