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Yes, materialism is a philosophical perspective. Newtonian mechanics , like all scientific theories, also rests on a philosophical perspective. As a t...

I agree with this. There is more than one conception of the natural and the material. If a particular variety of materialism seems too reductive, it i...

I would argue that scientism involves the belief that the science-philosophy separation you’re suggesting is even possible.

It isn’t robust relativism that leads to skepticism, but Idealism and empiricism, by not realizing that the practices of meaning we find ourselves enm...

Not only is saying kinds exist more rational, I would say that the notion of categorical identity is essential to most definitions of rationality. But...

I agree that identity is a fundamental constituent of rational thought. My argument, shared by Varela, Thompson and other enactivists that Vervaeke cl...

I agree.

Consciousness for Derrida and Heidegger implies self-affection, a selfless turning back to itself to reflect on itself. To be conscious is always to b...

I should have said that it is the nature of a meaning intention that contextual change intervenes in the repetition of the same ‘identity’. For Husser...

It comes back to the issue of identity. Same kind is not identical kind. The same only continues to be itself slightly differently from one moment to ...

Exactly. We invented the concept of ‘same kind’ in order to count, but same kind doesn’t exist in nature.

Well, at least with regard to psychedelics, for some they help to catalyze higher states of enlightenment. Here’s Timothy Leary’s account of his acid ...

I was only introducing a commonly accepted definition of solipsism, which isn’t unclear at all, and wondering if it corresponds to your use of the wor...

The most valuable idea buried within the biological concept of exaptation is that meanings , purposes and other living patterns of organization can be...

I happen to agree with you on that, but just to make sure we’re on the same page, do think that any of the following cognitive assessments can be rati...

Recognition does involve difference and similarity, but number requires the concept of identity , the repetition of the exact same. We look at an aspe...

I would say that Vervaeke subscribes to what I would consider a more conservative variant of enactivism than do Gallagher, De Jaegher and Thompson. I ...

You find it irrelevant to the question because you have paired down your definition of blame (strictly the product of sui generis will) so severely th...

Mathematics only seems unreasonably effective because we don’t notice the sleight of hand we perform by forcing aspects of the world into idealized ob...

I was doing a rather static analysis of a contemporary thinking of number, but a historical account would support my argument that them concept of num...

Heidegger made a similar argument, claiming that science ‘doesn’t think’. What he meant was that it rests on metaphysical presuppositions that it can’...

This is not to say that science and logic deal only with secondary realities. That is , an aspect of what science does, the philosophical aspect that ...

They are the same for all who can count because that is the meaning of numeric unit, ‘same thing different time’. There is no experience in nature tha...

Like other empirical knowledge, we invent these schemes and then discover their usefulness in our dealings with the world. The fact that we find them ...

I can think of reasons to disregard the following definition of solipsism from Enclyclopedia Brittanica: My critique centers on the Idealist conceptio...

But how can number and logic be aspects of the fabric of reality when what we think of today as number and logic were invented bit by bit over the cou...

It doesn’t have to be a libertarian notion of free will. All one needs in order to justify the concept of blame is to believe that habits of thought c...

When we deem someone responsible for what we see as an unethical action, when we believe it was intentional, deliberate, this is precisely what blame ...

Forgiveness and turning the other cheek only make sense in the context of blame, which implies a belief in the potential capriciousness of human motiv...

We can associate disvalues with people that don’t involve blame, such as ugliness, physical weakness, cognitive slowness. But are concepts like murder...

I dont know, but it’s got a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? Just kidding. Actually, that’s a kind of thinking common to Foucault, Deleuze, Heidegger and ...

You act as though no determinists are behaviorists. For behaviorists there are no billiard balls in the head, since nothing going on in the head can b...

I wasnt familiar with Rosen’s work. After a quick glance I’m impressed with the direction he’s gone in. Yes, for enactivists like Varela, sensory-moto...

But what are the implications of determinism for the courtroom? I have claimed that reductive determinists like Sapolski, even though they reject the ...

Juerrero discusses this distinction between a closed and an open system. The key point concerning emergent freedom is that it is made possible top-dow...

I agree with you that each choice belonging to the process of building a bridge belongs to a causal sequence of mental acts, but this is not the kind ...

I think Modernity began a deconstruction of the idea of unity determined as identity, but it didn’t take this deconstruction far enough. Only when ide...

Kind of like this from physicist Karen Barad? Or this from Deleuze and Heidegger? Or Deleuze’s summary of Nietzsche’s Eternal Return?

I assume you mean the almost universal agreement concerns when to assign blame and culpability?

Would you argue that we must divorce rational human creativity from the evolutionary engine of biological creativity? Is the freedom of human motive a...

Not really. For instance, there’s this from the dynamical systems camp: On Philosophy's “To Rethink” List: Causality, Explanation, and Ethics, by Alic...

If blameful retributive justice is a function of a belief in the potential arbitrariness, randomness and capriciousness of motive, then what makes Car...

It seems to me the issue for ethics isn’t freedom vs determinism, but what kind of freedom and what kind of determinism. Let’s take , for instance , t...

Makes me think of Feyerabend’s definition of a crank.

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Some of the assumptions here (animal cognition as internal processing of external data, perception as a one-way relation between an independently cons...

Are you familiar with the work of nerobiologist Robert Sapolsky? He presents a kind of extreme version of determinism. For him, our reasons are condit...

I think you’re on the right track in thinking Dennett’s approach too reductive. But it’s important to appreciate that his model of cognition stands as...

Thompson has worked closely with another enactivist, Shaun Gallagher, who has published pieces such as Conversations in Postmodern Hermeneutics, so I ...

How does the above quote differ from this by Varela? And how does Varela goal of naturalizing Husserlian phenomenology differ from a materialism? Let ...