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Their experience is available to me as their experience as seen from my perspective of them, through my interpretation of them. Thus, I don’t have dir...
October 03, 2025 at 13:10
What’s the difference between dreaming about me and being a novelist who writes a story with me as one of the characters? Novelists often say the char...
October 03, 2025 at 12:48
I was trying to point to methods ( hermeneutical, phenomenological, enactivist) which go back and forth between first and third person , between the f...
October 02, 2025 at 20:24
Doesnt the strange world of dreams teach us that just as important as the question of whether something exists is how it exists? Have you ever noticed...
October 02, 2025 at 20:17
My point isn’t simply that different accounts of nature can co-exist, it’s that when you say “My impression is that there is nothing really in biology...
October 02, 2025 at 17:59
You’re missing the sleight of hand trick we perform called ‘objectivation’. The starting point of subjective experience is flowingly changing, never i...
October 02, 2025 at 13:35
Third person questions imply objective answers . Objectivity implies flattening subjective experience so as to produce concepts which are self-identic...
October 02, 2025 at 03:06
There is another, perhaps more important, issue at play here. It’s not just a matter of providing an explanation. It’s recognizing that there are a mu...
October 02, 2025 at 00:37
You see no problem that’s hard because you don’t believe the methods and modes of description (the various models of material causality mentioned so f...
September 30, 2025 at 16:51
My preferred approaches to philosophy of science find the concept of abduction problematic for a number of reasons. First, abduction is too rationalis...
September 30, 2025 at 02:31
Good point. Chalmers is suspicious of reductionism because he sees the form of description on the basis of which consciousness would be reduced ( empi...
September 30, 2025 at 01:24
There’s repentance. I don’t mean this in a religious sense, but as re-construal. The best way to appreciate anything in our life is to refresh its mea...
September 24, 2025 at 20:13
Here’s a counter to apokrisis‘s treatment of causality from an enactivist perspective. I’m curious as to how it resonates with your reading of Colling...
September 24, 2025 at 14:23
Not only that, but when we compare difficult philosophical texts like Heidegger’s Being and Time with work aimed at a more popular audience, the latte...
September 23, 2025 at 19:59
To be a philosopher means thinking philosophically, whether one does that in an exceptional or mediocre way. So what does it take to think philosophic...
September 23, 2025 at 16:57
And it shows how the world we live in has changed. Up until recently, most notable philosophers wrote outside of academic environments and lived off o...
September 23, 2025 at 03:37
very cool pic
September 22, 2025 at 00:56
I don’t mean that literally 80-85% of the country is hostile to the philosophical and political values that urban America stands for. My point is that...
September 21, 2025 at 23:39
I’m focusing on the high population-dense cities themselves, not ‘urban areas’ inclusive of vast stretches of sprawling conservative suburbs. The form...
September 21, 2025 at 22:52
I’m curious. Which of the cities I listed do you live in? Do you live within the city limits or in a suburb? If you live within one of those cities I ...
September 21, 2025 at 22:38
My best guess is a sharp economic downturn and likely recession will ensue, and a collapse of the crypto and A.I. bubbles will hurt many average citiz...
September 21, 2025 at 21:33
This time is different. During the Civil War one crucial issue profoundly divided the north and south, but on so many other cultural issues the electo...
September 21, 2025 at 21:17
Or one might recognize that the subject is not pre-given; it is produced historically, socially, and psychologically through morality, culture, and po...
September 21, 2025 at 03:49
Why are liberal communities composed of sheep but your community isn’t? Should we judge these communities by who is ‘winning’ and who is ‘losing’ , as...
September 20, 2025 at 22:28
In his final piece of writing, On Certainty, Wittgenstein describes how G.E. Moore asserts something quite close to what Janus claims, that we can kno...
September 18, 2025 at 14:05
You’re trying to run all these concepts through a propositional logic wringer, which, as I said before, presupposes that the terms we are comparing do...
