Yes, the moral end for all of us is anticipation of all possible events in as parsimonious , multidimensional and replicative a way as possible. Socia...
That sounds like a notion of the rational which reduces it to an arbitrary set of relationships with no thematic or implicative consistency. If this i...
The way that the concept of stupidity is being used in this thread is not that of lacking an aptitude , knowledge or skill. That’s why there has been ...
The concept of depth is a no-no to the postmodern ethos. Why is this? Because depth tends to be associated with exactly the kinds of metaphysical meta...
That’s how I read it too. But I want to quibble with it. Let’s say that I produce a new philosophy with new concepts. If I write it in English , then ...
I should mention that my approach to language and intersubjectivity is what I call ‘radically temporal’. Other philosophers I’ve found who ground expe...
I don’t define my own words de novo, but they are not simply introjected from a culture either. There is no such thing as culture as a monolithic stru...
I find the resonances between Wittgenstein and phenomenology fascinating. I also find the differences important. For instance , Nietzsche’s influence ...
There is a shared context here of agreed access to remembered dreams. Their question “Why do you think you were dreaming “? almost certainly suggests ...
My understanding of self here comes from phenomenological philosophy, particularly Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty( also Derrida). For them self is not an...
I think that all scientific theories are simultaneously inventions and discoveries. That is, they are responses to real influences from the empirical ...
We could be feeling a vague , ambiguous sensation that at times seems like pain and at other times like a tickle or distraction. The context (bodily-c...
Do you mean to say that if we trace a history of philosophy, figure by figure , leading from the ancient Greeks to today, the only ‘paradigm shift’ to...
These were my main points: 1) Kant asserts ideal categories of mind that make it possible to experience space , time ,causality and other features. He...
You won’t find any postmodern philosopher worth their salt denying that 2+2=4. They would instead point out that mathematical facts are empty without ...
What I dont like about Kant’s moral imperative is that it makes a problem of something that isnt one. Specifically, he presumes goals of the self are ...
Do you ever critique any aspect of Kantianism from the vantage of more recent philosophers, like Hegel, Kierkegaard or Schopenhauer? For instance, do ...
“… we humans have long believed that rationality makes us special in the animal kingdom. This origin myth reflects one of the most cherished narrative...
It is abstract, and no substitute for great secondary literature from the likes of Cora Diamond , James Conant and Phil Huirchinson fleshing out this ...
This is the crux of the matter. I claim that Wittgenstein is giving us a way to treat a notion like ‘correctness’ that doesn’t depend on the reproduct...
Shared propensities, common responses , cultural norms, categorical patterns of word meanings, are only the presuppositions for the possibility of hav...
Let’s take Trump as an example, since to many he seems to evince an excessive self-infatuation and self-obsession. You may perhaps agree that his ‘nar...
I’ve always thought that the modern psychological diagnostic concept of narcissism was not only unhelpful but dangerous. It belongs to a long line of ...
It seems to me the introductory summary from Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela that you cited is in general agreement with Hacker’s app...
Hutchinson’s point is that the background conventions do not do this work of understanding by themselves. They don’t exist independently of person-rel...
I admit that one would have to read between the lines to extract a clear critique of Hacker and Baker in that article, so I have a couple of large blo...
I have a suggestion to make which may or may not clarify this debate. Rather than giving the impression that what you are attempting to do is locate T...
“The term was invented by the 1st-century BCE head of Aristotle‘s Peripatetic school, Andronicus of Rhodes. Andronicus edited and arranged Aristotle’s...
Galilean and Newtonian physics can be argued to be consistent with the rationalist metaphysics of Descartes and Spinoza. The hypothetico-deductive met...
Since the Greeks? Speculative dialectics deservedly got a bad rep when philosophers decided they no longer needed to bother studying actual contingent...
Lyotard’s distinction between a litigation and a differend. may be relevant here: “ A differend is a case of conflict between parties that cannot be e...
Except that science doesn’t have a single definition , it is a historical development with a changing understanding of itself, undergirded by a changi...
The ‘ meta’ is the formal synthetic framework which organizes the understanding of ‘physis’( nature ). It need make no claims for a particular content...
Metaphysics is really no more than one pole of an abstract-concrete continuum that runs through all modes of thought and culture. Within science intse...
How many of the interpersonal conflicts, large and small, that we all experience on an almost daily basis, have to do with not being able to get other...
If poetry contains a metaphysics , then do prose literature, visual art, music ,scientific and political discourse also contain their own authentic me...
Hermeneuticists like John Caputo and Richard Rorty call this working together in good faith toward a fusion of horizons of understanding the ‘conversa...
It sounds like perhaps you have a background in the law. If money is at the center of a dispute, or things money can buy, then this kind of negotiatio...
One might call this the ‘metaphysics of presence’, after Heidegger and Derrida. Indeed, if one begins with presence , then one finds oneself ‘before’ ...
Your references are a bit out of date. The most sophisticated current models of memory dont make use of a computer storage metaphor anymore. Those wer...
Yea, this is the realist conclusion of semiologists. And their patron saint, Charles Peirce, found it necessary to ground all this subject-independenc...
For Husserl, the phenomenon is a complex entity composed of my intention projecting forward into the world and the world pushing back on my intention ...
I prefer to word it this way: reality is the set of constraints that are co-defined by, and respond intimately to, a constantly changing experiencing ...
Phenomenology is not a solipsism , it is a radical interactionism. You don’t solve the issue by positing a noumenal reality , you reify a form of soli...
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