I’m just skeptical about the idea that we can define ‘trolling’ as a thing, apart from the intersubjective dynamics between the alleged troller and th...
I’m all for dissolving the is/ought distinction, and I agree that Vervaeke challenges this distinction as it relates to the fact/value separation. But...
Vervaeke’s view fits squarely within the German Idealist tradition, especially Hegel, with Kantian roots, in his understanding of autonomous reason, f...
I would counter that your post confuses cause with symptom by positing the motive for bullshit and trolling as the valuing of arbitrary power for its ...
Am I right to surmise that for you the history of Western philosophy since at least Descartes amounts to little more than a reshuffling of older theol...
They are traditionalists relative to the kind of thinking that falls within the postmodern philosophical sphere. If one wants to be generous, one can ...
Vervaeke’s’Meaning Crisis’ project stems from a personal crisis he experienced in his 20’s. He grew up in a fundamentalist Christian home, but rejecte...
You’re seriously going to try and pin MAGA on ‘post-modernism’? If by this term you’re just referring to a historical era that we all inhabit, then I ...
My reading of this is the following: Witt isnt simply allowing for a peaceful division of labor, where science does its empirical work and philosophy ...
The same processes that embed individuals within social paradigms shape the nature and direction of ‘reflection’. The split between the purely private...
Kant and Hegel took the split between a mechanistic world and a representing subject and united the two on the basis of rational freedom of the Will. ...
Yes, I think Wittgenstein (as well as Husserl, Heidegger and others employing phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches) would respond that it is on...
You see the beginnings of that in Schelling’s “dark ground”, a pre-rational, primal force or will. It is the non-rational foundation that makes freedo...
What can i say, I’m an extraordinary person. Any author can take a philosophical position in a theological direction. Gadamer didn’t object to theolog...
This is taking Gadamer in a theological direction he was careful to avoid. Rather than self-awareness as teleological purpose, the meaning of hermeneu...
If we are to associate desire, seen as ‘what we want’, with the ‘why’ which motivates our reasons, then what we desire isnt the same thing as this ‘wh...
It can have evolutionary roots in two ways . One way is that it is a gimmick, an arbitrary genetic contrivance whose value is indirect; that it is ada...
They’re doing some ought, but it may not match your ought. Your ought may be taken as an invitation to view the situation from a different vantage. In...
The way I’m reading ‘x should be chosen’ is that it implies a preference. The choice being recommended is preferable to the alternatives on some basis...
What I’m arguing is that ‘sense of self’ has nothing to do with the physical boundary that divides the outer layer of my skin from other persons. It h...
You’re right, the is-ought divide is not a new idea. So why not let some fresh air into the room by focusing on newer philosophies ( there are many of...
It’s difficult for me to absorb the sense of this Humean distinction. My brain is clogged with too many sedimented layers of philosophy which have exp...
This seems like a long and convoluted way to explain something that can be better explained in a much more direct way. We believe killing is wrong bec...
Psychologist George Kelly defined hostility as “the continued effort to extort validational evidence in favor of a type of social prediction which has...
This gets to the question of the relation between feeling-affect-desire and the ‘intellectual’ for Wittgenstein. There are a wide variety of interpret...
In earlier works , like Principles of Psychology, his approach was mainly materialistic. But toward the end of his career his thinking became more spe...
When we talk about how the mind really works, and then compare that to what a computer does, there’s a tendency to assume that what we are comparing a...
William James might have begged to differ with you. In his essay ‘Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine’, he raises the question ...
I mentioned that I beleive we will soon enter a lost decade for the stock market. My thesis is that a closer look at ‘lost decades’ reveals them to ti...
Now we’re getting somewhere. How do you imagine a brain mechanism works to produce sexual orientation? Any hypotheses? What I am arguing is that such ...
I agree A.I. is a bubble, but I think the situation in the market today is more like the late 1960’s than the late ‘90’s. The dot.com era was the begi...
You seem to be making two points . First, that the aspects of social behavior which are purely cultural and those which are due to biological factors ...
What biological mechanisms make men more likely to be aggressive than women? Would you say it’s the same mechanisms that produce myriad sex-based soci...
While Wittgenstein does use "wants" and "dissatisfaction," the therapeutic effect of his philosophy, the complete dissolution of the problem once the ...
I think Witt understands motives as he understands meaning in general, as neither emanating from the subjective nor from the objective side , but as a...
You’re referring only to a subset of progressives, those at the conservative end of the progressive spectrum. You’ve left out those who subscribe to p...
When I ask myself how Wittgenstein understands the motivation associated with seeing the world as a solipsist, realist or idealist, I’m led to the ter...
What I like about Nietzsche is that I am able to discern in his work a substantive, radical and quite focused philosophical stance. There is ambiguity...
Let’s say for the sake of argument that Nietzsche-interpreters like Deleuze and Focault are right in seeing the direction of the ethical for Nietzsche...
By ‘getting on with developing the pre-made idea’ , do you mean simple intellectual theft? That would indeed be nasty, but I’m trying to make a distin...
You were right to point out that in the context of the reading, the kind of certainty that scepticism is a response to is that associated with knowled...
If we may equate skepticism with doubt, then… “A doubt that doubted everything would not be a doubt” “The game of doubting itself presupposes certaint...
On the other hand, I wouldn’t be surprised if over time we find that we can recognize the difference between those who use a.i. properly and those who...
My definition of tedious research is busywork, made necessary not because it is an intrinsic component of creative thought, but because it is an inter...
If one is using a.i. properly (and to me that’s the real issue here, not whether to use it at all), then the difference between consulting a secondary...
Now you sound like my brother. Keep in mind I live in the Midwest , not the Rockies. There are no vicious or poisonous beasts here ( except for Republ...
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