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I like Zahavi’s critique of Chalmers’ position: “Chalmers's discussion of the hard problem has identified and labeled an aspect of consciousness that ...

This is Nietzsche’s eternal return of the same, which Heidegger depicted thusly: “The "momentary" character of creation is the essence of actual, actu...

You forgot option D- both natural philosophy and philosophy proper deal in metaphysical presuppositions, the former implicitly and the later explicitl...

I would say that physics was much closer to the cutting edge of philosophy in the 17th century than it is now. Today’s philosophy is entangled with th...

The argument could be made, but I dont see a lot of evidence for it. Newton was the first scientist to express Cartesian ideas, but he came along 100 ...

If technology has evolved, it is because our sciences have evolved. If our sciences have evolved, it’s because our philosophies have evolved. None of ...

It’s not so obvious. “We should be living in a golden age of creativity in science and technology. We know more about the universe and ourselves than ...

I was just curious if you thought that the pace of progress in science has slowed, apart from its relation to business.

By this do you mean we sacrifice innovation in philosophy to innovation in science and technology, or that progress in science and technology also suf...

Could you give a small list of the philosophers who you think represent the leading edge of ideas? This would provide a sense of when and where you th...

Is this from Baudrillard? Doesn’t sound like Deleuze. You seem to read Deleuze through a critical theory lens. Are you familiar with Todd May?

Didn’t realize I was doing that. Usually when I don’t respond it’s because I dont have anything useful to add.

Of course hostility doesnt always produce a productive debate. If we are dealing with an opponent who is being ‘uncivil’ we have more than one option....

Participating in the OP he started?

Since for Kelly, time doesn’t double back on itself , and therefore no event repeats itself, even the most predictably intelligible experience introdu...

I’m just pissed off because I wasted half an hour writing a response to his ‘greatness’ OP and now he won’t answer it.

Aren’t we talking here about the relation between freedom and determinism, the fact that the freedom of our ideas is constrained by the limits of our ...

Doesn’t bother me. Always nice to learn what buttons set someone off.

According to DG he did. Otherwise how would he know they were false?

Have you noticed that those most eager to jump on the ‘pummel Batricks’ bandwagon share some of his uncivil tendencies? Maybe a bit of projection goin...

So he made coherent arguments that you were convinced were always incorrect? Sounds like a typical TPL interchange. Never underestimate what you can l...

‘Bad actor’. Big deal, so he was obnoxious. Personally, insults get my competitive juices flowing and seem to bring out my best arguments. Maybe we sh...

You are in the majority here in terms of your thinking. I only know of three writers other than Kelly who deconstruct concepts of cultural sedimentati...

I’d be careful in relying too much on the rep grid in trying to understand the main thrust of Kelly’s work. Here’s what Kelly had to say to an intervi...

Kelly understands the notion of the unconscious in terms of levels of awareness, or the distinction between implicit and explicit consciousness , rath...

The difference between the indifference Van Gogh’s subjectivist art evoked in the late 19th century and the underwhelming response it would receive no...

To be fair, you would need to include those approaches within psychotherapy and general psychology which have borrowed from , or have much in common w...

The sensory is never treated as having a component absolutely independent of rational processes. “But does each thing (or, what is equivalent here: do...

Husserl’s distinction is not between phenomenon and noumenon , but between the subjective ( noetic) and objective (noematic) poles of an intentional a...

With regard to the creator of a painting, a novel or a work of philosophy I think we have to break down the motivation into stages, not of simultaneou...

According to current models of immunity, our body remembers and then detects and attacks specific contentful markers belonging to foreign particles. T...

Can you give me an example of how the irrational becomes rational?Nietzsche would say that the rationality is one of the forms that Will to Power take...

Art works dont emerge in a vacuum. They belong to larger artistic movements , which belong to even larger trends that unite the arts , literature , mu...

Absolutely. I am marketing, packaging and advertising my brand of philosophy to you. Will it get under your skin or will it be deemed inconsistent wit...

. Actually, I’m pretty similar. I have a tv but only use it to watch old movies, and completely avoid social media and news except for top headlines. ...

Everyone is a salesman Everyone wants us to embrace what they’re offering: religion , political ideology, their art, music, science, toilet paper prod...

Yes, but keep in mind that for Kelly it’s not the events themselves that are validating or invalidating. They only provide the raw substrate of our ex...

Isnt the question what it is they think they are trying to do rather than whether they are succeeding at it? When we first create our own art or philo...

Arent you arguing that there is such a thing as masculine and feminine behavior , and that these are based in biology, which is what allows dog owners...

I want to distinguish my view of validation from a reinforcement approach in which validation takes place via a physiological reward mechanism. George...

Do you think a profoundly effeminate gay male or ‘butch duke’ fits neatly onto a dichotomous scale , or are you are arguing for a scale that expresses...

What they know is that they have found their way into a territory of thinking-creativity that seems to be virgin ground. As far as they know they are ...

This is a common theme in contemporary philosophy. Some articulate it in terms of social power hegemonies which entrap us in their mechanics of though...

I missed your inclusion of the word role in the context of identity. Let me share psychologist George Kelly’s understanding of role , which is where I...

As I said before, these are not identities , they are roles. And to successfully play a role with respect to others is a very ‘healthy’ and creative a...

I think there’s no such thing as ‘societal health’ for the same reason that there no such thing as ‘societal belief system’. There’s too much diversit...

There are approaches to psychology which hew to objectively-based conditioning models to explain human motivation, identity formation and cognition. A...

I don’t fully agree with the way that blogpost characterizes how Husserl conceived of the constitution of spatial objects. I’m not denying that for Hu...

You seem to be understanding ‘dualism’ in an odd sort of way. When phenomenologists claim to be transcending dualism what they mean is the splitting o...

The authors of the Stanford Encyclopedia article would agree with you. They are among those who believe that a ‘mutual enlightenment’ between cognitiv...