And the rules that are chosen by you come already constrained in their sense by the contingent intersubjective community you are immersed in as well a...
Postmodernism is a big category, as is marxism. For instance, there is cultural postmodernism, which focuses on economic, political and social dynamic...
Is time a mathematical construct external to matter , such that it acts as a generic and universal limit on matter , while matter itself has aspects o...
Idealism of a Kantian sort grounds most forms of modern empirical realism as well as postmodern critiques of that realism. Few in the scientific commu...
. This is like asking if physics masquerades as linguistic conceptualization, or if linguistic conceptualization shares fundamentals with physics. Of ...
Keep in mind that poststructuralists like Foucault, Deleuze and Derrida situated their approaches in direct opposition to Sartre’s existentialist noti...
Which is why the later Wittgenstein rebelled against it. “ The more narowly we examine actual language, the sharper becomes the conflict between it an...
As a counterpoint , I offer up a Deleuzian perspective on the limits of the idea of metaphysics as the logic of propositions, what Deleuze calls ‘the ...
Why do you think the discussions are non-productive? Because they dont produce a clear unified vision of what metaphysics is? Can they be productive i...
I believe science will move in the direction of a self-reflexive awareness that causation and identity are derivative concepts originating out of the ...
“… a more basic trace of a theological conception remains in many philosophical accounts of science and nature. A theological conception of God as cre...
I was being a little silly. What I meant to convey was that the most creative aspect of science is not the mirroring of an extant reality but the inve...
To really grasp the nature of metaphysics and its role in our lives is to realize that , when it comes down to it, science also is nothing but a bunch...
I’m not comparing Descartes, Newton and Leibnitz on the basis of their contributions to mathematics, but to metaphysics. As far as a science building ...
We’re taking about a spectrum of abstraction. Whatever makes the difference between applied technology and hard science is the same difference along a...
What is a scientific theory other than a grammatical structure? To the extent that we can separate the scientific and the philosophical, which blur in...
Descartes was born 100 years before Newton and anticipated the general framework within which Newton’s physics is intelligible. “Newton was typically ...
What you’re describing isnt science, it’s scientism, which assumes that science, through its methods, has a privileged access to empirical reality. It...
So let me get this straight. Are you arguing that the contributions to the understanding of time offered by the likes of Bergson, James, Whitehead, Hu...
How would you define ‘fares better’? If you want the next best thing to a crystal ball reveal of the future of the sciences, look to the leading edge ...
Kant’s notion of time is a critique of Newton’s. Time is neither an absolute quatitative constant for Kant, not a relationship between material object...
You only use the word ‘discovery’ in relation to what science supposedly does, but not what philosophy does. This makes it sound as if philosophy is p...
Since this is a philosophy rather than a physics forum, I thought I’d throw in some ideas on time from a few philosophers. Kant attributed to Newton t...
And it is being buried by its own progeny, who associate the beginning of its demise with the drawing realization that its adherents were not able to ...
I had this in mind: “The analytic/synthetic distinction” refers to a distinction between two kinds of truth. Synthetic truths are true both because of...
All faith has its reasons, which are wrapped up in what motivates the faith in the first place. One could use a concept of reason to refer to the elab...
Deleuze referred to this way of thinking about logic as ‘the dogmatic image of thought’. “Dialectic is the art of problems and questions, the combinat...
Use of the word ‘standard’ could imply the difference between more and a less rational forms of thinking. Is that how you meant it? Or did you just me...
Take your pick. We could follow Quine, Davidson , Wittgenstein , Putnam, Rorty or Nietzsche out of the trap of physicalism. We could embrace a Gadamer...
I can start by saying what I think meditation does not do. 1)It does not bring us to a state prior to desire or will 2)It does not precede intention o...
I have written a critique of Varela and Thompson’s understanding of mindfulness and their misreading of phenomenology. Your depiction of a subject awa...
This is not how phenomenologists understand ‘past’. You are thinking in terms of traditional notions of the past as a separate entity from the present...
For Husserl , the past, in the form of the retentional , and the future, in the form of the protentional phase, belong to the present. The immediate ‘...
Dewey had a good argument against utilitarian ethics based on pain-pleasure, as explained by Hilary Putnam. “The assumption that people act only on se...
I generally agree that it is infeasible to significantly throttle down the pace of automation. Universal basic income may be one temporary solution, b...
What would a physical thing subsist in , outside of all ‘meaningful correlations’? Isn’t a physical thing a co-relationship between experiencer and ob...
You’re missing a key option here, which is that Physicalism already presupposes the inseparable contribution of subjectivity in its formulation of the...
Wiki says according to Thelema, true will adapts itself to the outside world. It is “a moment-to-moment path of action that operates in perfect harmon...
The great idealist and theist Kant was the founder of modern realism. “The “Critique of pure Reason” is the founding document of realism and to the pr...
Nietzsche thought the greatest joy and delight was to be found in the cultivation of error and falsification, not as an opposite to truth, but as its ...
I think using words like ‘evolution’, ‘progress’ , ‘self-actualization’ and ‘growth’ to describe Nietzsche’s view of the trajectory of Will to Power a...
The irony here is that realism is that remnant of Christian religious faith which motivates the scientistic accusation of religious faith as being ‘un...
And, of course, neither is Husserl’s or Kant’s transcendental logic, Deleuze’s logic of sense or Derrida’s logic of the trace. Maybe we should disting...
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