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It can’t be vastly different, because individuals are not solipsisms. Embodied and phenomenological interpretations consider the embeddedness of the e...

On the other hand, psychologist George Kelly makes some good points about the dangers of a realistic attitude being taken too far:

I’m not planning on swapping my calculator for a chiclid. I dont even know what a chicklid is.

I agree animals dont learn formal mathematics, but that’s not to say they don’t have mathematical capabilities. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/0...

I agree animals dont learn formal mathematics, but that’s. it say they don’t have mathematical capabilities. https://www.mathnasium.com/blog/math-isnt...

Varela and Thompson, in their book The Embdied Mind, made their way from empirically demonstrating a groundless self to emphasizing the beneficial eth...

We shouldn’t train horses the way we train horses either. Now that we understand that other animals are cognitive, emotive creatures that construct th...

Here is an argument for why your brain does not ‘hallucinate’ your conscious reality. I highly recommend Thompson’s paper for a more detailed introduc...

Might we say that, particularly for post-Marxist positions, there is a teleologically oriented notion of the good life that is process (dialectical ma...

I’m reminded of the reason that positivism, in the form of stimulus-response theory, came to dominate psychology. It was meant to counter the idealist...

Sensory-motor embodied enactivist approaches to perception and consciousness are based on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception. Evan Thompson e...

The Tractatus is not post-modern. But Wittgenstein’s later work, which turns its back on the logical grounding of mathematics put forth in the Tractat...

We have an empirical reductionist (Seth) arguing with two transcendentalists. I prefer the reductionist, but I think there are better ways of addressi...

Deleuze, Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Husserl have a lot to say about the foundations and meaning of mathematical reasoning. For Heidegger mathematical...

We could always dust off mathesis universalis.

Our constructions are real. They are of the world. More specifically , they are world-organism interaction, but not in the guise of an interior peerin...

Heidegger’s main target of critique was the subject-object binary that he traces back to Descartes and continues to exert its effect on philosophy thr...

This strictly one-way input -output model of sensation contrasts with recent approaches. Evan Thompson explains:

We dont have to assume our cognitions are illusory simply because we recognize the inextricable role of the subject and intersubjective community in t...

That would seem to place Peterson to the right of American conservatives like George Will, David Brooks, David Frum and Ross Douthat, and venerable Re...

There are, of course, widely varying ways of understanding the relation between quality and quantity. For instance, one could follow Henri Bergson, wh...

The reason that anything appears reasonable is precisely because of the way that actual conditions, context and enviroment intertwine with background ...

What’s missing here is definition. What do ‘angel’ and ‘heaven’ mean? It’s not a question of these concepts being wrong but of being so vaguely define...

Oh, there are plenty of other ways of determining what is the case besides using Popper’s method. I’m not a Popperian, I’m a Kuhnian, so I don’t think...

Computers are our appendages. They are like organ systems within our bodies. Just like the functioning of a liver or heart cannot be understood apart ...

The argument of the OP rests on an analysis of the weaknesses of pragmatism and discourses of power relations. The claim is made that truth is relativ...

I don’t necessarily disagree. I should have posted the youtube link right away , since I think it is relevant to the OP that Schindler’s arguments are...

To be honest, I had no idea who he was either till you mentioned him, and then I scrambled to find some of his youtube lectures and an article called ...

I have an antipathy toward religious philosophy, and others (perhaps yourself?) have an antipathy toward atheistic postmodernism. But, as my posting h...

Really? D.C. Schindler? I didn’t realize you were that conservative.

Numbers wouldn’t be assigned to things, but since number implies a process of identical repetition, it would commit things to a certain structure, tha...

Otoh, autopoietic systems theory and embodied, enactivist cognitivism understands a living system as functionally integral and normatively oriented ar...

As in “This bacterium is alive”?

Growing up, art was a talent that came naturally to me. After graduating high school , I briefly contemplated pursing art as a career. But in high sch...

Think about what is happening when a number changes. In the first place, what must be assumed about a phenomenon such that a number can be assigned to...

The truth of the regularity of the laws of physics is not relevant to the question I raised. Truth as correctness comes from comparing a model of the ...

The universe isn’t math unless the ‘same thing different time’ applies to natural phenomena rather than our pretending to hold it still so as to calcu...

I have a confession to make. I deviated from the topic of the OP in responding to you and Jamal concerning the meaning of an object’s presenting itsel...

The object of an intentional act is neither discovered nor invented, neither simply “forced to present more of itself than it wants to” nor accommodat...

I dont know why you want to say that , but I can tell you that in Husserl’s phenomenology objects don’t just appear to a subject as what they are in t...

I wouldn’t say it s a structural presupposition for Piaget, auto-poietic systems theory or embodied, enactivist cognitive science. For them it is some...

I would think they were the same question. Cognitive schemes , as manifestations of living systems, only function by making changes in themselves. Gen...

You remind me of Lee Braver here, whose Transgressive Realism uses Kierkegaard as a means to reconcile Levinas and Heidegger. Do you gravitate toward ...

God forbid philosophy should be ‘obscurantist’ or ‘esoteric’ (code words for ‘I have no idea what they’re talking about’). I’m not denying it is possi...

Otoh, positivist and analytic approaches to philosophy almost killed it by cutting off its revelance to how people live and what they care about. Fort...

ok, but I recommend adult supervision. You could poke an eye out.

That makes it sound like a deliberate effort is required. Is metaphysics for skilled specialists, something you should never try at home, or is it a w...

Heidegger’s thinking may be a bit weirder than you’re prepared to accept. I noticed you make traditional philosophical distinctions like that between ...

To add my two-cents worth, Heidegger’s fundamental ontology, what he calls also the ontic-ontological difference, is not at all the same thing as the ...