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Most of Christina’s points rely on a comparison of religious modes of inquiry and scientific method. But her assumptions about how science proceeds am...

Do you think the reason we cannot use physics to explain life is because of some fundamental ontological difference between two natural domains, or is...

Are you saying that metaphysics is to be understood exclusively in relation to physics rather than to biology and psychology as well?

What do you think of this review of the field of metabiology by Arturo Carsetti? https://researchoutreach.org/articles/metabiology-complexity-natural-...

Yes, Greek culture was a paragon of ethical humanism. They didn’t have the technology for concentration camps, but they were able to manage the techno...

The essence of a thing, including an ethical value, is to be found in the contextual particularity of our involvement with it. This precludes universa...

Without determining whether Heidegger offers an ethics, and, if he does, without defining the nature of this ethics, it seems to me we can’t counter t...

Lovely. I highly recommend Jean Luc Nancy’s The Banality of Heidegger for an antidote to Wolin’s book. To summarize, Heidegger absorbs the anti-semiti...

I’m sure your actions, from the vantage of a century or so hence, will come to be construed as deeply ethically flawed.

Heidegger doesn’t ignore the ethical dimension of Being, any more than Focault, Deleuze and Guattari ignore ethics in their work. One cannot properly ...

Wolin gets Heidegger half right in this respect. Heidegger did indeed reserve a special place for his own parochial culture over others. In his mind r...

I hope this helps: Eugene Gendlin was a Viennese Jew who , at age 13 , just barely made it out of Austria alive in 1939. As a philosopher and psycholo...

No, my presupposition is that the two bodies of work are two aspects of the same thinking, and that we must use each side to better understand the oth...

Margolis’s relativism seems to go only so far. He appears to embrace Foucault but his critiques of Husserl, Ricouer, Heidegger, Rorty and various post...

. Let’s be clear about what are entangled here. On one side are the public record of Heidegger’s political actions, and his collected comments concern...

It had better hold water, or else the concept of human brilliance needs to be done away with.

Good points. If Heidegger’s mistake was cultural essentialism, the eclipsing of individual difference in favor of the social whole, Ciceronianus’s mis...

Coming from you , that’s a compliment, given the brilliance of Dewey.

I don’t know if it is any more improper to refer to supporters of Hitler as being on the wrong side of a sociologist-historic movement than it is to c...

I like Jasmin Trachtler’s reading of the above quote: “…even if grammar or concept formation corresponds to general facts of nature, this does not mea...

Apparently you’re not a fan of Kuhn and Feyerabend.

I would say language-games never reflect the facts. Rather, facts only get their sense within language-games.

Is it that Wittgenstein rejects Moore’s language-game or that he is showing Moore what a language game is? Does the idea of rejecting a language-game ...

I Certainly hope so

So an alien species was capable of travelling a million light years but they weren’t clever enough to leave us with anything but a corpse?

I thought you might be amused by the similarity between your last sentence and this by Karen Barad: …and this by Shaun Gallagher: Barad and Gallagher ...

I am just pointing out that concepts like certainty and knowledge, as products of discursively formed social practices, differ in their meaning from e...

As you may be aware, there are numerous competing interpretations of the later Wittgenstein. You embrace a more conservative, realist-oriented reading...

I agree completely with your interpretation of Wittgenstein as you are using it in this thread to counter RussellA’s realist reading of him. I do have...

From a social constructionist perspective, you and I are coming from different traditions of intelligibility. The tradition of thought that you partic...

The capability of experiencing others’ feelings is no more straightforward than experiencing their thinking, since it relies on culturally embedded in...

I like Gergen’s social constructionist take on good and bad. Focusing on the origin of good and bad as specifically moral concepts justifying praise o...

I don’t believe there is such a thing a ‘bad seed’, just bad psychological models.

That’s probably why she has been doing it so long. Because the people around her are more interested in ‘modifying her behavior’ than understanding he...

Why do I hear marching music in my head when I read this?

It’s nurture but not blind conditioning, not a one-way shaping from culture to individual. Cultural meanings are formed and reformed in a reciprocally...

These two options fail to take into account the issue of intelligibility, that interpersonal influence isn’t blind or arbitrary conditioning, but is i...

” Writing about something and providing insight isn’t necessarily the same thing as understanding a fact theoretically. Heidegger defines the theoreti...

One of the most productive current offshoots of the linguistic turn in philosophy is enactivism, whose founding authors ( Francisco Varela and Even Th...

So you’re saying academic philosophers need to deploy, or at least cite the results of, scientific experimental methods of study in order to validate ...

Are you familiar with philosophical movements like phenomenology, deconstruction, poststructuralism, postmodern hermeneutics, enactivism, New Material...

Ordinary language philosophy is just one of many strands within the linguistic turn. What OLP gets right is the appreciation that whether we take our ...

As you know, there are many strands and styles of philosophy taught within academia. Some of them find a more comfortable home in academic departments...

What Wayfarer captured is a classical Greek notion of wisdom carried over into the Enlightenment. What I am depicting is a postmodern notion of wisdom...

Isn’t wisdom the ability to make pragmatic sense ( what works) of an aspect of the world, to effectively anticipate events using some interpretive sch...

I think for Barad philosophy, and science as well, first delineate the contours of what matters by enacting an apparatus( configuration of practices o...

Perhaps your non-reductive physicalism is compatible with that of Davidson?

If by ‘same’ you mean similar enough to pass for same, that’s fine by me, as long as you recognize that there is nothing intrinsic to an entity that p...

According to Barad, space, time , and matter do not exist prior to the intra-actions that reconstitute entanglements, so it can’t be the same old eigh...