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If an actual, physical referent is not a meaning , what is it? The thing in itself? Isnt that what Kant says we never have access to? Arent we condemn...
August 30, 2022 at 17:44
My correction: 1) The symbols themselves are not concept-independent, as if sounds or markings were not already interpretive meanings. 2)The meaning o...
August 27, 2022 at 23:03
How could the meaning of “the water is cold” be the same in both places if on Twin Earth water is xyz rather than H2O? What if on Twin Earth the word ...
August 26, 2022 at 19:58
Hilary Putnam famously claimed that ‘meanings just ain’t in the head’. He meant by this that what our language concepts refer to in the world determin...
August 26, 2022 at 19:08
Since the OP concerns the postmodern, I thought I’d mention Shaun Gallagher’s interesting paper, Conversations in Postmodern Hermeneutics , in which h...
August 26, 2022 at 16:37
Could you elaborate on the difference between addressing an audience in textual interpretation and not addressing an audience in modeling the origin o...
August 26, 2022 at 13:29
When we interpret a text, or model the origins of the universe, are we attempting to represent or to construct truth? If both , how does the fact-valu...
August 25, 2022 at 19:04
Let me see if I understand this. You’re making a distinction between the legitimate use of the word ‘is’ to make a statement about objective reality v...
August 25, 2022 at 00:42
I like psychologist George Kelly’s approach: “If I say "the floor is hard," I employ a language system in which the subject-predicate relationship inh...
August 24, 2022 at 18:48
I read Kierkegaard through people like Caputo , Sheehan and Critchley, who may have abandoned Christianity but certainly not God and faith in the cohe...
August 24, 2022 at 18:31
They are not necessarily two different things. In this context, a reading is daring and interesting not because it entertains as fiction , but on the ...
August 24, 2022 at 18:23
I didn’t mean to suggest that a reading of an author shouldn’t strive to be as consistent as humanly possible with their text. My point was that even ...
August 24, 2022 at 17:26
I meant that the ideas were contemporary , not that the writers were born in the same era. I consider Heidegger’s ideas contemporary even though he wa...
August 24, 2022 at 17:21
Not caricatures, characterizations, which is all any interpreter can come up with. The key questions, as far as I’m concerned , do not have to do with...
August 24, 2022 at 14:11
Let me add to that Nietzsche’s linking of traditional morality with intentionality , the willing what one chooses to will, and his critique of this mo...
August 23, 2022 at 19:05
The self IS its relationships. The concept only makes sense as a comparison that simultaneously defines the ‘I’ and the not-I. I dont think the masks ...
August 23, 2022 at 18:12
I think this is one aspect of the will to power, the drive to assimilate , dominate and achieve mastery over oneself and one’s surroundings. But will ...
August 23, 2022 at 17:45
It’s more like a tension or difference between drives than any single drive. Not what puts us on a specific trajectory but an impetus which alway dera...
August 23, 2022 at 03:01
It’s not just Deleuze who reads will to power this way. Most postmodern interpretations of it emphasize that power is not under the control of the wil...
August 23, 2022 at 02:36
If you’re referring to Nietzsche’s notion of Will to Power, it is not a will to dominate one’s environment. Will to power is the self-differentiating ...
August 23, 2022 at 02:21
It’s not science I’m arguing for , but the integrated, patterned basis of frame of reference. This is true not only when it comes to gender but all ot...
August 23, 2022 at 00:47
I’m not sure what you have in mind when you speak of recognizing patterns in someone. What I have in mind is something like Chomsky’s transformational...
August 23, 2022 at 00:35
What good would it do you know that someone is on the Asperger’s spectrum? It depends on how you want to interact with them If you are a woman or man ...
August 22, 2022 at 20:21
We know valuable aspects of their style of approaching the world that allow us to engage with them in more intimate ways than we could have otherwise....
August 22, 2022 at 19:45
If we carefully thought through what we mean by simulation, I think we would conclude it wasn’t such a remarkable situation. We have to start by consi...
August 22, 2022 at 19:39
Are there no robust , relatively stable and consistent. aspects of personality style that we carry with us our whole lives? Could we say that Asperger...
August 22, 2022 at 19:26
If only. I wouldnt even compare computer intelligence favorably to a virus.
August 21, 2022 at 21:44
What exactly does this dream consist in? I would think those most likely to break through to new dimensions of thinking concerning what machines can d...
August 21, 2022 at 12:46
How do we know that we’re smarter than machines? Machines are texts translated into material processes. If we are smarter than machines than we are sm...
August 20, 2022 at 23:37
This sounds like an example of treating history ( in this case natural history) as the ‘weight’ of the past. Technology , as human cultural evolution ...
August 20, 2022 at 21:40
Our machines dont have to be algorithmic and mathematical. They are that way because we used to assume human cognition was that way.
August 20, 2022 at 21:35
The past is only constraining to the extent that new experience is always already familiar, recognizable, intelligible to us at some level. Pure novel...
August 20, 2022 at 20:55
Like Heidegger, Derrida , Merleau-Ponty , Wittgenstein and others, I am a holist when it comes to how new context changes the past. Everything one has...
August 20, 2022 at 19:29
It makes sense that a machine we call a ‘computer’ will be expected to interact with us via symbolic computation. As long as a representational, symbo...
August 20, 2022 at 19:13
What do you make of the critique leveled against Heidegger that Dasein’s own pragmatic concerns have priority over a robust intersubjectivity? Critics...
August 20, 2022 at 02:45
The relation between subjectivity and intersubjectivity gets complicated for Husserl. He never seems to give up the insistence on the primacy for me o...
August 20, 2022 at 00:33
I am attracted to naturalistic models that don’t cut corners , either by reifying materiality through reductive physicalism , or by making the manifes...
August 19, 2022 at 20:09
Is Heidegger also too Cartesian? He rejected truth as correctness in favor of truth as whatever discloses itself to Dasein. Why do beliefs have to be ...
August 19, 2022 at 19:57
What one creates or co-creates in language implicates and is reciprocally dependent on material changes in one’s world. The feedback from those materi...
August 19, 2022 at 19:40
If we took such a thought as a fact , that is , as an identically reproducible idea, then it would merely be a shift from the realist to the idealist ...
August 19, 2022 at 18:37
What do you surmise the Wittgenstein of PI was trying to get away from with regard to concepts like belief, truth and logic as he is using them in the...
August 19, 2022 at 17:09
A psychological gender is a set of behavioral dispositions that are linked together to form a recognizable style. Female dogs are, among other things,...
August 19, 2022 at 16:30
If you were a gay male , you may have experienced the following from childhood, as I did: I had no reason not to label myself as a male , based on ana...
August 19, 2022 at 16:23
What does it mean to be a male or female dog or sheep, apart from the anatomical differences? From our perspective, there are recognizable gender-rela...
August 19, 2022 at 16:10
Is there a ‘same’ empirical world that different languages link up to, placing a barrier to conceptual relativism by assuring translatability?( Davids...
August 19, 2022 at 01:37
Not sure if anything you mentioned in the OP deals with what is involved in something like recognizing ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ behavioral differenc...
August 18, 2022 at 18:05
Perhaps Davidson thought translation from one linguistic community to another was unproblematic because he understood perception as a merely causal pr...
August 17, 2022 at 03:59
I’m going to be lazy and quite the last 4 pages of my paper: If Dasein's being-in-the -world is always structured as an intimate, pragmatic self-belon...
August 13, 2022 at 22:00
So I’ve been in the awkward position these many years of, on the one hand , applauding the social constructionists, post-structuralists and post-analy...
August 13, 2022 at 21:00