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We only ask that question thanks to centuries of established Western philosophical and scientific dogma which presume a split between mind and matter,...

And one hopes they come to a philosophy forum prepared to have their assumptions challenged instead of just hoping to solicit confirmation of what the...

It would help if you would share in detail why you think these are ‘end times’. Dont assume everyone understands your sentiments and shares them, you ...

If desire for happiness motivates rationality , how is happiness generated? Through sensory reinforcement?

The way embodied models work, influenced by Damasio and other neuropsychologists, affective aspects are so complexly interwoven with cognitive that wh...

Unfortunately I’m utterly incapable of putting anything into simple straightforward language.

Nietzsche determines the good as the effect of an ‘instinct’ of assimilation and control. Thus the good , and ‘good character’ is closely linked to co...

Nietzsche isn’t denying that people need value systems in order to function. He is saying that to claim any one value system as privileged over all th...

It depends on how you define hedonic. Hedonism in S-R and classic cognitivism makes reinforcement a value property attributed to an event( a stimulus ...

I would argue that truth and how our minds work are not separate issues. Rather than consistency being about truth, truth is the way we have of talkin...

In recent years, psychology has moved away from hedonic models of human motivation, in favor of anticipation-prediction based theories.

Psychologist Prescott Lecky posited self-consistency as the primary motivator of human behavior. “… all of an individual's values are organized into a...

Which isn’t to say that there isn’t a more fundamental grounding than the senses, understood in empirical terms.

Russell and Frege leave us mired in a Kantian metaphysical thicket, which Wittgenstein realized and rejected in favor of his later phenomenological ap...

What Frege lacked was insight into the basis of the subject-predicate structure. Husserl led the way here by founding predication not on sensation but...

But one needs to be aware that our handed-down grammar biases us toward a certain way of thinking about subjects and objects that Heidegger rightly po...

It’s not just Being. Every significant change in philosophical outlook will be reflected in at least a subtle shift in the use of grammar. Why is this...

Heidegger agrees with you. “… are we puzzled now only because we have allowed ourselves to be led astray by language or, more precisely, by the gramma...

I live in Chicago. There is an El station two blocks away, a bus stop across the street from my building , a regular train line a few miles from me, a...

Is everything we need to know about an effect already present in the cause?

Unless you happen to be schizophrenic, in which case the I and you inhabit the same ‘person’. In this case, agency or lack thereof may be a better art...

Good questions. There are not surprisingly many views on this subject in philosophy. In modern times, Hume was among the first to present the issue in...

No, it certainly doesn’t. Is that what he was arguing for?

In a way, he’s right. We construct body schemes that participate in interpretating all of our perceptions. The following article give a sense of how “...

Your view of feeling and cognition as separable entities rests on your model of thinking in general in classically cognitivist representationalist ter...

Keeping my additional comments from the edit in mind , let’s analyze this hypothetical ‘person without feelings’. How does a reason motivate if that r...

This edit may not have come through before you wrote your last reply.

Does this separation between emotion and cognition mean that one can imagine a person in whom emotions are absent, who is still able to function cogni...

What about philosophical approaches that begin with consciousness and elucidate its structures? Are they theories, and do they offer explanations of a...

Kant’s metaphysics is telling a causal story. It s simply grounding that causality in a certain idealistic structure. I would say that the embodied ac...

There are two ways of doing this. We can take the phenomenological route , and make affect and cognition two aspects of a single act. Heidegger and a ...

At even the simplest level of perceptual recognition , affectivity plays a central role. What allows us to notice, to pay attention to a stimulus in t...

I think any major philosophical model implies a psychology. As regards Heidegger, you may be aware that Medard Boss and Ludwig Binswanger created a ps...

I’m talking about what is included in our concept when we use a word like magnitude. It may refer to one unit of measure, but when it does, built into...

Have you read any Damasio? He has had a major impact on models of affectivity and their relation to thinking and reasoning. “Damasio claims that scien...

Tell me how you would define or explain what a magnitude is to somebody who was unfamiliar with the concept. How does one make it comprehensible witho...

The question is, is the self changed each moment of time by its exposure to a world , or even to its own reflections? Is it always a slightly differen...

Not for Heidegger, who follows Nietzsche here. The self is not autonomous for either of them. “Philosophers tend to talk about the will as if it were ...

It doesn’t have to be a continuous line. It can be a series of lines. Magnitude , as the basis of continuity, is a more complex notion than a simple p...

It means the condition of possibility of willing. The ontological structure Heidegger offers can also be thought of as a psychological structure. Thin...

Heidegger’s critique of Aristotle’s concept of time goes well beyond whether Aristotle marks off ‘now’ points. You’ll notice that for Aristotle , befo...

That’s an interesting topic. Here’s what Heidegger says about willing in B&T: “ "The phenomenon of care in its totality is essentially something that ...

Heidegger would agree with you and Husserl that the past and future are not unreal , but rather the having been and future dimensions belong to the no...

“ Man is history, or better, history is man. Man is enraptured in this transition and therefore essentially 'absent'. Absent in a fundamental sense-ne...

That’s why I’m on this forum, to invite tweaking. But that usually works better with substantive replies and questions than with one-liners.

In classical logic, ‘not-A’ is represented by everything in a specified universe of meanings that is not ‘A’. In phenomenology, the ‘A’ springs out of...

Husserl makes a distinction between bound and free idealities. Spoken and written language, and all other sorts of gestures and markings which intend ...

I thought you might find this helpful. It’s notes from Heidegger’s zollikon seminars: The English language has an atomistic view of being, which tends...

“Einstein's theory of relativity established the opinion that traditional philosophical doctrine concerning time has been shaken to the core through t...

Wittgenstein says the meaning of something like 357x68 is the foundation of a language game, just as the statement ‘this is my hand’ is the foundation...