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It is useful to compare Pinter’s model of gestalt with that of Merleau-Ponty. For Pinter , a gestalt “is a complex of images that we may call the conc...

Variance cause variance. As Deleuze said, a change is a difference that makes a difference. Laws and patterned regularities are idealizations of conti...

I’m not at all denying that humans understand the world by reference to a system of constructs , channels of meaning by which we interpret, organize a...

Oh shit.. I meant ‘deny’

A lot of work has been done on autism within the enactivist community. Take a look at these articles: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC360...

It is true that whether I watch another dreaming , or listen to them speak , I cannot say that I can accurately anticipate how they will behave next. ...

Good questions. I agree that the way the interactionist position is articulated here gives the impression that we simply read off others’ intentions a...

In doing so , haven’t you swapped out intrinsic features of an external world for intrinsic features of an internal conceptual world? Why not go all t...

Do you damn that they can experience themselves performing this action, or that this is something they do whether they are aware of it or not? If the ...

Patterns emerge and are reinforced or altered in actual contexts of interaction, rather than in rules or properties that supposedly exist before or ou...

The question is whether we should look at such experiences as imagination and dreaming as merely a re-arrangement of what was already there, the acces...

I think the opposite is the case. There are no intrinsic properties because the heterogeneity the world produces is not based on static facts of the m...

I would argue with Putnam , who is a semantic relativist , that the world has no intrinsic properties or attributes. What is real is internal to accou...

Hilary Putnam makes a distinction between scientific equations and worldviews: “Theories in a mature science typically include earlier theories as lim...

No, we can not use the word ‘sit’ to refer to a doing without concepts, or without some other organized framework of interrelationality ( sensori-moto...

This description is not that far removed from how enactivist cognitive science understands consciousness. That is, they dispense with the internal-ext...

To get to ‘what a thing is’ non-conceptually , we would have to remove all words that conceptually determine what it is that is being done or seen ( a...

Perception is conceptually saturated. So doing things with chairs is informed by this tacit background intelligibility. We throw chairs, or sit on the...

Yep.

Recent approaches in cognitive psychology base knowledge on biological models of niche construction. According to this thinking, scientific and other ...

Unless of course both art and science are intersubjective, but in different ways, as Thomas Kuhn argues. That’s why he concludes that if the idea of p...

I think it was in Monk’s biography of Witt

[ I would say that any school of philosophy that understands its inquiry in isolation from the biological and cultural niches that produce it will ere...

There is indeed much fragmentation, but let’s see which schools of thought are capable of mutual interchange, based on successful efforts in the past....

I think the words of physicist Lee Smolen are relevant here. “… fundamental physics has been in a crisis, due to the evident need for new revolutionar...

You mean Christianity?

Excellent points :100:

This is an old view of what science and philosophy do, harking back to Kant. Popper’s falsificationist philosophy of science is a representation of th...

In case that quote by Thompson’s wasn't enough, I will organize contributions by contemporary philosophers in the form of a developmental hierarchy, b...

Did you ever cross paths with Eugene Gendlin, who arrived at U. of C. in 1963?

I thought I did. this from Evan Thompson’s book, Mind in Life: “One common thread running through the following chapters is a re-liance on the philoso...

Client-centered therapy is very accessible to the public, and it is compatible with what Thompson is doing.

you’ve been reading the wrong philosophy. Try this from Evan Thompson. (Mind in Life( “In recent years, however, it has become increasingly clear to m...

One could adjust this to read:Because scientific criteria of intersubjective agreement and predictability are designed to be so generic, general and a...

I suppose it depends on who is doing the philosophizing. I am very impressed with the work of Joseph Rouse. I can assure you his grasp of the physical...

I disagree. Phenomenologically informed enactivist models of neural functioning complement what Michael James Bennett calls “ a veritable sea change i...

I believe that the root of our disagreement is that you and I are not reading the same philosophers or scientists. Tell me what you think constitutes ...

Science and philosophy are completely separate because they have different buildings? Their textbooks are different colors, too. As for the arts and m...

Ok, here’s some contrivance for you: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, Francisco J. Varela Evan Thompson Eleanor Rosch Conver...

Still, there must be aspects of the model that assume chance, random and arbitrary features. Look to these for the impetus for better reformulations o...

Is this what they used to use to attempt to describe smoke and cloud patterns? When chaos theory was introduced it brought order and predictability to...

The divorce you’re talking about is the same Cartesian split that divides the subjective from the objective. It depends on a fact-value divide. When o...

What I meant specifically is that laws of physics are conceptual creations that may come to be seen eventually as a relic of a certain era of physics.

You would first have to have read and understood these writers, or those contributing today to the leading edge of empirical research who find the wor...

Or perhaps this is merely what WE do.

So that must mean there must have been very few significant scientific advances in the past 100 years. Either that or your knowledge of philosophical ...

There have been theses written about the philosophical underpinnings of all of these scientific advances, such as the association between Newton and D...

That’s a hard picture for me to swallow. I prefer to think of the history of science as a succession of different crafts , each more complex and sophi...

It might be a lot simpler just to list the paradigm shifts in empirical science over the past 400 years. If you examine the changing presuppositions u...

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