“ 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Maybe we’re taking about different things. I thought you were advocating against young, healthy people getting vaccinated because there was wasnt clea...
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...
My experience of the computer within the natural attitude makes the computer appear to me via a description that incorporates measurement and calculat...
The natural is what is measurable, calculable, mathematizable within an intersubjective community. We can oppose it to the personalistic , which is pe...
You’ve left out the critiques of science that, while not disputing its achievements, point to the continuing tendency, especially in the natural scien...
Husserl was the founder of modern phenomenology, and phenomenology has often been misread as introspectionism, solipsism , Cartesianism. That may be w...
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...
The think the Continental-Analytic distinction is useful to the same extent as the science-philosophy distinction. Both point to a difference in style...
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...
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...
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...
When we think or talk to ourself, or perceive our surroundings, we know when an event is recognizable or unrecognizable, coherent or incoherent , cons...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
I would put it this way. Rather than assuming an unformed pattern of sensations ( negative or positive) arising out of core physiological bodily maint...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
There are certainly some significant differences between Quine and Wittgenstein , such as their divergent views on the continuity of philosophy and sc...
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...
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...
There are plenty of approaches within psycholinguistics that offer alternatives to this Chomskyesque view of language. Embodied and enactivist models ...
Victor Frankl might have agreed. Some of the central insights of his existential therapy were gleaned during his concentration camp experience. The no...
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...
This is the ‘postmodern’ reading that authors like Cavell, Cora Diamond and James Conant endorse. Also , Baker, who along with Peter Hacker, produced ...
I don’t know if you were following the thread below: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/11479/bedrock-rules-the-mathematical-and-the-ordinary-c...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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