Jonathan Haidt argues that our moral values are the product of inborn evolutionary adaptations. He lists the following 5 innate moral foundations: Car...
I suppose they could be articulated propositionally. But in order for ‘rats are pests’ to be a proposition with a truth value it would have to be poss...
And if rats are found to be ideal pets within another culture is that culture empirically incorrect? Prinz argues that the basis of our moral values a...
For Deleuze, all singularities are pre-individual. All singularities belong to multiplicities and cannot be understood outside of the assemblages to w...
Jesse Prinz argues that all moral values depend on emotional dispositions , and these are subjective and relative. Therefore, moral realism is impossi...
And why are concepts like “mental event” and “constituent neural activity ” not themselves post hoc narratives? Because the only non post-hoc psycholo...
First of all, it is important to remember that the ‘social’ here refers to the exposure to absolute alterity that temporal repetition implies. Such al...
The ‘autonomy’ I have in mind is not that of the repetition of self-identity. My sense of my own identity is relentlessly, but subtly, formed and refo...
I would argue that what we weave together is not disparate and completely contradictory bits but inferentially compatible ( but never identical) exper...
I agree that there is no ineffable sensation of red in the guise of something like a qualia. I also agree that red only has meaning as something we ta...
We are affected by our sociopath-cultural situation as filtered and interpreted through our situated bodily organization of perception. The word red h...
It is neither strictly private not strictly public. Language is embodied, which means perspectival. That is why language must allow for failures of sh...
It is not encouraged by the founder of modern phenomenology. Husserl, or his disciple, Merleau-Ponty. Husserl contributed in-depth analyses concerning...
It really depends on the task. If I ask you to hand me the red towel, your responding correctly will give me no reason to wonder if you’re picturing t...
And neither does there exist a socially constructed notion of red that is completely shared within a language community. It would at best be only part...
Aren’t you forgetting the perspectival role of the body here? Our use of langauge is not divorced from our embodiment but presupposes it. Thus there n...
You might want to check out Berkeley philosopher Alva Noe for a link between Husserlian phenomenology and contemporary perceptual science. A.I. and pe...
The threat and application of violence is an inherent component of all human social interaction, simply because any action I choose will do unintended...
Could you send me that reference?You may be confusing Husserl’s critique of modern sciences as failing to ground themselves on the basis of traditiona...
Yes, and thought is embedded within an affectively organizing bodily system in an even more immediate way that it is in the discursive world of other ...
The posing is itself is already meaning in that it produces a differentiation, a way in which a fresh sense of meaning is alike and differs from what ...
The social constructionism of Ken Gergen and others has been critiqued as a form of discursive idealism because it tries to derive all forms of experi...
Something like that, yes. And to prevent it from turning into a discursive idealism, one could integrate the feedback from the body into this interpla...
Why not start from the idea that talking to ourselves is already talking to an other, that the self does not coincide with itself? This will avoid the...
On the other hand, Putnam, one of Quine’s heirs, wrote: “Thus we have a paradox: at the very moment when analytic philosophy is recognized as the "dom...
What is it we are doing when we merely ‘think’ rather than ‘speak’ something? Can we distinguish , for instance , pure thought or meaning from speakin...
Word use doesn’t literally mean “changing the state of the world”, as if we first have an understanding of what a word refers to and then later decide...
I disagree that the later Wittgenstein believes context is independent of whatever meaning a word has. Words don’t have meanings as context-independen...
Why not look at physics as a particular invention of modern science dating back to the 17th century? Aristotle introduced a physics but it was very di...
And I’m with the later Wittgenstein , who argues that there is no such thing as a word outside of some particular use; for a word to be is for a word ...
I didn’t mean to leave the impression that I thought a metaphysical framework is generated ‘in the head’ before and outside of exposure to an outside ...
Yes, in education and other disciplines where the postmodern refers to widely shared practices that are not necessarily correlated with the any partic...
That’s not an assimilation of postmodernism ( or at least philosophical, as opposed to cultural or political postmodernism). Understanding Deleuze, Fo...
What if we were to think of metaphysics as a necessary, always present network of presuppositions and expectations that allows objects in our world to...
No, a stone is picked up, it is thrown, it is inspected, it is ignored, or perhaps it is ‘defined’. Every use of the word stone provides us with a dif...
We were talking about consciousness, which is not an anatomical location within the body ( like a hand) but a function or process. There is never a ne...
What something ‘is’ defines a use. ‘Dark brown powder’ represents the anticipation of ways of interacting perceptually with something, and these are g...
Good point. The ineffable is not a patented product with a tag warning not to speak of it. If it were, the lawyers would have a field day arguing over...
The problem with locating any process entirely within some segment of the body is that it is a purely artificial move. We can designate some function ...
. It’s interesting that you identify the material with the tangible. What is physically real is what we can touch. Touching is interacting If we furth...
Logical positivism was put into question by the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy, structuralism was critiqued by phenomenology and post-structur...
You can’t raise a question if you don’t already presuppose its answer in terms of a wider framework within which the question is intelligible. “Every ...
And the physical and the mental are separable aspects? Empirical science isnt already dealing with the mental in studying the physical (the objective ...
Not all approaches to neuroscience assume that neurophysiological operations are entirely closed off and internal. For instance, neurophenomenology, a...
It sounds like two separate events are being lumped together via a single explanation without much justification. The first event is response of the w...
Cognitive therapy is a realist approach. It’s ‘ bias’ is in assuming there is a ‘correct’ and ‘realistic’ way to conform to the facts of the world. Yo...
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