He may not have used those specific terms, but they can be interpreted in a variety of ways, just as the terms Hegel did use for his triadic dialectic...
How about this: Fortran is a specific language offering its own semantics based on a logical syntax whose form is in turned based on a certain semanti...
Language and formal logic are no more synonyms than language and fortran. The latter is a specific use of language. Language is a human extension of p...
Davidson’s distinction between ways the mind grabs onto the world in terms of non-propositional vs propositional, pre-conceptual vs conceptual meaning...
I’m thinking that a biologically rooted account of intentionality such as that of Rouse is neither physical nor mental in the sense that anomalous mon...
The biological notion of intending that I had in mind is not at the level of physical causal description. It is similar to Joseph Rouse’s assertion th...
I don’t know that mind science had much of a chance between Helmholz and the rise of embodied approaches in the 1990’s. After turning its back on Jame...
I would say that novelty is the only criterion of value, if one understands novelty in a certain way. The value of something, how meaningful and relev...
I confine myself to discovering ‘new’ pop music written between 1964 and 1973. Pop music has been trying to recapture that breathtaking speed of innov...
Have you seen Mark Fisher’s ( his alias as a music writer was k-punk, before he became an academic) video on the ‘slow cancellation of the future’ as ...
Metatheories don’t have to invalidate each other. Biosemiotics ties together the physical, biological and psychological on the basis of a unified over...
Is this another way of saying that ground-breaking art introduces a new thematic, and as the innovation dries up we get more and more derivative varia...
. Husserlian phenomenology makes a distinction between the real, the sensate and the imaginary. For him , the real refers to something like a spatial ...
When you ask where the dish-brain’s preferring to avoid white noise comes from, might we not distinguish between a specific and general source of moti...
I would be comfortable in saying that if what the dish-brain is doing is generalizing from particular events, and thus using memory to anticipate for ...
I’m sympathetic to the idea that a brain in a dish is too close to the idea of a brain in a vat for it to qualify as having intentionality in the same...
I don’t understand the function of ‘intent’ in living systems the way that eliminativists like Dennett do. In their language game intent is reduced to...
Freud’s understanding of life drew inspiration in part from physical models ( hydraulics, etc) in which equilibrium is static , and change within a ps...
The question is whether it might be possible to say that the brain cells were forming intentions of any sort. The brain cells ‘avoiding a stream of wh...
For a triangle perfection may be linked to ideal self-identical repetition of the pattern. For a line or angle to be perfect, it would have to conform...
Derrida makes a distinction between situational, or conditional, forgiveness and what he calls ‘pure’ forgiveness. He explains that in ‘ordinary’ , co...
In the wake of the dissolution of the fact-value and analytic-synthetic distinctions, Putnam argues that the “is” cannot be understood outside of epis...
Not just any kind of logic , but a certain formal logic connected with certain assumptions about the nature of the object justifying such notions as t...
Metaphysics is both about what is and what ought to be. Form projects expectation. This anticipative aspect of the transcendental is the basis of the ...
If this holism is grounded in mathematics , then in order for one to be uncovering its metaphysical basis one would need to ‘ground’ this mathematics ...
One can just as well say that ethics is a tool for doing metaphysics. More accurately, each pre-supposes the other. Metaphysics is what puts the ‘ough...
Please find me a natural object that is not throughly the product of conventional schemes of language that incorporate such cultural features as how w...
If your main exposure to science has been through physics and chemistry , then I would suggest that that there are two generations of philosophical th...
Did you mean something different than this? “Evidence that an animal is capable of some degree of symbolic, human language processing supports the arg...
I agree with Joseph Rouse’s take on the homologies between humans and other animals with respect to language. “Elisabeth Lloyd (2004) shows that the f...
"entity realism" asserts the real existence of unobserved entities. “Entity realists think that when we accept a theory we have warrant for believing ...
I’ve been reading NIELS BOHR'S CONCEPT OF REALITY by Henry J Folse. He provides evidence that Bohr was an entity realist , a position that seems to re...
It says that and also speculates on “a direct Kantian influence on Bohr”. So it is suggesting both. And I would suggest that those quoted believe the ...
The authors of the Copenhagen Interpretation weren’t simply duplicating Kant, but theyr were strongly influenced by him: ”Many philosophers and physic...
There is no single ‘folk’ notion of reality any more than there is a single philosophical or scientific notion of it. There are so many variants of re...
There are ways of accommodating within a a single metaphysics the situation in physics that the world appears to work differently at different scales....
On the other hand, among those physicists who are aquatinted with philosophical accounts of realism and anti-realism, most consider themselves philoso...
If we were to populate an entire planet with clones of you, people who not only share the moral philosophy in your OP but follow its implications to t...
There is an assumption common to meditative practice and cognitive science that one can make a distinction between a pre-reflective and a reflective f...
I guess technically a paradigm requires a partially shared set of practices among a community, so a lone genius is not the originator of a paradigm un...
To what extent, if at all, can one talk about an individual way of thinking that enters into territory not trod by others in the surrounding community...
What about the formal basis of such concepts as semiosis, code, information and thermal dissipation? Is there not an assumed irreducible ground for th...
The legitimacy of our own judgments goes only as far as the normative framework we buy into, within which the others actions appear immoral. But such ...
Some have extolled the message that greed is good. What they mean by that is the ability to accumulate wealth is associated with creativity and innova...
You should be contemplating the correlation between level of cultural development and what we call ‘morality’.Cultural development brings with it grea...
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