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The article you linked to concluded: “When these two approaches are combined, the "richest" view of a culture or society can be understood.” I dont co...

Or it means that religions are explanatory systems around which rituals and practices are constructed, and as such one can compare their explanatory s...

For Nietzsche , like Freud, thoughts are the tip of an iceberg. It is the feelings-values lying below the surface as implicit or unconscious that give...

Isn’t a concept a mini-theory( fact-value distinction and all)?

You’re leaving out the temporal , or diachronic aspect of MP’s model. figures must appear against backgrounds, yes. But the whole figure-background ge...

Yes, but Zahavi’s point is that a phenomenological approach is not vulnerable to skepticism( for the same reason that a Wittgensteinian approach is no...

But what is constituted i. experience on the basis of congruity and similarity is new. It is absolutely and completely new. It just so happens that it...

Excellent points. Dan Zahavi has made similar arguments against maintaining the neuro-representationalist idea of a veil separating ‘outer’ third pers...

That’s mainly the result of increases in productivity, which is made possible by improvements in technology. That, in turn, depends on scientific prog...

I agree. I suppose I’m biased by my background in theoretical psychology toward more complex assessments of personality. That’s particularly useful fo...

My concern is just as ontological as yours. I am also discussing what emotions and moods are. The ‘ontological’ angle, as you put it, what something i...

I don’t know that for Wittgenstein it makes sense to say that they are the same thing. What is relevant is how seeing something as a duck rather than ...

I chose ‘co-inventing’ rather than ‘inventing’ because I’m trying to convey the idea of a world that is produced by us moment to meomtn i the way that...

Not irrelevant to it. On the contrary, presence and absence are the basis of ethical good and evil. What I see you doing (and religious metaphysics in...

If you are an objective realist , you wait for it. You stare at it as if it were separate from you. Every moment of living in a world consists of co-i...

The question is what exactly it is doing. Or , from my vantage, how consequential is its effect. That leads back to how much we are trying pack into t...

I agree with you, but no less a leading light than Galen Strawson seems to support it , so I guess there at least a few solid arguments being put fort...

There are all sorts of ways to contextualize it that would diminish its badness. Neurospsychologically speaking, the sensation itself always emerges a...

Because it is not the content of events which dictates value, but the organizational relationship between events and our construal of events. If we co...

Just wanted to be the first postmodern relativist on a thread so far composed of only objective realists. ‘Oh dear, however can we attain contact with...

I like psychologist George Kelly’s notion of enlightenment: “The universe that we presume exists has another important characteristic: it is integral....

Yes, but to be completely enlightened, you’d have to understand where the disparity between you and everyone else come from, and how to equalize it.

Good is whatever aids sense making , and sense making is anticipative. So what is good is whatever helps us anticipate events. And what’s the purpose ...

I agree that optimizing our ability to anticipate the future behaviors of others should be the central goal of any psychological model. The better we ...

Perhaps we could say that enlightenment is our directing ourselves toward the development of more and more useful narratives.

Let me try to clarify the larger framework that is informing my categorical divisions. The way I understand it, affect is a complex aspect of human fu...

It is not the same form of familiarity with all objects that we encounter. Familiarity can take the form of dread, confusion , hatred or enlightenment...

Wouldnt a disposition to experience a certain mood or passion have to do with more abstract and longer range categories such as personality traits? Fo...

Yes, it could seem that way if you haven’t read much ‘Freddie’.

What’s the difference between a feeling (not of physical pain or pleasure) and an emotion? Are they the same ? I follow enactivist approaches to affec...

Can you see how we could easily parse such ‘emotions’ into subtler and subtler versions of themselves? Isnt it the case that all of our experiences ar...

In analyses of consciousness like that of Damasio, phenomenal experience is organized in a hierarchical fashion, that is, into levels of consciousness...

Let me see if I understand what you are asking. Are you wondering whether the minutia of conscious experience have a physical correlate in brain activ...

How would you define feelings like sadness, anxiety, trepidation , uneasiness, concern, satisfaction? Do thoughts require feelings? Do we have feeling...

I cut off the first part of the Heidegger quote: “Yet people will reply: Who will deny us that? Attunements-joy, contentment, bliss, sadness, melancho...

Yes, it would have to begin with experience, because the phenomenologists believe a subject-independent world is an incoherent notion. What does it im...

It began as objectivized with Aristotle and his equating of time with the motion of objects. Modern science hasn’t abandoned that view, merely complic...

I appreciate that you’re focusing on time as it has been treated within empirical accounts. I just wanted to mention that phenomenological philosophic...

Heidegger writes: “Psychology, after all, has always distinguished between thinking, willing, and feeling. It is not by chance that it will always nam...

Strange as it may sound, there are those who secretly relish apocalyptic fantasies, who want to hear nothing but tragic news (one could call it ‘doom ...

Would you have preferred he write in a different style? Don’t you think that if a writer is astute enough to distill the spirit of their time and put ...

If the beetle is an important part of my life, then this will be because it is an important part of my social life.

But for Wittgenstein it cannot be profoundly different for each of us because experience is profoundly relational. That insight was his enlightenment,...

What if it were profoundly different for each of us? What would that suggest about the limits of intersubjective harmonization of personal viewpoints ...

Reminds me of Varela and Thompson’s account of the zen buddhist Nishitani’s critique of Nietzsche. “Nishitami deeply admires Nietzsche's attempt but c...

We can all be grateful then that you didn’t stoop to condescension. Btw, I’m wagering your attempt at engaging with the question gets the thumbs down ...

We have no choice , because whether we like it or not, whatever valuative framework we choose will eventually collapse and be transformed from within ...

But Nietzsche did not believe that the self is a fixed identity. That is one reason he is embraced by postmodern philosophers like Foucault and Deleuz...

[ I think the route to flourishing for Nietzsche was maintaining continuous movement, embracing transformation, and allowing oneself to get held capti...

I read Nietzsche’s self-overcoming ( will to power) as being different than you were before, not better in the sense of some kind of cumulative progre...