Joshs

I recently listened to a series of youtube videos by Verveake. He references Dennett in some of them, always positively. Honestly, comparing Vervaeke’...

I agree that Wittgenstein presumes to step outside of philosophy, as he characterizes it, in order to critique it. But what if he had instead claimed ...

In one sense , it shouldn’t matter that certain hinge beliefs change slowly, because they do change. The river bank changes much more slowly that the ...

Let’s take the no-self as Varela and Thompson understand it within the framework of enactive cognitive science:

Hope you dont log out too soon. Im fascinated by Vervaeke’s quest to marry spirituality and cognitive science. As you know, Varela and Thomson have al...

I acknowledge that pp models have moved in the direction of ecological embodiment, and that enactivism itself is a big tent that overlaps with pp at c...

The ‘how' of finding oneself in the world that enactivists talk about depends on their viewing a cognitive-environmental system as normative in charac...

You’re relying on a particular neuro-cognitive approach , predictive processing, to ground your understanding of such social processes as logic, reaso...

Wittgenstein’s standards for himself were so high that he refused to publish any work in his lifetime except the Tractatus. There is a tendency among ...

None of the supporters of Wittgenstein’s later work I follow would be comfortable with the label of analytic philosopher. The ones whose work I resona...

I don’t know if this would be helpful to you, but let’s compare two approaches to intentionality and language within cognitive psychology, Cogntivism ...

Was this an attempt to parody pomo? I’ll be back a bit later with my parody of your parody. For now, I’ll just suggest that an effective parody requir...

You are not a solipsistic island dropped into the midst of society. Whether you know it or not, your reading of Wittgenstein will have enough overlaps...

I have a feeling a quote from any of my favorite interpreters of Wittgenstien will likely deemed by you as a ‘mischaracterization’ of his views. Ironi...

The ordinariness or commonness of the words contained in Wittgenstein’s later work isn’t to be determined by seeing how often they have been used by t...

I think Lee Braver has a point when he characterizes this quote by Wittgenstein as:

Le me tactful suggest you have a chip on your shoulder and it’s causing you to blame the messenger rather than your difficulty in deciphering the mess...

I would like to use a specific example to clarify what gatekeeping means to you( forgive me, Antony). I consider Antony Nickles’ discussions of Wittge...

Rorty’s analysis of Wittgenstein’s peculiar use of the word philosophy may go some way toward appreciating the basis of his lack of interest in its hi...

There’s more than one way to translate this quote, and Anscombe’s may not be the best way.

The opposition between discovery and creation, knowledge and freedom, is deconstructed in Derrida and Heidegger such that, rather than giving preferen...

It wouldn’t occur to you as a useful project to link together the Enlightenmment philosophies of figures like Descartes and Locke with ways of thinkin...

I don’t have the reverence for philosophical predecessors that you do. I view the thought of individuals as inextricably bound to an intersubjectively...

Deleuze’s philosophy is transcendent yet immanent in a way that draws upon but goes beyond the modern philosophical resources that underlie the subjec...

Maybe this from Dan Zahavi will help:

The definition you found refers to the ordinary conception of ‘phenomenological’. What I had in mind is a specific meaning of phenomenology unique to ...

Have you read any of Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas’ work? I just finished an article in which he critiques Dreyfus and Spinoza’s distinction betw...

By phenomenological I meant phenomenological philosophy ( Husserl, Mwrleau-Ponty.) This does not mean mere introspection, but a method of reflection o...

None of the theories of time listed here get to the root of time from a philosophical standpoint. What is missing is the phenomenological experience o...

You’re right that the place to question axioms is not within the axiomatic system itself. I think the issue has to do with how far one is prepared to ...

I meant that morality has its basis in the qualitative schemes we construct out of our interaction with our world. Within the realm of science, there ...

Heidegger’s point about science is that it is not equipped to question its own presuppositions, and that when it does so it is no longer doing science...

It’s pretty much the same point that Thomas Kuhn makes about science.

The problem isn’t with naturalism per se, but with a reductionistic, objectivist form of naturalism. Even an externalist like Dennett recognized that ...

I think the fallacy is in thinking we can separate out the natural from the moral, the ‘is’ from the ‘ought’. Richard Polt, a supposed Heidegger exper...

Absolutely, that’s what I meant. A morality without blame is precisely one which recognizes the relativity of perspective and strives for mutual insig...

I am sympathetic to your moral nihilism stance, but what would you think of a position that rejects a morality based on blame and culpability, but lea...

You’re separating ‘raw’ vitality from the normative patterns of interaction that comprise what a living system actually does and is. I think this is a...

It seems to me you’re splitting off a supposed ‘top layer’ of e and morality from everyday means-ends motivation , when in fact this top layer is embe...

I think we need to make a distinction between ‘just living’ and perpetuating a particular way of living. Organisms don’t just live, they continually e...

We do indeed have memory, but is that memory a static archive, or does it reassemble the past on the basis of where we are going? Do we understand his...

I’m not sure that ‘being alive’ makes sense as a goal from a biological point of view. I think it’s sort of thinking is a throwback to the early days ...

One of my favorite discussions of purpose is from Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals. Here he argues that the history of a thing, an organism , a ...

This doesnt seem right to me. Sensations from the eyes, ears, nose , skin and movement are massively intercorrelated on the basis of overarching norma...

First of all, we only know what a mind or self or subject is in the first place because we already find ourselves immersed in a world that is ‘outside...

For Heidegger, overcoming metaphysics doesn't mean leaving it behind. Like Derrida, he recognizes that it is a matter of revealing what is left unsaid...

If one is able to find joy in day to day experiences, then one is not finding these experiences to be meaningless in themselves, and thus one is not n...

The computer metaphor of mind, where the mind inputs data , information from ann external world and then processes this raw data, only takes us so far...

If we trace the concept of intentionality from Brentano to the myriad fields he influenced, such as cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis and phenomeno...

This thinking seems to follow an old set of assumptions concerning the difference between the rational and the affective. Supposedly, feeling is dumb,...