For Barad there are no isolated autonomous subjects. Responsive interaction is a given and is prior to situated subjects or objects. What is not a giv...
Thought is itself inextricably material and discursive in Barad’s sense of materiality as intra-action. She replaces the notion of a world internal or...
Is this surprising? Because of the conventional and generalized nature of its vocabulary, an empirical field like physics is designed to accommodate a...
And the world becomes what it becomes not just through human interaction with it but through its own intra-actions with itself. Our knowing the world ...
Joseph Rouse does a better job than Barad at pointing to the implications for the sciences of an agential realist approach. “Often the stakes in such ...
New Materialist philosophers like Protevi, Massum and DeLanda attempt to meld the poststructuralist philosophy of Deleuze with complexityand dynamical...
The language of complex systems can be linked to post-Hegelian dialectical strands of philosophy, but are subject to critique from a range of other, m...
That’s what New Materialism is all about. For instance, Joseph Rouse’s career has been dedicated to putting forth a process-based philosophy of scienc...
I think Vervaeke does a good job of encapsulating the main themes of 4EA cognitive science, which he then inflates into a kind of spiritual worldview....
On the other hand, if one considers the infinite series that constructs pi, it is an iterative relation between two series, an interaffecting of two l...
Doesn’t our judgement that someone agrees with us on some matter depend on how well we can anticipate their verbal or behavioral response to our own a...
Yes, and I don’t seem to be getting much help from you. I’ll tell ya, a bit more explanation from you would help a lot. Or you could just continue exp...
You mean you arent familiar with the philosophical history of structuralism, the class of approaches which unify elements on the basis of a shared log...
Oh, there’s correspondence there all right. It may be in the form of indirect modeling, but there is something in your notion of scientific observatio...
My understanding is that Helmholtz et al were under the sway of neo-Kantianism. Dan Zahavi writes: James, Dewey and Mead were heirs of Hegel rather th...
It sounds like science to you is tied to a notion of correspondence between scientific observer and observed reality wherein the evident world that ap...
m Inspiration ought not guide you toward a particular result? Would you prefer lack of inspiration as your guide? Inspiration can in theory come from ...
As I tried to point out in my previous comment, I don’t think the issue that Antony is touching on has to do with a limitation of science with respect...
This is some of what Barad says about agency: So what does all this verbiage mean? If I were to take a stab at a one-sentence definition, I would say ...
Science can never be a dogma-free zone. It can be a practice that is self-aware with regard to its reliance on guiding presuppositions concerning not ...
Quantum field theory, or at least certain interpretations of it, might offer more fertile ground than special relativity for thinking through the rela...
I have plenty of acquaintances who worked as erotic masseurs or escorts. Most came from good backgrounds free of abuse, and there no coercion associat...
I had in mind phenomenological and poststructural writers like Husserl and Deleuze. For Husserl, retention does not require a second act of turning ba...
A number of philosophers make a distinction between retentional memory (what you’re calling actual memory) and presented memory. The former always acc...
I’ve been fascinated by my recent engagement with the agential realist approach of physicist-philosopher Karen Barad. I think their reworking of causa...
Yes, what I should have said is that a description of time in physics is already a metaphysics. That is, it uses the conventionalized language of empi...
To me it’s the opposite. It’s the physics of time that’s not ‘real’. Or put better, such empirical accounts are profoundly limited by their ignorance ...
But then that might deflate your ego and we can’t have that. :grimace: I think the psychological and ethical insights of your approach are limited by ...
G H Mead was also an important source for constructionist thought, as was George Kelly (b. 1905) and Jerome Bruner, but Pragmatism, constructivism and...
Exceptions to this include the later Wittgenstein, enactivism and social constructionist approaches in psychology. Does language serve a role in fusin...
That certainly commits one to a reductive evolutionary model, in which our most human capacities for bonding are at the mercy of arbitrary mechanisms....
Of course that’s metaphysics. Metaphysics pertains to the fact that language, culture and how the world appears to us empirically are inextricably bou...
What about non-traditional metaphysics , or metaphysics period? If analysis of the origin and nature of the paradigmatic structures and worldviews tha...
A paradigmatic scientific worldview implies a moral value system, even when the participating scientists insist their empirical descriptions of realit...
I know Husserl is tagged with the charge of solipsism and idealism, but Merleau-Ponty knew better. Husserl’s genius was in the recognition that the be...
The above quote is from page 110 in my edition of The Crisis. I imagine the we-subjectivity of a world for all is closer to your thinking than Husserl...
Hmm. Perhaps we might tease out a way in which the ‘is’ is always normatively complicit with an ‘ought’ ( you know, the fact-value entanglement folks ...
And yet, at the very end of his career, Husserl reaffirmed that the intersubjective life world is an constitutive accomplishment of the solitary ego. ...
Are you saying that overwhelming agreement on what is the case is a form of hinge proposition? I understand Witt’s notion of hinge propositions to con...
In authors you mentioned like Derrida, Foucault and Heidegger, a distinction is made between history and historicism. Philosophy is always historical ...
Popper’s concept of falsification assumes that the practices and methods of science that are involved in making the determination that a theory has be...
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