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We know what systems of the body and regions of the brain consciousness is not inextricably linked to by process of elimination. When we use metabolic...
February 23, 2022 at 14:45
What you need to do is find out what the neuroscience sources you endorse are saying about the sources you reject as false and bogus. It’s easy to do,...
February 23, 2022 at 01:34
The article you linked to mentioned male and female chromosomal differences as a potential source of the gender-based behavioral differences they disc...
February 23, 2022 at 01:10
A lot of it is generated from cognitive neuroscience. Check out anything by Panksepp or Antonio Damasio. Or Lisa Barrett’s ‘How Emotions are Made: the...
February 23, 2022 at 00:57
has a point. Scientific thematization and objectification have their place for Heidegger, albeit distinctly circumscribed as regional ontologies. He c...
February 23, 2022 at 00:38
If you’re from Minnesota , there may be that Lake Wobegon Lutheran thing going on, “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and ...
February 22, 2022 at 22:20
Is this all learned theater? Did you see La Cage aux Folles? Remember the scene where the champagne was uncorked and everyone did a girlish scream? Do...
February 22, 2022 at 21:14
Do you believe there is such a thing as psychological gender, apart from biological chromosomal sex? Paychological gender would refer to a brain-wirin...
February 22, 2022 at 21:06
Although our needs and feelings , far from being separable from a mitral, rational understanding of the situation , form the very basic of our rationa...
February 22, 2022 at 20:38
I realize that the term blame is loaded with all kinds of oppressive moralistic connotations, and that’s why blame skeptics and incompatiblists ,embod...
February 22, 2022 at 20:35
My understanding was that BC thinks it’s delusional to believe you can change your sex, but he seems to agree with me that psychological gender, as a ...
February 22, 2022 at 15:12
Maybe they are one of two necessary conditions: "Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind”
February 21, 2022 at 21:50
Any concpet of will that associates it with control and cause is inherently dualistic in the sense of separating subject from world. To transcend this...
February 21, 2022 at 19:20
‘Control’, ‘under the direction’, ‘cause’. Not sure if any of these terms get at the new ways psychologists are thinking about human agency. Perhaps i...
February 21, 2022 at 19:08
Hmm, that sounds like blame to me, attributing behavior that disappoints or puzzles you to the other’s disordered thinking rather than to your challen...
February 21, 2022 at 18:46
We wouldn’t have anger and blame as tools for analysis if they weren’t already being used as tools of interaction. Would it be possible to effectively...
February 21, 2022 at 18:34
How do we hold children accountable for attacking another child out of fear because they didn’t understand the other child’s intent was innocent and p...
February 21, 2022 at 18:18
My claim is that all forms of blame I mentioned indicate a failure of insight on our part. I’m not saying they have no positive benefit. Our blame can...
February 21, 2022 at 18:07
Blame skeptics like Derk Pereboom make a distinction between forward looking and backward looking blame. Backward looking blame tends to be retributiv...
February 21, 2022 at 17:42
But what about blame, the thinking that underlies anger? Even if one never loses one’s temper or shows anger, the central issue here is whether we can...
February 20, 2022 at 21:17
Gendlin says emotions are patterns of behavior in situations ( he recognizes a few which are inherited) that don’t take account of the larger context....
February 20, 2022 at 20:27
I would say yes, the higher mammals can ‘scold’ another they are friendly with for violating an expectation.
February 20, 2022 at 20:09
Let me ask you this: do you think you personally can get rid of the ALL of the following feelings in response to the actions of others? I take express...
February 20, 2022 at 19:59
The thing is , people play around with the word anger, because it has a negative connotation of violence , lack of control , irrationality and self-ag...
February 20, 2022 at 19:19
Do you think that anger and blame are also the only way we can think of to improve certain situations where the other acts in ways that appear caprici...
February 20, 2022 at 19:07
My view on blame is a further development of the approaches of Heidegger and Derrida. Neither of them are determinists, nor are they free-will advocat...
February 20, 2022 at 18:33
Strawson’s analysis here is too abstract and general to take into account what we already know about the changing blame behaviors and notions of fairn...
February 20, 2022 at 18:02
I’m going to be lazy and hide behind the following quotes. Let me know if they answer your question. Ratcliffe says: “The unquestioned givenness of th...
February 20, 2022 at 02:13
But mental illness understood as a pathology is another name for randomness. The cause is arbitrary. But you haven’t articulated this decision-making ...
February 19, 2022 at 22:22
No transcendental idealism, transcendental subjectivity, which not an idealism.
February 19, 2022 at 22:18
I’m more interested in the philosophy and psychology of motivation. I understand your stance. What I would like to know is how you articulate the natu...
February 19, 2022 at 21:54
So evil and lack of conscience can be understood as a kind of arbitrariness , irrationality or capriciousness at the heart of intention and motivation...
February 19, 2022 at 21:21
Husserl’s notion of intentionality fragments the holistic weave of our frame of intelligibility into separated elements. “It could be shown from the p...
February 19, 2022 at 20:55
Yes, punishment presupposes blame and anger. In punishment, the angered wants to teach the guilty party a lesson, remind them, shame them, make them f...
February 19, 2022 at 20:48
More specifically, he thought Heidegger was turning phenomenology into an anthropology, by which he meant that Heidegger was stuck in the natural atti...
February 19, 2022 at 20:00
Maybe we should follow Wittgenstein’s suggestion. “We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions ...
February 19, 2022 at 19:55
They owe it to themselves to understand themselves, because failing to do so will cause unhappiness both in isolation and with others. This requires r...
February 19, 2022 at 19:45
Do you mean only the wealthy and powerful have anger and blame, or that the anger and blame the rest of us experience is somehow manipulated by the we...
February 19, 2022 at 19:41
I suggest affect isnt an inner response to an outer world. Words like attention and effort split off the subject’s ‘inner’ workings from the world, bu...
February 19, 2022 at 03:11
These features that you mention are all considered by Husserl to be relative and contingent. They could be otherwise than they are, so it makes no sen...
February 19, 2022 at 02:51
For Husserl affect is directed both from the subject side of an intentional experience and from the object side. The object exerts an attractive pull ...
February 19, 2022 at 02:37
But the cat is a certain way for me differently that it is for others. Each has their own perspectives on a changing experience. For me to expereince ...
February 19, 2022 at 02:11
It depends on how general you mean this statement to be. In a very general sense, Kant didn’t really move beyond the framework make popular by Descart...
February 18, 2022 at 23:57
From a phenomenological standpoint, the cat looks the way it does as a function of a subjective constituting process that also involves an intersubjec...
February 18, 2022 at 23:50
Newsweek. They’re the go-to source for political mud- wrestling between left and right.
February 18, 2022 at 21:21
I wonder which category of blame this fits into? It sounds a lot more like Pereboom’s desert blame than his rational deterministic blame. Pereboom rej...
February 18, 2022 at 20:58
Just shows you what lengths people will go to to find self-acceptance in a culture where the concept of psychological gender is still uncomprehended. ...
February 18, 2022 at 20:03
I wanted to add my model of basic anger to the OP, to show its link to blame . Let us say that I have been hurt and disappointed by someone I care dee...
February 18, 2022 at 19:03
If you knew more about the gay community, you’d learn that that’s a pose. Whereas for many straight men, a non self-conscious macho comes naturally, i...
February 18, 2022 at 00:36
Flexibility and malleability without a self-consistent thread of intelligibility is nothing but chaos and confusion. You seem to believe that things l...
February 17, 2022 at 20:23