I do like what you’re saying here, and I think it’s pointing in the same direction that I am inclined to go in reconciling philosophical and scientifi...
I think the optical metaphor is a good way to illustrate the difference between a metaphysical realist and a deflationary reading of Wittgenstein. The...
On the contrary, it is the assumption of world as corrective to contingent being that harbors unexamined presuppositions isolating language from world...
Maybe you would agree that the brain idea must incorporate into its assumptions that natural scientific concepts such as functioning brain, neuron and...
Apparently times have changed. https://theweek.com/tech/gen-z-cars-driving-less https://www.carscoops.com/2024/05/teen-not-interested-in-driving-theyr...
I follow the thinking of the poststructuralists, of Nietzsche, and his heirs (Foucault , Deleuze, Heidegger and Derrida). They dispute the claim that ...
The criterion and meaning of being wrong can only be defined from within the very practices which define a certain sense of usefulness. When we abando...
Trying to ground language games in the sovereignty of empirical truth (how the world is) misunderstands the larger metaphysical implications of the co...
Habits aren’t automatisms. They continually adjust themselves to changing circumstances. It isn’t habits that keep us from transforming ourselves but ...
Here in Chicago it is a constant battle between the forces of motocentrism and those advocating for pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods. Chicago has eno...
Marx isn’t one of my favorite thinkers, but this just comes across as ad hominem gossip. I don’t quite see what Marx’s personal life has to do with hi...
The question isn’t whether the sky is blue , as though there were such things as neutral facts whose meaning could be isolated from contexts of use, m...
Do we learn what to do by repetition, and then just do it? Doesn’t the habit then become a picture we consult, albeit reflexively or unconsciously? At...
Who is this ‘one’? Schopenhauer made the mistake of thinking the ‘I’ who wills as a metaphysical subject. But the ‘I’ , and with it the world it makes...
As you and I know, no one is really motivated to pursue suffering for its own sake. One endures suffering and hope it leads to a reward, a release fro...
I think the opposite is the case. The more id -like, the more suffering ensues ( fear, rage, etc). The more effectively the primitive id is guided by ...
Let me break this down in terms of priorities. Physical pain may be significantly reduced with medical advances, and perhaps even immortality is a con...
I wrote that for Wittgenstein “the meaning of a word doesn’t function like a picture. Words aren’t first created and then used. They only exist in the...
I wonder how Deacon would distinguish between human use of word concepts and , for instance, the way a dog responds to a sentence. If a symbol represe...
Michael Tomasello argues that rather than there being something called language as a special phenomenon in itself differentiating humans from other an...
No, I’m not positing individual intuition, I’m trying to show how Wittgenstein deconstructs the idea. I should add that Wittgenstein was no behavioris...
How do we use a basic intuition to avoid an infinite regress of rules? Is an intuition a robustly persistent interpretive content of meaning that we c...
As you probably know, Kripke’s reading of Wittgenstein’s solution to the skeptical paradox is controversial, and even Kripke admitted that Wittgenstie...
It seems to me that if you’re going to apply the concept of forgiveness to this particular example you’re stretching its meaning well beyond the way i...
What’s missing here is the crucial normative character of perception and cognition. Perception is not not a one-way fitting process between organism a...
Braver’s point is that Kripke’s solution is no solution. Whereas Wittgenstein’s starting point is radically social , deriving individual subjectivity ...
There are many forms of imperfection, including decisions that seemed to be optimal at the time they were made but in hindsight, with the benefit of k...
If a rule must always be applied in a specific context of use in order for it to have meaning , does that indicate that the meaning of a rule is there...
Wittgenstein’s notion of family resemblance is meant to prevent us from being tempted to subsume the particular within the general, to define the inst...
If I can’t persuade another to take on the form of life necessary to make my actions intelligible to them, then don’t those actions continue to appear...
Ah, but the devil is in the details. To what extent, if any, does this difference in degree between the neurons of humans and other animals translate ...
The differences between language games are neither purely affective, as though pure affect could be separated from conceptual meaning, nor are they me...
When we speak to another we have certain expectations concerning the response, which will never be precisely fulfilled. Likewise when we think to ours...
It depends on how narrow your view of language is. Wittgenstein’s analyses of language were focused on contexts of interaction between persons. His wa...
The simplicity Henry is after seems to depend on belief in a pure self-affecting ipseity. Zahavi is sympathetic to this stance, as he also argues that...
I think Wittgenstein is closer to the phenomenologists and poststructuralists in his critique of efficient causation that he is to Hume or Russell. Th...
It is not that we forget what we have learned concerning how to follow a rule, it’s that the initial information is always inadequate to continually f...
I think it does challenge foundationalism, which is why Lee Braver named his book on Wittgenstein and Heidegger ‘Groundless Grounds’. Take this quote ...
There seem to be a number of issues involved here. First, what takes place when we use words to communicate with each other? Second, how does this com...
Why would the man who washes ashore lose his ability to make and follow rules? He would bring with him from whatever culture he was raised in a backgr...
The way I see the heritage , Heidegger comes after Witt, and Derrida after Heidegger. That is, Witt is the least radical of the three. I wish you were...
I’d love to hear what ‘commonplace positions’ you think these writers are regurgitating. What do you suppose their commonplace critiques of the ‘logic...
In the spirit of Wittgenstein, we should keep in mind that we are not talking about an ‘internal’ cognitive system receiving inputs from, computationa...
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