What I wrote addressing the OP was just me swinging wildly trying to make sense of an at-first alien language. Now that I put it in the context of Enl...
At this point in my reading of your work, I find I understand it most coherently by placing it within a pre-Kantian and likely pre-Humean historical c...
Yes, the adaptive continuation of a system of interaction with a niche, rather than the survival of a human self(genetic or tribal) , is the focus of ...
Aren’t we all Kantians now , including those physicists who extend the scope of Quantum theory? That is to say, even though Kant’s ideas have been sub...
The phenomenologists, beginning with Husserl and continuing with Merleau-Ponty and current philosophers like Shaun Gallagher, devoted much study to th...
Kant said something similar to this: ‘Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without conceptions blind’. And yet he was a dualist. How does th...
Is a bird simply what is contained within an outlined drawing? Or is it also the niche that sustains the animal and in which it is embedded? Isnt it p...
My point about differential drives is that psychologists and biologists today view organisms as self-organizing systems whose functioning is defined b...
What happens to God’s will if we determine the origin and nature of will, following in the footsteps of Nietzsche, Freud and embodied approaches in co...
Is lived experience not itself a process of continual construction or construal, even prior to the creation of narratives? I m thinking of phenomenolo...
Hallucinogenic chemicals modify the appearance of perceived objects in many ways; in terms of size, shape, color and degrees of movement or rest. They...
What if we considered this particular act of the organism, what we call perception, not as the act of representing external objects or stimuli, but th...
The mirror metaphor is apt here. The question of who perceives what presupposes that perception consists of a mirroring or representing of an outside ...
My point is that the filling in from memory that I associated with illusion is always operative when we perceive something. Perceptual psychologists t...
In an optical illusion, a picture of a three-dimensional object is presented with gaps in it. The illusion is that viewers dont see the gaps. They fil...
I suppose it depends on what you mean by answers. A given philosophical position can be seen as an answer to a question that a previous philosophy sti...
Yes, and I think most of the authors people complain about on this site are neither deliberately nor accidentally obscure. They are trying to be as cl...
Maybe I can put this another way. If one tries to dilute or dumb down their ideas in order to reach a wider public, one may end up not only failing to...
I don’t interpret him as meaning that he deliberately hides things from readers, but rather that if one isn’t ready to recognize what he is saying, no...
I assume you’re talking about 4EA ( embodied, enactive, embedded, extended and affective) cognitive science, otherwise known as enactivism. How does t...
if philosophy is circular then so is science , since the empirical world it strives to represent is already prefigured in its theories. But for both s...
I dont think that PSR , in and of itself, establishes Schopenhauer’s conclusions. If it did, then generations of philosophers who accept PSR would hav...
I participated in a philosophy zoom meetup discussing the youtube conversation between Hare and Bryan Mcgee a few months ago. The consensus of the gro...
Why is much philosophical focus devoted to the study of philosophers and their texts? Perhaps in order to use the work of others to articulate fresh c...
Wars often exemplify clashes of worldviews. As a solider in battle , I am not only not going to come to the aid of an enemy soldier in need, I activel...
Is empathy possible without first being able to understand what appears to one initially as a dangerously alien worldview? In other words, does empath...
I wrote a paper (published in the Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology) titled What is a Number: Rethinking Derrida’s Concept of Infinity. ...
Science is by its nature conventional, so its concepts are more accessible to the average person than are philosophical ideas. As a result, people are...
I believe Lakoff’s approach isnt as relativistic as mine, but we have in common the treatment of ideological and political differences in terms of hol...
Perhaps these ‘strange, higher level emotional responses’ you are referring to have something in common with Martha Nussbaum’s rendering of emotion as...
I’m wondering how you would respond to Jesse Prinz’s moral relativist argument, which grounds moral values in innate emotional responses which become ...
Such a thread should include not just the implications for philosophy , but the metaphysical pre-suppositions of the biologically-based science of hum...
Let’s see what it says about scientific philosophy: Dear esteemed members of the scientific philosophy community, It has been our great pleasure to wi...
Maybe not as big as one might think. “The success of science cannot be anything but a puzzle as long as we view concepts and objects as radically inde...
The problem I have with Oliver Curry’s scientific model of moral cooperation is the same problem I have with his embrace of a Popperian approach to ph...
I dont think of metaphysics so much as speculation reaching beyond what we know as fact, but as the plumbing underneath our verified knowledge, its fo...
To sum up your view, the history of metaphysics is an exercise in going in circles , while the history of science is a progress toward the truth. This...
I do agree with you about art form arcs. Classical music’s arc can arguably be said to have ended with the experiments of Schoenberg and Cage, and Jaz...
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