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Only certain approaches to philosophy are concerned with , or believe in , the value or coherence of logical certainty. On the whole the history of ph...

I saw your quote , and I am not talking about the past. There have been , and always will be empirical accounts that are or less philosophical, more o...

I assume you’re paraphrasing Wittgenstein. That was not always the way that philosophy understood its job. And Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy...

Since when?

If science is advancing, then so is philosophy. There is no way to categorically distinguish between what science is and does, and what philosophy is ...

I agree with that. As far as we know, Bezos could be as much of a psychological mess as Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. It may come with the territory.

I appreciate that there are differing definitions of objectivity. My notion of objectivity, consistent with writers like Putnam, is not just the way t...

I like Woody Allen’s take on reality: “Can we actually 'know' the universe? My God, it's hard enough finding your way around in Chinatown. The point, ...

Why? Are you planning on investing in real estate?

Another variation on the ‘ postmodernists are self-refuting because they make truth claims against objective truth’ meme. Here’s the difference betwee...

Do you honestly think Kellyanne Conway is a postmodernist? What she said is what is called ‘spinning the truth’. Lies, half truths and manipulations a...

I’m proposing an idea of truth as intersubjective , not simply subjective. Yes, each of us enters into relations of communication with others bringing...

I’ve heard this many times. Where on earth do you get the idea that it is the far right in the U.S. that believes truth is something made up? I mean, ...

You’re referring to the old Cognitive therapy and rational emotive therapy programs , which were reality-based forms of psychotherapy. There have been...

Truth as correspondence with what is out there independent of us is one sort of attempt to discover ordered relationships. When I say this way masks s...

We find truth all around us, whenever we participate in forming broad abstractions that mask the interpersonal differences in purpose and perspective ...

I agree that how humans use language is a state of affairs, but is there an ultimate arbiter of the truth of certain statements about the world, for e...

And is this your belief about the nature of truth? Do you agree with Hilary Putnam that “while there is an aspect of conventionality and an aspect of ...

I agree that your last comment didn’t really need to be said.

Then I guess Trump supporters and liberals in the U.S live in different worlds, as Goodman says, given that they disagree profoundly on ethical, polit...

There is no problem with it for postmodernists. Discursive conventions are what allow us to come to agreement on ethical , inter social and scientific...

Joseph Rouse attempts to move the Sellarsian relation between manifest and scientific image in the direction of Heidegger, Kuhn and Rorty , as well as...

Why do you think violence is a necessary evil?

Those philosophers who are most sympathetic to Levinas’s critique of Heidegger’s ontology tend to be theologically oriented. When they accuse Heidegge...

yes indeed

You make it sound like philosophy constructs grammars and clarifications after the fact , by looking at the explanations of physicists and then making...

Yes, I don’t think there is any categorical way to distinguish the philosophical, the scientific-empirical , the technological, and the literary or ar...

If the job of explanation is to reveal interconnections, correlations and coherences among what had formerly been taken to be disparate phenomena, the...

Good point. I would say the explanation lies outside of the approach to naturalism that one finds in today’s physics. Or perhaps the way we are forced...

This was Quine’s position, that pragmatism’s relativism must ground itself in the realism of physics, a notion referred to as scientism by Putnam. Phy...

And the non-rhetorical answer is that truth conditions play only a minor role in determining the rightness of meaning , due to the fact that rightness...

There are two other sorts of camps. In one, indeterminacy is a failure of knowledge, the breakdown of certainly that leads to a skepticism , alienatio...

I’m going to cheat and use Putnam again: “The word "meaning" and its relatives may be used in a sense closely connected with linguistics (counting lex...

I think Putnam stands as a transitional figure between the realisms espouses by analytic philosophy up through Davidson and Quine and a full-fledged r...

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You put a lot of effort into researching this, which I appreciate. In his deconstructive reading of Levinas , Violence and Metaphysics (in Writing and...

You can start it wherever you want, but I think you’re making the wrong case. Fascism is a simplistic explanation, which mostly ignores or misreads ra...

That’s quite a leap you made there from Enframing to fascism. The concept of Enframing arose out of Heidegger’s analysis of the inauthentic comportmen...

I would have loved to say that to Sartre.

I can’t imagine that Rorty would choose Davidson’s position over Putnam’s on too many issues. I didn’t think you would. Just for the bell of it , I th...

Could you say a little more about your position concerning what Putnam calls conceptual relativity, his belief that the mind-dependence of facts means...

I’m assuming you agree with Putnam’s value objectivism , but what do you object to in the quotes I included concerning his conceptual relativism?

Are the two paragraphs saying essentially the same thing? And if not, what could possibly be the practical significance for our daily lives of the dif...

I just finished re-reading Putnam’s collection ‘Realism with a Human Face’. He leans a lot here on the later Wittgenstein and the American Pragmatists...

And a smidgeon of Viagra to elevate the level of philosophical intercourse.

Or we could argue that discursive practices that neither originate entirely within the individual nor the community, but in a complex dance between th...

Continental philosophy. It may have something to do with the water in Europe.

For Heidegger. S is P is derived from the ‘as’ structure. Heidegger's analysis of the derivation of propositional logic from a pragmatic ‘as' structur...

Except for Heidegger , Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Nietzsche, and a host of other phenomenologists and postmodernist philosophers. “But because d...

I don’t deny that Deleuze’s immanent panpsychism requires a transcendental framework. In fact he calls his approach an immanent transcendentalism. But...