So asserting the Kuhnian proposition that empirical knowledge has a paradigmatic structure which makes Popperian progress incoherent is just a kind of...
Paying attention to genesis ends up in fallacy if one makes the wrong connection between an organizing bias and news content. But there is no news wit...
Let me see if I can clarify what is at issue in the notion of ‘same vase’ or ‘same world’ for all. In my reading, the later Wittgenstein and post-Huss...
Well, there’s certainly SOMETHING that constrains our constructions, but aren’t biologistic and physicalist terms like blood sugar, calories and oxyge...
How does each individual respond to their culture inheritance? Do they simply introject and internalize it? Does the culture enforce conformity on us ...
I don’t think you’re missing much. Philosophy was an acquired taste for me. And to this day my favorite thinker is not an academic philosopher but a p...
Don’t believe it. As someone who works in the field of mental health, you may appreciate the fact that every major shift in approach to psychotherapy ...
Try this. It’s only 6 pages: What Do You Do When They Call You a 'Relativist' by Richard Rorty https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=2d636589bd474efe01355b188...
So you might wonder how we get from this relativistic web to anything that can be considered to evolve or improve, much less to anything that can offe...
[ That’s a cartoon version of relativism that Rorty often made fun of , and which is why he rejected the label of relativist. Within a given cultural ...
It is just plain wrong , and it is not what Derrida is saying. First of all, differerance doesnt just refer to words, it refers to all forms of experi...
Same and similar are two of many species of difference. Did you read this? ‘similar’ is a species of difference, as is disparate, homologous, analogou...
It sounds like you subscribe to a traditional ( and outdated) notion of emotion as a physiological mechanism peripheral to cognition. Do I think such ...
The challenge here is to use a morally neutral term in place of ‘stealing’ and then attach a judgement of wrongfulness to it. Obviously , if we simply...
As you know, ‘similar’ is a species of difference, as is disparate, homologous, analogous, synonymous, opposite. Identity and same are also species of...
Rather than transcendence or correctness, such a method can bring us to an awareness of what appears to remain invariant throughout the changes in exp...
Notice the circularity in moral proscriptives like these. Stealing is defined at taking that which isn’t ‘rightfully’ yours. It’s not just killing but...
It’s a phenomenological analysis based on what actually appears to me, using the method of the epoche, or bracketing, of presuppositions concerning th...
Why aren’t you talking about relevant meanings? Is there such a thing as a neutral meaning, divorced from relevance? This is crucial to understanding ...
Is there a fact of the matter about anything? I can explain Derrida in clear language but that doesn’t mean you’ll understand it. Clarity follows conc...
When I hear the word ‘same’ I read it as ‘similar’. I find Husserl’s phenomenological analyses of the construction of empirical objects helpful here. ...
Psychologists have tools for this , such as Rorschach tests. They reveal how striking different one person’s sense of the relevant meaning of a thing ...
Try Heidegger then. “I believe that, indeed, as was said in the 1980 Cerisy conference, there is a point at which between what I am attempting and wha...
Where do we have an example of ‘ same’ , of ‘identity’, to draw from in coming to that conclusion? What is the origin of this understanding of ‘samene...
Have you seen how 15th century Japanese, Chinese or Indian artists conveyed “photographic reality”? You might say they preferred not to render the wor...
Let me first comment on Lawson. I just read a chunk of his book, Closure, and my conclusion is that his approach fits comfortably into the New Materia...
Gather 10 people in a room, and include persons from all corners of that world and all eras of human history. Ask them to paint the ‘same ‘ vase of fl...
I’m not familiar with Lawson but I am familiar with anti-realist positions ( Foucault, Heidegger, Deleuze, Derrida, Rorty). Do they believe the way we...
Aren’t the affective and reason joined precisely where affective purpose, relevance and desire meet rational validation, recognition and intelligibili...
That’s not a curiosity, it’s built into the presuppositions of empiricism that make change subservient to identify. When we posit quantitative changes...
What changes would be required in your thinking about what the self is in order for the possibility of self to make sense? What if we imagined the sel...
If instead of defining language narrowly in terms of formal verbal concepts, we understand its basis in construing , and define construing as an ordin...
Would any notion of self be possible without the ability to experience self as object? That is to say, to recognize that there are other selves, of wh...
What if we define ‘self’ in terms of self-consistency as a primary motive of behavior? This way, we can dump the dichotomy between selfish and selfles...
It is denying that knowing is direct correspondence , representing or mirroring between knower and world. Scientific and other forms of knowing, far f...
How about the idea that our individual hypotheses designed to anticipate events are validated or invalidated by the way those events transpire, with t...
If by discourse you mean language, isnt verbal discourse merely a formalized product of a more fundamental discursive process of inter-affection? And ...
Reminds me of Heidegger's encapsulation of the long-standing Western attitude toward affect. “Psychology, after all, has always distinguished between ...
For me the problem with Jaworsky’s model is the assumption that materiality, including such things as the nature of particles, can be separated from s...
If you absolutely don’t know it, it can’t do anything to you because it has no existence from your perspective. How you know something determines the ...
We neither live in a simulation nor a ‘real’ universe, if ‘real’ here means an environment unaffected in its meaning by linguistic and material intera...
They should. And realism should outgrow Kantian Idealism. But most forms of realism in fact haven’t outgrown it. That’s what the author I quoted meant...
I would say that language doesn’t simply represent, describe or map onto a pre-existing world, it maps out a way to go on. When we use a word , it for...
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