Philosopher and cognitive scientist Shaun Gallagher has recently written some interesting things on reconciling self and other in human and animal eth...
If we are always doing the best we can, this means no one is responsible for immorality. But one is responsible for rethinking one’s premises when thi...
What do you want to tell the person who I say is doing their best? Try harder? What’s the difference between the person you praise and the one you bla...
What’s the difference between ‘I’ and ‘other’? Is the ‘I’ a single thing or a community unto itself? Perhaps the difference between self and other is ...
Why do you think the younger child is not able to figure out what the older child does concerning the balancing of wants? Is it as simple as selfish n...
Human beings are responsible. But that just means that they do the best they can given the limitations of their framework of understanding at any give...
Sense-making is more fundamental than abstract logic or formal rationality, which are just secondary derivatives of it. We dont grow into sense-making...
An even more effective e approach is to anticipate how your actions are likely to be misunderstood by others so that you can ‘fly under the radar’ and...
I’m not inclined to separate guilt as physiological arousal or somatic sensation from guilt as cognitive assessment. I think the former are meaningles...
My favorite psychologist, George Kelly, defined guilt as the perception of one's apparent dislodgment from one's core role structure. Whatever one doe...
I don’t think praise can exist without disappointment, which is of course different from blame. We blame when we try our best to understand the motive...
I don’t want to speak for TClark, but the way inner nature, or Buddha nature, is understood within a variety of contemporary philosophical perspective...
I would rather compare the knife to our ability to place constructions on events as a tool for cutting reality at its joints. If we are too pre-emptiv...
I’m not sure we’re understanding ‘hermeneutic circle’ the same way. The circle of discursive practice is not closed in on itself such that it is seale...
To understand all is not to need to forgive in the first place. Forgiveness requires a prior assessment of moral blame and culpability. As far as your...
Speaking of sex, one could raise the question of the motivation behind sadism and masochism. Where does the pleasure from causing others or oneself pa...
My favorite psychologist, George Kelly, made a distinction from. between aspects of social organization, the situation of sharing common ways or value...
Willing, wanting, choosing, desiring don’t have to be thought of as volunteristic, as choosing in advance what we will. I would argue that we find our...
Many may argue that it is moral structures that prevent civilizations from unraveling. Perhaps T Clark’s point is that the reliance on moral principle...
What does one surrender the will to but another will? The will to nirvana, to nothingness, to surrender is still a willing. To stop willing is to ceas...
And what about the etymology of terms like ‘actual’ and ‘physical’? If they undergo as much change as the terms for water , then isn’t a phrase like a...
The universe is not a box with furniture in it (whether understood as individual bits or relationally and linguistically) which it is our job as scien...
The model of mechanical causation may not be the best way to understand the historical development of scientific theories. Efficient cause is itself a...
I’m wondering how far you’re willing to push the role of context in relation to the progress of knowledge. I’d like to we you push it to the limit. Th...
Are you familiar with Saussurian linguistics? It’s the same idea, drawing from a movement within philosophy and the social sciences called structurali...
The most powerful implication of chaos theory , and complex dynamical systems theory, is that phenomena that appeared within previous frameworks to be...
I’m detecting a distinct political slant here. Is it Libertarianism? Trumpism? Anarchism? Would I be right to surmise that you are not a backer of cli...
The ‘rational observer’ who believes that different rational perspectives can be subsumed within one overarching notion of rationality which unites th...
For suicide to be rational, one would have to believe that the destruction of sentience brings with it the relief of suffering. That might seem to be ...
I’m not sure what ‘true’ as ineffability is supposed to mean here in the context of chaos and unpredictability. Could you say a little more about what...
The ‘why’ is bound up with the qualitative structure of the theory which explains and organizes the observation. As one theoretical explanation is ove...
The only problem with that is you have the wrong theorists in mind. 4ea ( embodied, enactive, extended , embedded and affective cognition) is a meldin...
Could you provide your own critique of Platonic explanations of the mathematics, lie that of Goedel, or the correspondence theory of truth? This might...
I’m all for free will. My claims about determinism weren’t an attempt to privilege them over freedom-based positions, but to show that they share a li...
The AI doesnt know what a finish line is in relation to other potential games , only we know that. That knowledge allows us to abandon the game when i...
There are many different varieties of logic. For instance, Husserl distinguishes between formal and transcendental logic. Transcendental logic burrows...
No, the point I was making is that believers in reductive determinism like Sapolski are not some strange anomaly within the history of philosophy, dev...
Computation is not thought. Thinking involves creative self-transformation, which our inventions are not capable of. It is true that current AI is cap...
When I talk about change in context, I dont mean going from ‘its raining’ to ‘its not raining’, but the subtle qualitative changes in sense of meaning...
The problem with formal logic, or I should say its limitation, is that it ignores changes in contextual sense. A word concept in logic is defined in o...
Even though there are many things we don’t understand about how other organism function, we don’t seem to have any problem getting along with other an...
I wonder if you’re familiar with Wilfred Sellars’s Myth of the Given? It states that there is no non-conceptual perception of sense data, which means ...
I see what you’re saying, but I am inclined to think that the failure to think reflexively about what science does, and the methods a particular scien...
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