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Personality style has nothing to do with cognitive beliefs, knowledge, rationality, experience. Style is not a content of thought. Can you overcome sh...
February 17, 2022 at 19:56
You re lucky you have the luxury of not having had to grow up a feminine acting gay male who was endlessly reminded by his male and female peers of ho...
February 17, 2022 at 19:35
l Because doesn’t grasp ( and is perhaps threatened by) the concept that his brain, like every other human , has been perceptually organized from birt...
February 17, 2022 at 17:41
It would be what it is, a robust and stable perceptual-affective style that subtly accompanies all of our behavior. It is what allows dog experts and ...
February 17, 2022 at 17:32
But what about gay men and lesbians? Do you think that they had , if not ‘ brain transplants’, then a gender-determining event prior to birth that mak...
February 17, 2022 at 17:26
It’s interesting and perhaps revealing that your description of gender mentions only who one is sexually attracted to, and nothing about what I would ...
February 16, 2022 at 23:54
Are you kidding me? If I were to snap my fingers and change your gender-related brain dynamics, you would be astonished at the huge variety of ways in...
February 16, 2022 at 17:31
Except I’m not quite sure what the difference between the virtual and the real is. As far as I can see, if it can change and surprise us, then it’s re...
February 16, 2022 at 17:18
This must be able to explain the fact that we are capable of sustaining more or less continuous please for finite periods of time. During such periods...
February 16, 2022 at 17:16
I agree they can’t exist, but for slightly different reasons than you have offered. Hedonism isn’t simply the product of a neurohormonally potentiated...
February 16, 2022 at 16:30
Theistic arguments don’tt have to rely on the supernatural, and by the same token, atheistic arguments don’t have to embrace naturalism. Maybe it’s th...
February 15, 2022 at 17:29
Please indulge me and tell me what you know of embodied, enactive approaches within cognitive psychology and how they differ from earlier models. As I...
February 14, 2022 at 21:39
I think your failure to understand psychological gender in terms of a perceptual-affective style that we are born with comes from a larger inability t...
February 14, 2022 at 21:14
Unless you hold with Heidegger and Wittgenstein that any such separation between subjective attitude and objectivity is incoherent. It is the hinge th...
February 13, 2022 at 20:42
Sounds impressive, but you left out the part about how human consciousness is capable of having direct contact with true reality through scientific in...
February 12, 2022 at 22:22
Yes, and each of us occupies our own perspective on that reality. To claim that there is one true reality that we can attain through empirical reason,...
February 12, 2022 at 22:19
The rationalist account of things is absolutely dependent in its core on such drivel. Your ‘reality-based’ ethics sees the Good in , what did you call...
February 12, 2022 at 21:43
There are supernatural gods and then there are pantheistic gods. The Enlightenment moved toward the rejection of supernatural deities, but left intact...
February 12, 2022 at 21:27
Hinge describes implicit presupposition. If one can call this is a use, it is a different use than rational belief.Duncan Pritchard suggests that hing...
February 12, 2022 at 18:27
Your model of rationality seems to revolve around the notion that you can peel data and evidence apart from the theoretical edifice that makes sense o...
February 11, 2022 at 20:37
You should probably familiarize yourself with those arguments, since they are becoming more and more prevalent. Dennett is a good example of someone w...
February 11, 2022 at 19:05
You’ll have to do better than that. Plenty of researchers within psychology and related sciences have adopted a Wittgensteinian approach, including th...
February 11, 2022 at 18:16
It also entails that everybody has the same capacity to grasp the essential content of the ideas. They don’t. We live in different worlds. Put differe...
February 11, 2022 at 17:57
The question isn’t whether there are individual differences in personality. It is whether, a robust gender-correlated difference can be extracted , ab...
February 09, 2022 at 22:08
Maybe you’re not very observant. “From the data included in this review, it appears that males tend to be more aggressive and bolder than females, whe...
