Joshs

It seems to me that phenomenological and postmodern approaches recognize the metaphysical and the real, the formal and the empirical, the subjective a...

This would not be the case for authors like Nietzsche , Heidegger, Derrida, Merleau-Ponty, Deleuze, Foucault and Wittgenstein because their starting p...

So would you extend this observation to the ‘facts’ of an empirical science as well? That is, is it a problem that people believe factual correctness ...

I suppose we could argue the same about religion.

Do you think that the history of scientific progress is at the same time a history of metaphysical progress? In other words , that each era of scienti...

Why is expanding the limits of thinking metaphysical?

And yet , from the vantage of more recent generations of philosophers, Kant and Hume exemplify species of metaphysical thinking. Husserl critiqued the...

Epistemology deals with general rules, structures and categories of meaning. You don’t ‘ get rid of’ or ‘get away from’ such concepts, you deconstruct...

Difference precedes identity. This is the idea that has inspired so much of 20th and 21st century philosophy, from Bergson, James and Husserl to Freud...

It certainly can’t be done if you hold onto concepts like epistemology and reason as the ground of philosophy. It is precisely such traditional notion...

This sounds like Dennett’s ‘explanation’ of consciousness. But while it can be said that consciousness is a graded phenomenon of organismic complexity...

For Nietzsche power doesn’t control , it is both dominating and dominated , within the same psyche. The ‘ego’ or self does not rule , it is a communit...

At the center of Nietzsche’s philosophy was a critique of ‘rationality’. Reason to Nietzsche was nothing but a product of the oppositional relation of...

In ‘Who is Zarathustra’s Ape?’, Peter Groff argues that Nietzsche’s model of nature was not a Darwinian evolutionary position, and that he used the wo...

But power exhausts itself in what it takes power over and is replaced by a new trajectory of will to power.A given Will to power cannot be separated f...

In ‘Who is Zarathustra’s Ape?’, Peter Groff argues that Nietzsche’s model of nature was not a Darwinian evolutionary position, and that he used the wo...

Have you read any of Wittgenstein’s later work, in particular his response to what he called Moore’s paradox? He believed that paradoxes in classical ...

Sounds like strong ( as opposed to weak) paraconsistency does see contradictions as ruinous to classical logic.

From Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: “strong paraconsistency includes ideas like: Some contradictions may not be errors; classical logic is wrong...

Depends who you ask. Postmodern philosophy is different from postmodern literature , architecture, etc. I would put Nietzsche, Rorty, Lyotard, Foucaul...

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Marxism relies on an emancipatory meta-narrative (dialectical materialism). Postmodern deconstructs all grand meta-narratives , like the narrative of ...

My only gripe is with the title of the OP. There is a tendency to lump together Marxism and postmodernism. They are not the same. In fact, postmodern ...

I’ll go along with this , as long as ‘belief’ ’ is interchangeable with ‘anticipation’ or ‘expectation’. That way we can include perception in general...

In this example , the category ‘apple’ subsumes the particularities of the individual apples. The parts can vary ( kinds of apples) without altering t...

Or a model can allows us to pragmatically anticipate the future course of events that never duplicate themselves but nonetheless change in ways that c...

Unification in the case of the subjective and objective aspects of experience does not mean combination, it means inseparability. I follow writers lik...

Look at the period at the end of this sentence. Now keep on staring at it. We say that the period is a kind, an identity persisting in time with attri...

I’m a phenomenologist, but the inextricable relation between quantitative interaction and qualitative transformation I described comes from Deleuze , ...

What I reject is the idea that the regularity and consistency of physical relations reduces to differences of degree that are not at the same time dif...

Name one

Why not?

look up Eugene Wigner.

I was with you in your first paragraph. But the fact that there is structure to the world does not mean that the world comes to our awareness packaged...

This may be why it is hard, but it is a problem in the first place not because the model is restricted to physical objects and excludes subjective eve...

Glad someone remembered the anniversary of this great but controversial philosopher.

Unless you believe that your take on the pre-conditions for a moral stance is utterly original, it might help at this point if you could scrounge up s...

Intense sensation (bodily smells) , pleasure or emotion is frightening to people because it signifies irrationality and loss of moral control. That’s ...

That’s becuase you haven’t examined the coherence of your ‘alternative’ closely enough. Isnt morality about imperfect choices? Never having been born ...

What is the moral thing to do? That’s easy. If one understands morality as a standard delimiting the way things ought to be , then in general terms th...

You may be interested in this paper by John Protevi. He discusses Evans Thompson’s book, Mind in Life, where he locates mind in the most general funct...

And again in the 20th and 21st centuries philosophy takes a step in the right direction, problematizing concepts like rationality and knowledge.

I have found that very few on this site understand the significance of the concept of worldview for ascertaining truth in philosophy and science, whic...

But not just unidirectionally through language, as if we were stimulus-response creatures. There is a bi-directional reciprocal shaping between organi...

You can also say that you can check your current experiences against previous experiences, and that in fact perception is based on this meeting betwee...

Here’s Dan Zahavi’s version of it: “Compare your experiences of perceiving an apple and remembering a banana. In one respect, these experiences are ve...

That’s right , by inventing the idea of objectivity. Objective reality is incoherent without a subject to apprehend it.

So two distinct categories exist, the objective and the subjective , the first person and the third person? One could call this the hard dualism, or d...

Are pure sets transcendent foundations in math, like platonic essences? The statement that “all mathematical descriptions are reducible to pure sets” ...

Evan Thompson, in Mind in Life , offers the new vision of objective science: “In the context of contemporary science … ?nature does not consist of bas...