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Do you have any candidates in mind who you think are contributing to this new dawn? I don’t know of any living philosophers who are offering anything ...

Not necessarily. My reading of your interpretation of Nietzsche is that you see him within the existentialist camp rather as a postmodernist. Accordin...

I’ve known some women to produce mythical orgasms, but that was before they worked out their relationship issues.

Is depression like the body’s immune response to an invader, designed to protect the organism but also capable of damaging the organism? I know there ...

I would argue instead that all scientific results are elements of theories , theories at elements of paradigms or scientific worldviews , and scientif...

These aren’t wild claims. It’s just good old fashioned neo-Kantianism. “That which through the medium of our senses is actually perceived by the senso...

The numerical difference of identical objects is very far removed from the notion of difference that drives the work of authors like Derrida, Deleuze ...

This view is problematic for me because it still implies a split between inner and outer, subjective model vs Thing in itself, Descartes’ veil of appe...

Andy Clark, for one: https://www.edge.org/conversation/andy_clark-perception-as-controlled-hallucination

Did the fish lay the chicken? There oughta be a law.

There are also aspects that are clearly deterministically explicable , like the child who didn’t understand or the schizophrenic who heard voices tell...

They just think they’ve annihilated time. By trying to ground change in the stasis of emptiness, what they’ve actually done is reified it by not notic...

Which sort of moral realism do you advocate for? Are you more a fan of Nussbaum and Pereboom’s blame skepticism (deterministically-based forward-looki...

Are you just regurgitating Kant here?

Sounds like my kind of book.

I find the newer thinking about the role and process of science to be more exciting. I dont find the idea of physical objects to be all that useful an...

Let’s be clear about the “two things” intraontology is talking about. It is the noetic and the noematic , the subjective and objective poles of experi...

Is the following consistent with your understanding of coherence? “…the real criteria of validation of scientific descrip­tions cannot be their corres...

Does science passively give knowledge and information about a world outside of the knower , or is it an activity that makes changes in the world and t...

Is this what you had in mind?If so, I agree completely. “Now, an intra-ontology of embodiment has momentous implications for how we conceive knowledge...

The reason cultural eras can be depicted in terms of movements that encompass the whole range of cultural creativity( Classical, Renaissance, Enlighte...

I think you’ll find that many of the greatest philosophers formulated the kernel of their innovative ideas when they were too young to have read other...

Let me list some of those who unravel the notion of objects having intrinsic presence or substance or being. Hillary Putnam, Dan Zahavi, Husserl, Heid...

Viewpoints among phenomenologists differ on this issue. Husserl took individual consciousness as primary. But this is not the consciousness of a natur...

How is If making consciousness primary is solipsistic, how is a naturalism that claims the existence of entities independent of awareness of them not ...

Yes, Bitbol keeps from the Kantian notion of Idealism that the experienced world is a world of ideas rather than senseless objects. What makes an idea...

You’re leaving out phenomenology, Wittgenstein , poststructuralism , deconstruction and various and sundry other recent positions that unravel the not...

Definitely not a Kantian Idealist. Rather, he uses Kant as a source of inspiration. Bitbol accepts no notion of formal categorical contents of subject...

I’ve been reading Michel Bitbol, a philosopher of quantum physics who argues that the most profound i mplicario. of the new physics is that “Quantum M...

I’m writing a paper on the modern history of moral blame, which gives me a slightly new framework within which to view our previous conversations. It ...

Doesn’t this swallow up and bury the mystery of sense? As in the ‘sense of a meaning’? Isnt the sense of any concept , fact , perception subject to co...

. Sounds like a game the whole family can play But who invented the rules? Can we invent new rules?

Sounds like mundane boredom. If you’re not careful, you may begin to experience Profound Boredom. According to Heidegger, in profound boredom, the wor...

“The mistake here then is (Baker &) Hacker's thought that what is problematic for Wittgenstein—what he wants to critique in the opening remarks quoted...

‘Why’ questions look for an overarching explanatory scheme to organize particular facts or subordinate the patterns. “But if wonder (namely, about the...

Thought you’d be interested in this from Derrida: “Peirce goes very far in the direction that I have called the de-construction of the transcendental ...

I do t want to do any anthropomorphizing. I want to see if this ‘between persons’ nature of information points to a split between mind and nature , be...

That may be the point. I may be mistaken, but I’m getting the feeling Daemon may want to protect an insuperable gap between the meaningfulness of mind...

Given this definition of information as communicating facts, what is key here isnt the notion of communication. In its simplest form , any physical ca...

But what is your most empirically rigorous definition of information, then? Would this involve reducing the concept of information to a configured pop...

Let’s talk about minds, then. My surmise is if one takes the position you do that a naturalist explanation demands we be able to reduce all phenomena ...

How do you know that that’s a vertical line? That’s just one of a potential infinity of meanings we can assign to it. If you tell me that you are inte...

You may be interested in a relatively new approach in philosophy called Object Oriented Ontology(OOO). It was introduced by Graham Harman and has been...

What a mess. That’ll teach me to write while hiking. Here’s the edit: The question of whether and to what extent there is awareness in comotose patien...

No, it is in both. Objects are what they are to us in relation our pragmatic interactions with them. An object is what we can do with it , how it chan...

Look at my edit of the r previous post.

This is how I conceive it. Consciousness for a human being is associated with highly complex forms of awareness(memory and recognition, affectivity, e...

Yes, I do. We could also use the point at the end of this sentence as an example . From Francisco Varela: To be objective, the interpretationist point...

I disagree. The key to understanding consciousness is that the functioning of a living system is a unified totality. Our digestive system isn’t a clos...

I’m curious. Do you consider this thinking on information and semiotics that you have been discussing to be philosophy, and if so, what do you think i...