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It seems to me that when I say there is a cat on the mat, there is more that must be understood besides a fact of the matter; namely the sense of the ...

One problem with this survey is that modern realism is itself an outgrowth of Kantian Transcendental Idealism. “… “Critique of pure Reason” is the fou...

Deleuze, Foucault and Heidegger were profoundly sly influenced by Nietzsche’s ideas. None of them would label his views biologism. Instead, in their r...

Why not forgery and fakery all the way down? As Nietzsche asks: “Why shouldn't the world that is relevant to us – be a fiction? And if someone asks: “...

It’s not as act of will , it’s an act of insight, understanding that there is no such thing as an original. It’s only as a contrivance, a sleight of h...

I’m with Deleuze here: “The whole of Platon­ism is dominated by the idea of drawing a distinction between 'the thing itself' and the simulacra. Differ...

Oh yeah, I’m a super-duper moral relativist. Which doesn’t mean I don’t believe that there isnt some sort of progress in moral behavior. What it means...

Did you come from a religious background by any chance? You don’t see the link between your wrapping this narrative in the cloak of science and religi...

I believe that moral reasoning originates in the individual’s attempts to make sense of their experiences of social relations, and at the core of this...

Does that satisfy you or does it seem to you that it is just repackaging traditional moralism in new garb, as if there is such a thing as “ universal ...

Apparently Hilary Putnam also makes this ‘error’. Putnam makes the argument that if the basis of our valuative, ethical judgements is an evolutionary ...

Could be.

Astounding? Not when it comes to biology, neuroscience or cognitive science The newer naturalized models are already out there.Lynn Margulis’ work on ...

Science starts from whatever metaphysics informs it at the time, which is why there is no such thing as ‘science’ as some specific methodology that en...

Could you given an example from the work of a specific sociologist or anthropologist illustrating this extra level of situatedness missing from mainst...

Metaphysics becomes science in the same way poetry becomes music or literature becomes dance, through a shift in modality of expression.

You haven’t mentioned affect, emotion, feeling and mood. These are considered bodily by embodied approaches to cognition, and there is no consciousnes...

The interface of past and future is past, present and future together as an indissociable structural unity . If you try and split off the present from...

I would argue that a non-linguistic animal lives in the interface of past, present and future just as humans do. Watch a squirrel be interrupted in it...

That’s interesting, thanks. So you think that Deleuze is in closer accord with Butler on this matter than he is with Foucault?

I know that Foucault’s approach is different from Butler’s. I was simplifying my argument to focus on a notion of discursive formations as thematicall...

I thought your definition of gender was whatever someone says it is, because your view of social construction is randomly assigned behavioral definiti...

I think we get into the same problems of stereotyping you pointed out in trying to distinguish objective from subjective with regard not only to gende...

I’m curious if you’re familiar with the work of any of the so-called ‘New Materialists’, such as physicist and feminist philosopher Karen Barad, and w...

When the term ‘gay’ because popular, it was seen by the general public as strictly a description of same-sex attraction and nothing else. When I recog...

The concept of an inborn perceptual-affective organizational brain pattern assumes the generation of a wide constellation of behaviors that, as I said...

I don’t know if this helps, but the concept of schizophrenia you’re looking for in Deleuze and Guattari is what they call schizophrenic process, which...

In the way I am defining gender in terms of an inborn perceptual-affective style, this pattern is not simply binary (what sex are they), but a spectru...

You and I may very well have different definitions of gender. The notion of gender I want focus on has a number of features. First, it is not about ar...

I want to make a couple of claims here. The first is that gender expectations must be understood in ways similar to the role that expectations concern...

What if we divided gender differences in the brain? That is to say, what if we hypothesized that in humans, as in other mammals, there are differences...

Here is the author’s key contention: “In the new millennium, to take one example of the transformed terrain, environmental issues came to be central i...

He reaches this conclusion only in the last couple paragraphs, with no justification other than that , yes, there is a real material world outside our...

I’ve read that the transgender community has shied way from that expression in recent years, but I don’t think many have completely abandoned the unde...

There are literally hundreds of individual mannerisms of gesture, speech patterning, perceptual affective comportment that make up a patterned constel...

There are some who argue that gender is pulley a social construct, but I dont think you’ll find that to be a majority view within the gay community. M...

So arrogance, pride and brainwashing are the sources of social conflict? And the old-fashioned moral virtues are the solution? I would flip this aroun...

Have you ever read Nietzsche? He combines the two motives of truth and advantage-seeking into one motive, Will to Power. Will to power isn't the desir...

Phenotypic expression can’t be reduced to genotype, and even the understanding of genotype is much more complex than treating it in isolation as a che...

And religion has been questioning religion from the start. The formation of new religions typically carry with them an implicit critique of older esta...

Got it from here: https://www.healthline.com/health/transgender/difference-between-transgender-and-transsexual

I’ll say. I wouldn’t have the balls for it, if you’ll pardon the expression.

Transgender is the umbrella term that includes transsexuals, so not all transgenders support the aims of transsexuals, such as advocating for the idea...

The concept of gender fluidity is very clear to me. The only aspect of trans that isn’t clear for me has to do with what I call the difference between...

It’s interesting how such standards have shifted over the years. I dont think too many parents would have a problem with a hip-wiggling Elvis imperson...

It’s not science per se that is focused on the notion of what is the case, it is propositional logic. Science has the flexibility to extricate itself ...

I was thinking of Thomas Kuhn’s discussion of incommensurable scientific paradigms in his postscript to the Structure of Scientific Revolutions. There...

What needs to be appreciated is that the concept of debate itself presupposes in principle accessible facts of the matter that can be separated from v...

I would say your motte-and-bailey example applies more to modernist critical theory than it does to postmodernist reasoning. The former grounds itself...

Scientific belief succumbs to the structure of the proposition.It asks only whether something is or is not the case, true or false. In doing so, it pr...