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The point he is making in BT concerns the fact that who we are as Da Seins is a function of our dealings with the things of our world. Furthermore , a...

Do you mean that Heidegger is positing the overman as agency? For Heidegger the overman is a willing, and even though the will for Nietzsche is a comp...

One could just as well argue that one’s understanding of Heidegger’s antisemitism will be shaped by how one reads his passages on ‘Others’ in BT. In t...

Ok, even though I disagree with you about the value of Heidi’s philosophy, I gotta give you credit for originality.

Rosen’s article can better be described as Plato against postmodernism. We already know you’re not a postmodernist so your support of Rosen’s formulat...

There are lots of contexts in which to read it. Those of us who find Heidegger to be many things, a Nazi in political affiliation, someone who express...

I disagree. Heidegger’s main thesis about Nietzsche was that he was the last metaphysician, upholding a certain subjectivism in the guise of the will ...

Im interested in how well you’ve understood the sources. If you don’t follow them, I can make it a high school essay. I thought i explained why I find...

Speaking of just mouthing off without bothering to do the actual research sufficient to back up their claims, I recommend not just using Alan Sokal as...

Jesse Prinz argues that ethical values are derived from emotional dispositions that precede rational reflection. He divides the realm of subjective em...

I’m going to be lazy and use my reply to Moliere: Are there Sadists or are there people who cause pain in others on the basis of a diverse variety of ...

i have the same problem with the label sadist as I do with the concept of a motive to kill. Are there Sadists or are there people who cause pain in ot...

Except that Eternal Recurrence for Nietzsche is the recurrence of the absolutely different. Kind of the opposite of deja vu.

Violent: violate. Do we want to violate? Is that a motive? Can we be motivated to violate ourselves, or is that an incoherent idea? One might jump in ...

The critical issue here is the origin and nature of motive: what we want to do and why we want to do it. If we explain motive on the basis of arbitrar...

Kuhn’s assumption that one could separate off the aims and methods of science from the rest of culture made it impossible for him to answer this quest...

Yes, it’s from the Postscript that he added to the book 10 years after it was originally published. It was designed as a response to the charges of re...

Thomas Kuhn said there is progress in science. What he meant wasn’t that there is a cumulative, logical or dialectical advance that for the most part ...

The problem I have with that thinking is that it is impossible to separate science from the rest of culture. Changes in scientific thought run paralle...

Kuhn said “In its normal state, then, a scientific community is an immensely efficient instrument for solving the problems or puzzles that its paradig...

Are you familiar with the changes that have taken place over the past few hundred years on how philosophers of science have treated the concept of pro...

Let’s start with technology and science. Do you think we can reasonably say there has been progress in either of these fields?

Here’s how the cycle goes. Only the person who struggles with constant deep-seated doubts about their self-worth evinces to the world behaviors associ...

Eugen may get scolded by the mods.

This is not a philosophy forum dedicated to a narrow subset of thinking within analytic philosophy , it is a general forum. Concepts like emergence, q...

Think of primitive as another word for embryonic. Key here is the assumption of a necessary hierarchy of stages of progress, in which the end stage is...

They are on their way to becoming us, the enlightened West.

I think it goes something like this. In its heyday between 700 and 1000 A.D. , Islamic culture thrived by discovering and reinterpreting Greek philoso...

But you’re still a moralist, not yet beyond good and evil.

I wouldnt exactly call this ‘thinking beyond Nietzsche.’ More like bypassing Nietzsche. If you haven’t read it already, I’d recommend Graeber and Weng...

You might enjoy ‘Consciousness and the Computational Mind’ by Ray Jackendoff, a critique of computational approaches in psychology. Other critiques of...

Sounds a like a scene in Pink Flamingos

Yes, according to Deleuze.

Is there being before becoming? Is there identity before difference?

For Deleuze, there is no difference in kind without a difference in degree, and vice versa, either with regard to biological or psychological phenomen...

Phenomenology may appear to subsume the objective within the subjective, but it redefines subjective such that it becomes merely one pole of an indiss...

We may want to include the idea that existence and being point to the same concept, that of becoming as difference.

Does it count that I once dreamt I was a toilet?

According to enactivist embodied approaches , bottom up-top down pattern matching is not how humans achieve sensory perception. We only recognize obje...

Alrighty then. Can we not say that the beliefs and arguments , philology and context Wayfarer is directly and indirectly responding to are being reint...

Learning is the manifestation of the self-reflexive nature of a living system. A organism functions by making changes in its organization that preserv...

How would your respond to the suggestion that to return to Aristotle from the vantage of the 21st century is to filter his ideas through the entire li...

First generation cognitive science borrowed metaphors from cognitive science such as input -output, processing and memory storage. It has evolved sinc...

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I disagree. Concepts like processing speed and memory storage are artifacts of Enlightenment -era Leibnitzian philosophy, which should remind us that ...

I know this is straying off-topic, but I would love to know how your readings of Aquinas and Aristotle influence your political leanings. This, and th...

I’m wondering how this relates to phenomenology, which it seems to me attempts to reduce all forms of causation to a single non-determinist form, ther...

If you miss him you can find him on Discord now. I had a little exchange with him there concerning Deleuze. The mod had to step in to keep him civil. ...

I don’t know what DPolis would say, but I like the way Rorty articulated the stakes. Rorty argued that Descartes “opened the floodgates to an entirely...

I think these categories are too broad to do justice to the authors you associate with them. How about putting forth a grouping of philosophers based ...