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You refer to the being of a ‘we’. In what sense is it a being if there is no distinction? Isn’t pure absence of differentiation non-being?

Interesting. How would that work? Kind of like meditative awareness?

Try this: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-consciousness-phenomenological/

I think that the Marcusian model , with its reliance on libidinal energy and it’s notions of social conditioning, is too reductive and monolithic. It ...

Aren’t we talking about different epistemological accounts of causation? For conscious actions we use an intentional motivational account , and for ph...

Absolutely, and Husserl’s natural attitude.

Alternately, we could say that to make progress, the realm of the physical will have to be rethought such that we recognize that the subjective was al...

I’m not convinced that it is in the interest of ‘advanced consumer society’ to keep personal identity fragmented and internally conflicted. On the con...

What circumstances do you think require a reason via those that do not? Some are perfectly happy with the current status of quantum theory , and other...

You mean like S-M? It hurts so good? Pleasure through pain? Harm me, baby?

I discovered when I was very young that I had a talent for drawing. This was the first skill that I was good at, and I enjoyed sharing my art with fam...

This seems to be just the contrast pole of the ‘Is good indefinable’ thread.

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I must have missed how your definition avoids being circular. Did you somewhere indicate how good is more or other than just what benefits an individu...

‘Why’ questions have to do with the fact that explanations in science aren't just about what works, they are about coming up with different ways of co...

To be fair to hypericin, the recent ambitions to explain consciousness were only possible as a result of innovations in thinking about biological proc...

Whenever our sciences leave us with an arbitrary starting point , this should be an impetus to start asking ‘why’ questions. Asking why a physical con...

I think all absolutes are also, at the same time, relatives. For instance, the qualitative content of a moment of awareness is contingent and relative...

Definitions are circular within a finite frame. The circular series of terms for ‘good’ used in this thread that I referred to are mutually defined ac...

The organizational dynamics I laid out don’t have to be understood in naturalized fashion. In fact I think it’s best understood as a metaphysical pres...

You lost me. How exactly are you understanding ‘proper functioning’ and what does it have to do with the normatively oriented organizational dynamics ...

What a mess. So far every contribution to this thread has used circular terms to ‘define’ the good. Even fairness implies a moral notion of equivalenc...

Davidson thinks he is dismissing the very notion of a conceptual scheme, when in fact he is only dismissing the Quinean model and its underlying Kanti...

I think I like this characterization of my position. But as regards Banno, I would ask you if you think that his thinking is significantly removed fro...

As others have pointed out, it may be the particular organizational terms ( reductive causality) in which the sciences of physics and chemistry are re...

This quote from Joseph Rouse belongs to a paper in which he critiques Steven Crowell’s Heideggerian account of identifying with a vocation. Even thoug...

Except that on one side are those who find the symbolism of logical formalism important, perhaps indispensable , because it gets at the root of all th...

Reformed analytic philosophers like Rorty will argue the opposite. Once we divest ourselves of our temptation to assume intrinsic features of the worl...

It’s interesting that you didn’t add that he knew WHY they were thinking what they were thinking, which is much more important. For instance, perhaps ...

Neither what is only ‘in you’ nor what is externally institutional get at how we understand language. The two need to be intimately interwoven such th...

I’m sorry I haven’t made myself very clear. Predicational logic assumes already defined and separable units or parts.The fact that these parts are alr...

Do you believe that radically relativistic perspectives of truth within philosophy, such as we see with postmodernist and post-structuralist writers, ...

Why does it seem to do exactly that? Because logical analysis uses at its ground-floor starting point the product of a genesis of sense, the point aft...

I think that’s difficult to do because one has to have a reason and a way to modify how one approaches the situation. All we have to go on is how we h...

It is about intentionality, that is , aboutness, which is an act of doing. To intend is to be about something in a certain way, and there cannot be a ...

A number of schools of philosophy, as well as researchers in perceptual psychology, believe that a ‘now’ divorced from memories of a past is a now wit...

Isn’t acting spontaneously still a making reference to one’s accumulated experience, which is shaped by their culture? Is t the immediate ‘now’ always...

My argument, drawing from Husserl, is that fa is not an analysis of predication so much as a naive restatement of the idealization that predication re...

I don’t think you mean to say that this is the only function of the word ‘is’, because it can do many things in a sentence. I assume you’re trying to ...

I didn’t mean to suggest that the ‘is’ is necessary in order for predication to do its job. My point was that whenever the ‘is’ makes its appearance i...

If it is in a sentence, it plays a semantic role in that sentence, albeit one that can vary widely in importance depending on the context. Components ...

‘Snow is white’: In this case , the ‘is’ tells us that white is a dependent attribute of snow. ‘Snow is snow’: In this case, the ‘is’ tells us that sn...

It has to be something. It carries a meaning, and the meaning changes with the structure of the logical relation. Logic doesn’t consist of S’s and P’s...

Thank you for that exemplification of how some of us use the word ‘reality’.

The fly-people?

Every product of culture, without exception, must be continually reinterpreted for each era. This goes for music, art, literature, history, science an...

I guess Foucault won’t be on your reading list any time soon.

Perhaps the distinction Husserl makes between the pre-predicative and the predicative stratum of constitution (and his notion of pre-predicative judgm...

I was going to respond to your comment on the expression of a rule, and then realized I didn’t actually disagree with it. From a Husserlian vantage, t...

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