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“ Here’s a rebuttal of self-interest from the mindfulness tradition: We believe that the view of the self as an economic man, which is the view the so...
October 07, 2021 at 19:34
Welll , then , there’s your consensus. That’s good enough for me. I was never particularly interested in the topic so just did a cursory search of art...
October 04, 2021 at 19:25
Because I found his argument convincing enough to suspect that your authors are offering a fringe position without my having to delve deeper into the ...
October 03, 2021 at 19:46
Apparently , Dr Pegden is something of a professional contrarian. Here’s a rebuttal to Dr Pegden’s article( Baral and Prasad were co-authors) To summa...
October 02, 2021 at 19:26
My default assumption is that epidemiologists in general are in a better position than you are to make policy recommendations. Why is this? I don’t do...
October 01, 2021 at 19:51
Maybe we’re taking about different things. I thought you were advocating against young, healthy people getting vaccinated because there was wasnt clea...
October 01, 2021 at 18:43
Don’t forget another misconception that is being knocked down: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/the-vaccinated-arent-just-as-likely-t...
October 01, 2021 at 17:46
My experience of the computer within the natural attitude makes the computer appear to me via a description that incorporates measurement and calculat...
September 30, 2021 at 02:11
It would make it the phenomenologically experienced
September 30, 2021 at 01:51
The natural is what is measurable, calculable, mathematizable within an intersubjective community. We can oppose it to the personalistic , which is pe...
September 29, 2021 at 22:44
You’ve left out the critiques of science that, while not disputing its achievements, point to the continuing tendency, especially in the natural scien...
September 29, 2021 at 21:18
Husserl was the founder of modern phenomenology, and phenomenology has often been misread as introspectionism, solipsism , Cartesianism. That may be w...
September 27, 2021 at 18:19
I do t just divide up the world according to discursive conventions. I subdivide the world in a much more grained way within and outside the bounds of...
September 26, 2021 at 23:41
The think the Continental-Analytic distinction is useful to the same extent as the science-philosophy distinction. Both point to a difference in style...
September 26, 2021 at 20:51
What is it that any groundbreaking philosopher is doing when they construct an idiosyncratic vocabulary? Even before they have written a word of it or...
September 26, 2021 at 18:28
When I perceive my environment my expectations guide and co-determine what appears to me and how it appears to me, visually, tacitly , auditorily. You...
September 26, 2021 at 18:03
I mentioned enactivism only because in the thread I linked to , I addressed the concerns of Hutchinson and Reid over a pervasive reading of Wittgenste...
September 26, 2021 at 03:31
When we think or talk to ourself, or perceive our surroundings, we know when an event is recognizable or unrecognizable, coherent or incoherent , cons...
September 24, 2021 at 22:25
I haven’t looked closely enough to see if you and Antony have had any substantive engagement over your linking of free energy models with the later Wi...
September 24, 2021 at 17:47
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Who colored the mirror blue? Inquiring minds want to know.
September 23, 2021 at 18:26
A question occurred to me. If it is the case that the above conversation with ourselves would be comparable to having it with someone else, would it n...
September 22, 2021 at 19:23
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I don’t have in mind religion in the way that you may be thinking about it ( the major faith groups and their doctrines of good and evil as understood...
September 22, 2021 at 16:38
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Whether you know it or not, your description of evil puts your thinking in the category of ‘secular’ religion. You may have absolutely no affiliation ...
September 22, 2021 at 15:11
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I’m assuming that your stance on evil commits you to some kind of religious point of view. Is that the case? Also, how do you reconcile your view of e...
September 22, 2021 at 14:58
Aren’t the different roles I play with the other people in my life part of the real ‘me’. Arent I changed by each interaction with others? Doesn’t a d...
September 21, 2021 at 22:45
From George Kelly, 1962: “A good deal is said these days about being oneself. It is supposed to be healthy to be oneself. While it is a little hard fo...
September 21, 2021 at 22:30
I would put it this way. Rather than assuming an unformed pattern of sensations ( negative or positive) arising out of core physiological bodily maint...
September 21, 2021 at 21:16
I agree with you completely. I just wanted to make sure you thought about it this way.
September 21, 2021 at 18:57
What does Witt make of the various ways feelings are experienced? We can imagine a feeling, remember a feeling, experience a vague sensation that is a...
September 21, 2021 at 18:30
I am disputing the idea that an emotion prior to an interpretive construal is a coherent notion.
September 21, 2021 at 17:48
Are you familiar with Lisa Barrett’s work on affect and emotion? This is what I’m mainly drawing from. I am comparing one scientific framework (repres...
September 21, 2021 at 17:46
Predictive processing approaches are quite popular these days. What I think is most valuable in them is their understanding of feeling in terms of pre...
September 21, 2021 at 14:10
I don’t see why we need the assumption of such a pre-wired imprinting to explain the huge variety of adult social relations. All that’s needed is the ...
September 20, 2021 at 23:32
There are certainly some significant differences between Quine and Wittgenstein , such as their divergent views on the continuity of philosophy and sc...
September 20, 2021 at 23:13
Are you arguing that pre-wired innate structures play a central role in the most complex kinds of adult human interactions? Could you give examples of...
September 20, 2021 at 22:14
There are a lot of capacities that we learn much more effectively in early childhood than in adulthood, such as a foreign accent and perceptual skills...
September 20, 2021 at 19:30
There are plenty of approaches within psycholinguistics that offer alternatives to this Chomskyesque view of language. Embodied and enactivist models ...
September 20, 2021 at 18:31
uninformative OP’s
September 18, 2021 at 23:59
Victor Frankl might have agreed. Some of the central insights of his existential therapy were gleaned during his concentration camp experience. The no...
September 18, 2021 at 19:15
What is it we are talking about when we speak of the needs of an economy, and how should we define growth? Ostensibly, an economy is a proxy for indiv...
September 18, 2021 at 18:25
Enjoy
September 17, 2021 at 20:49
This is the ‘postmodern’ reading that authors like Cavell, Cora Diamond and James Conant endorse. Also , Baker, who along with Peter Hacker, produced ...
September 17, 2021 at 18:51
I don’t know if you were following the thread below: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11479/bedrock-rules-the-mathematical-and-the-ordinary-c...
September 17, 2021 at 18:32
Who do you get your ideas about philosophy and psychology from? Who do you read?
September 16, 2021 at 22:44
I read that critique as a rejection of naive realism in favor of Kantianism. I’m not sure what this has to do with ordinary language philosophy. If yo...
September 16, 2021 at 22:23
It’s possible that’s what Foucault meant.
September 16, 2021 at 01:49
Isnt this the question of whether there is anything new under the sun, or at least now we are to understand the idea of novelty? If we present a 5 yea...
September 16, 2021 at 01:43
I’m making two points. First, as you know , at one time many believed the earth was flat , that all species descended directly from predecessors , tha...
September 15, 2021 at 22:01
alrighty then
September 15, 2021 at 21:16
Another’s sense will never be my nonsense if I understand what I described above about the organization of cognitive systems. I may not be able to gra...
September 15, 2021 at 21:15