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I tend to associate the term ‘free will’ with conservative approaches to moral philosophy like that of Peter Strawson ( or ). What Thompson has in min...

This isn’t an arbitrary distinction, it’s a crucial one when it comes to the issue of free will. He is saying that classical determinism is a social c...

Would you agree with this by Evan Thompson? “…it is important to distinguish between determinism as a feature of a scientific model and determinism as...

It has been argued that classical determinism is an arbitrary scheme which doesn’t allow for any true change or novelty. If evolutionary transformatio...

Can this process of biological and cultural complexification be modeled in terms of the deterministically causal motions of objects in space (evolutio...

Me either. I like the approach of my favorite psychologist, George Kelly: “…determination and freedom are two complementary aspects of structure. They...

So is free will. Advocates of free will generally believe in some form of evil. Exceptions include Daniel Dennett, but his notion of freedom, as laid ...

If free will exists , then does evil exist?

Does Quantum Mechanics Rule Out Free Will? According to this article, physicists are split on the issue. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do...

I’m thinking of such approaches as enactivism, phenomenology, postmodern perspectives like poststructuralism and hermeneutics. Determinisms accept emp...

Neither free will nor determinism adequately describes the human situation. Both options in fact cling to kinds of determinism. Free will metaphysics ...

The brain’s pain/pleasure system is correlated with the success or failure of anticipatory sense making. So the question is, how uniform is sense-maki...

If you like Davidson you might be interested in the work of Joseph Rouse, a rising star in the Pittsburgh school of philosophy. He begins with the Sel...

I wrote a similar paper, available here in draft form: https://www.academia.edu/38288335/Heidegger_Will_to_Power_and_Gestell “If we examine Heidegger'...

The split between internal representation and external reality that free energy models depend on amounts to a particular sort of idealism. It seems to...

I would hope not , because that distinction is presupposed by the way we use language in those situations.

Where and how do you draw the line here so as to be able to make the distinction you’re trying to make between what is constructed and what is prior t...

And they construct ‘clay’ and ‘chemicals’ and ‘physical’.

Is this also true of cups? Are they constructed by communities of minds using language? Is the word ‘physical’ then just one of these social construct...

Not necessarily. If we are expand the concept of idealism beyond Kant and neo-Kantianism ( and actually we wouldn’t need to do so in order to protect ...

Why do you think of the number 3? What is the motivation, the context that frames the thought of 3? Isn’t it always slightly different? If I ask you t...

In the case of state vs function, description vs process, being vs doing , is it basically a matter of a temporally unfolding event ( or series of eve...

Are you saying that Deleuze did not understand Schopenhauer? What assumptions must be made about the nature of the will in order to argue that it must...

Deleuze argues that Schopenhauer’s pessimism is a result of thinking Will as representation and illusion. For Schopenhauer, “ the essence of the will ...

Now all you have to do is dump Schopenhauer’s metaphysical conception of the Will in favor of Nietzsche’s: “There are still harmless self-observers wh...

This account implies a relational basis for the basic organizing processes of life, but it doesn’t necessarily support a subject-based and consciousne...

I would like to think he would say ‘Finally someone understands me.’( maybe not so much with Derrida)

At least he didn’t have mutton chops.

There are many Nietzsches. That is , there are many interpretive camps when it comes to his work. There are right and left Nietzscheans, realist and p...

Immediate contexts can never be ‘epistemological’ because the latter refers to general categories of meaning, while the former involves the actual sub...

More on that here: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/nietzsches-engagements-with-kant-and-the-kantian-legacy-volume-i-nietzsche-kant-and-the-...

Also opposition to his metaphysics, which Nietzsche thought was too close to Kantian idealism( his notion of will , for instance). Nietzsche considere...

That IS the context of the utterance. When one means ‘you’re more selfish than average’, they have a specific contextual reason for making that statem...

Yes, a touchstone, and also an adversary. Nietzsche’s starting point is in opposition to Schopenhauer. Nietzsche’s naturalism is not Darwinian. It con...

I didn’t mean they were following a rule, only that they were choosing to ignore the specific contextual sense of the phrase in favor of a generic mea...

Context insensitivity or context blindness? Or maybe literalism.

Not just the magnitude of her importance to you, but the qualitative changes in her importance, how and whether she is relevant or irrelevant to you, ...

If we put this a bit differently and say that the evidence that supports faith is the way one lives oneself, not the way others live, we might then ha...

A central characteristic of the psychology of cults is an intense need for a sense of belonging. This need finds its satisfaction in a delicately cons...

Have you read any of what Nietzsche proposes concerning this ‘slave’ morality?

You asked what is the value of faith. I believe that faith and value are inextricable. Faith in its most fundamental form is an expectation, a hope, a...

Im not talking about rational doubt , which Cartesian doubt is referring to, but pragmatic faith and doubt , which is a very different thing. The perc...

Let’s say there are plenty of personal witnesses and we’re talking about something all of us can observe at the same time. Is a kind of faith not also...

The value of faith is value itself. Logic, empiricism and reason depend on a foundation of values, which are the essence of faith.

There is such a thing as faith in epistemology, a faith that the new atheists don’t recognize in themselves.

Yes, and I would go even further. Our lives are a mess. All of us. I dont mean this to sound as bad as it does. What I mean is that whatever we have a...

Husserl , Rorty and Heidegger wrote a fair bit on absolute presuppositions underlying the sciences prior to the 20th century, including res extensia a...

And after all that work they eventually find that what they end up with is a conscious bias.

Whichever one you choose must earn and re-earn that privilege by validating its usefulness repeatedly in your relationships with others. Philosophy is...

Whichever one makes the most sense to you. You already have a system of ethics you prefer, which I would guess matches up with something between betwe...