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I alluded to this above in deriving the idea of the identical third-personal empirical spatial object from the constructed first personal object.

Don’t we have access to it intersubjectively? Isnt objectivity intersubjective agreement? I interact with a rock, and in this way I don’t simply belie...

What does an objective state of affairs look like?

One wouldn’t begin with pre-existing objects and then move from there to relations. One begins with configurations, which have subjective and objectiv...

For Husserl, the nature of the order on the basis of which events cohere is not fixed but, as you say, pragmatic. It is an order of associative simila...

We have no chance of getting to it if we continue to understand naturalism in terms of objectively causal processes which treat subjectivity as someth...

I agree with your assessment of Bitbol, and I believe you can find a “positive, critically grounded account of being and truth” in phenomenologists li...

An order which makes intelligibility possible is not the same thing as an intelligible order, if intelligible order implies a fixed a priori form dict...

Both Husserl and Heidegger make a radical claim that is hard for most to swallow: Husserl argues that transcendental consciousness does not emerge at ...

Yes, for Husserl every fact we know about ourselves and the world is the product of social construction, and therefore contingent and relative, except...

The fact that chemical treatments are far from guaranteed to work, and work differently in different persons, indicates that objective materiality abs...

This summary of phenomenology is general enough to accommodate the different varieties offered by the likes of Husserl, Scheler, Henry, Sartre and Mer...

I think you did a great job of articulating the divide between your approach to consciousness and the distinctions Janus is relying on. Before one can...

I would hope that any thoroughgoing philosophy would stake a position on the nature of consciousness, and phenomenology as introduced by Husserl certa...

We could take a complex dynamical systems approach instead of an evolutionary one. The result might look like this: Both living and non-living phenome...

Is this ‘we’ actually speaking from some transcultural vantage, a view from nowhere? Or do we merely convince ourselves we are, donning the grab of so...

Fallibilism, being prepared to be wrong, does of course require a normative framework within which the criteria of moral correctness are intelligible....

The possibility I am suggesting is that innate brain functions include the organization of processing. You indicated that innate brain functions may d...

Philosophim allows for the possibility that sexual preference may be connected with a brain region which differs between males and females, but he doe...

What DOES the possibility of a brain similarity between gay men and women mean to you? Do you think the region of the brain which differs between stra...

One could say we’re hard-wired to care whether things make sense to us. If we can’t make sense of out-groups, then that care takes the form of threat,...

Given your dissatisfaction with liberalism, has there ever been an established political system in the world you can point to as your preferred altern...

Delusion as false belief doesn’t necessarily describe the schizophrenic experience either. Thus the need for the ‘hearing voices’ movement. The Hearin...

Feelings are far from arbitrary. They’re appraisals of situations which inform us of our relative preparedness to cope with , anticipate and make sens...

I would say trans identities CAN be real and grounded aspects of personhood, but that doesn’t rule out someone inventing a theatrical role for themsel...

Yes, one must be selective about the stripe of pseudo-intellectual moralism one chooses to associate with.

We should ask Philosophim this question. I’ll bet you a twinkie he insists that there is nothing a priori it feels like to be a man or a woman, becaus...

In previous discussions on this issue with Philosophim, I used an argument similar to the one you have used to define a notion of psychological gender...

First of all, neither the recent New Yorker article nor any other reputable publication has accused Oliver Sacks of sexual abuse. There is no document...

I like what you say here. What do you think about relativism with respect to science? There is a kind of morality associated with it, not just in the ...

I love it. You’re absolutely right. From the vantage of the OP Kant is the enemy.

One difference is that almost all major philosophers who are accused of moral or epistemic relativism explicitly reject the label. What they reject is...

Just thought I’d mention that if one is taking a strictly Husserlian approach to phenomenology, all empirical facts are subjective rand relative. Not ...

m I wonder if he has to attend philo-anon meetings now. “Hello everybody, my name is ProtagoranSocratist and I’m a phil-aholic.”

Is medical disease also a social construct? If not, how do we draw the line between social construction and empirical fact?

The ‘dis’ in disability can be compared to the dis in dis-ease. It serves different purposes depending on the context of use. It can be a socially imp...

For Heidegger and Nietzsche, relevance and mattering aren’t optional, they are a priori conditions of possibility for any kind of experience. We don’t...

Good point. But when we say that perceptual or felt experience is pre-conceptual, this doesn’t have to indicate there is no ideal component to it. Rat...

In Husserl’s Ding und Raum manuscripts (Husserliana XVI), Husserl explicitly analyzes what he calls “Inkompossibilität” of sensuous qualities; two dif...

I’m sure it will be thought-provoking, although Hacker is problematic for me, for reasons his former writing partner Gordon Baker has laid out since h...

How does "there is a truth claim that is not context dependent” not imply a view from nowhere, or sideways-on, or God’s-eye? I already agree with you ...

I agree with you that if the relativist-postmodernist is treating their assertion that “truth claims are always context dependent” as itself a truth c...

Here’s key claims about the limits of science from Appleyard, and my critique of them: Appleyard argues that rather than being a neutral method, scien...

As you know, philosophy is divided into distinctly different communities, camps, cultures. What arguments you think deserve credence and what argument...

When I refer to the ‘cutting edge’ of philosophy of 100 or 200 years ago, I have in mind a tiny handful of thinkers. When you talk about modern day pr...

Modern day problems are generated by modern day people. And if most modern day people are moving in a world of ideas produced by cutting edge philosop...

What I meant was that the full implications of the ideas of thinkers like Kierkegaard, Dilthey, Gadamer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Husserl, Foucault, Dele...

Did I detect a hint of anti-intelllectualism? Before the field can make creative, relevant progress , those who fashion themselves as philosophical th...

Would you also love to hear how anthropological and biological takes on gender are grounded in philosophical presuppositions? For instance, did you kn...

What I’m interested in is the issue of originality, not with respect to capturing what is particular about one’s own era, but thematizing what is univ...