Do you consider yourself and your circle of friends to be “all one” or do you recognize all kinds of wonderful differences among you? Are your friends...
I’m sure you would agree that utilitarianism and ethical philosophy in general is based around an understanding of concepts like rationality , motivat...
Mr. Graham tried something like that with the graham cracker. “The graham cracker was inspired by the preaching of Sylvester Graham who was part of th...
There is another way to understand the Flyn effect. We have to begin by asking what it is that improves such things as nutitition. We can also ask wha...
Let’s see if we can clarify something. Metaphysical beliefs are commitments that guide scientists in their larger understanding of their subject matte...
Logical positivists may take this position, but I agree with the following: “What has to be the case for genuine science as such to be possible? This ...
Oh dear… I guess I have a hard time resisting responding to sweeping generalizations like “no scientist abides by it”. Was it really necessary to pull...
1) As I said earlier, I do not personally support a platonist view of mathematics 2)Mathematical platonism isn’t supposed to be science. It’s metaphys...
That’s exactly right. Ethical intent was not the issue. Lack of insight was. The Jew for centuries represented the alien interloper in European though...
I understand that you have an intense need to reduce complexities and ambiguities in ideas to caricatures. Perhaps philosophy isn’t a good match for y...
Boy, you do a lot of whining, and with quite an arrogance. What is this ‘we all know that’ crap? I can’t think of any statement less philosophical in ...
It is confusing. At one end is ‘Das man’ , a stiflingly normative mode of discursive being-with-others that precludes original thinking. At the other ...
I dont think he is simply saying that math is a language. There is. i necessary connection between words and real objects. If we view language in refe...
Don’t forget Godel and Penrose. Here’s more from Penrose: “The notion of mathematical truth goes beyond the whole concept of formalism. There is somet...
I don’t think it’s sleepy. Is the math in the detector or in the reality being detected? If the world is is such that our mathematical concepts fit it...
Yes, this is at the core of Derrida’s thinking, and Heidegger’s as well. In 'Logic as the Question concerning the Essence of Language' Heidegger tells...
“[]I believe consciousness to be closely associated with the sensing of necessary truths — and thereby achieving a direct contact with Plato’s world o...
My favorite psychologist is a fellow by the name of George Kelly, who many consider to be the founder of cognitive therapy. In his approach , all of o...
The thing about tools is that they have a habit of re-defining the task that they were supposedly designed for. Take science, for instance. It is desi...
Part of the source of the disagreement you have been encountering may be that all the the terms involved:ethics, individual, private, public, self, ha...
Language viewed as a logical grammar is self-referential. Language viewed through the phenomenology of someone like Merleau-Ponty is embodied, and the...
Everything you think is shaped by your wider culture , even as your own ideas represent a variation on that larger thematics. Your choices and freedom...
The values of the individual are organized and shaped via interaction with a larger culture, so the individual is already operating within that larger...
That’s right: Right actions are those that are likely to result in the greatest happiness of the greatest number. What makes individual pursuit of ple...
I have in mind contemporary philosophical discussion of ethics. My point is not that self-care is divorced from interpersonal ethics for modern thinke...
It strikes me as a bit odd to refer to my self-care in terms of ‘morality’ unless that term is being used so broadly as to take it out of the realm of...
On the one side are phenomenologists like Henry, who talk about grounding affectivities as immediate and unchanging: “Henry calls attention to the way...
How about philosophy that ties into cutting edge science, like cognitive theory or perceptual psychology? As an adherent of ‘scientific method’ I woul...
This reminded me of Wittgenstein. “Wittgenstein told his audience that what he was doing was 'persuading people to change their style of thinking , . ...
From a realist perspective, bias is a dirty word , a failure to grasp what is truly there to be grasped, if only as an unreachable ideal, an ‘unattain...
Pain is no different than the intuited moments of sense that Husserl describes as flowingly changing. From a recent paper of mine: Husserl's grounding...
No, it’s an approach to ethics that makes the ability to act ‘ethically’ a function of insight, and no internalization of standards will get around th...
Are you familiar with the concept of the ‘specious present’, which I think was coined by William James? The idea, presented famously by Husserl, is th...
You mentioned forms of philosophy reliant on truth propositional logic as not pragmatically meaningful, but I assume you would also include many Conti...
A group of writer is psychology and phenomenology have put for their their own notion of non clock-time which draws from dynamical systems theory. I w...
The examples I gave dealt with limitations on ethical treatment of others resulting from lack of insight into their capabilities. As to the question o...
What you’re talking about isn’t time in its fundament essence , it’s a mathematical abstraction based on the model of reality as objects in motion. Ot...
Living systems self-organize in a functionally unified manner, which means that they behave in ways that are normatively structured. So, yes, respirat...
Qualities are CHANGES, referential differentials, ways of likeness and difference with respect to what came before. They are transitions, transformati...
I thought I would butt in here to clarify some things. Would you agree with the following? Our ability to act ethically with others evolves as a funct...
You owe it to yourself to read Martin Hagglund’s critique of Caputo’s attempt to ‘theologize’ Derrida. I’m sure you won’t agree with it , but at least...
Good may not be found by philosophical discourse, at least as a universal a priori, but in saying there is no feature common to what is good, one is s...
Could we instead say that the point of ethics is to communicate? A good counselor, parent or friend can save lives and souls through words. Well chose...
It says that without Kant and his armchair these wonderful ethical actors would have defaulted to ethical positions more authoritarian in nature, whic...
I suspect that de Klerk et al are basically Kantian in their moral stance. Keeping rhythm with the universe doesn’t just mean seeing a bigger picture....
Someone sitting in an armchair thinking can’t tie their shoe or repair an engine while contemplating. And when they are done contemplating they can’t ...
Considering that introspection is the means by which all of the great ethical doctrines have been generated, I can’t imagine a better way to prepare o...
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