But what would it mean to suggest that the shitting, fucking and crying is always a different sense of these terms? That is , not examples of a larger...
When you use the words ‘bark’, ‘hiss’, ‘squeak’, ‘buzz’ and ‘growl’ do you mean to convey the idea of meaningless in themselves utterances which only ...
Very thorough, thanks . I got the etymology from Oxford Languages: Middle English (originally in the sense ‘life under monastic vows’): from Old Frenc...
I think that’s true. I should note that at least for Zahavi it is not the sense object that is the source of the ‘feeling of what it is like’, not the...
The idea here is that when we relate to the world there is both an experience of what the world is like for us and at the same time an experience of t...
The memory as we experience it is always a reconstruction , a reinterpretation of what was. It is a cobbling together of what is new in our situationa...
I think we need to distinguish religion as a structure of group rules, practices and rituals from religion as a theoretical enterprise, that is, as th...
Thomas Fuchs incorporates the phenomenological philosophy of Merleau Ponty in his model of memory and the bodily unconscious: “In body memory, the sit...
Do you see in the following from Hutchinson and Reid a critique of the reading of Wittgenstein that sees words as relational codes and as types? “The ...
What happens to those handshakes, salutes and stop signs as we move from contextual situation to situation? what can we say about the way that they ch...
You might want to check out some of the recent work on perception in cognitive science(Noe and O’Regan) or the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive...
For me , the best way to focus on a discussion with someone is to obtain as detailed a sense of their background assumptions and philosophical worldvi...
If one understands this move properly, it isn’t a question of ‘discounting’ the ‘actual’ public but of deriving it, It will only appear as primary and...
I guess the question I have is, are you aware of this split among Wittgenstein interpreters, can you articulate what it consists of , and which camp d...
On the contrary, it is the notion of ‘body’ and materiality’ as causal conditioning agents that presupposes an occult interior. More specifically , as...
What’s missing here is the absolutely vital relation between what has been and what is being intended. For both Derrida and Heidegger a profound pragm...
Notice now Antony has been attempting to articulate the difference between my relation to my own thinking and sensing vs my participation in a languag...
For me too. For Intended meaning to be present to itself it must come back to itself , and in doing so, it already means something other than what it ...
Here’s a summary of Husserl on the origin of the ‘real’ object: Edmund Husserl, the founder of modern phenomenological philosophy, attempted to chart ...
But do not these group habits and conventions themselves originate as person, context and perspective based? If everyone , in their ‘private’ experien...
Yes, according to Derrida the logocentrism plaguing Western philosophy for centuries has fiven preference to speech over writing. Speech was supposedl...
What about the idea that my talking and thinking and sensing to myself is already a form of sociality that submits my sensations and thoughts to conte...
It’s consistent with Derrida’s reading of him and Eugene Gendlin’s. Gendlin bases his whole approach on the body, but it’s a different notion of embod...
Husserl begins from perception, but he connects this back to the subject’s history of prior intentions such that one is always encountering the world ...
It sounds like you are reading phenomenology as subjective introspection. That’s a common misperception. Phenomenology is just as much about objectivi...
Good question. Here’s the intro to a part I wrote comparing the two authors: “ In recent years, Husserl and Merleau-Ponty have become valuable sources...
“Our monadological results are metaphysical, if it be true that ultimate cognitions of being should be called metaphysical. On the other hand, what we...
Yes, our anticipating into the next moment is absolutely central to what salience, mattering and pragmatic use are all about. Maybe I’ve been reading ...
Kind of like the beetle in the box? We can of course say the spoons still exist outside of our interaction with them, but saying so is meaningless out...
Each of us has our own perspective on things . No one else can share this identically. It is what makes each of us unique. That doesn’t mean we can’t ...
You don’t need a therapist who cares in sense of being emotionally involved. That’s counterproductive. The therapist needs only to care about achievin...
You’re looking for a shortcut, the idea that there is an objective, consensus-based correct path. The major religions think this way. Maybe you should...
Or you could say that she has knowledge of something that isn’t couched in physicalistic terms. But one could claim that physicalistic accounts share ...
Not all arguments against physicalism assume qualia. Approaches which see the conceptual-subjective and the empirical-object as inextricably interdepe...
You can throw together brain imaging studies of cognitive tasks , add to this reaction time measurements, recordings from groups of neurons and other ...
Here’s some more armchair musings from Husserl. You’re going to have to refute them with your own arguments. Let the show begin. In Chapter XI we trea...
Tell me what you think is going on when someone instantly recognizes the number 4 in a pattern of 4 dots. Or for that matter , when a savant reads off...
We can also learn to immediately recognize a patten of 5 or 6 dots as their corresponding numbers. The more dots that are involved , the more importan...
Maybe we can agree that what is ‘temporally persistent’ doesn’t have to mean temporally self-identical in order to give rise to the appearance of endu...
Recognizing 4 dots as the number 4 is just pattern recognition , not a mathematical ability. This is no different than recognizing a bunch of lines as...
Because it matters greatly when we get to the higher level of political, ethical, scientific and personal conceptualization. At these levels, ‘droppin...
Let’s talk about what we actually experience as we make our way toward that door that we remember being there. As we approach it there is absolutely n...
Are you familiar with Wilfred Sellars’ Myth of the Given? That would seem to apply to your OP. It states that: “Sellars contends that our first-order ...
And this is just the beginning. Color perception depends on a lot more than just rods and cones at the outermost level of neural receptivity to the en...
If I translate the word red as rouge or rojo, what am I doing? I am taking a presumably equivalent meaning and changing the syntax. Of course, one has...
Schopenhauer certainly influenced Nietzsche, but I think in the case of the will, Nietzsche departed significantly from Schopenhauer’s notion. All not...
Give me an example in your life of stumbling upon a fresh scientific idea that was profoundly important to you , and tell me why there was ‘Absolutely...
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