Joshs

Is the Mona Lisa the result of constraints on the part of the artist or a change in perspectival attitude of both artist and viewer, a kind of gestalt...

Bacteria do more than track levels of chemicals. The nature of their functioning is unified such as to form a normative anticipative sense-making. The...

The model of a normatively based dynamical non-linear reciprocal feedback system is precisely how many are. now conceiving of consciousness. See Evan ...

Much of our orientation toward science and other aspects of life is based on learning and growth of knowledge. Standard of living is measured by econo...

How would you talk about the difference between the chemical environment of the sun vs the earth. They both involve law-governed interactions among pa...

Relating this discussion of information, thermodynamics and semiotics back to the OP, which is the contribution of neuroscience to the elucidation of ...

From a phenomenological perspective, it would not be the case that subjective experience stands apart from physical laws in its own realm, but that it...

I suggest that whatever our alleged subject matter, be it consciousness or quarks, we are always at the same implicitly experiencing the object we are...

I was trying to convey the idea that every awareness we have is a kind of change and therefore a kind of thought. So to distinguish between the receiv...

Except the mind isn’t a mirror of the world, it’s a reciprocal interaction with an environment. Thoughts don’t appear before an unchanging theater of ...

“One way of formulating the hard problem is to ask: if we had a complete, canonical, objective, physicalist account of the natural world, including al...

I think you’d be surprised by how compatible their views are with Peirce’s

I wouldnt say that Prinz and Haidt are giving preference to empirical fact over subjective moral valuation. They are pointing to two equal but differe...

And what of fact and value? Are you familiar with the work of Jonathan Haidt, Jesse Prinz and Ronald De Sousa? Opposing Moral universalists like Nussb...

It seems to me that when we recognize a pattern as a pattern rather than a random collection of discrete parts, we are making use of a different sort ...

I think there are many sciences, eaxh with their own account of the ‘same’ phenomena, but described in relation to different levels of observation, an...

I guess the issue is how they do what they do. There is more than one account involved here. A reductively causal chemical description is a different ...

It sounds to me like you’re more sympathetic to Dennett’s heterophenomenology than to Ratcliffe’s critique of it. Would you agree?

I wonder if Matthew Ratcliffe’s paper ‘The Problem with the Problem of Consciousness’ may mediate between your two views by putting phenomenology betw...

Could we say instead that the public realm is the intersubjective arena? Rather than there being the same object viewed by all , there would be a reci...

In Descartes’ day the Hard Problem concerned the relation between the Divine realm and the mechanistic realm of physical nature. Many dismissed the pr...

This is like saying that whether one is a Kantian, Hegelian or phenomenologist will have no impact on one’s ability to do philosophy.’Shut up and phil...

These are not just ideas on one side of a divide between philosophy and science. There is no such divide. Newer ideas in quantum physics , in neurosci...

It doesn’t add anything to an account grounded in naturalism. It reveals the conditions of possibility of that naturalism. One could trace the irreduc...

One does not unsee the mysterious figure. What appears to one as the figure is the product of a specifically correlated concatenation of retentions, e...

Semiotics and Husserlian intentionality are different notions of causality. You may consider the latter naive while I consider the former to be naive ...

Phenomenology doesn’t begin from objective causality, it deconstructs it by grounding it in the structure of intentionality, which is neither objectiv...

First off, I should say that science’s conception of itself, including such things as what it does, how it differs from philosophy and what an object ...

Yes. In fact I will see your zeitgeist and raise you one Weltanschauung( I’m such a card).

Don’t you go messin’ with the laws of nature, Mister.

Phenomenology has to find a way to explain how it came to be that philosophers and scientists began to split into separate entities what always was a ...

That’s nice, but it has nothing or do with what phenomenology is about. Phenomenology is not an idealism or subjectivism , a privileging of mind over ...

I would argue that phenomenology brackets both the external and the internal world as understood according to scientific naturalism, and it does so fo...

Then there’s the phenomenological claim that consciousness produces the brain , in the sense that the brain, as a concept arising out of natural scien...

A paradigm is an intersubjective , social achievement, the product of reciprocal interchange among subjectivities. A new theory can spring up in the h...

Have you read James’ Principles of Psychology? Most of the field of experimental psychology ( and I suspect that includes your perspective) still hasn...

William James had some ideas on this subject: “When the physiologist who thinks that his science cuts off all hope of immortality pronounces the phras...

Let me retract my use of the term altruism then. What I want to say is not that we value others above ourselves but that in our dealings with people i...

How can a biological entity be self-contained if it is not a container? Does the body contain organs? If we extract a liver, is the liver a self-conta...

I wonder how you reconcile your notion of self with that of Varela , who integrates results from cognitive neuroscience and mindfulness traditions to ...

They are modular , but in a different sense than relative space-time location. The latter is a relativity defined as objective relations structured ma...

That’s what I thought. You’re a Popperian, not a Kuhnian. Kuhn’s response to the argument that a particular approach in science has gathered no eviden...

One could say that in the arts the advent of a new style puts to rest a previous modality of expression. Even when there are revivals of older styles ...

Do you think that it is a central capability of science that when empirical method proves a set of facts to be the case, this means that this locks in...

In the past you have characterized emotions as though they were the opposite of rationality. I’m wondering whether you would agree with the predictive...

I think that the most interesting things we can learn about the central functions of the human brain , such as the nature of perception, learning, mem...

Ok, I really like the research on consciousness that emphasizes levels of awareness, indicating that consciousness is not all or nothing but an integr...

I don’t expect you to agree with me , but I would like for you to be able to tell me where I am getting this idea from , Have you heard it before? Do ...

I’m not disregarding well known science , I am wanting to critique it based on its conceptual foundation, which is different than refuting the evidenc...

I’m not interested in debating evidence. That’s like trying to parse the meaning of bible verses. Evidence is only intelligible relative to conceptual...