I think his magnum opus is ‘A Process Model’. It’s hard to get through; could have used an editor. But I think it’s important stuff and hasn’t been di...
I was going to mention that my take on ethics is pretty out there , but it does have many links to postmodern approaches like Ken Gergen’s social cons...
I think thats a huge mistake. By different worlds I don’t mean hopelessly my worldview and yours are incommensurable. I mean that every time you blame...
I like the way Eugene Gendlin put it: “…the past functions to "interpret" the present,...the past is changed by so functioning. This needs to be put e...
‘Greed’ is a convenient label we slap on others ( and sometimes ourselves) as a way of blaming them for our own failure to understand their behavior m...
right/wrong and good/bad are not separate categories from sense-making. They express nothing other than the organizational dynamics of sense-making. W...
I believe all worldviews are equally valid , moral and rational. I also believe that worldviews evolve along with, and in response to, the progressing...
If rationality is normative, then mustn’t irrationality also be normative? Put differently, isn’t one person’s irrationality simply another’s rational...
We are using different notions of temporality. Rouse’s temporal externalism doesn’t deal with spans of time (generations) but temporality itself thoug...
You and I had a discussion about a year ago concerning the relation for Witt between a rule and the use of a rule. I suggested that you stand on one s...
My wanting to be right will also involve a re-articulation of the very sense of being right. What matters to both of us in this will never be more tha...
What inference is or is not allowed only exists in its actual use. “… we cannot appeal to social regularities or collectively presupposed norms within...
Do I believe what, that there is a familiar epistemological conception of us as believers? Sure. What I invite you to take seriously is Rouse’s articu...
Perhaps I can get philosopher of science Joseph Rouse to make my point better than I can. “A familiar conception of science emphasizes its role in jus...
My point is that belief is only one of myriad ways of sense-making , and far from the most important. Furthermore, the code cost of belief is not itse...
I feel like the alien or the cat. i’m not sure I know what a human-like belief , or a proposition is. I don’t think it’s simply my own ignorance, but ...
This other aspect of feeling is not a bodily sensation. Here’s more from an article I wrote: Social feeling is the very core of so-called conceptual a...
Right, this is what I’ve characterized as the concreteness of bodily felt sensation. I think we’re taking about the same thing. What I’m claiming is t...
Hacker’s reading of Witt( which influences his translations) has been strongly critiqued by certain quarters. With regard to the Übersichtliche Darste...
I have tended to read Antony’s interpretation of the later Wittgenstein as consonant with that of the ‘new school’. Rupert Read’s new book ‘Wittgenste...
Ok. Don’t mean to nitpick , but this is Anscombe’s quote: “A main source of our failure to understand is that we do not command a clear view of the us...
We are freed from one picture only to get stuck in a new picture. That is the case if we look at paradigms as maps or representations of a world. If w...
I agree with this , and would add that the fantasy of peace in life that is the OP’s longing for ‘death’ is , like all experiences of peace or relief,...
Immediate and tangible….Of course, when we read abstract philosophy, each concept is grasped immediately, but I don’t think you mean it in this sense....
Isn’t the notion of semiotic encoding an atemporal concept? Does a code transcribe its pattern identically? And if not , must not the code itself pers...
It’s in parenthesis at the bottom of the quote. Revisiting First Language Acquisition through Empirical and Rational Perspectives. Abdorreza Tahriri P...
This is simply the way that ‘rational’ has been used when it comes to framing the debate between innatism and behaviorism. “The most important and pro...
An innate language module of the Chomskian sort specifies a particular way of organizing grammar prior to and completely independent of social interac...
Descartes argues that humans are rational animals, and the faculty that guarantees our rationality is an innate , God-given capacity to organize thoug...
We actually see an idealization or abstraction. Without our ‘notion’ filling in for what is not actually presented to us , in the form of memories and...
He meant that also with regard to issues about which empirical confirmation can be found. And in the case of the relation between affect and abstract ...
They are determinate enough to evoke a cultural context, to produce a narrative , to unsettle beliefs , and to be preferred over words by many as a wa...
I think you’re wrong here. A concrete auditory image is a door creaking or a train whistle , not a highly organized pattern of notes and pauses design...
Are you saying that music is based on concrete images, or that music is not a kind of reasoning? What about the pre-verbal valuative assumptions that ...
According to Pinker, I dont think Pinker’s approach is strictly compatible with Damasio. The latter understands mental phenomena from an embodied stan...
Let’s draw up a general conception of language for our purposes and see what we can discern from that. We know that even the simplest forms of percept...
If the toddler is young enough, they will not yet have attained the level of object permanence. To recognize an object as something which remains when...
What many postmodern approaches to science have in common is a radically temporal, self-reflexive point of view. In Rouse’s case , he likens assumptio...
What makes the matrix we interact with ‘external’ to us? The evidence coming from the world or our starting presuppositions? What a fess do we have to...
We wouldn’t say , though, that the hard-wiring is itself hard-wired. That is, ‘hard-wired’ is not a metaphysical a priori like a Kantian category, but...
Are you familiar with the later Wittgenstein? He argues that words do not refer to already existing objects. Strictly speaking , they do not refer at ...
We might want to radicalize the relation of tacit rules to concept application in the direction of the later Wittgenstein. “…we cannot appeal to socia...
That’s a good point. If we think about what is an empirical hypothesis, the use of words themselves provides a key example. Word use is performative, ...
Naming things with words is more than just sticking a symbol in front of a sign. Words are not just tools that we use to refer to an independently exi...
Don’t we need to include the concept of ‘x’ itself as what is involved in naming.? Put differently, aren’t the words we use more than just added-on to...
“Only feeling” is the very core of abstract meaning. It is an impressionistic kind of verbiage. Rather than describing feeling as indeterminate, I wou...
Derrida’s analyses of language attempted to show that what you are calling word symbols, and what Peirce calls ikon, have both conventional and inhere...
All thought and perception is symbolic in the sense of signifying something. Complexes of sound , image and sensation signify recognizable things. Mus...
For Rouse, what allows our species to do science is language, but language is homologous with the forms of responsive situational intentionality other...
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