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Russell and Hawking may have ridiculed what they understood to be metaphysics, but this hardly means their own view of the world was lacking a metaphy...

Does that mean we can’t critique materialism, or just that we have to wait till we’ve agreed on the metaphysical assumptions of classical physics?

EX-ist: passage , transition, difference. No-thing and something together form an Existing. There is no nothing or something by itself , as itself. Wi...

Lets give it a try. Here’s Husserl’s take on Humean skepticism: “Unremittingly, skepticism insists on the validity of the factually experienced world,...

For him what we know we always know differently. This is not the same as ‘unknowable’. There is nothing for Derrida which is simply vast or unknowable...

When Derrida uses the word ‘text’, he means context. Context for him is not a totality, it is an articulated hinge , a movement, a repetition which al...

[ You said skeptics posit a totality that cannot be had. What totality does Derrida posit? He defines idealism as the identical repetition of the same...

Derrida insisted that he is not a skeptic: “…it is impossible here to single out and to analyze in detail all of the distorting and malicious presenta...

Good definition. So as these presuppositions evolve , so does scientific theory. There would be no scientific progress otherwise.

Only analytic philosophy imitated this approach. Technology does not represent the leading edge of thought. On the contrary, it is the last step in th...

In postmodern philosophy , scientific speculation is recognized as being beholden to hidden metaphysical presuppositions.

You mean, like a scientific theory?( except less conventionalized)

In another 100 years natural science may no longer be in the business of describing physical particles. That is , it may no longer believe in the noti...

No, it is not science. A philosophical worldview is the basis of a science. If science progresses , then philosophy progresses. Newton=Descartes , Ein...

Do you think there is progress in science?

Except in depression, which is epitomized by a sense of isolation from others. Physical pain and grief can also isolate. Matthew Ratcliffe has written...

This article may help give a sense of how a ‘groundless’, embodied self forms addictions. “The enactive account of addiction is a nonreductive, natura...

Does the self have a core that remains self-identical over time , or is it always a slightly new and different self that come back to itself minute to...

Are you familiar with Heidegger’s writing on authentic anxiety and guilt, or Nietzsche’s views on the primacy of suffering? Levinas writes: “Suffering...

I meant to write he places into question structuralism and dialectic.

There are two ways to dismiss Chalmer’s hard problem. The first is to solve it by making materiality primary and declaring humans to be complex machin...

I don’t think ‘innate programming’ is a helpful way to understand aggression in humans , and frankly, I think it covers over complex cognitive attribu...

Yes, it included written text, spoken word , thinking to oneself , perception, and any and all forms of what would be called the ‘real’ or the objecti...

Critical theory is a neo-marxist approach in philosophy, a form of structuralism and dialectic. . Derridean deconstruction places into question the di...

This is true of the literary theorists who adopted practices of deconstruction, but the idea of deconstruction that Derrida produced was much pre try ...

I think the following sums it up. “To this day, deconstruction remains a style of thought more complained about than understood.” The author of the ar...

From my reading , the following are the core figures in enactivism. Most contribute to the same journals, attend the same conferences, co-author books...

Your stance against anti-realism forces you into a choice between two thriving movements within cognitive science. The first is inspired by Peirceian ...

Not much of a takedown. Haack wants to hold onto the ‘reality’ of the natural , so of course she will be opposed to Rorty’s anti-realism.

Let’s take a closer look at how faith and reason are intertwined with each other. At one extreme you put the knowledge that the plane won’t fall out o...

Things cannot be reduced to context for Derrida in the sense that context is not a centered structure. It is instead movement and differentiation. ‘Th...

Fear of relativism is connected with anxiety over the lack of firm grounds for truth. As you say, there are many varieties and degrees of relativism. ...

I’m aware of Derrida’s quote concerning relativism, but give me an example of what you see in his work that defies relativism as you understand the te...

Before Derrida and other post-structuralists , the tendency was to take the contextual meanings they demonstrated and tie them back into some totalizi...

Personal conscience is not a trope you’ll generally find among postmodern philosophers. For writers like Foucault and Deleuze , the ‘subject’ or ‘pers...

Postmodern philosophers reach the the importance of the difference between history and geneology. History tends to be thought of in terms of a histori...

Thats because they are not offering a “should” but an “is”. Transgression and subversion are not oughts, they refer to the way that experience comes t...

Derridean differance tell us that experienced meaning differs and defers at the same time. What does that mean? It means that contextual change assure...

I’ve been reading a lot of Deleuze lately. Why do you say he was not a very good man?

That’s a political analysis of the postmodern. There is a general consensus within continental philosophy concerning what postmodern philosophy stands...

I don’t know if this is relevant, but the Aristotelian term ‘physis’ is better translated as nature than as physics. It is true that physics and the n...

Whatever he means by it , he clearly means to separate off some specific intelllectual capacity of thinking from others, and I argue that he is mistak...

Which ability is he claiming has been over-developed? Self-reflection? I don’t think that is its own special category of thinking. All human experienc...

Human intelligence isn’t just one peculiar (and questionable) mutation among others, like some antler. It is the quintessential expression of the dire...

Or whatever can be mathematizable, which may come down to something similar.

What makes a context a context? Isn’t it the intertwining of memory and what appears? Husserl articulated the subjective and objective contributions t...

In man's evolution he's created the city And the motor traffic rumble But give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes And living in the jun...

They argue that we never leave the starting point or beginning, only repeat it different. i. this way, they are radically temporal, and radically hist...

I’m reading Joseph Rouse’s Articulating the World right now, also discussing it in an online philosophy Toronto meetup. He talks about presuppositions...

But in what way can we disentangle the metaphysical from the factual? A fact is what it is by virtue of its role within a value system. But the fact d...