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...
My correction: 1) The symbols themselves are not concept-independent, as if sounds or markings were not already interpretive meanings. 2)The meaning o...
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 ...
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...
Since the OP concerns the postmodern, I thought I’d mention Shaun Gallagher’s interesting paper, Conversations in Postmodern Hermeneutics , in which h...
Could you elaborate on the difference between addressing an audience in textual interpretation and not addressing an audience in modeling the origin o...
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...
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...
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...
I read Kierkegaard through people like Caputo , Sheehan and Critchley, who may have abandoned Christianity but certainly not God and faith in the cohe...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
This sounds like an example of treating history ( in this case natural history) as the ‘weight’ of the past. Technology , as human cultural evolution ...
The past is only constraining to the extent that new experience is always already familiar, recognizable, intelligible to us at some level. Pure novel...
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...
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...
What do you make of the critique leveled against Heidegger that Dasein’s own pragmatic concerns have priority over a robust intersubjectivity? Critics...
The relation between subjectivity and intersubjectivity gets complicated for Husserl. He never seems to give up the insistence on the primacy for me o...
I am attracted to naturalistic models that don’t cut corners , either by reifying materiality through reductive physicalism , or by making the manifes...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
A psychological gender is a set of behavioral dispositions that are linked together to form a recognizable style. Female dogs are, among other things,...
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...
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...
Is there a ‘same’ empirical world that different languages link up to, placing a barrier to conceptual relativism by assuring translatability?( Davids...
Not sure if anything you mentioned in the OP deals with what is involved in something like recognizing ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ behavioral differenc...
Perhaps Davidson thought translation from one linguistic community to another was unproblematic because he understood perception as a merely causal pr...
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...
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...
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