Will to power is the self-differentiating creative impetus of willing. Deleuze says: Will to power does not mean that the will wants power. Will to po...
Do you believe that good and evil are the products of freely choosing autonomous individuals through causal reasoning, or that wrong-doing is fundamen...
As I recall , determinism for you is closely tied to intrinsicality, a property inherent to something that can be located dependably outside contextua...
The popular formulation of determinism as an approach to ethics de-emphasises personal responsibility. “…what we do and the way we are is ultimately t...
Yes, postmodern social constructionist Ken Gergen mentions some of the affinities he sees between buddhism and his model of relational being. “ Resona...
The present ( primal impression) isn’t indeterminate, it’s specious, complex. Retention and protention (anticipation) belong to the present. They are ...
The points you just made show a confusion concerning what postmodern models are aiming at. First of all , God requires a stable notion of the good. If...
Not all irrealisms, anti-realisms, idealisms and relativisms assume that truth is related to the human mind. Deleuze begins from the ‘idea’, but this ...
There are two ways to argue for free will. One is to defend classical metaphysical dualism and claim that the mind is not subject to the determinism o...
A yes or no would be a helpful starting point. Do you identify with Putnam’s position on realism in large part or do you have significant reservations...
What happens when one of my hands touches the other? I can be aware of myself as a subjectivity who senses, or as a body being sensed. But I can’t do ...
There are very different ways that philosophy can understand the relationship between series of ways of looking. at things. Descartes was among the fi...
'Physics does not yield a description of the structure of phenomenological states of affairs. In phenomenology it is always a matter of possibility, ...
And Monk cited Wittgenstein. That’s a direct quote from him. 'Physics', he said, 'does not yield a description of the structure of phenomenological s...
Ray Monk, Wittgenstein’s biographer, wrote: “The properties of space, time and matter that he was concerned with were not the subject of a physical in...
Whether it’s a normal everyday factual claim depends on how you are understanding it. The way I understand it , it doesnt function the way that claims...
There are discursive contexts which are more or less stable , more or less consistent. Thus an event as experienced by someone can be more or less ‘tr...
To a chemist a chair is a conglomeration of molecules, to a furniture maker it is an assemblage of materials, to a historian it is a cultural object ,...
Minds, tables , bodies , quarks and chairs are all contestable realities, conceptual abstractions that we make use of in various ways , which differ i...
It protects all wielding hands, by inviting coordination among indefinite multiplicities of would-be sword wielders . Let me rearrange your thought a ...
We do t first have rules that just sit there waiting for us to apply them. As Wittgenstein argued , a rule only exists in the moment of its applicatio...
Once these rules arise the context would no long be new and immature. It would have morphed into the sort of discursive system that Derrida is talking...
Because by its nature an unstable interpretive context has no consistent ‘ rules’. A new , immature context is internally inconsistent, shifting, conf...
Skepticism says there’s a real world external to our conceptions but we have no way of verifying the fidelity of our conceptions with that reality. Po...
To be fair to various postmodernists, it is not all conceptions of truth that are suspect, but truth as a human relation to context-independent , intr...
The Tibetan book of the dead is of little use in iPhone design for the same reason that it is of little use in the design of Cartesian or Kantian phil...
Things we say or theorize, and actions we perform that ‘won’t do’ change our circumstances in ways that make it possible for the theories that ‘will d...
There is a place for the mind in Cartesian models , but as outside agent, for Descartes the divinely directed rational organizer of data, and for Kant...
The old anti-postmodernist , anti-relativist chestnut rears its head: ‘How can the radical relativist claim that there is no objective truth, when the...
Conservatives in the U.S. like to say that the facts of nature dont care about our feelings. All I would add to this is that this logic extends to fee...
Use is not necessarily the same thing as true. If a statement is a convention of language , then truth is a particular kind of conventional statement,...
Here’s something to add to your reading, Postmodernism and our understanding of science. It’s a solid summary of one of the best representatives of po...
True and false only make sense within a particular convention, that of truth as correctness and adequation with respect to a fixed external referent. ...
I’m saying what we call third personal , like physiological concepts, and ‘inner’ concepts like sensation, are the same ‘stuff’, and by stuff I don’t ...
Or: Via intersubjective discourse, we construct concepts like physiological, biological, physical. Even though we treat them as though all traces of o...
The ‘is’ seems a little problematic to me, as if we were talking about absolutely equivalent senses of meaning. How do we know we are dealing with a b...
Einstein’s work should neither be held up as the resolution of an error nor as proof of an error. Rather, it should be seen as an invitation to partic...
One can think of how things are in terms of dead physicalistic nature independent our interaction with it and interpretation of it , or how things are...
It depends on how Wittgenstein and Austin are read. Banno shies away from more ‘countercultural’ interpretations of these authors. Compare his reading...
Good for you. Then ignore the wiki quote and pay attention to my comments. My comment is that Lloyd is offering an interesting blend of determinism an...
You think this is not what Lloyd is claiming? Would take me probably a half hour to confirm that this is exactly what he is claiming. Should I waste t...
According to Wiki, “In his 2006 book, Programming the Universe, Lloyd contends that the universe itself is one big quantum computer producing what we ...
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