Husserl analyzed the origin of geometry in terms of a historical genesis, imaging the proto-geometer as someone who needed to strive toward more and m...
I didnt explain myself very well. I meant that this is a position I assumed you would not take. But it’s worth examining the consequences of rejecting...
I don’t think it’s coincidence that Peirce buttressed his epistemic realism with a belief in God. I should also mention that Dewey, James and Mead ‘do...
I think that what actually happens when we interact with the world is taken into account by all of the philosophies which you accuse of affectation in...
It’s a metaphysical view which formed the basis of thinking for the sciences until recently. It also lends support to particular religious perspective...
It certainly did. On the other hand, what sort of pill do you think influenced this song lyric from the band The Byrds? "Oh, how is it that I could co...
You apparently consider Kant to be a proponent of this latter kind of objectivity. But doesn’t Kant ‘s thinking, in its own way, lead to skepticism? D...
To me the politics was the least interesting aspect of the counterculture. What fascinated me were the new philosophical, spiritual, social and sexual...
A central element of the counter culture was the rise of the hippies. The epicenter of the hippie counterculture in the U.S. was San Francisco’s Haigh...
Isnt it precisely the intention to objectivity that lends itself to skepticism? Since Descartes the modern formulation of the subject-object relation ...
Don’t imaginary phenomena and fictive stories express themselves in terms of bodily feelings? Are you saying we are pre-wired physiologically for the ...
Is the issue here that if we stipulate word use as strictly shared , then we have no way to explain hidden meaning and personal point of view? Wittgen...
My intention to lie is different from the use of my words in discourse. In the moment of my promise to you , I express my intention to lie, but the sp...
It certainly does. How would you interpret the meaning of transcendence as Husserl uses it to refer to such entities as spatial objects? For instance,...
No, we’re dealing with personal constructs, which to say that emotional pain and pleasure are inextricably bound up with the breakdown of our construc...
You’re conflating nihilism and ‘nothing matters’ sentiments with moral relativism. I’m not a moral realist, and yet I believe strongly in moral progre...
In trying to relate the logical, propositional view with a psychological perspective, I start from the thought that ‘ought’ and ‘should’ arise where t...
China has the largest buddhist population in the world, but this doesn’t seem to have prevented them from also being the world’s highest emitter of ca...
I’m inclined to say that for Kuhn it’s not a question of a theoretical scheme, or an aspect of it, being beyond the limits of direct observation, but ...
Isnt the upshot here, the concept so difficult for many to grasp, that conceptual schemes don’t represent a pre-given world but enact a world? That is...
I think it was mainly the baby boomers driving that rapid change. I also think that the best way to chronicle the transformation is through the evolut...
Yes, the meaning of the shirts already bound up with the integrated set of pragmatic relations that includes what they are being used for and how and ...
When I say ‘concerned with’ , I don’t mean the way scientists have traditionally explained what they are doing when they do science. A central aspect ...
Perhaps the Kennedy assassination was as much a symptom as a cause of the rapid changes that went down in the 1960’s. A feeling of impending unhingedn...
Can something both belong and not belong to a framing category at the same time? Can concepts like relevance, significance and mattering lead us to su...
Rouse believes that we are never dealing with anything theory independent when we observe the world empirically. This does not mean that what we obser...
Joseph Rouse’s critique of Rorty on this point would seem to strengthen Wang’s argument by asserting that the notion of raw unmediated perception is i...
Heidegger had an interesting take on Nietzsche’s thinking about art. He said for Nietzsche art was the means by which the will to power opens up and s...
It’s a matter of personality style. Think of the arc of a person’s life in terms of a sequence of creativity cycles. Each cycle begins with the most i...
It sounds like you’re seeing philosophers as advocating a way of life and then falling short of this ideal in their own life. But I would argue the ce...
Well, this notion of craving for self-sameness as nihilistic and life-denying is discussed by Nietzsche in terms of the ascetic ideal in his Genealogy...
Reason itself can be unreasonable when it naively takes for granted unexamined presuppositions. For instance, what sorts of suppositions are at work i...
Nietzsche didn’t ‘doubt’ ultimate knowledge of a true reality, which is what skepticism entails. Rather, he considered that quest a nihilistic aim, an...
If you want to be precise about it, as you are typing, what you perceive takes the form of a temporal flow. The world around you and your surrounding ...
The issue isn’t whether machines can read thought via detecting brain waves, but what kind of thinking is involved. We know that implanted electodes c...
Davidson thinks he is dismissing the very notion of a conceptual scheme, when in fact he is only dismissing the Quinean model and its underlying Kanti...
i agree that a moral realism should resemble the sense of “objective” we find in science. But neither realism nor objectivity are monolithic terms. Ph...
Could we say that the reality which comes into play in an intersubjective community is the reality of each participant’s interaction with the world an...
I would say that pragmatism isnt about turning our attention away from whether actual events validate our predictions, in order to satisfy subjective ...
Why not say that ‘objective’ is the view with biases more or less shared among a normative community? That the shared moral objectivity with the group...
Evan Thompson deals with this issue in depth in his book ‘Mind in Life’. I believe the correspondence you are referring to above between a retinotopic...
Not all science of perception makes this assumption. Francisco Varela contrasts the old representational realist model of perception with the enactivi...
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