Personality style has nothing to do with cognitive beliefs, knowledge, rationality, experience. Style is not a content of thought. Can you overcome sh...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Unless you hold with Heidegger and Wittgenstein that any such separation between subjective attitude and objectivity is incoherent. It is the hinge th...
Sounds impressive, but you left out the part about how human consciousness is capable of having direct contact with true reality through scientific in...
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,...
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...
There are supernatural gods and then there are pantheistic gods. The Enlightenment moved toward the rejection of supernatural deities, but left intact...
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...
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...
You should probably familiarize yourself with those arguments, since they are becoming more and more prevalent. Dennett is a good example of someone w...
You’ll have to do better than that. Plenty of researchers within psychology and related sciences have adopted a Wittgensteinian approach, including th...
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...
The question isn’t whether there are individual differences in personality. It is whether, a robust gender-correlated difference can be extracted , ab...
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...
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...
Is baseball a popular sport in your country? Not a neurological problem, and not clumsiness. Rather, a perceptual-affective style that differs along a...
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...
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...
What do you suppose “choose reality”’ refers to? Just the issues that are highlighted of aggression toward women by men deliberately masquerading as f...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Over the past 5,000 years, cultural evolution has produced astonishing changes in human understanding, changes which occur with an ever accelerating t...
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...
Cognitive science has gone through several evolutions. The first generation of cognitive theory I think is most compatible with your ideas about the r...
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...
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. ...
That analysis sounds pretty banal to me. What Heidegger would call ‘Das Man’, a nice pre-packaged normative moralism without any genuine accounting fo...
Can you address the usefulness and necessity of the genealogical method in philosophy? “In philosophy, genealogy is a historical technique in which on...
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...
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...
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