“ one must ask whether Nietzsche really thinks that our animal origins are “shameful,” and whether humans are really “higher” than the primates. For w...
Quite the opposite , for Nietzsche our highest intellectual achievements are servants of our drives and instincts. He encourages us to multiply our dr...
I think it is helpful to get back to the moral arguments concerning desert-based blame. It wouldn’t make sense for the advocate of free-will to argue ...
Here’s my take. If blame is a function of a belief in the arbitrariness, randomness and capriciousness of motive, then what makes Cartesian desert bas...
Nietzsche was not an evolutionist.He was more of a revolutionist, but not in the sense of a dialectical teleological progression. His superman doesn’t...
All modes of culture, including the sciences, literature and philosophy, are evolving concepts which move ‘with the times’. This is why historical mov...
Derrida is no sceptic, and he never argues that knowledge is ‘impossible’, only contextually embedded. “For of course there is a "right track" , a bet...
My point is that Rorty is impugning to Derrida something that Rorty thinks we should do instead of philosophy, but this ‘private fantasizing and free-...
He didn’t drop the idea. In one of his last works, Time and Being, he takes up the Being of beings again: Heidegger begins Being and Time saying his a...
her ya go: “In my view, Derrida's eventual solution to the problem of how to avoid the Heideggerian "we," and, more generally, avoid the trap into whi...
But I don’t want you to be lonely. Besides, I’m driving home in rush hour traffic, which makes it hard to satisfy you need for scholarly rigor at the ...
From “Heidegger, Contingency, and Pragmatism “There is no validating reality behind our narrative; Being and interpretive narrative arise together. Th...
I liked Shaun Gallagher’s account in ‘Conversations in postmodern hermeneutics’: “ I want to show that the conception of the conversation of mankind e...
Unfortunately he didn’t. He thought Derrida was just being a trickster, and completely missed the complexity and rigor of his philosophizing. He also ...
One can argue that everything changes continuously, but in such a way that we can think of events continuing to be the same differently. This is the b...
Not all, but some enactivists, those who integrate phenomenology into their work , argue that there are important philosophical gaps between Kahneman’...
Caruso and Morris agree with you: “We contend that the concept of just deserts is inconsistent with Dennett’s reformed consequentialist account of mor...
Someone forgot to tell Roger , then. Note that this is a philosophy forum and it’s no coincidence Penrose is cited here, since physics is often treate...
Doesnt P.F. Strawson’s Freedom and Resentment lay out a non-consequentialist compatibilist notion of desert? https://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/P._F....
I like Eugene Gendlin ‘s thinking on identity and interaction in non-living entities: “We predict that physics must eventually give up pointwise local...
The fundamental premise of phenomenology is that there is nothing but appearance. No veil between what is ( the thing in itself) and what seems to be....
When I said that language produces what it symbolizes I didn’t mean that already learned word meanings dictate our understanding of new events aka Sap...
In college I came up with a way of understanding f the world that I have been elaborating ever since. But it took my 5 years before I was able to writ...
This sounds to me more like meta-science , a questioning approach that takes for granted the main methodological assumptions operating within the scie...
As a postmodernist, I tend to think of metaphysics as synonymous with worldview, and worldviews are inclusive frames that address all aspects of cultu...
Yes, I’ve heard that. Given that the meaning of the term varies depending on which approaches in philosophy you favor, maybe the question here should ...
Sounds reasonable to me. How about this? “In seeking a comprehensive account of everything, metaphysics is continuous with science, going beyond parti...
Is that all that language does is ‘say’ what ‘is’? Doesn’t language PRODUCE what is rather than merely express an already extant ‘it’? By language we ...
As a scientist , one understands the meaning of ‘moon’and ‘planet’ in relation to an overarching theoretical orientation than offers a predictive astr...
Not self-evident as a fact but identifiable as a relational performance. For them any empirical notion of subject as physico-chemical or biological is...
But where do they get their authority from , for the later Wittgenstein? I would suggest only through a particular language game in which that sentenc...
I should note that for writers like Heidegger, Derrida and some of the phenomenologists, the notion of the human is presupposed but is instead a deriv...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5972154/ Are emotions just expressed is socially significant ways or, as Wittgenstein shows , is their ve...
I don’t think it would be wrong to say that Wittgenstein’s language games are a kind of idealism, but what do you mean by ‘logicality’? The ‘S is P’ p...
This is true. I dont agree with the predictive processing f model of emotions, because it hasn’t transcended its behaviorist roots sufficiently. Affec...
This still seems to imply a factual status to the pre-human world. I prefer the idea that we could imagine a perspective within a pre-human universe, ...
I don’t think they have to learn what they mean in a fundamental sense. What they mean is inherent in their very expression as emotions. An emotion is...
It certainly does. Unfortunately I strongly disagree with the positions of all three of those thinkers. None of them have a grasp of what I consider t...
I think sentience as it is conventionally understood is a confused notion, as if to be sentient is to be possessed of some special substance or ineffa...
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