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So all empirical facts are subjective and relative. One could say with Michel Henry that they are the product of ecstasis, the securing of experience ...

You’re sounding like a phenomenologist. All you need to do is drop the ‘successful’. After all, is t that just one more piece of grammar?

Would you say that grammar in Wittgenstein’s sense is the product of a mental phenomenon? If a word like truth only gets its sense from how it is used...

Physicist and philosopher Karen Barad favors Niels Bohr’s explanation of the double slit experiment over Einstein or Heisenberg. Bohr does not see sci...

You suggest Wittgenstein’s “pressing the eyeball” example is irrelevant because color concepts are socially learned. Then you shift the discussion tow...

We could say they are habits, but not blind or arbitrary habits. They are shaped by the needs of optimal anticipation of events, so to the extent that...

That’s also the promise of psychologist George Kelly, the one who said that each of us walks around every moment of very day with our own personal con...

My point wasn’t that it is MERELY an ontological principle as opposed to being experientially meaningful. It is both at once. Like Heidegger’s Being, ...

Yes, I do. Why do you not? Respond specially to the distinction I made between conventional definitions of power and the alternative I laid out. Btw, ...

This isnt about the rich vs the poor. Someone can be poor but socially progressive , or rich and socially conservative. Traditional (far right) social...

I have claimed that there is a direct correlation between population density and political orientation in the current era. But by population density ,...

Would you feel better about the Nietzschean notion of power if you saw it as radically distinct from its conventional definitions? For instance, if we...

If we ask Wittgenstein where linguistic meaning comes from, he directs us to a focus on WHAT we do with it in the context of ongoing social practices....

The existentialists (Sartre, Kierkegaard) don’t build on Nietzsche’s radical idea of the self in flux, they miss the point of it by retaining certain ...

Our leaders? You’re telling me the fights over values and ways of life tearing families and neighbors apart is caused by ‘leaders’? The leaders are la...

You’ve got it backwards. The polarization wasn't the result of the make-up of the political parties. It was due to the fact that one part of the count...

It’s not the two-party system that promotes toxicity and lashing out, it’s the polarized cultural environment pitting urban against rural. For decades...

Some interpreters treat Nietzsche as an existentialist. You’ve probably read some of their work. They talk about him like he’s a self-help guru trying...

If what you’re really interested in focusing on in this OP is a psycho-sociopolitical analysis of the reception of Nietzsche’s work among specific dem...

Find me any extended discussion on this forum without a point of view being argued , discussed and disagreed with. I dont think you’ll find one. Disag...

Let’s say I start a thread with a quote from Plato. My readers will take the quote itself as some inert substance waiting to be molded into the OP’s p...

I have argued that this parallel is more metaphorical than substantive, because the two concepts operate in fundamentally different domains and addres...

Wonderful. Another Critical Marxist misreading Nietzsche. If you’re going to stand a chance of doing justice to Nietzsche’s prose, it’s a good idea to...

Would you say that those cognitive abilities have benefited from exposure to the intellectual stimulation and challenge provided by the ideas others o...

But the specter of skepticism remains, because a referential relation is implied between judgement and criteria. And this implication is deliberate on...

This is how I would put it. In the late 19th century Nietzsche came along and from a critique of such predecessors as Hegel and Schopenhauer produced ...

It took me years to understand Husserl. His writing is extraordinarily dense with ideas. When I pick up Sartre’s Being and Nothingness after reading H...

Some believe he ‘went off track’, and that’s usually because they prefer a realist notion of essences, and a world-directed empiricism. One of my favo...

I wonder how your argument would change if we substituted Husserlian for Sartrean phenomenonology. In this case there is no subject or object outside ...

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The issue isn’t whether the dinosaur existed before humans. It’s that the meaning of ‘T. rex’, it’s place in our world, is a product of our engagement...

I think what you’re looking for is not some meta-level hinge, but the interwoven threads (family resemblance) that run though all hinges, not as a gen...

The question is whether justification is fundamentally a matter of rule-following within stable criteria, or of creative, situated responsiveness. You...

I would emphasize the ‘how’ more than the ’what’ in forms of life. Not just that the world has stable, reliable patterns. After all, all forms of life...

Is it that he never gave his opinion, or that his answer is implicit in his later work, but has been missed by many because they are still looking for...

Right, but these are peculiar forms of Idealism. Heidegger’s Idealism puts into question the priority of mind, reason and consciousness, associating a...

To the right of these intellectual currents (dominated by Critical Theory and post-colonialism) are political models showing little or no influence of...

A lot depends on what we want to make of the concept of the unconscious. For Husserl there is no unconscious, only the implicit. For Heidegger there i...

Your critique of “wokeism” focuses on certain highly visible activist actions and social media flashpoints, whereas I’m more interested in the underly...

Never thought of that connection. Course, one difference from Libet is that for Heidegger we know and feel this transcendence toward the world as it i...

Kind of hard to decide whether there’s a clear new vision floating around in the background when you haven’t said a word about underlying philosophica...

We are confronted by aliens all the time: alien cultures, politics, ethics and philosophy. We have enormous difficulty in understanding these aliens, ...

For Heidegger, Dasein’s Being is its existence, but existence understood as the transcendence of a self , an exiting from itself in being ahead of its...

I just thought I would mention, since you have been bringing Heidegger into this discussion, that while Heidegger would agree that reducing Being to m...

Statistical models require a prior abstractive flattening and regularizing of the domains that they presume to describe. Before those models can ‘disc...

Damn it. I meant to write ‘ there is NO pre-interpretive, pre-conceptual perception’.

In phenomenology as Husserl and Merleau-Ponty conceived it, the ‘things themselves’ which are given to consciousness are not ‘recordings’ of real obje...

Yep, that sounds about right.

Heidegger understands the term ontology in a peculiar way. He draws from Kant’s idealism the notion of condition of possibility. Kant’s categories are...

We understand ‘same picture’ by seeing it as ‘same picture’. Or as you put it, by seeing something as ‘marks on paper’. The notion of marks on paper i...