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Neuroscience has never led the way in the understanding of consciousness and behavior. It has always been the handmaiden of philosophy and personality...

Or as Xtrix would say, Fol de troll

A quick search on Google turned up evidence of Asperger’s that did seem convincing to me. I find that remarkable. Perhaps his difficulties in parsing ...

I always understood the later Wittgenstein’s notion of sense as a critique of Frege’s distinction between sense and reference.

That seems unlikely to me because Wittgenstein’s focus was on meaning as sense , and sense is a form of feeling. He would have had to have an extraord...

You’ve been hanging around Joe Mello too long.

I’m glad you quoted Nietzsche. Assimilating his critique of Schopenhauer, and by implication Bergson and Dewey, brings one to the doorstep of Heidegge...

Play it by ear

Exactly. The temporal bias of experience guarantees that there will always be an entirely different perspective and value system, generating a differe...

Martin Hagglund’s argument is that essential to faith in God is a belief in , and desire for, the eternal. He argues instead that finitude is preferab...

It all depends on whether and to what degree you have an interest in phenomenology, psychotherapy and philosophy of science, postmodern philosophy , e...

What matters is that the person who discovers it is bullshit is disappointed and mourns the loss of this faith. If so, then they have not completely e...

This is certainly true for many people today, but the historical development of worship of science ( called scientism) replacing worship of god is alr...

Repugnant is a strong term. I perhaps should have used ‘limited’ with respect to post-religious perspectives. My point is that when someone newly embr...

Martin Hagglund , among others, makes what I consider to be the best argument for atheism. Rather than disbelieving in a god because there is no proof...

Are there any current American political figures, journalists, commentators, consultants, activists you admire?

I guess the point I’m making is that we have to make a distinction between formal logic and forms of pragmatic logic. Only pragmatic logic gives us th...

No, it is not rational if by rational you mean that there was some precise pre-existing order and the shifts in science you mention are transitions th...

This alignment of values also describes postive feeling. We wouldn’t know that there was a positive alignment without positive feeling. Accord, agreem...

If a value is the frame, and rationality refers to the structure of relations made intelligible by the frame, the is the shift from frame to frame rat...

If they lack certain ‘emotional patterns’ then this is because they lack certain ways of assessing the relevance of human factors. The emotion cannot ...

In the article, the notion of emotional numbness is treated like a reaction to emotional events, as if one first encounters trauma and then the body d...

They not only work together , they are inseparable. The idea of affect-free reason is incoherent. Sociopaths are just as affectively driven as the res...

I don’t think we need to encourage people to be more selfish It is impossible to produce any action, to think any thought or feeling, to have any simp...

Older models of emotion have tended to characterize feeling as something that takes place inside one’s body and is directed toward it, as opposed to p...

Fundamentally, depression is a feeling of loss of something that matters greatly to our lives and reaches into every aspect of our relations with othe...

Or perhaps depression is the emptiness of the situation itself rather than a secondary response to it. It would be the feeling of the failure to cope ...

The above physics-based notion of rationality uses the metaphor of a clock or engine-like machine. It does what it does and all we have to do is grasp...

Many psychologists and philosophers have described young children as psychopaths, having no moral compass, and having to be conditioned into what we c...

The earlier forms of cogntive therapy ( Albert Ellis’ Rational Emotive Therapy and Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy) were reality-based, assuming a real...

Joe, I was thinking the same thing after I saw your first post. But that’s not because I thought you deliberately wanted to start a fight. On the cont...

What would be your critique of liberal theology of the 19th and 20th century( Kierkegaard, Buber, Niebuhr, Tillich)?

Now you’re talking my language.

I tried looking into it. The best I could find was his critique of technology and American ‘gigantism’. He was certainly no fan of Marx, though. One w...

Onward Christian soliders, marching as to war… At the sign of triumph Satan's host doth flee; On, then, Christian soldiers, on to victory!

I’m curious how your political views dovetail with the spiritual position you lay out in the OP. Give. that so many liberals are atheists , do you fee...

I was surprised he functioned so well considering.

Why does everybody call you names, Joe? Good thing you don’t respond in kind, or else this thread would turn into a brawl instead of a peaceful, lovin...

“God is a concept by which we measure our pain I'll say it again God is a concept by which we measure our pain I don't believe in magic I don't believ...

People’s emotions and self- esteem are bound up with the meaning of money in powerful and very personal ways. It may be that your friend , after such ...

A better example than an ice cube is a poetic metaphor, which produces a new meaning from prior linguistic elements.

The idea that things combined cannot create something greater depends on a notion of the natural world as material objects in motion , which is an out...

I suspect if you stick it out here long enough you may discover that 180’s background in modern philosophy is likely considerably more extensive than ...

And you don’t see any of yourself in Garrett? For Garrett, rationality itself is the godhead, and for you, an omnipotent being is the godhead of ratio...

Garrett Travers.

“One gains the impression that Heidegger's temporary entanglement in Na­tional Socialism rather suited Adorno; in this way he could aggressively phi­l...

[ Heidegger makes only a one-sentence reference in all his work , as far as I know, to an ‘ undifferentiated mode’ of being, and many many pages to au...

Ready to hand is a mode of encountering entities, and present to hand is a further modification , a derivation of the ready to hand. Both of these , a...

But don’t forget, it isn’t just the objectively present objects of empirical study that Heidegger considers inauthentic. It is all intraworldly beings...

If the root of responsibility is the response, that is , our moment to moment interactions with others and the moment to moment changes in our thinkin...