I’m actually sympathetic to this argument, but very carefully qualified. Let me ask you , to the extent that you think they’re onto something, would y...
I assume by biological differences between men and women you’re not referring to feminization of brain connections producing characteristic gender-rel...
What is it about ‘he’ and ‘she’ that make it important to use these terms in everyday conversation? If you are in a room with 5 white people and 5 bla...
Do you think that the umbrella of transgender can include within it a notion of gender ( genderqueer) not tied to any knowledge of biological sex? For...
I haven’t mentioned the move to discard black in favor of African American. What was behind this initiative? The concern was that black, in referring ...
And one could argue the purpose of the word negro was to describe color of skin. But it was likely never simply a neutral label, because it was shaped...
This isnt quite accurate. ‘Trans’ isn’t simply slot ratting within an already defined and culturally familiar binary. It can mean ‘transcend’ as well ...
Why do you think it has become important for those advocating for changes in the way society thinks about gender to alter the traditional association ...
Rationalists have a grab bag of ‘em for all occasions : ad hominem, false equivalence, category error. They whip them out like a crucifix to ward off ...
quote="AmadeusD;888011"]?Joshs your ad hominem is duly noted But from one hominem to another, I have a point, no? Did you form your opinion by reading...
It’s not a private situation , but an intersubjective one. We are brought up into, or inherit, our practices, because they are language games, not sol...
Ok, is this still just ‘pop sci’? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/ Or this? https:/...
What you’re seeing here is a particular kind of theological interpretation of Wittgenstein. Braver, like contemporary religious thinkers such as Caput...
Me: Amadeus to @Vaskane I’m not just making this stuff up. From a recent paper in a biology journal: You may want to explain this as bowing to politic...
Freud said we are all fundamentally bisexual. I say we are all irreducibly trans. Gender is like personality. Just as no two people share the same per...
It’s good to the extent that it’s useful. It’s obviously useful for you. Is it useful for your teachers and your peers? Keep your eye out for the dire...
There are many different systems of reason, perfectly logical within themselves, but no overarching way to arbitrate between different systems of rati...
They do counter it. You keep referring to two sexes. Many within the transgender community no longer accept this binary, even if we treat it as two op...
I think the transgender community as a whole has been moving away from this trope of ‘being born in the wrong body’, which is why there has been a mov...
Would you agree that in humans and other mammals there are sex-correlated differences in brain function that lead to the differences in behavior betwe...
Novelty is in the eye of the beholder, you would agree. There are distinct varieties of novelty, defined by their affective meaning. A joyful surprise...
Just slumming. But dont you think that teasing out the relation between identity and difference, the familiarly same and the surprisingly novel, is re...
We can never be radically surprised by the world. Even objects we have never seen before are recognizable at some level with respect to a pre-understa...
God forbid. It might seem that way if you haven’t stumbled upon a satisfying alternative view of the world, but there are quite a number of these. The...
You’re misreading the meaning of transcendence of the object for Husserl. What transcends the noematic appearance of the spatial object is not externa...
I’m all in favor of reason. But if by reason you mean the consulting of criteria and rules of reasonableness that exist prior to and outside of the ac...
For Heidegger, there is nothing but the outside, in the sense of the always already ahead of itself of temporalizing understanding. Neither is the wor...
We dont use a concept to establish a world without concepts, we find ourselves thrown into a world ( we ‘are’ a self by continually transcending towar...
That’s right, but because novelty is not a neutral in-itself, the world will inflict novelty within the boundaries of specifically organized discursiv...
Nietzsche certainly thought that the buck stops with value. To be more precise, with a value-positing will to power. So in truth , the irreducible is ...
Heidegger’s concept of being-in-the -world determines that language and world are precisely not at a distance from each other. On the contrary, langua...
How would you differentiate his notion of the pure encounter with that of Merleau-Ponty or Husserl? Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the flesh as corporeal i...
The devil is in the details, no? One can unproblematically posit an absolute of process, an injunction against my acting to insure the loss of somethi...
Otoh, a reciprocal , recursive, self-organizing model of causality can do the job that linear causality cannot. Reciprocal causality produces normativ...
There are degrees of abhorrentness, corresponding to the nature of absoluteness being claimed. The absolutism of religious fundamentalism (Evangelical...
If you believe in an absolute criterion of the true and the real, and the rest of the world fails to be properly guided by your absolute, you won’t co...
Good question. I have in mind the platonic idea of god as an absolute substance, content, form, quality. A sun around which all objects revolve. An un...
For me, the best argument against god isn't that there isn't enough evidence, but that regardless of whether or not there is evidence, the very idea o...
You only see the relative as the unconnected because you oppose it to self-presence, as if nihilist meaninglessness were the only alternative to the t...
I would argue that the Doctrine of Transcendentals was transmitted up to the current philosophical milieu , as were Plato’s forms , Descartes’ Cogito ...
How would universal reason, or even Rorty’s conversation of mankind, adjudicate the following ‘differends’ (to use Lyotard’s term for the inability of...
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