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Does the basic style of communication transcend its theoretical products, or do its theoretical products redefine the very nature of the tradition? Do...

There is quite a bit of research in developmental and perceptual psychology indicating that what you are calling primitive reactions is in fact comple...

What about pre-linguistic perceptual meanings? Do pre-verbal infants not construct meaning from their surroundings through the use of perceptual-motor...

I’m with Ken Gergen’s brand of social constructionism when it comes to issues of social justice and morality:

Who’s to say what constitutes corruption? One person’s corruption is another’s innovation. How to draw thr moral lines is far from clear.

Yes, Rouse was heavily influenced by Wittgenstein.

Aren’t all inventors both destructive and constructive? Isnt this true of knowledge in general?

Would you agree that a difference between Kuhn on the one hand, and Popper and Habermas on the other, is that for Kuhn the transition between paradigm...

Joseph Rouse argues: Merleau-Ponty states:

. He critiques the superstition in religion. “Religious figures and philosophical concepts are not really on the same plane of immanence. The plane of...

You’ll have to explain to me the way you’re understanding a rational-irrational binary. For writers like Derrida, Foucault, Heidegger and Deleuze all ...

Yes, well keep in mind that his plane of immanance is the immanence of difference to itself, from which vantage Deleuze critiques such notions as live...

What Rorty is saying must continually reaffirm itself differently in the very act of re-enacting the saying. Thus, his finite statement cannot asset i...

I can add to those quotes sources like Deleuze, who argued that the rational is just a species of irrationality.

Is there any writer you know of that this seems to be true of (transrational mysticism)? Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida? This reminds me of Rorty’s assert...

It is a radically temporal (or omni-temporal) structure. ‘Only ever’ self-differentiating, like ‘ always already’ in motion, has self-reflexive transf...

Notice that the ideal of eternal or atemporal knowledge only ever appears within the context of seeking, striving, preferring and desiring, which mark...

I guess what I’m asking is whether something like a public concept has any existence at all outside of the way it is changed ( used) in discursive int...

But it is not the norms and rules. that found knowledge. Rather, what is associated with a rule, a norm, a category is nothing that strictly belongs t...

There are other ways of thinking about the relation between mind and world than in terms of the binaries realist vs anti-realist or empiricist vs idea...

Neither and both. For Witt, these are not categories in the sense of boxes within which the particulars fit. If that were the case, there would be som...

No, a moldy philosophical model of what reality is (bolted down facts) vs a more contemporary way of thinking about the real (intra-action that create...

I think the distinction here is between a notion of the real as bolted down , recalcitrant facts that one must abide by, and real constraints on one’s...

My original response to your comment about the real world was focused on your emphasis on social convention. You wrote: “In the real world, society se...

If I mention innumerable ways in which contemporary approaches in Continental advance our understanding of the world, and you have no competence to gr...

No one can place limits on the freedom of thought, especially when it comes to creative thought that is invisible to conventional society. You can’t l...

What contemporary philosophy are you familiar with, other than analytic?

What do you mean by ‘strong things’? Understanding the raw truths of the world? I couldn’t disagree more. Philosophy at its best is absolutely about d...

I think you have it backwards. We don’t understand language through experience de, we understand experience through language. I think you’re right tha...

What is this ‘real world’ you speak of? I’ve never encountered it, only a popular conception that there is such a singular thing, and a multitude of n...

And yet you’ve been active on this site quite a while, asking searching questions, especially of those who opt for bedrock truths in science, philosop...

When I was in school and didnt hand in assignments on time, or deviated in any other respect from the demands of the conventional structure, my teache...

He believed language can even trick us into striving to know what’s only provisionally real. The point isn’t whether we can know what’s real. Whenever...

But that wouldn’t stop the fly from remaining trapped in the grammatical fly-bottle of propositional truth statements (this IS a fly, this IS a bottle...

Animism and panpsychism tend to begin from the Cartesian dualist split between inner subjectivity and outer materiality and simply inject the outer wi...

Another option, expressed in the work of New Materialists like Karen Barad, is that material does more work than the old notion of materiality assumes...

I don’t think there is a single target to hit. As Gallagher writes: He imagines a dialogue like the following between Gadamer and Lyotard:

Is corporeality is fundamental to transcendental subjectivity? What then do we make of Husserl's analyses of the primordial stratum of constitution in...

If we take a page from self-consistency theory in psychology, we can say that the self is a continual achievement of the anticipatory construing of ev...

Have you read Lyotard’s The Differend? For Lyotard a differend is “a wrong or injustice that arises because the discourse in which the wrong might be ...

Does the reality of agency require persistent self-identity? Can’t relative self-similarity over time do the job of providing a perspectival point of ...

For Husserl there is a subject pole and an object pole for every act. These are inseparable aspects of experience. For Heidegger there is the in-betwe...

For Husserl, the brain is indeed ‘real’, but then he analyzed the real as a higher level construction of intentional acts, just as real spatial object...

Care to opine concerning the level or mode in which this openness to criticism takes place? What criteria have to be already in place in order for sci...

Even Husserl recognized that the ego is nothing but an empty zero point of activity, harboring no intrinsic a priori content. This empty ego is not a ...

Or, to quote @Pantagruel, it’s ‘quaint’.

What better field than philosophy to deconstruct concepts like collective will and consensus in order to reveal the necessity of a shattered milieu of...

Good point. The fringe role philosophy played with respect to establishment culture may also be marked by the fact that so many notable philosophers w...

Yes, and as those principles evolve, so do the grounding assumptions of the sciences, including what the scientific method is, whether there is one me...

Would you say that the various disciplines that have grown out of philosophy are ‘applied’ forms of philosophy? If so, what exactly is it they are app...