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Ok, I’ll bite. How much do you think has been caused by us?

Are you referring to this?

No, impugning the ethics of a family you’ve never met shows your eagerness to spread the hyped up gossip spun by the media circus rather than respect ...

A very wise man, indeed

Sure did. 55 years ago. What do you think he would say about the faculty there now?

Well, since I’m not partial to conspiracy theories and I dont believe in the Deep State, I think they’re fine. But fyi, mentioning a major U.S. univer...

Don’t forget Deleuze’s dogmatic image of truth, gifted to Western philosophy by Plato.

I can’t believe you’re seriously asking him this.

If I had to watch any news outlet throughout the day I’d end up shooting myself. I grit my teeth just to glance at the headlines online for a couple o...

yep

Or perhaps it is more revealing of your susceptibility to sensationalistic ‘news’ reporting, the circus you’re supporting by repeating their garbage.

These may help you to read him (they didnt particularly help me), but to understand what he’s critiquing you may want to familiarize yourself with Heg...

There’s always more than one side to every story.

What Nietzsche means by fiction is a bit tricky. He can’t mean false as opposed to what is truly real, given his assertion that nothing lies behind ap...

Darwin’s work made possible American Pragmatism, psychoanalysis and Piaget’s genetic epistemology, among other innovations. These ways of thinking are...

You said “ Maybe nothing more than who is still the more referenced, after the longer time.” As overthrown scientific paradigms from earlier eras fade...

According to that logic, most of what Kuhn considered to be paradigm shifts in the sciences would have to be ignored.

Have you read any Wittgenstein, particularly his later work? He tried to show how the kinds of questions you’re asking result from confusions caused b...

Please don’t be a reactionary. I highly recommend Lee Braver’s ‘A Thing of this World’, in which he discusses and compares Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Fou...

Philosophy changes its mind all the time, usually well before the sciences do. The kinds of neurological ’fixes’ you describe have little to do with t...

I had never heard of Tallis until you mentioned him. I’m sure he has interesting ideas to offer, but he’s an ignoramus when it comes to poststructural...

To me it’s like interpreting a film on different levels. You can certainly read Nietzsche as an existentialist and get a lot of him that way. Understa...

I hear the Existentialists are mighty fond of him, too.

Don’t believe it. It’s been 135 years since Nietzsche went crazy and his ideas still haven’t been absorbed by most of today’s philosophers. That’s how...

But you also said in a previous thread that you have little background in philosophy, having wasted two years attempting to learn it.

What Thompson means by condition of possibility here isn’t simply the generic givenness that things are intelligible but the specific way they are int...

Philosopher Lee Braver happily associates philosophies and metaphysical eras with paradigms. There is the Kantian paradigm, the Heideggerian paradigm,...

I can’t help but suspect that Law would consider Thompsons’s thoughts below as a form of idealism.

This last option is from Berkeley? It would seem to just reverse the roles that subject and object play in a realist account, by placing an idealist s...

Not sure, since he didn’t have time to elaborate. How do you interpret it?

God, I hope not. That would make me much less interested in Nietzsche.

The natural sciences are conventionalized versions of philosophy whose ‘advantage’ over the latter is not that they secure better access to truths abo...

Sort of. For Heidegger it’s not so much a matter of adapting to already formed external realities. Rather, it about creating possibilities.

Thrownness is an interesting concept. You’re right that some interpret this as meaning the history of external circumstances which shapes us outside o...

Yes. Every aspect of the world interacts with every other such that no laws , rules or fixities constrain it. Instead, interactions produce new intera...

This absent-self idea comes from Heidegger but Sartre insisted on bringing back the Cartesian subject and freely willing consciousness as the basis of...

There are approaches within psychology which argue that ‘mind’ is not an inside set off against an outside, but an inseparable interaction, a system o...

Perhaps the problem originates from the categorical nature of the distinctions you make between what you understand as the subjective and the empirica...

It’s the Uber-pizza

Do you have any famous philosophers in mind here, or just the hoi polloi?

. Nietzsche didn’t speak of will to meaning but will to truth, a subset of will to power. His notion of power wasn’t some kind of concentrated energy ...

No wonder. Ever notice how who you think the other person in your relationship is changes over time, and who they and you are changes through being af...

The Kuhn-Popper split is one of philosophy rather than science, and the two views definitely cannot be accommodated within each other, any more than p...

You may have a more definite view without being aware of it. That’s why I mentioned the split between Kuhn and Popper on how what’s out there impacts ...

Is logical impossibility the same thing as nonsense? Doesn't what is logically impossible conform to the criteria of meaning that allow a judgement of...

Wouldn’t the boundaries of a metaphysical system be defined not by what it deems logically impossible, but what appears from the vantage of that metap...

Have you heard of Object Oriented Ontology, or Speculative Realism? They compose a diverse group united by the claim that philosophy since Kant has be...

The Age of the World Picture. You can find it in The Question of Technology.

As long as an organizing contribution of a subject can be detected in the description of physical phenomena, then a species of idealism is at work.

If we leave aside his focus on rational communication and consensus, aren’t we ignoring the central features of his philosophical outlook? It seems to...