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But by the same token there is also no meaning of signs absolutely ‘external’ to the subject. Hypostatizing the social simply swings the pendulum from...
April 04, 2022 at 03:06
So this dialectical scheme is a kind of logic of becoming? But it is not external to the Dasein , the self-world relation, or Derrida’s differance, wh...
April 04, 2022 at 03:04
Eugene Gendlin disagrees with you. Gendlin’s phenomenological approach to intersubjectivty has much in common with Heidegger’s, and also with Derrida....
April 04, 2022 at 02:53
There is no ‘interior monologue’. Derrida says all speech is writing , so when I speak or write to myself, I am speaking to the other. This is the ori...
April 04, 2022 at 02:48
As I mentioned earlier, even though I think Gallagher and Gadamer misread Heidegger , they at least recognized that he was not dissolving the self int...
April 04, 2022 at 02:19
Heidegger’s Dasein is not the frame , it is the in-between frames: “Uncanniness is the fundamental kind of being-in-the-world, although it is covered ...
April 03, 2022 at 21:21
It cannot be ‘stuff-independent. The stuff is the particular embodiment , which cannot be separated from the nature of sense-making. Stuff-independent...
April 03, 2022 at 21:15
But Heidegger’s Dasein is involved in constructions of the world from a totality of relevance given beforehand.
April 03, 2022 at 21:12
Does this becoming conform to a scheme, like for instance a dialectic?
April 03, 2022 at 21:09
What does. it mean to say that the repetition. of change is ‘eternally present’? There certainly is no content or feeling here that is eternally prese...
April 03, 2022 at 21:05
Only to the extent that the larger background philosophical knowledge that a capitalist free-market economy depends on( Enlightenment thought , Adam S...
April 03, 2022 at 18:49
Shouldn’t it be the case that they are superior precisely because they are a consequence of ? Isn’t that the whole point and value of advancement in u...
April 03, 2022 at 18:43
Is modern physics superior to Newtonian physics? Is Darwinian biology superior to pre-Darwinian biology? Do they subsume and transcend their older ver...
April 03, 2022 at 17:55
This is the absolute antithesis of phenomenology. To be self-present is to be altered in the very act of turning back to oneself. So there is no etern...
April 03, 2022 at 17:40
Do you feel the same way about old science vs new science? Does science advance, such that ignoring the distinction between old and new theories in ph...
April 03, 2022 at 17:26
We each get to choose our own Wittgenstein. My Wittgenstein is the Wittgenstein of Cavell , Diamond, Conant and the later Baker(and Anthony Nickles to...
April 03, 2022 at 17:23
There is a world , but not a static one that sits there waiting for us to represent it faithfully with our science. The world is a continual developme...
April 03, 2022 at 16:45
There are many conflicting interpretations of what Heidegger means by language and how he sees the relation between self and culture. This is from a r...
April 03, 2022 at 16:34
Algorithms, computation, representation and ‘data’ are part of the ‘old’ way of thinking about what brains do. Affective, Enactive, embodied, auto-poe...
April 03, 2022 at 13:33
Let’s look at how Husserl grounds the empirical object. One of the key aspects of Husserl's approach was his explanation of the origin of spatial obje...
April 03, 2022 at 02:41
Husserl actually assumed both that others exist outside my consciousness but that I can never have access to them except as variations of my own exper...
April 03, 2022 at 02:25
What would be private here if every moment of experience subtly remakes this ‘private’ realm? Where is the inside , the dream, the subject , the solip...
April 03, 2022 at 02:21
Ego for Husserl doesn’t mean personality. It is not Freud’s notion of ego. In fact , for Husserl, the pure ego functions as nothing but an empty zero ...
April 03, 2022 at 02:10
The key for me is that Popper believed that determination of anomalies and the impetus of scientific revolutions were rational affairs, making use of ...
April 03, 2022 at 01:54
I only know of other subjects and a ‘world’ to the extent that I can construe these entities on some dimension of similarity with respect to my ongoin...
