This is what I found. Does it jibe with your sources? The oldest Greek writing, syllabic signs scratched with a stylus on sun-dried clay, is that of t...
They see consciousness as relying on the idea of a persisting self-identity. An object is something that is placed before and represented to itself by...
This doesnt seem to accomplish an overthrow of the split between subject and object, being and becoming so much as it it represents the opposite pole ...
Are you getting this from Heidegger? One question : If we use the motion of an object as a metaphor for becoming, then do we also keep the fact that t...
‘Das nichts nichtet’. Heidegger’s famous line that the nothing nothings means that truth happens in the nothing, which is another name for transcenden...
For Derrida an element of meaning, an ‘identity’, can only be what it is by relying on something absolutely foreign to it and outside of it. But this ...
For Derrida language, understood in its broadest sense, is the text, and text means context. His famous dictum, there is nothing outside the text, doe...
Would you say that free will is freedom to think what we want to think? If so , how do we make sense of this concept of wanting or desiring? We don’t ...
The presuppositions that guide HD and free-will advocates are not nearly as far apart as it might seem. In both cases a fundamentally arbitrary and so...
Because there are many ways of understanding culpability. In its most general form, blame is pointing to the inner or outer demons capricously and arb...
The world ‘relativism’ is a kind of misnomer, isn’t it? Relative doesn’t have to mean arbitrary. It clearly doesn’t mean this when we are navigating t...
If one begins with a concept that can be defined in different ways, such that there is no one I.Q. but myriad kinds on there is no overarching consens...
If that becomes Nietzsche’s fate, then it will also be the fate of Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault , Deleuze and others whose work is closely tied to Nie...
Why not Perspectivism? That would involvement linking emotional processes with the successes and failures of situational sense-making. By that thinkin...
It’s true that for Heidegger, Being (as opposed to ontic beings) is not a predicate. And yet, there is no existence, no present to hand or ready to ha...
I think the criteria of successful construing of the universe is the inverse of the direct realist slogan that the ‘facts don't care about our feeling...
Kant recognized that the fundamental organizing principles making the material world intelligible to science are not located in materiality itself but...
We are all ill, damaged, evil and in error as judged by the perspective of those who are unable to relate the justifications of our actions, as seen f...
Concepts like forgiveness depend on the prior assessment of blame and guilt. Who says the person who does harm is ‘damaged’ and in need of ‘repair’? I...
It seems to me that determinism and randomness presuppose each other. That’s why proponents of determinism, like Martha Nussbaum and Daniel Dennett su...
I think it’s the most important question there is. But we’re so overwhelmed by the effort to answer it that we throw up our hands and fall back on a c...
Not for Heidegger. He defines primordial anxiety as dissociating oneself from one’s familiar world, rendering beings as a whole meaningless, irrelevan...
Interestingly, there are a preponderance of congenitally blind people with autism. Autism has been considered by some to involve symptoms that are the...
By finitude, Heidegger, like Derrida, Deleuze and Nietzsche, doesn’t mean we are hemmed in by cultural norms or our past. On the contrary, finitude is...
Enactivist approaches argue that perception and reaction are not sufficient for consciousness. What is required is a self-organizing and self-correcti...
He confirmed it early on, too, but he said that people misread Being and Time. For H. , both early and late, one’s thoughts project historical possibi...
You’ll notice Amadeus was speaking not just of his followers, but of Nietzsche himself. Perhaps one can say of many of Nietzsche’s followers as well a...
Heidegger determined the span of history from Anaximander to Nietzsche as being beholden to the guiding question of philosophy, ‘Why is there somethin...
Are you talking about the influence of positivism on science? Not all approaches in science are positivistic. There are postmodern sciences, for insta...
Was the group’s push for you to conform an example of ‘hive-mind’? Let’s start with the motivation behind trying to force or convince someone to confo...
Let’s say you want to excel at something and soar beyond all your competitors. How do you do this? Well, first you have to have to find people to comp...
I don’t want to give the impression that my childhood was some sort of nightmare. It was pretty typical, and I know everyone in their own way feels li...
I wasn’t talking about sex. I had in mind memories of growing up feeling different and alienated from most of my male classmates, as well as my father...
What do you imagine to be the ideal endpoint of rational self-definition within the trans community? In the best of all possible worlds, how do you se...
Are we talking about truths, or a method that is self-confirming by its very nature as method? Don’t mathemarical statements have to be true in all po...
If the concept of number emerged at some point in cultural history , was this a necessary or contingent event. And if it was not necessary, that is, i...
Number is based on ‘same thing , different time’ We look ar may aspect of our word and we see ‘different thing, different time’. How do we get from th...
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