It depends on what you mean by explanation. The OP is laying bare the self-recursivity of empirical explanations, how the most ancient is interpreted ...
Excellent OP! I will have more to say on this later. For now I wanted to quote from a lecture by Heidegger concerning the existence of things before t...
I think we need to dissolve or bracket all fixed distinctions between mind and body, and see change, inter-affection, intertwinement and interaction a...
Yea, but I’m defining what you’re calling ‘subjective feelings’ as a qualitative system of rationality within which a physical account is intelligible...
That’s right. The ‘theoretical artefact’ can also be called a qualitative stance or value orientation. It is such stances and orientations that are in...
If a physical description of the behavior of billiard balls involves objectively causal mechanisms of interaction, how should we talk about what it is...
I just think that, if you want to define the metaphysics of presence as a thinking which doesn't take into account what is completely outside of aware...
On the surface your account sounds as if you are rejecting the inner/outer split, but property dualism usually preserves and stabilizes the hard probl...
Yes, but this distinction between what we are paying attention to and what is outside of this awareness is not what Heidegger or Derrida are getting a...
That’s a good point. The here and now of conscious awareness is the absolute starting point for Husserlian phenomenology. Heidegger and Derrida as wel...
Reduction by itself isnt necessarily a bad thing, but we want to aim for the right kind of reduction. Reducing phenomena to physical processes relying...
The way that absence and difference are internal to presence what time is. Difference isnt a static fact, it’s an event , an activity. It is temporali...
I don’t think this is what Derrida is getting at in his deconstruction of the metaphysics of presence. What he means is that the present isn’t somethi...
But this makes it sound as though there is more than one real world; that physics effectively captures the reality of an aspect of it (the physical) a...
This where I’m getting it from: “William James's "specious present" describes our experience of the present as a short, flowing duration, not an insta...
If the present never appears as the ‘moment’ , what is a moment, and how does the present appear? To me specious means inclusive or thick, that the ‘n...
As long as we don’t confuse this system of deferral and difference with a Saussurrian structuralism in which the elements of the system are simultaneo...
What do you think Derrida means by ‘pure actuality’? You dont think it includes what has just passed and what is just about to occur? Derrida wrote on...
I see a number of issues wording their way through here. There is the issue of the pre-propositional and pre-reflective, which Henry formulates as imm...
You put your finger on it here. It is not just when someone else reads my writing that they find meaning you didnt intend. The very structure of inten...
Derrida understands concepts like language and writing in his own peculiar way. Language is simply the repeatability of a mark, and the fact that i. r...
They’re arguing about the tendency to treat presence as self-affecting presence to self, A=A. What is colloquially called ‘real time’ is treated as a ...
Determinism makes not only the present but the past and future incomprehensible. By treating time as the linear succession of punctual nows, only the ...
Certain authors come to mind here who may share your view. I’m thinking of Schelling, Peirce, Charles Taylor and John Mcdowell. I don’t know if you’ve...
We encounter the metaphysics of presence in Heidegger primarily in the guise of the present-to-hand (Vorhandenheit), which he contrasts with the ready...
I have a friend who can probably outdo you in the insult department when it comes to Heidegger. The difference between him and you when it comes to th...
Hegel believes that intelligibility is not given as an unconditioned starting point, and contra Kant, he doesn’t believe that intelligibility is merel...
Habermas was a long way from Heidegger philosophically. His longing for a metaphysical and moral foundation causes him not only reject Heidegger and p...
Heidegger initially called his approach philosophy but then called it ‘thinking’ in order to distance it from the association between philosophy and a...
Just make sure your everyday common realities are sensitively geared to the unique particularities of the actual, changing circumstances of the people...
I’ve found it to be shocking ( and also incomprehensible) to realists and naturalists too. I’m with @Constance here. Neither of us find Being and Time...
The irony is that reductive naturalism is the product of Enlightenment philosophy, and is often aligned with rationalist theology and deism, where hum...
Hitler and his cronies couldn’t make sense of Heidegger. That’s why they fired him from his brief position as rector of the German university. He wasn...
Not a moral content but an ethical process. Authenticity guards against reifying experience into totalizing moral categories, and that is an ethical a...
It sounds like Being and Time didn’t make sense for Steiner. Based on my knowledge of Steiner s philosophical background and perspective, the poststru...
The pragmatic contingency of history and time imply a tripartite structure of temporality ( past-present- future) which repeats itself ‘identically’ e...
They work because the world (including us) changes with respect to itself in a manner that is recursive, self-reflexive and self-referential. This giv...
Red is a qualitative category , and so is color. I can perform a quantitative measurement of whether a color is red, by working within the qualitative...
Right, numbers pertain to quantity, and the physical pertains to both quality and quantity, difference in degree and difference in kind. If difference...
For something to have mathematical characteristics, it must have a qualitative identity which persists over time. Numeric iteration (differences in de...
Only if we understand exist to mean ‘subsist in itself’. If instead we empathize the EX in exist, then existence means transit and esctasis rather tha...
Let’s say we go with the idea that there was a time when consciousness didn’t exist. Is the only conceptual vocabulary available to us to describe the...
Exactly. But not all at the same time. For long stretches of time, during normatively stable periods within a science or a culture, there is but one o...
Think of an intelligible order as a scheme or system of rationality. Within that order or map, things work a certain way, according to certain criteri...
You’re taking the derived abstraction ( the empirical third-person account) and making it the basis for the actual phenomenological experience which c...
What if the ground of intelligibility is itself groundless, as Wittgenstein and Heidegger maintain? And what is a groundless ground? It is performativ...
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