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An important difference between Husserl’s phenomenological approach ( which strongly influenced enactivist 4EA theories) and the videos you link to is...

The hard problem of subjective consciousness

Guilt by association is no argument. You don’t believe there’s an external world apart from us? Isn’t that the common sense view? If you don’t believe...

So who is this mysterious ‘someone’? Specific examples from the last 200 years please. Perhaps a nice quote or two to buttress your argument.

I wonder what ‘adhering to the real’ could possibly mean? Perhaps to the ever changing definitions of the real that have made their way into use over ...

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I recognize shades of your critique of Descartes’ radical doubt here. Apart from your disagreement with Descartes, how pervasive a problem do you see ...

I want to go in the opposite direction from you. Rather than accepting a handed down model of mechanism from the physical sciences and trying to force...

Can you envision a moral system build entirely of non-emotional values? If we were to turn everyone into Mr Spock, would we still have the same variet...

I’ll go with the latter since I follow Nietzsche and Deleuze in not formulating desire as lack but as the power of affecting and being affected.

I would say that rather than undermining objectivity, approaches within science studies and physics( Rouse, Fine, Harraway, Barad) re-situate the basi...

You mean desire in the sense of what our values lead us to desire?

I would think the opposite is the case. The more confident one is in the usefulness and flexibility of one’s approach to understanding others, the les...

I think I understand now why you’re so concerned about lack of communication in the world.

I agree that the various domains of the sciences are willing to take a broader view, but my own bias is that the willingness is not equal across domai...

I asked universeness what are examples of persons holding viewpoints deemed to be irrational. He replied: “How about such as: I am/should be the King ...

I agree. Stupidity is typically a blameful judgement of moral culpability we level against others (or ourselves) which supposes bad intent. Related te...

In his essay, The Question of Technology, Heidegger distinguishes between two modes of revealing: the related Greek notions of techne and poesis vs in...

A notable current in thinking about the origins and nature of justice and friendship draws from research on animal play For instance , Shaun Gallagher...

I think your question relies on confused assumptions. Your split between ‘ineffable’ subjectivity and physical mechanism harks back to older tradition...

I always thought that injustice was just the way we talk about competing values from within our own partisan bubble.

Physics is mechanistic because we constructed the framework for describing and measuring certain phenomena within geometric space-time grids. In other...

What prevents us from finding common cause is assuming that rationality means finding a correct standard around which to base that communication rathe...

Every aspect of the non-living world expresses agency and intent in the sense that all events that take place among material entities occur within cha...

We dont need any other cosmos, given that this one is constantly changing with respect to itself, and the questions we pose to it in the form of our s...

. Perhaps there is a third road that can be taken, one which is neither mired in pessimism, nihilism and doomsaying, nor tied to a notion of the ‘rati...

They do fix it, and then they have to unfix it. This is because a scientific theory is a sophisticated form of cultural belief. There is no binding co...

Believe it or not.

Now there’s a depressing thought.

It was from ‘Positions’, where Derrida responds to interviewers’ questions, the easiest way to read him.

So Derrida is saying that binary oppositions (male/female, white/black, hetero/homosexual) inevitably privilege one term over the other. Deconstructio...

Husserl’s early belief that the concept of cardinal number forms the foundation of general arithmetic was strongly influenced by Weieratrass. In a not...

Derrida’s deconstruction is an attempt to unravel the logic of dialectical opposition:

This is how Husserl put it in 1935:

The objects of logic to be compared are presumed to maintain their identity (endure) throughout the comparisons.

If you think about the concept of duration in terms of the notion of extension in time or space, that is, as changes in degree of a fixed quality, the...

I agree completely. If at a certain point in history the use of the term religious fades away it will be the result of a progressive impetus within, b...

Let’s try a deconstrucrive exercise: By deconstructive I mean locating two hidden gestures operating together within the terms of a discourse. First, ...

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Abandoning ties to institutions such as churches has been a symptom of the descent into dysfunction of many rural communities around the world due to ...

Think of emotion in terms of habits of thoughts, ways of being attuned to the world, of letting ourselves be affected, of how things matter to us, the...

If you’re going to reject religion, don’t do it on the basis of rationality vs emotion, because the science of emotion no longer justifies that dichot...

My first impression is that for Husserl the empirical is the product of an intersubjective constituting process, which itself is built out of the cons...

Our heritage is defined by our practices, and a genealogy of history tracks changes in our practices, and how these changes alter the sense of meaning...

Ah, but Nietzsche’s view of history is ‘untimely’, neither history as a chain of empirical events viewed from an external perspective nor history as d...

In Nietzsche’s early years, it seems as if the elements were in place for a Heidegger-style anti-semitism. Like Heidegger, the young Nietzsche was in ...

What I’m centrally interested in is how you would characterize ressentiment, particularly its manifestation as the ascetic ideal, from a critical phil...

Nietzsche says: “the Jews were a priestly nation of ressentiment par excellence”. Ressentiment is structured around revenge and hatred , a revaluation...

I’ll go along with that, but it gets a bit tricky when we try to parse terms like ‘real’ and ‘exist’. For instance, Is the existence of the world abso...