I presume to know when it comes to Dennett and Dawkins, and I’m far from the only one who has pointed this out about them, because it is patently obvi...
A view from everywhere , or sideways on, is a relative of the view from nowhere. What justifies this stance is a view of nature grounded in a set of n...
Your depiction of the methods of science is dependent on normative concepts like error correction and falsification, pointing to the indirect relation...
Husserl’s epoche, otherwise known as the phenomenological reduction or ‘bracketing’ of presuppositions, gets a lot of flack. But the general principe ...
Science’s epistemological method is itself a remnant of religious metaphysics. Why wee do you think Dennett’s and Dawkin’s doctrinaire atheism comes f...
I’ll give you a taste of the notions of schizophrenia and ’schizo-analysis’ that Deleuze and Guattari introduced, since it seems to be the main inspir...
One way out of this is to dump linear causal determinism for a dynamical reciprocal determinism. This is the route Dennett and embodied psychology tak...
Is there a one-to-one relationship between a small and variable number of chemical and physiological reactions of my brain and cultural rules of assig...
When Davidson says the physiology is a cause, he seems to mean something other than a direct relation between it and a belief. McDowell is trying to g...
Martha Nussbaum has put a lot of work into spelling out specific implications for the dispensing of legal justice of her forward-looking approach to b...
I’m trying to recall how Davidson thinks about this, since you relate to his work. I believe he posits perceptual experience , such as the aroma of co...
‘Patronizing’ is a common accusation leveled against the postmodern and ‘woke’ left. But I’d hardly put Strawson in that category. We’re talking about...
Are you familiar with Martha Nussbaum’s positions relating to issues of blame, anger and justice? They seem reasonable to me, striking a balance betwe...
Sounds like you are an adherent of conservative social politics. No bleeding heart nonsense for you. Deterrents are a form of forward-looking , or con...
Nothing about Strawson’s general philosophical outlook leads me to think he would share his father’s view on free will, especially his belief that the...
Just because a majority of philosophers believes a certain thing doesn’t mean they’re right. Just gives you an opportunity to investigate what they’re...
I dont think you’ll find many contemporary philosophers of science who would agree with you here. Your view is more consistent with a 19th century per...
It’s not a question of paying attention but of comprehending what one is paying attention to. We have philosophers , scientists and mathematicians tod...
Yes, but if you agree with the following, then you are actually in Strawson’s camp: “what we do and the way we are is ultimately the result of factors...
I would just add that ‘action’ should be specified even more finely in terms of sense of meaning rather than via general terms like bookkeeping and ca...
What is it that is seen when we publicly observe a behavior? Is the public appearance of the behavior the moving of something from the behavior to eac...
I think I have an idea. As a blame skeptic, like Pereboom, Nussbaum and others, Strawson rejects the kind of radical free will that makes the subject ...
We already live amongst intelllectually advanced aliens, interacting with them in myriad ways. And yet this direct and unrestricted access does not ma...
That we have to make an effort to accept ourselves demonstrates the fact that the person we find ourselves to be is at odds with the person we had tho...
In phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty’s hands, language is not the product of a meeting between private perceptions inside individual minds but of a primar...
There are many interpreters of Deleuze these days, so each of us have to choose our preferred interpreter. It might be helpful to my understanding of ...
To quote psychologist George Kelly: “…it is not so much what man is that counts as it is what he ventures to make of himself. To make the leap he must...
I’m wondering if you are familiar with the ways in which Husserl and Heidegger, respectively, burrowed within the grammar of formal logic to expose it...
John Protevi writes: “Deleuze lets us go “above” and “below” the subject; “above” to politics, and “below” to biology. We live at the crossroads: sing...
Keep in mind that the original, immediate experience of a ‘now’ content , being itself an intentional synthesis of past , present and future, is not t...
Phenomenology as it was begun by Husserl was about finding our way past preconceptions to the formal conditions of possibility of experience, to what ...
I’m not talking about definitions. I’m talking about application. Are you, or Mishima, arguing that people who claim be using their faith or spiritual...
I’m not sure you’re understanding the purpose of a metaphysical stance. Do you think that when someone develops a spiritual or religious faith, and pr...
Why is metaphysics not also a praxis? What makes something a praxis and why do we value praxis? Is it that we associate praxis with use, with practica...
As a phenomenological philosopher, I have a hard time finding this comment useful. Neither would contributors to journals like Phenomenology and the C...
In ‘Deleuze, a Split with Foucault’, Mathias Schönher argues that in ‘Foucault’, Deleuze is trying to be generous to his old friend without really alt...
Funny you should mention it. In this essay I summarize the recent history of approaches to blame , anger and ethics in philosophy( free will blame, mo...
I know that I will have to adjust my expectations of your responses to the dialogue with me in ways that will differ from others responses. My adjustm...
Why not just specify the various ways in which objects are given to us in conscious experience, such as dreaming , imagining , perceiving , rememberin...
The feeling of mutual understanding varies quite widely depending of how superficial the shared activity is. Driving in traffic we normally co-ordinat...
On the other hand, concepts like “inner private sanctum” and “public realm” leave me with more of a feeling of puzzlement than do phenomenological con...
You’re confusing Descartes’ self-enclosed subjectivity with a phenomenological self-world interaction. There is no Cartesian subject for Husserl. His ...
This quote from Jesse Prinz comes to mind. He is among those who defend the value of righteous anger against writers like Martha Nussbaum who has writ...
I would agree with Putnam, Cavell and Rorty, among others, that the later Wittgenstein is no longer an analytic philosopher. Unless of course the publ...
Deleuze’s concept of desire avoids the problem of resistance that Foucault had to deal with. Rather than starting from symbolic structures of power th...
I think Deleuze was closer to Derrida’s approach to the relation between strategies of power than he was to Foucault’s. Deleuze was not happy with Fou...
This sounds like a version of the utilitarian claim that the pursuit of pleasure or avoidance of pain is the universal motivator of human behavior. Jo...
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