February 09, 2022 at 21:39
You’re missing the point. Im not denying that with enough training I could learn to ‘throw like a boy’. The point is that my natural tendency to throw...
February 09, 2022 at 20:53
Is baseball a popular sport in your country? Not a neurological problem, and not clumsiness. Rather, a perceptual-affective style that differs along a...
February 09, 2022 at 20:41
I’m a gay male. Plenty of men tried to teach me to throw like a guy. I spent hours trying to teach myself. I was desperate to get rid of such ‘feminin...
February 09, 2022 at 18:41
Let’s take as an example traits within modern Western societies, such as a boy growing up with a constellation of behaviors he has no control over and...
February 09, 2022 at 18:01
What do you suppose “choose reality”’ refers to? Just the issues that are highlighted of aggression toward women by men deliberately masquerading as f...
February 09, 2022 at 16:48
Is there an objective reality or truth to what falls within the purview of a hinge proposition? Is there an objective reality or truth to the facts th...
February 09, 2022 at 14:38
Well, one would have to be familiar enough with the work of both thinkers in order to confidently make, or follow, such comparisons. But I do think th...
February 08, 2022 at 23:57
Not according to Kuhn, whose model of paradigm shifts was purportedly strongly influenced by Wittgenstein.
February 08, 2022 at 22:35
But that is a claim within a system. It is the claim that can be true or false, not the system. Within a changed system, the claim becomes false. It i...
February 08, 2022 at 19:57
337: “One cannot make experiments if there are not some things that one does not doubt. But that does not mean that one takes certain presuppositions ...
February 08, 2022 at 19:20
Isn’t the hinge proposition the condition of possibility for determinations of truth and falsity? That is, something is true or false relative to a mo...
February 08, 2022 at 18:15
You could try Graham Harman’s Object Oriented Ontology(ooo). https://youtu.be/cR1A4ILPmjE
February 06, 2022 at 20:25
Rationality of course needs a substrate on which to operate, and that’s where causality comes into play. Rationality allows us to figure out how thing...
February 06, 2022 at 00:38
Not just satisfying goals but inventing new goals, and not just achieving what one is capable of but going beyond what one thought one was capable of....
February 05, 2022 at 21:46
If we are to depend on our rational faculty to guide our ethical decisions and understanding, what assures us that the truths we arrive at can be nail...
February 05, 2022 at 19:12
At least they have soul.
February 05, 2022 at 05:01
Over the past 5,000 years, cultural evolution has produced astonishing changes in human understanding, changes which occur with an ever accelerating t...
February 04, 2022 at 19:51
Are you saying that Arendt’s own notion of freedom as action is deterministic, or that her representation of Enlightenment concepts of intellect and w...
February 04, 2022 at 19:08
Cognitive science has gone through several evolutions. The first generation of cognitive theory I think is most compatible with your ideas about the r...
February 04, 2022 at 02:42
The pre-frontal cortex has been described as a ‘control center’, the executor of actions, but this a misnomer. It receives inputs from the rest of the...
February 03, 2022 at 22:33
She defines freedom as action ,or praxis, which is prior both to reason- intellect and to the will. This notion is influenced by Hegelian dialectics. ...
February 03, 2022 at 19:37
That analysis sounds pretty banal to me. What Heidegger would call ‘Das Man’, a nice pre-packaged normative moralism without any genuine accounting fo...
February 03, 2022 at 15:07
Can you address the usefulness and necessity of the genealogical method in philosophy? “In philosophy, genealogy is a historical technique in which on...
February 02, 2022 at 23:10
Blame it on Nietzsche: “As far as the superstitions of the logicians are concerned: I will not stop emphasizing a tiny little fact that these supersti...
February 01, 2022 at 23:06
The way I look at it, the value of the sovereignty and protection of freedom of the individual must grasped from a ‘selfish’ perspective. That is , we...
February 01, 2022 at 21:48