All questions pre-suppose the conditions of their possibility. So your question pre-supposes the coherence of the idea of something being able to be t...
You mean you haven’t found in Thompson a satisfactorily meta-ethics? I think the kinds of suppositions that would make a ‘meta’ useful or even coheren...
I wrote a paper comparing Varela and Thompsons’s approach to meditation to phenomenology. It’s titled A Phenomenological Critique of Mindfulness. You ...
As you know , some argue that Heidegger’s ‘Kehre’ in the 1930’s was a decisive break with the direction of thinking Being and Time represents. For tho...
I’m not sure that qualifies as a ‘definition’ of Being in the sense of revealing the meaning of Being. Understanding Being in terms of temporality com...
Exactly. Heidegger’s point, which is also the argument of the phenomenologists and Wittgenstein, is that objectivity is a derivative product of subjec...
You may or may not find the following interesting: “Gandhi, Marx, Dilthey, Buber, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, McKeon, and many others taught me deeply. But...
Pragmatic engagement isn’t something above and beyond idle talk as some sort of physical activity, it is the condition of possibility of idle talk and...
Heidegger argues that the scientific language of logic-mathematical reasoning belongs to average everydayness as its theoretical expression. The ‘ rea...
It sounds like the limitation resides as much with your comprehension as it does with Heidegger’s explanation. I strongly encourage you to try and mak...
But there is authentic and inauthentic attunement and understanding. Average everydayness is a mode of inauthentic attunement and understanding. It is...
Average everydayness cannot be independent of any particular state of authenticity. On the contrary, it manifests precisely as a particular state of a...
Average everydayness is not a mere , generic reference to what we do day to day , it’s a description of a particular mode of interpreting ourselves in...
To be more precise Das Man is the subject of average everydayness. “Initially and for the most part, Da-sein is taken in by its world. This mode of be...
Heidegger differentiates ‘life’ and ‘animals’ from Dasein in the following way. Animals are poor in world. They do not experience beings in the world ...
Average everydayness is what Heidegger calls Das Man, which is a comportment toward beings which is inauthentic. Inauthentic simply means that Dasein ...
In division two, Heidegger moves on from average everydayness to talk about authentic angst and time. So even though what you say is true, once we hav...
I’m curious. Would you consider the following to be an example of “let’s pretend”? “…entirely honest, sincere and unaffected, because unprepense, medi...
Or maybe it’s something shallower than what I’m suggesting. That is , if you look at the etymological history of terms like ‘certainty’ ‘absolute’ and...
Maybe. But there are plenty of places , not only in philosophy but in the sciences themselves , where the notion of certainty is no longer taken so se...
I dont think the central question is why philosophers have desired certainty, but how , in their quest to make sens out of a chaotic world, the notion...
But the critique of bedrock certainty began a long time ago, and philosophers like Heidegger were already onto a critique of what came after( for inst...
The fascination with certainty comes from the nature of fascination itself. Or more precisely, from the nature of desire. Our way of being is anticipa...
I wouldnt say that Wittgenstein was looking for first “principles”, but rather that thinking which gives a unity to experience. The same is true of He...
One could add that the normative , goal-oriented nature of self-organizing systems is itself an aspect of evolution. As Evan Thompson points out: “Dar...
Can such a principle even be communicated from myself to myself without reflection? And if not, then before reflection do we have a principle or law, ...
Only if one is a Darwinian naturalist , which neither I, Wittgenstein, Husserl nor Heidegger are. Relevance and pragmatic use for us mean something qu...
The law of identity is being critiqued because of a change in the way certain approaches to philosophy think of ‘being’ thanks to the work of Nietzsch...
Information from your visual receptors connects areas of visual processing in the brain with those of other sensory modalities(vestibular system, cere...
Cognitive theorists conclude from clinical examples of blindsight that consciousness is only a part of what goes on in the brain, and that consciousne...
Heidegger read plenty of Aristotle, but came to conclusions remarkably similar to Wittgenstein. “ The principle of contradiction and the principle of ...
From Ray Monk’s biography of Wittgenstein: “…what Ryle says about Wittgenstein's attitude towards reading the great works of the past is perfectly tru...
216. "A thing is identical with itself."—There is no finer example of a useless proposition, which yet is connected with a certain play of the imagina...
Is that a Kantian notion? Isnt A=A the concept of ideal self-identity, the infinite repeatability of the same? If so, isn’t the category of temporalit...
I agree with the linked article that perceptual processes are the place to look for the basis of mathematical reasoning, but rather than ‘innate’ I’d ...
That’s also what scientists like Galileo and Newton , artists and poets prior to the Romantic era, and political theorists thought. That’s what the En...
How would you differentiate between materiality and physicalism, on the one hand, and naturalism on the other? I have in mind attempts( Varela and Tho...
First generation cognitive science used the metaphor of computer to model the mind as an input output device that processes , represents and stores da...
You’re wrong. Descartes had reason to doubt he had hands. I imagine if you were to ask him point blank what odds he would give that he had no hands he...
He didnt claim they didn’t exist, he hypthosized that they could possibly not exist, that he might possibly be deceived about their existence. Do you ...
Ok, here’s my take. You can’t abstract away from presuppositions without already having an alternative in mind. In other words, I believe that Husserl...
I think philosophies have been bracketing conventional assumptions for centuries. The idea isnt to pretend that you dont know what you know, but to ab...
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