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Let’s start with Husserl’s characterization of the syllogism. He spends most of Experience and Judgement and Formal and Transcendental Logic unfolding...

I just wanted to add this: So snow is white. Why do I care? In what context of concerns and goals does this become a topic of interest to me? Wittgens...

This is about correspondence, even if it consists of correspondence within a discursive community rather than between that community and things-in-the...

Or perhaps it shows that perception’s role is to adaptively guide behavior rather than to veridically recover ‘reality’.

A bit different emphasis from Gendlin’s phenomenological dictum that: “We think more than we can say, we feel more than we can think, we live more tha...

I must have the wrong map, then.

If God was “co-created alongside of human”, what accounts for the dualistic split between the natural( the human as a physical and biological entity) ...

I would add that he didn't think the very concept of truth was particularly useful, even as warranted assertion, and on this point he differed from De...

What do you think of the idea that the ineffable used to be thought of in terms of a hidden substance , a thing -in-itself, the noumenon that stands o...

This is the dilemma that both modern religious and scientific thinking has created for itself. It has managed to extricate itself from static mechanis...

This is where phenomenology can be helpful. “…it is phenomenologically absurd, as Heidegger once pointed out, “to speak of the phenomenon as if it wer...

Since you mention Rorty in relation to epistemology , would you agree with the following? Rorty rejects epistemology in favor of a hermeneutic approac...

Yes indeed. Kant laid the groundwork for psychologists to begin paying attention to our ‘embodied’ ways of relating to the world.

Let me try a hypothesis that links opinion about human-animals differences back to models of embedded beliefs. You mentioned rationality and the syllo...

How soon we forget. “The idea that animals might not experience pain or suffering as humans do traces back at least to the 17th-century French philoso...

And insisting on an irreparable gap between human capacities and those of other animals could be deemed a classic form of anthropocentrism. How many c...

The other definition of scientism deals with the assumption that the world which provides us with the source of our empirical evidence of truth is not...

One definition of scientism is treating science as if it were the only true method to acquire knowledge about reality and the nature of things,or, as ...

Here’s an enactivist perspective: …traditional neuroscience has tried to map brain organization onto a hierarchical, input-output processing model in ...

The. you’re going to have to clarify what you mean by belief. Many psychologists and philosophers argue that neither humans nor animals pursue goals o...

The point is this: if we look around the world of human activity, even apparently belief-based actions which seem far removed from our biology can ult...

Anything by Matthew Ratcliffe or Evan Thompson, especially the latter’s ‘Mind in Life, Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind’.

Phenomenologically-informed enactivist psychology preserves the emphasis on affectively-based values in organizing and situating cognitive appraisals ...

It is popular these days in psychological ( Haidt) and anthropological circles to posit that cultural values and ethical norms originate in inherited ...

“ Knowledge is taken to consist in a faithful mirroring of a mind-independent reality. It is taken to be of a reality which exists independently of th...

Ah, but appeal IS a central element of what we call truth, especially in the sciences. An important value in choosing one theory over another is aesth...

My favorite argument for atheism isn’t that the evidence isnt there, but that even if it were there, the concept of a god is a terrible idea and prese...

Someone should option the movie rights. Ryan Reynolds could play Outlander.

Second guess: You’re still stuck in in the Marxist-structuralist tradition of scientific realism. Better? Give me a hint.

‘Objective’ vs ‘subjective’, ‘faith’ vs ‘reason’, ‘power’ vs ‘knowledge’. Have you read no Kuhn, Feyerabend, Latour, Foucault, Rorty, Rouse, Nietzsche...

I must be slipping.

I take it you are a believer in New Theology?

Sensorimotor theories of perception indicate that action is essential to perception in general. Seeing or hearing is the interacting with an object, a...

And its undermining is the further spinning of new fibers of a thread, correct?

Wittgenstein talked about this in P.I. 67.” I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities than "family resemblances"; for the...

Three phenomenologists offer three readings of sensation. You mentioned Heidegger’s subordination of sense to being-in-the -world: (“Ini­tially" we ne...

The feeling of guilt reminds us that we frequently choose options that conflict with the way we see our values. In guilt, our falling away from anothe...

Yes indeed. It would be impossible to have a world at all if we could not distinguish grouping and categories, if we could not talk about events that ...

I begin with the philosophical and psychological model that makes sense of my world, without at first worrying about how this thinking relates to the ...

Of course , the same ‘sacred scriptures’ , once they were canonically frozen into their eventual form as the 5 books of Moses and the New Testament, i...

Yes, this is a good way to characterize the dawn of modern science in the era of Galileo and Newton. But there has to be more to it than this , doesn'...

I grew up in a religious home but decided I was an atheist in my late teens. It was important for me not to embrace atheism simply as a lack of faith ...

I call bullshit. Dont blame others for your inability to grasp their arguments. That’s not bad faith, but it is anti-intellectual as well as insulting...

From atheist Marxist Terry Eagleton: “Dawkins falsely considers that Christianity offers a rival view of the universe to science. Like the philosopher...

. Let me compare bivalent logic to what I will call a bipolar sense. A bipolar sense differentiates itself from its contextual background ( the contra...

Here’s the argument from Putnam’s perspective: “Without the cognitive values of coherence, simplicity, and instrumental efficacy we have no world and ...

There are so many wonderful ways in which humans beings can talk about what matters to us , what is relevant and how it is relevant. For instance , ha...

And what are those sirens and red flags telling you?

Supposing that statements are either true or false , a logic of bivalence, leads us down the rabbit hole of the meaning or role of ‘truth’ and ‘falsit...

Phenomenology begins by bracketing notions like ‘state’ and patterns of ‘information’, which are not as much of an improvement over the concept of mat...