April 03, 2022 at 01:40
He does not believe the word is my dream, but that we don’t represent , mirror, or correspond to an indepdentlt existing world. He , like Derrida , Ni...
April 03, 2022 at 01:33
Popper rejected Hegelian dialectic in favor of a Kantian notion of an assumption approach of science toward truth He could not accept the notion that ...
April 03, 2022 at 01:27
Firstly, this ‘science of consciousness’ was based on radically different principles than that of empirical science. Thus , he was not attempting a st...
April 03, 2022 at 01:11
Husserl is not an empirical realist. He does not believe it is coherent to make the claim that a world precedes, outlasts and contains me and everyone...
April 03, 2022 at 01:02
But the relation between logic and language is rethought between Tractatus and P.I. As Ray Monk says “ In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein...
April 03, 2022 at 00:44
You’ll have better luck with Philosophical Investigations. Here’s you’ll find Witt reiterating Heidegger’s point that logic, as a grammatical construc...
April 02, 2022 at 19:20
The question is this: What kind of pre-schemarized understanding of the world must be already in place in order for propositional logic to work as a d...
April 01, 2022 at 21:56
Not sure that it goes much deeper than a set of presuppositions concerning the object that became crystallized as the basis the inseparable relation b...
April 01, 2022 at 20:23
I dont see Popper as compatible with the later Wittgenstein. Popper’s notion of falsification depends on certain assumptions concerning the invariance...
April 01, 2022 at 18:19
I think that’s Zahavi’s point in the article you’re quoting from. “ For Husserl, there are, in short, not two ontologically different objects, the app...
April 01, 2022 at 17:37
My in-process paper on anger, blame and moral values sketches moral universalist and moral relativist interpretations of anger contexts. I surmise the...
March 31, 2022 at 20:02
And yet I do think there is a remnant of that Cartesianism lurking in the treatment of affectivity , both on the part of embodied enactivtists like Th...
March 30, 2022 at 23:03
I dont think Merleau-Ponty would agree with Heinemaa. In Phenomecology of Perceptual, where he mentions orgasm, it is in the context of a discussion a...
March 30, 2022 at 18:32
I think the notion that apokrisis and I take issue with, in different ways, is the depiction of consciousness as a substance or property. What makes t...
March 29, 2022 at 22:05
It’s from ‘On the Genealogy of Moraity’
March 29, 2022 at 21:26
Well, in of support your observation, Heidegger uses your wording rather than Yalom’s. “For by nature, my friend, man's mind dwells in philosophy” (Pl...
March 29, 2022 at 21:22
I think that when we find ourselves in a realm of concern where ‘simple fallacies of logic’ have become important to us, we are so far removed from an...
March 29, 2022 at 19:54
Heidegger believes that we dont simply experience a world, each of us produces a world. For each of us, all of the particular objects and events that ...
March 29, 2022 at 19:45
What does general mean here? How does the general escape or transcend the first personal? Keep in mind the referential out of consciousness doesn’t re...
March 29, 2022 at 18:51
What do you make of Bitbol’s attempt to dissolve the hard problem? He’s following Varela here. http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/4007/1/ConsciousnessPri...
March 28, 2022 at 22:20
Panpsychism doesn’t solve the hard problem, it reifies it by installing the dualism within each bit of objective reality. Here’s a way to really solve...
March 28, 2022 at 22:16
On the contrary, I think it’s safe to say most people think too little.
March 28, 2022 at 22:00
My favorite passages of Nietzsche are not his aphorisms but paragraphs like the one below, which is as complex a philosophical explanation or argument...
March 28, 2022 at 21:55
It seems to me the problem of evil just gets democratized to include the whole cosmos instead of just being confined to inter-human affairs. Wouldnt i...
March 28, 2022 at 20:42
Guess I’ll have to burn all the papers I wrote about his philosophy. Where were you when I needed you? We’ll have to keep in close touch from now on. ...
March 28, 2022 at 20:34