Joshs

The phenomenologist Edmund Husserl analyzed the historical origin of numeration in terms of the construction of the concept of the unit. Number doesn’...

I don’t think he wants to justify it, not as a trans-historical absolute. All preferences , for the large over the small, the faster over the slower, ...

I think I agree, but I would add that it is not the expression of anger which is the biggest problem today in our polarized world, but the failure to ...

Yes, but overdetermined by what? The litany of aggravating events that pile up over the course of the day are not stored in some internal ‘anger pot’ ...

Autists don’t lack emotion. No one on the planet lacks emotion. Autistics have difficulty in interpreting the meaning of emotion cues in others. Affec...

So the way I would construe anger is as a rapid , multi-step construal of a situation that begins with loss and disappoint, and is immediately followe...

But this description seems to separate anger from the perceived meaning of a situation. In your paragraph above, what would happen if we removed the w...

The absence of emotion would lead to the absence of experience. Emotion is not some coloration added to thinking, it is the ground of thinking. Every ...

Bitch

Yes, I think the physiological and evolutionary aspects of anger (and emotions in general) won’t tell us the central things we need to understand abou...

I think , in a sense, when we are angry at things that can’t apologize, we are anthropomorphizing them. We angrily kick the chair that got in our way ...

I would think venting is only a first step toward dissipating angry thinking. It moves one from a state of active to passive anger without resolving t...

It is only reliably overcome by attaining the other’s sincere apology. Venting achieves only temporary relief.

I believe the affective spectrum of anger includes irritation, annoyance, hostility, disapproval, condemnation, feeling insulted, taking umbrage, rese...

Earlier, I commented that an absolute statement about truth to the effect that "there can be no absolute statements re truth” isn’t really how I see w...

One could say that Thompson’s position subsumes and enriches Augustine’s without invalidating it. Each offers a valid, workable guide to navigating th...

Actually, Kuhn would say yes. Paradigms shifts are revolutionary in the sense that the content of new schemes and standards of measurement and validat...

A metaphysical position is closely related to a scientific paradigm. To empirically confirm a paradigm is just to tighten up the definitions and bound...

Ah, now I understand. Well, let’s compare Popper’s falsificationism with Kuhn’s Paradigm shifts. The former is a favorite among scientists because his...

When a new event validates my anticipation, what this means is that I construe it along dimensions of similarity and difference with respect to that a...

The critical analyses of the principle of non-contraction I have in mind were conducted by Witntgenstein, phenomenologists like Husserl and Merleau-Po...

I would agree that humans have a conception of validation and invalidation, but I would distinguish this from truth and falsity in the following way: ...

Check out Husserl’s analysis of the constitution of spatial objects in Cartesian Investigations and other works . In particular , see his distinction ...

Doesn’t any viewpoint or theory implicitly lead us in certain directions and prove useful in the sense that it organizes our world in some fashion? Wh...

Metaphysics can’t put into question the law of non-contradiction?

You don’t think the history of metaphysics has to do with the changing ways we think about the sense of meaning of what is real? In other words, isn’t...

Yes , if I were to claim what I wrote as a truth , rather than as an invitation to try on for size a particular way of thinking about matters. But the...

What do you think about the placement of logic outside the circle of metaphysics? What kind of logic are we talking about here ( Continentals use the ...

What is it that makes a state of affairs true or false, that makes basic facts of the world what they are to us? Is it something separable from langua...

Only within a taken-for-granted , unquestioned set of normative presuppositions concerning the nature of the real can empiricist notions like proof an...

Ate you suggesting that a metaphysical scheme is the kind of thing that can be proven true or false?

I agree with your points. I just meant that this particular thread doesn’t seem to be getting beyond the correcting of wayward mathematical assumption...

And empirical observation isnt grounded in any kind of presuppositions of the sort that Collinwood is getting at , a mesh of implicit, pragmatic relev...

Isn’t that like saying that we know an organism exists but we dont know if the organism’s environment exists? If the organism is a self-organized syst...

They certainly do, which is why I’m wondering what a thread on mathematics is doing on a philosophy forum.

I’m not sure how easy it is to differentiate between being strongly indebted to and influenced by a philosopher in one’s work on the one hand, and ‘tr...

I understand. It’s just that, for whatever it’s worth, I imagine Rawls protesting vigorously to your characterization of Hegel’s thinking as non-philo...

This is an interesting point, because I see Hegel as a dividing line between political conservativism and today’s progressive liberalism. Andrew Breit...

Can one put into question the notion of god’s eye truth without that questioning itself being assumed to be oriented by a god’s eye perspective?

One can deconstruct idealizations without one’s deconstruction itself being an idealization.

I appreciate that Hegel’s mode of thinking is profoundly alien to what you are used to, but I’ve been involved in studying, writing and publishing phi...

Let’s talk about your political prejudices because, tbh, that’s what I’m really interested in here. What do you think of the value of Marx, Antifa, wo...

You are saying that Hegel’s work is not philosophy?

One can’t begin to unravel Heidegger’s political beliefs without mastering his massive philosophical ouvre. Richard Wollin tried to turn Heidegger’s p...

This is what I got from the SEP: Marx wrote the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. “The Manuscripts provide a critique of classical politic...

Do you think that Marx is a philosopher? I don’t consider Heidegger a conservative. I didn’t say he was a conservative. One doesn’t have to be conserv...

The question is whether there are any prominent philosophers who dont consider Marx to be a philosopher, and the answer is no. I’m not calling conserv...

The Frankfurt school is a pretty big tent, including figures as diverse as Adorno and Habermas. Wokism dips into certain aspects of neo-Marxism, inclu...

It’s purely selfish. Im just trying to make a connection between Lionino’s reference to Hunter Binden as a ‘child toucher’ and his views on climate ch...