Joshs

Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Kant , Hegel, etc: Each of these implies an original approach to ethics.

I though a philosophy WAS a ‘system of ethics’.

Not necessarily. “In Einstein's first 1905 paper on E = mc2, he treated m as what would now be called the rest mass, and it has been noted that in his...

We generally lie when we think our real motives and justifications will not be understood the way we mean them, in their full context , or when we bel...

In the same way that deconstruction reveals the basis of all idealisms and empiricisms in the movement of differance.

Heidegger got his model of animal functioning from Jakob von Uexküll, a pioneer in biosemiotics.

Heidegger’s questionable take on the difference between Dasein and animals: “The specific manner in which man is we shall call comportment and the spe...

Here’s a snippet from his early 20’s: As for madness, Jackie sometimes felt he was on the verge of succumbing to it as he started his second year in k...

I’m reading his biography right now, and I’m starting to think that his extremely neurotic and depressive personality entered into his writing in the ...

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Just be careful not to universalize your sentiments. It’s fine that FOR YOU he is only enjoyable as arcane literature, and YOU can’t take him seriousl...

But what of the ‘sense’ of this rule? There is never just what is the case, a propositional truth structure. There is a way in which it is the case , ...

The term ‘self-refuting’ tips me off to the root of the issue here, which is less about Derrida in particular than about every one of the numerous phi...

yes, it is standard physics , but it ignores the fact that these images that forms sequence are. or neural bits of data, they appear to us and qualita...

I wouldnt assume as continuous a scattered array of images. I would instead say that there were different things moving independently of each other.So...

What ties together this sequence of discrete images in my mind such that , for the sake of convenience, I can idealize it as a continuous movement? Af...

I’m a firm believer in two things: 1) Constructive alternativism: There are an infinite number of ways we can organize our understanding of our world....

Can you give some examples?

How do thing become associated? Hume wrote specifically about this.

FWIW, most of the political rants you hear about accusing some entity or other of wielding their power and privilege is not postmodern but Marxist or ...

The question is , how do things become associated ? What is the ‘glue’ that binds them?

Think about Hume’s model of associative synthesis. Correct me if I’m wrong , but like the behavioral models in psychology that borrowed from it, it de...

The more solid, substantial and permanent you make your irreducible contents, the more polarizing and violent becomes the relations between these cont...

What I mean by ‘not even temporarily’ is that only the actual interchange , in that moment, establishes the actual norm as what it is. The norm is a p...

As I’m sure you will agree, there are central ethical implications to how we understand the relation between identity and difference. Much of the disc...

I could be wrong , but it seems you’re not comfortable in making the leap from neo-Kantianism to a phenomenologically-informed enactivism. You want to...

Im reminded of two opposing reading of the later Wittgenstein. The first has been put forth by Pete Hacker, along with Gordon Baker , who later jumped...

m Unless of course the responsible and autonomous self is just an effect of discursive practices within a community.

Oh, but I think a lot has sensibly been said by recent philosophy about a concept of history that is neither Cartesian nor Kantian.

It isnt simply a matter of pointing out that everything has a history. As you know , for Derrida, Foucault, Nietzsche and Heidegger we are nothing but...

My point about the relation between negative emotions like guilt and shame , and the breakdown of predictive sense-making, is that guilt, shame and an...

The question is what it is we are doing when we produce science, philosophy and other forms of understanding. For Rouse , enactivist cognitive science...

If you haven’t read him, you might enjoy Husserl’s analyses of the constitution of a real spatial object. The real object is never completely fulfille...

We don’t observe the world directly but through a personal framework of constructs that form a functional unity. Each of us is thus ‘biased’ with resp...

What about the idea that the same endures by continuing to be itself differently? From this vantage, it is endurance of the same which depends on alte...

bitch. ( thought I’d keep you off guard)

But no, monseiur, writing IS time. ( you know, the repetition that alters )

Your writing is a lot more entertaining than mine. ( that’s a compliment)

A method is a way of proceeding in the world , a way of organizing particular meanings according to a larger scheme or totality of relevance. In that ...

The structure of temporality is the basis of all methods , in that it throws us into a world that is already intelligible to us in some way. This fami...

Derrida’s notion of deconstruction is not a method but a way of understanding the basis of all methods. And it not an algorithm but a way of understan...

Isn’t this where Derrida comes in? That is, the concept of writing as the way that a mark that I produce survives me and my intent? It can be read aft...

I think the position you’d be comfortable with is neo-Kantianism, It asserts that the facts of the world only come to us mediated by our interpretatio...

Ok, but remember, the mark is undecidable(because it is split into two equivocal aspects), not indeterminate, so he would probably bristle at the term...

I haven’t read much on this aspect of Derrida’s life. Can you say more?

But deconstruction doesn’t need external grounds. When one assumes such ‘externality’, one is already courting skepticism. Deconstruction doesn’t do a...

I disagree with Miller’s account of deconstruction. His definition is one that has been used within literary theory, but their understanding of decons...

I agree

I have been describing skepticism in terms of the impossibility of transcending the rift between our representations of truth and meaning , and the wo...

Here’s my collection of Derrida quotes about Sartre. They’re all nasty. Hold onto your seat: The Pocket-Size Interview with Jacques Derrida Freddy Tel...