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I think the key term here is ‘imagine’. Without some implicit normative overview transcendent to the phenomena being described we can’t get from ‘chao...

This is interesting. I’m on a Joseph Rouse kick, reading his Articulating the World. The book is about thinking about thinking , more specifically thi...

An algorithm produces a lawfulness through the recursive repetition of its formal structure. Where does the algorithm’s formal structure come from? Is...

Dennett seems to want to have his cake and eat it too. He says we can understand organic and cultural evolution from within a physical, design or inte...

We wouldn’t need an evolutionary explanation if ‘beauty’ ‘efficient’ and ‘graceful’ can be understood as self-grounding concepts. If they can’t, then ...

Apparently it does to some extent. Isn’t the gold dress -blue dress problem an example of gestalt perception? Think of the duck-rabbit or vase-face se...

Yes, I did. It makes one appreciate that from the planet’s point of view ( as opposed to human civilization), the time scale of climate change will be...

To the extent that the public use of language brings with it expectations concerning what we are seeing , it will have an influence on our perceptions...

There is no perception without conceptualization in humans ( and higher animals). Conceptualization doesn’t mean using formal. language. To perceive p...

Does this M.I.T. Technology review article jibe with what you are reading? “…cyclic gravitational tugs from Jupiter and Saturn periodically elongate E...

Dennett is an indirect realist, and his view of goals and beliefs is that these features of a cognitive system can be reduced to the collective activi...

The physical properties we ascribe to the world are just as dependent on our accounts as are the colors we see. Neither is more ‘true’ to nature than ...

I think the question for Putnam is whether any rules can be treated as non-relative to a conceptual scheme of understanding. Being a conceptual relati...

Putnam had some interesting thoughts on material conceptions of causation “I have argued that materialism, which conceives of persons as automata, inh...

When we demonstrate the truth or falsity of an empirical claim, this is made possible because the intelligibility of what is at issue is determined wi...

Joseph Rouse argues: “This account blocks both realism and anti-realism by showing how the contentfulness of scientific claims about the world is work...

Maybe it would be better to dissolve the epistemological problem of perception by dissolving the alleged gap between perceiver and world and along wit...

I was in a philosophy meetup yesterday and the moderator insisted that I admit there are bald facts about aspects of the world, and denying such concr...

For Heidegger, ‘what it’s like’ means ‘how it changes’. For a vantage with a particular history, which remakes itself in creating and recreating a sta...

Heidegger also saw the boundaries of language as a problem for the articulation of being But it should be understood that what he saw language as stan...

Really? Can you find a quote for that?

Contemporary philosophy doesn’t look for first causes to explain Everything. They look for formal structures of becoming and transformation. Hegel was...

Let’s get back to the larger topic of realism and cognitive science. I want to shift tone here; I think a bit of nuance is in order. Anthony Chemero w...

You have to be kidding me. You’re right about one thing, there should be no debate here. My undergraduate degree is in biopsychology. My graduate degr...

How is this not research in cognitive science? Arntzen,E.C.,Normann,B.Øberg,G.K.andGallagher,S.2019.Perceived bodily changes individualized, group-bas...

We discuss Rouse’s book in a 2 hour meetup every other Sunday beginning at 6 pm London time. You’re welcome to join. https://www.meetup.com/the-toront...

I highly recommend Joseph Rouse’s ‘Articulating the World’. His postmodern rejection of realism , rather than being based on “free-flowing association...

Here is a small sampling of Gallagher’s ‘philosophical’ work. Notice the wide range of scientific journals that have published him as well as the spec...

For my money, it is not quantum physics that clearly begs for a non-realist metaphysics , but certain approaches within cognitive science billing them...

For Kuhn a paradigmatic normal science community can function perfectly well without agreement on basic theoretic issues , such as what exactly is the...

I read the paper you linked to. These two ways of speaking about boiling point don’t seem to present us with the alternative meanings of ‘boiling poin...

Kuhn loss is exemplified by the continued use of an empirical concept, but with a changed sense. To get from the old to the new use and back again req...

How would you articulate a model of reason that didn’t make use of a notion of mind( or subjectivity)?

You could also call it neo-Kantianism. 1 Forthcoming in Husserl Studies. Please quote from published version. Brain, Mind, World: Predictive coding, n...

What is the relation between language and real, nameable objects? This is the question of the basis of the concept of an object or category of objects...

The Zahavi paper that Wayfarer linked to tries to show how Husserlian phenomenology allows us to avoid the metaphysical trap that you , Kant and Denne...

A meta narrative is a claim to universal truth. Personally constructed narratives draw from our own history with others. They are pragmatic and orient...

I guess what I meant was that embedded values and ontological assumptions are two ways of talking about the same thing. Most of the world’s ethical di...

Psychologist George Kelly said what matters is not whether the universe exists, but what we can make of it. Of course, how successful we are at this e...

If you were arguing that all of us should abandon realism and avoid the tendency to use terms that suggest we believe there is an unshackled truth bey...

Notice that when psychologists play ‘gotcha!’ and talk about how our naive perception is fooled by illusions and tricks, that the ‘real’ truth of what...

What I appreciate most about Rouse’s approach is that rather than treating philosophical or scientific conceptual norms as grounding starting points f...

I agree with Husserl’s and Heidegger’s critiques of realist assumptions undergirding much scientific thinking. But I don’t find it necessary , as they...

You may have phenomenology in mind here. One might argue that both the theories of scientists and philosophers are influenced by the cultural stories ...

Here’s an interesting analysis of the issue from an enactivist perspective: Active inference, enactivism and the hermeneutics of social cognition: Sha...

I should mention that mindfulness awareness is not quite what Hussel or Merleau-Ponty had in mind. For them there is no purely reflexive non-intention...

You’re using a cognitive science vocabulary that differs somewhat from the psychological approaches to affectivity that I identify with. Your model te...

Yes , it is both immediate and interpretive, as is all perception. What I directly perceive of your feelings and intentions is a version of them, just...

So the question is, from Pinter’s vantage what is left of reality when we remove color, shape, features and individual appearance? Is a wavelength of ...

Let me use Pinter’s own words to make the case that his is a classic neo-Kantian appearance-reality dualism. To begin with, one of his chapter heading...