He means that each of us interprets the culture we live in in ways that are unique to us as individuals, and that these unique ways open themselves to...
Lots of noxious examples of woke authoritarianism here, but would you agree with me that Laurie Rubel’s comment about math and data being non-objectiv...
I would say yes. She cites studies of the neurobiology of the brittlestar as an example of the use of her approach in predicting the behavior of pheno...
Here’s an interesting paper by Evan Thompson on the subject: https://anandvaidya.weebly.com/uploads/4/6/2/3/46231965/dreamless_sleep-_the_embodied_min...
Don’t know about that. We don’t want a repeat of the Principia Mathematica fiasco. As for an Esperanto for postmodernists, that kind of flies in the f...
In 1997, the philosopher and psychologist Eugene Gendlin held a conference at the University of Chicago titled ‘After Postmodernism’. His aim was not ...
Wouldn’t a ‘successful’ philosophy also be integrated into art, literature, politics , education and business? Is science the supreme arbiter of the t...
I would prefer to say that concrete things are articulations and modifications of an internally interconnected web or Gestalt of referential meanings....
Physics doesn’t just make use of mathematics. Even if all of the equations were removed from physics, its starting point in objective relations makes ...
For Heidegger the way that science and philosophy are distinct is that science ‘doesn’t think’. What he means by that is that a given science works wi...
Writers following Nietzsche into postmodern territory, like Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida and Heidegger, reject the idea that reflection simply turns bac...
Can you give me some quotes that demonstrate the belief you’re attributing to the alt right that objective history is a myth? My understanding is that...
Heidegger argued that modern philosophy from Descartes to Nietzsche is grounded in a particular notion of the mathematical which founds the modern con...
Could you cite some examples of anti-realism as an explicit doctrine of the far right? I can’t help but think your own realist-based thinking is leadi...
What Corvus should have said is that they are not very good at cognizing in the way living systems do, as Hubert Dreyfus famously showed 60 years ago ...
If we agree that there are in fact substantive ideas offered by particular authors labeled as postmodern , then in order to determine whether someone’...
. It’s not necessary that a metaphysical outlook be identically shared among members of a community. Each of those diverse humans you have encountered...
You’re not resolved of the responsibility to read Deleuze carefully. You don’t get off the hook that easily. Deleuze’s work is rigorous in what it is ...
Deleuze is not commanding anybody to discard hierarchies, he’s showing how we can understand them as deconstructing themselves. Either you see this or...
Is there only one starting point? You dont find that certain philosophers provide you with more clarity than others? There can only be a disconnect be...
You seem to be at Sartre’s starting point, looking out a world where all the old verities and certainties have been put into question. Sartre’s respon...
One can certainly lie to others about one’s views for various reasons, but I don’t think that apparent hypocrisy between opinion and action generally ...
Mathematical logic and its use in geometry produces pure, but empty idealities. They introduce the pure idea of precision, exactitude, accuracy that t...
The two don’t have to be in conflict. There are communities of scholars devoted to a particular metaphysics or philosopher, and yet no two people inte...
Wow, it sounds like a person would need a PhD in order to be qualified to form metaphysical presuppositions. I may be wrong, but I’m going to go out o...
A lot of confusion around the word postmodernism. In the field of philosophy it tends to lumped in with trends that are quite tangential to it and in ...
Doesn’t it require interpretation? It may seem as though it is in the nature of proof that it be absolutely transparent to anyone who understands math...
I think you’ll find that the most interesting pomo analyses of mathematics are neither strictly about power or politics, although these are never abse...
Indeed they are. I was suggesting that even though pomo philosophers have not contributed specifically mathematical innovations, the best of them have...
Doesn’t this depend on how one interprets the significance of performing a mathematical proof? Are you familiar with what Wittgenstein had to say abou...
One problem here is the impossibility of coming up with a one-size-fits-all definition of what it means to be left or right wing. So much depends on t...
What’s amusing about this is Peterson doesn’t realize that thinkers he mentions as card-carrying postmodernists like Derrida and Foucault offer ideas ...
A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World: It takes a certain kind of person to write grandiose manifestoes for public ...
Are you supportive of Mark Andreesen’s techno-optimist manifesto? https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/ Or do you agree with this critique o...
Can there be a notion of progress in ethical or scientific understanding that doesnt need to rely on a true-false binary? You wrote earlier that we al...
Nick Land is not a relativist in the pomo sense of the term; he is not simply reformulating but missing the essential features of ideas by Deleuze , D...
Pomo was never in high regard among the general population , so there was nothing to recover from. Those who have a rigorous , scholarly understanding...
I didn’t mean that I believe , or postmodernists believe, that the far right ignores or distorts facts. I meant that those more moderate than the far ...
What would philosophers such as Descartes, Leibnitz or Avicenna know about maths? Don’t be fooled by the fact that recent philosophers like Derrida, H...
It’s not just a matter of avoiding fixing our axioms. Axiomization itself, and the propositional logic it is grounded in, are deconstructed by writers...
The only thing the far right took seriously from pomo critiques of science was the fact that they were questioning science. They never had the slighte...
A cognitive organization , as a living system, exists by functioning , and it functions by continually making changes in itself, prior to volition. Th...
As if we haven’t already heard plenty from the likes of Sokal. Reactionary anti-postmodernist chatter from mathematicians , scientists and politicians...
One could examine social constructionisms along a realist-relativist dimension, with Searle being a realist and writers like Ken Gergen identifying th...
I wasn’t suggesting we pulled these presuppositions out of our butts. Presuppositions are the products of human-world interactions. They are guides to...
The distinction between somatic feeling and cognition harks back to a long-standing Western tradition. Affect is supposedly instantaneous, non-mediate...
Not necessarily. After all, Gödel, the originator of the incompleteness theorems, was guided by his self-declared mathematical Platonism, the belief t...
I’m not a mathematician either, but I know that there are multiple interpretations of the status and role of the number one (and zero) , including whe...
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