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Not every school of psychology considers the objectivizing approach implied by cognitive bias as “accepted”. There are approaches which are troubled b...

Hmm. A system of differences without positive elements. The question is how that system comes into play in contextual word use. As a normative , gramm...

Here’s a reply from one of the right’s favorite punching bags, Derrida, the poster child of postmodern ‘relativism’: “Of course there is a "right trac...

I wasn’t talking about transgender. I was taking about gay men and women. There are many of them. I’m sure you know some. Your whole life you probably...

No, it’s strongly correlated to biology. Whatever biology can do , it will do, meaning that biological mechanisms of inheritance are capable of creati...

Deleuze is useful here. There is a lot of Derrida in his position on mathematics. He argues that quantification is inherently qualitative. That is , e...

That’s certainly quite compatible with embodied , enactive , embedded approaches in cognitive science. Gallagher’s primary corporeal intersubjectivity...

. Even if the claim were that gender is a biological reality you would reject it. Why? Because, first of all, gender refers not to sexual identity as ...

Here’s more on Rouse’s disagreement with Brandom, McDowell and Haugeland: “Haugeland, McDowell, and Brandom have further developed the “manifest” conc...

A tamer version of that claim which presupposes the dialectical transformation of centered structures(reverberation through a structure) is a form of ...

I should have said the issue for Derrida was the undecidability vs the indetermination of the poles of distinctions. “I do not believe I have ever spo...

Rouse takes up Sellars’ distinction between the manifest image and the scientific image , and shows them to be inextricably dependent on each other. I...

Here’s a good argument in favor of making the distinction: https://youtu.be/cU1LhcEh8Ms

I am not an advocate of the cognitive bias framework. Each of us interpret the world via value schemes which differ from person to person. In order to...

I agree with you here.

First of all, contrary to Peterson and other conservatives, CRT, BLM and cancel culture in general is not a postmodern movement. It is a form of moral...

This would not be Derrida’s view. For him there is no form without substance. Form and content are equivocal in every meaning. Saussure’s system of la...

It wouldnt be a question of jettisoning distinctions , but of making any singularity equivocal and indeterminable(which is not the same thing as indef...

I might add that usage doesn’t only become metaphorical. For Derrida there is no non-metaphorical usage. Also, one would not be able to separate ‘mind...

He does indeed place desire for pure presence at the heart of all desire. But pure presence for Derrida is death, so desire must always be thwarted or...

Perhaps Jackson should have said that , despite the fact that Kant’s idealism was intended to avoid Humean skepticism , Kant’s split between our repre...

So you are not a skeptic, right?

What is it we are seeking when we seek knowledge? A true correspondence between our maps and the actual territory? Or ways of seeing the world in more...

Derrida would agree with you that there are better and worse readings of texts.

Which is the space and which is the object? Is there ever an object or just a field of differentials?

I certainly agree with that. I think of the modern Kantian and neo-Kantian forms of skepticism as arising from a presumed gap between our representati...

What drives the aspirations to be rational? How and why do motivational-affective-valuative processes direct us toward rationality? Are you familiar w...

Deleuze embraces Nietzsche’s anti-dialectical perspective against Hegel: “Pluralism sometimes appears to be dialectical — but it is its most ferocious...

I have a habit of posting before I have completed my edit.

Doesn’t Hegel post a totalization of differences in Absolute Subjectivity?

Philosophers like Nietzsche , Foucault ,Heidegger , Derrida , Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty argue that the notion of the nothing as lack is the result of ...

Like figure-ground? We could reverse these then, right? With a shift of perspective the negative space becomes the object and the object becomes negat...

The only quibble I have is the claim that there is only one true reality. Kelly at times did seem to talk like a realist, but the important thing is t...

I know it will sound weird if I say that philosophy ‘sent folks to the moon’ two centuries before NASA. But what I mean is that most of the important ...

I was still editing my comment.

To test a perspective on the world is to use it as a tool for meaningfully organizing and anticipating events. We know that a construct is invalidated...

You should dump Maslow for his contemporary, George Kelly ( or at least Carl Rogers). Kelly’s philosophy of constructive alternativism offers that the...

All philosophical accounts are testable and only persist becuase they continue to be validated. Your notion of testability comes from a narrowly conce...

Consistent with your previous comment, we only know error(clouds) in hindsight, from the vantage of a new perspective. All current scientific and phil...

Clearing away clouds is only desirable to the extent that it opens up magnificent new vistas. Would you describe the job of the sciences as merely cle...

Exactly. They create a specific ‘way’( a metaphysics), and assume future philosophy will follow this path and add more clarity and detail. In other wo...

Which is why historical movements are only identified in hindsight.

What about Descartes( certainty of the cogito) , Kant(irreducibility of the categories) , Hegel( Absolute subjectivity) , Husserl ( apodictic certaint...

I’m a fan of Thomas Kuhn. His paradigm shifts are philosophical transformations.

I tend to use them interchangeably.

Would you like to elaborate?

The awareness comes from within the sciences themselves. Heidegger argued that for the most parts the sciences dont think, they construct their own re...

You think the sciences are any different? How could they be when every significant scientific development in history requires a change in philosophica...

I have to say that every philosophical position I’ve ever read believes that it has reached the irreducible basis of things and has stripped thought o...

Is that because you are an advocate of a materialist viewpoint?(Just curious)