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Anthony Nickles grappled with the question of whether for Wittgenstein there is relevant sense in private experience. I believe he concluded that it n...

The thinking goes this way: There is no such thing as bad intent. We all want the same thing, to be able to make sense of the world, and the behavior ...

I wonder if maybe what you’re after is an idea of feeling that can be found in the German Romantic writings of authors like Schelling and Fichte.

I think we should admire insight, not mythical ethical attributes. Terms like courage are dangerous, because they imply a hostility toward and condemn...

Phenomenologists like Husserl doesn’t think such questions are irrelevant , but his method of answering of them I think has much in common with Wittge...

Yes, something like that. This transition would be just a more extreme version of the changes re-make the self on a continual basis. We aren’t the sam...

What about the idea that the new life picks up where the old life ended? Since the new life begins as a baby, and a baby doesn’t process experience, i...

I just don’t know what moral courage is, except something we pat each other on the back for, a weapon we use against those whose motives we can’t rela...

What phenomenology has going for it is that it doesn’t leave personal intent dangling in mid air by presuming it to be guided by mysterious impulses t...

”But anyone who has really made sacrifices knows that he wanted and got something in return, – perhaps something of himself in return for something of...

Our choices are made relative to a pre-existing system of understanding. But those choices alter that pre-existing system to some extent. Affectivity ...

I love that article. I think Dennett does a great job of demolishing g Strawson’s argument for panpsychism. I just wish he had gone a little further i...

You mention the taking of something AS something, Heidegger’s depiction of the interpretive mode of understanding, and you use it as an example of con...

If these studies conclude that history is a progression, then they are already assuming a fixed basis of the movement of history, a founding value def...

I agree that verbal language isn’t necessary for cognition, that is, for forming expectations that can be met or disappointed, which is the basis for ...

The beetle in a box argument isnt about verbal language, it’s about social behavior, and a rejection of the idea that any meaning can be intrinsic (li...

I don’t know why it would be controversial to Wittgenstein. He famously wrote 'If a lion could speak, we could not understand him'. By this he didn’t ...

And plenty arguing that Wittgenstein was not a behaviorist, which I find much more convincing.

What makes you think we should talk about ethics ‘in general’ before talking about Mill or Kant? This reminds me of what Foucault does with concepts l...

Whether or not they live in different worlds has to be determined by the context of the game. With endless religious denominations living in different...

I don’t read Wittgenstein’s discussion of hinge propositions as a justification, defense or foundation for realism. On the contrary, the ‘rules for th...

If there is a god then David Lewis should qualify for eternal damnation for writing such an asinine article.

And yet the spoon remains in the drawer, as this particular spoon, whether I think about it or not. So particular spoons are things but the color red ...

My central interest since college has been the relationship between affectivity, feeling, mood and emotional on the one hand, and cognition, intention...

The signifier-signified relation is never arbitrary for Derrida, s there never is a sign diver by itself, but I understand where you’re going. I assum...

Some find his account of being for death the most valuable feature of his ontology, but I agree with you. I find it muddled and unconvincing. Derrida ...

Derrida’s and my point is that there is a difference between ‘no right view’ and anything goes. For both him and Wittgenstein, what is correct and rig...

To the extent that Derrida has also been accused of ‘anything goes’ radical relativism, I think his response to this charge is relevant to the underst...

In relativistic discourses, there can be subjectively generated and intersubjectively validated or invalidated goals based on pragmatic considerations...

One could say that this line of thinking would not have been possible without German idealism.

Singularity doesn’t step out of plurality, but the other way around. There is no such thing as a centered structure. A play of signifiers is a differe...

What Levinas misses is that this radical other isn’t something to be found beyond being, it is within the structure of being itself. Intention always ...

This sounds more like a structure of propositional logic than a language game

But the use of the word ‘God’ among the religious will likely include doubt, since God would imply faith , which requires doubt.So I think the hinge p...

Are you saying that you believe Wittgenstein’s is a no holds barred, anything goes approach? A radical relativism?

Wittgenstein solved the paradox for you: “It can be seen that there is a misunderstanding here from the mere fact that in the course of our argument w...

There is no single horizon which beckons. Instead there is endless self-transformation, endlessly transforming horizons. The goal is to slip into the ...

Heidegger is talking about the inauthentic understanding of the future. But even here, frameworks of intelligibility aren’t stagnant. When I interpret...

From a paper I’m writing: Eugene Gendlin writes: “I propose an expanded model of time. Time does not consist only of nows.” Linear time consists merel...

This would be the vulgar concept of time for Heidegger, time as measurement of things which take place ‘within’ time, which appear and disappear as an...

Phenomenology doesn’t take community to be primary, but rather subjective perceptive on community. Community is experienced differently by each partic...

I’ve done a fair amount of painting. Any artist will tell you that the design of a painting explicitly directs the viewer’s attention as a temporal un...

And yet, for Wittgenstein the personalistic perspective doesn’t simply disappear into the communal whole. His approach is person relative, occasion se...

There is nothing instantaneous about the way we encounter something like a painting. A painting tells a story that unfolds temporally as one’s gaze mo...

Nietzsche and Heidegger wanted to unravel the longstanding predisposition of philsophy to privilege presence over absence, affirmation over negation ,...

I wouldnt say for Derrida an event is muddled or diffused, but rather a structure composed of differences. “I do not believe I have ever spoken of "in...

If we treat ethics as ethical ‘norms’ , then ethics, as justice, is itself inherently violent.

Are you ‘in’ this world or do you form and re-form this world ( and yourself)?

This is like the claim that when someone says there is no objective truth they are making a kind of of truth claim themselves. But this misunderstands...

And you believe there are such things as meta-ethical givens, right?