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If one did a statistical analysis of the cultural roles assigned to human beings on the basis of biological sex, and only had the centuries prior to t...

I think the lesson here is to avoid drawing causal conclusions about human behavior from statistical analyses of animal behavior.

Wittgenstein has nothing against language in general The perfect language is whatever language we are actually using at the moment. His beef is with w...

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Let’s talk about bias. There’s a different way to think about how we should understand such notions as social and cultural bias and their relationship...

A particular bacterium’s niche involves its normative interactions with sugar molecules, its sensitivity to sugar gradients . Would I be correct in st...

He’s not saying that such usage isnt good enough. He is asking how language, syntax and truth statements hook up with the world. His answer is that st...

There is another option: “Both scientific realists and antirealists presume semantic realism--that is, that there is an already determinate fact of th...

I got that quote from Francisco Varela’s ‘Ethical Knowhow’. He is contrasting the old representational rationalist realist model of perception with th...

What gives scientific truth its authority? Does language hook-up with the world as it really is, and if so , where is this connector between our conce...

Would you say something similar about the relation between perception and an environment? Something like the following? ‘perception is fundamentally t...

I’m not aware of anyone who makes either of these claims. The social constructionists I’m familiar with assert the following: "Realism is the view tha...

I'm curious if you made your way through Popper, Kuhn or Feyerabend and if so, if you though any of them were compatible with your eliminative materia...

Would you say that significance is equivalent to what matters to me, what is relevant and how it is relevant to me ( or to us)? And arent these terms ...

Would you also agree that we are deciding not just what is the case but how it is the case, how it is relevant? Asking a language community if it is t...

Have no fear, an intrepid group of philosophers is working on this very issue as we speak. ?”A familiar conception of science emphasizes its role in j...

I would just add that if there is only ‘one thing, pragmatically useful belief, that one thing can’t be split up into a meaning of a belief on the one...

Are there examples of certain forms of life being completely invisible to me? What about scientific conceptualizations of nature? Are these forms of l...

I tend to follow Joseph Rouse’s reading of Kuhn: “Paradigms should not be understood as beliefs (even tacit beliefs) agreed upon by community members,...

Davidson points to Kuhn ‘s paradigms as examples of conceptual schemes, and so Kuhn included in his argument that, as you put it, ‘there's no point of...

I would say yes, if by ‘being’ you’re getting at some kind of metaphysical a priori. In other words, I wouldn’t expect that if we were to discover a p...

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Chomsky’s innate transformational grammar module might be a good source of comparison. If we believe that language is the basis of conceptualization, ...

If goals and interests are inseparably entangled with ways of interpreting the very sense of a situation , then it is not simply a matter of shifting ...

His argument seems to me that humans are equipped with formal structures of cognition that are perhaps evolutionarily based and that are therefore bas...

Maybe it’s about both. Wolpert seems to consider AI as the solution to the limitations of human knowledge. He concludes the paper with speculation abo...

He says this explicitly, as do you , when you both make a distinction between our limits and the limits of reality. Reality breaks through as somethin...

They are not capable of anything beyond our models which produce them, and these technological models are themselves less advanced than our most specu...

The scientific world we live in is a responsive order. The world responds very precisely, but differently , to the different formulations we impose on...

Wolpert’s concept of the future of knowledge is that ‘which lies beyond the limits of our imagination’ in a real world waiting for us to represent it....

Do you think the hermeneutical aim of the fusion of horizons is ever completely realizable for Wittgenstein, or are there necessarily situations where...

I’m agreeing with you that the ego's vantage point won't allow one to say that model and world are one.

Not the way I read it.

I’m very satisfied with phenomenology( of the Husserlian sort). For Husserl the vantage point is always subjective. “...one of the main tasks of pure ...

For Davidson there is just one model (conceptual scheme), which he calls empiricism, the data of sense, although he doesn't realize that this supposed...

How do we demonstrate the existence of these alleged words and sentences that nobody is actually using? By pointing to a dictionary or other book? Wha...

I appreciate that the attempt to begin an analysis of something like truth with words and sentences taken as grounding categorical objects can be quit...

“If one asks what is meant by experience in this connection my reply is that it is that free interaction of individual human beings with surrounding c...

You willl never find a proof for the pattens of relationship that matter most in our lives, since they are designed not to replicate static facts , bu...

The experience of disassociation is another name for confusion and unintelligibility. This is only creative if it motivates us to find ways of relatin...

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I read it and think Davidson misses the boat. Sentences don’t link up with perceptual facts in the causal way that he presumes. Perception is at its c...

Why not link the linguistic and the pre or non-linguistic, so that we can say it is not language per se that constrains and limits the intelligibility...

Do you think the world that constrains our models is separable from the measurement apparatus we use to observe it, and the methods of interpreting th...

When I said that experience is evaluative, what I had in mind was valuation. Valuation is another way of talking about attunement, or Befindlichkeit ,...

As someone who has written a lot here about Heidegger’s questioning of the ‘is’, isn’t your notion of non-judgmental awareness part of what Heidegger ...

Try this: https://www.documentaryarea.tv/video/Aftermath%20Population%20Zero/

I would say tentatively the Overman is what we get after we have successfully achieved the transvaluation of all values , so that we eliminate all not...

This strikes me a narrow reading of Nietzsche , missing precisely what is most subversive about him. The ego for Nietzsche is the product of a play of...

I think Putnam became more and more dissatisfied with his original Twin Earth argument over time. After all , he was a conceptual relativist. He didn'...