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Husserl puts the emphasis on empathetically understanding the other from within their one perspective. “The human being lets “himself” be influenced n...

You’d like Deleuze’s approach. He distinguishes between the virtual and the actual. Both are real; the virtual is the problematic field within which a...

I’m not talking about sitting down to write a treatise with the word ‘metaphysics’ in the title. I’m talking about the presuppositions , usually unexa...

I would say it is the pure present we only experience as a fiction , and that, most primordially, the only thing we do experience is the tripartite st...

I would say physics is the study of appearances as filtered though a particular set of metaphysical suppositions, what Husserl calls objectivist metal...

Yes, which is why I think Heidegger’s critique of internal time consciousness as a metaphysics of presence is a bit unfair to Husserl.

This doesn’t seem to be true for the founder of phenomenology:

Yes, indeed. The personal ego is itself an idealism in that, rather than leading us back to the apodictic self-othering, subjective-objective becoming...

Husserl’s genetic method begins with an ego-intentionality which we imagine as preceding the constitution of any regularities in experience. At this p...

Predictive capacity is already implied in the philosophical approach. Translation proceeds from a philosophical mode of anticipation into a convention...

So by way of circular reasoning, if we define science as a conventionalized philosophical language, then the philosophical solution to the hard proble...

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For Husserl the object transcends its adumbrations because it is not an actual substance but only an idealization, the noetic striving toward the fulf...

A misinterpretation of the significance of scientific results can result in the marginalizing and excluding of those who deviate from the norms out of...

What you’re quoting is an analysis of how we perceive our relation to things within the natural attitude. You realize of course that Husserl goes on t...

The reduction doesn’t dissolve acts of sensing, that is, acts of constituting and objectivating, and certainly not acts of feeling. It dissolves the p...

Imagination and observation can’t be disentangled in the way you think they can. It is not as though what we imagine is locked in some secret inner sp...

Don’t tell Sokal

One of the important features of the paper is that it isn’t trying to posit consciousness as an ineffable, inner sanctum. On the contrary, Bitbol emph...

One can trace a Platonism beginning in Greece, making its way through religious Christian thought and finally arriving at a humanism which retains the...

I think I sent this to you before, from Francisco Varela, but I’ve always found it provoking.

I think phenomenologists would agree that our ability to represent or model is not primary. They would say instead that there is no experience of any ...

Do you think you would see a group of lines the same way if you recognized them as just a pile of sticks compared with seeing them as forming a famili...

What would you consider conscious control? Remember those magic eye puzzles with the embedded 3-d object? Or what about optical illusions where you ca...

Do relationships which always replicate exist in nature?

Mathematics is the world to the same extent that French or German is in the world, as a peculiar grammar by which we organize it for our purposes.

Bitbol provides a counter to this argument:

Kant’s metaphysics grounds the condition of possibility of experience in something prior to experience. This turns the subjective categories into in-t...

The philosopher Eugene Gendlin described the empirical world as a ‘responsive order’. By that he meant the evidence we receive from the world is a res...

(Access to this article is behind a paywall, so I copied most of it here) The Animals Are Talking. What Does It Mean? by Sonia Shah Language was long ...

I don’t doubt that Fine’s construal is the classical construal, but that doesn’t change the fact that contemporary Continentals don’t understand metap...

Fine’s paper is an illustration of the divide between Analytic and contemporary Continental ways of thinking about metaphysics. This paragraph encapsu...

What about words like worldview, cultural subjectivity, formulation of problems, perspective, frame of reference, bias, set of presuppositions, paradi...

Most university philosophy departments offer specialization in philosophy of mind, which reaches into biology, neuroscience, computer science and cogn...

The only issue I have with it is that one could get the impression that the reason Husserl “argued against the idea that the validity and truth of mat...

That’s the point. To understand the origin of mathematical logic in certain presuppositions about the way the world is constructed is see why it is no...

This take on logic sounds more compatible with Analytic than with recent Continental approaches. Re your analogy of logic to physics, for many contine...

Do we view the same phenomena or view similar phenomena that we call the same for the convenience of fabricating the kinds of objects that are amenabl...

“Logical”, “model”, “representation”. I just want to point out that these concepts get their sense from to a particular sort of metaphysical foundatio...

You are allowing yourself to be fooled by your invented grammar. Mathematics, and the logic it is based on, rests on a peculiar way humans decided at ...

A metaphysics is not a piece of evidence or a collection of facts to be compared against scientific claims. It’s the meta-framework within which scien...

Metaphysical assumptions change with every cultural era and with every innovation in philosophy. We can see this historical development in the transit...

We wouldn’t be able to distinguish truth from error in the first place if we didn’t have a pre-existing system of criteria ( theory) on the basis of w...

This is an Enlightenment view of what metaphysics is and does. In other words, the metaphysical presuppositions of Enlightenment philosophy involve th...

I think I’m going to put that on a T-shirt

This is true. The universe is designed around numbers. But who designed the scientific concept of ‘universe’ such that mathematics meshes with it so c...

Here’s an excellent argument against the notion that A.I. can ‘create’ art: https://youtu.be/APkitEWqdKw?si=rh4IiFylgI_tpSDA

Unless there is a reciprocal relation between the constraints posed by whatever there is and our way of life, which makes intelligible what we believe...

Phenomenology offers this kind of approach, and a number of writers embracing phenomenology ( Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela) have tried to meld this...

How does making consciousness prior to experience eliminate the hard problem, which results from separating body and mind, subject and object? It seem...