September 17, 2025 at 19:00
Your point is relevant to certain readings of pragmatism, wherein ‘usefulness’ is measured in terms of conformity between a belief and ‘ how things ar...
September 17, 2025 at 02:17
A metaphysics IS a boundary, setting up criteria for correctness, and more importantly, for intelligiblity. A metaphysics speaks to being qua being vi...
September 16, 2025 at 21:44
Poststructuralists, hermeneuticists, the later Wittgenstein and phenomenologists all recognize that there are certain assumptions in play when we lay ...
September 16, 2025 at 20:42
I think it misses the point to treat postmodern hermeneutics and phenomenology as making arguments designed to ‘refute’ or dismiss the opposition. Rat...
September 16, 2025 at 20:01
Less than you might think. It’s first necessary to understand the radical way in which Heidegger departs from K. You won’t find this in Caputo’s relig...
September 16, 2025 at 19:43
They’re not tools for mapping onto objects, but for enacting new forms of sense in our material and discursive interactions with the world. A hammer d...
September 16, 2025 at 15:03
My point is that the word ‘truth’ doesn’t have any aspect of its meaning that transcends the context of its actual use. It’s not just that truth is af...
September 15, 2025 at 14:35
But ‘caring’ seems to go along with truth. Pesky concepts like mattering , relevance and significance are baked in whenever we ‘use’ the word truth. A...
September 14, 2025 at 13:53
When one talks about experiencing the past or the future , one emphasizes a certain style of approach , a certain mood or attitude. I am ‘pre-occupied...
September 13, 2025 at 13:54
So ‘ God’ is just the gift of difference that repeats itself in the contextually relative becoming of experience from moment to moment? And the intell...
September 12, 2025 at 23:26
You may believe in the reality of these narratives, but you don’t believe each is transcendent in itself. You believe they are historically contingent...
September 12, 2025 at 23:11
At a certain point these begin to sound awfully similar. Better and better knowledge orients and organizes itself teleologically on the basis of the ‘...
September 12, 2025 at 21:16
Being trapped within the ‘dead’ past and imagined future are of a piece with being stuck within the punctual ‘now’. The problems you list don’t come f...
September 12, 2025 at 19:56
Does ‘literary artist’ mean he was not also a philosopher? I don’t know about you, but when I develop a philosophical insight and validate it to my sa...
September 12, 2025 at 19:01
You argue that modern liberalism, in the guises of personal improvement, self-help and wellness programs, gives preference to the desires of the indiv...
September 12, 2025 at 18:31
Do you mean that I am using “same” as a rule which outlaws beforehand certain ways among others that we may use general and generality, or that genera...
September 07, 2025 at 18:01
Generality is possible whenever we use that word. But what is the difference in what we are doing when we think the endless possibilities of grammatic...
September 07, 2025 at 14:07
Yes, but each time we invoke the same generality we mean a particular sense that wasn’t already present in the generality. So it’s never the ‘same’ ge...
September 05, 2025 at 21:30
I prefer ‘philosophical perspective’ to ‘ideology’. Ideologies lend themselves to empty slogans abstracted away from how people actually understand th...
September 05, 2025 at 21:25
I agree with your overall analysis. I would say that in order for liberals to gain the ascendancy again in the U.S., what is needed isnt so much an ar...
September 05, 2025 at 21:15
My point is: 1) Many, including Fukuyama, explain the recent rise of rightwing populism and authoritarianism as a form of ‘backsliding’ away from the ...
September 05, 2025 at 14:10
I read W as making a distinction between what phenomenologists call the mode of givenness of an object and the object taken in a theoretical sense. It...
September 03, 2025 at 22:20
Not so much problematic as illusory. When we stand between two mirrors facing each other, this seems a good exemplar of pure self-repetition. But we t...
September 03, 2025 at 21:46
I discern two main theses in the OP. First, there is an anti-Fukuyama argument. He famously claimed that with rise of liberal democracy around the wor...
September 03, 2025 at 15:16