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I dont know if this will help. It lays out the anti-noumenal phenomenological argument, claiming that it gives us a more robust realism than the Kanti...

There is still a problem for the Kantian view. And that’s the gulf between the roel of the subject and the thing in itself. How can we be in the world...

I think we have a problem with more than ‘rowness’ if we’re trying to determine the contribution of the subject to the experience of what we want to c...

Define ‘thing’ without using a notion of pattern or relation.

You have been working on a thoroughgoing and comprehensive philosophy, with your concept of information as its centerpiece. The most important and rel...

What I’m wondering, specifically, is how you are defining what takes place at the ‘mental’ end of the subject-world encounter and how you would talk a...

What does the ‘out there’ do? Are you following the Kantian line which argues that pattern, logic, time and space are all mental processes? Is your ar...

I do like your emphasis on interaction as being primary. But if the interaction that constitutes information is between two representations, what are ...

I haven’t read Anscombe and Searle on this, but the phenomenologically informed enactivist work I follow wouldn’t accept that the one direction ever p...

Would you apply this same ‘radical relativism’ critique to postmodernists like Nietzsche , Focucault and Derrida? I think Trumpists and other right wi...

We can discuss and write about any period in cultural history, or our personal biographies, for that matter. And those who come after us can do the sa...

Are you taking about deductive sense or a different kind of sense?

Kuhn is talking about change from one historical movement to the next in the arts. “We might argue all day whether or not the particular artist or poe...

But, to Kuhn’s point, do you see the enterprise of natural science as a cumulative development ? How do you react to Rorty’ observation? “Most of Kuhn...

I don’t think that’s what Feyerabend intended with his linkage of science and science. I think it was closer to Kuhn’s purpose in The Structure of Sci...

I’m hoping that Antony will weigh in at some point. I’m reluctant to get myself any deeper into it in the meantime.

Yes, but I thought the point of Dunning Kruger was eaxh person’s assessment of their own capabilities, not your assenssmanr of their capabilities. And...

According to Wiki, “ The Dunning–Kruger effect is a hypothetical cognitive bias stating that people with low ability at a task overestimate their own ...

I understood you to be agreeing with the Oxford approach and that of Hacker and Baker, which argues that Wittgenstein is offering a definition of mean...

I think maybe the disagreement here is recapitulating an ongoing one in academic circles between those philosophers who assimilate Witt’s notion of pr...

After having now read a number of papers discussing Peircean semiotics in the context of a range of approaches within philosophy and psychology here a...

We must complete the quote: “Accordingly one might almost call transcendental phenomenology a neo-Cartesianism, even though It Is obliged and precisel...

Maybe it sounds like Heidegger because I simplified it a bit. Reduction is the removal of all knowledge of the world that isn’t based on immediate int...

As Thompson’s recent reappraisal of Husserl indicates, it was never phenomenology that trafficked in Cartesianism and representationalism, it was the ...

Just pretend we’re talking about information.

Speaking of Romanticism, let’s get back to Peirce. First, let’s review a definition of philosophical Romanticism from The Basics of Philosophy. You’ll...

No, their theologies were well ahead of their time. To the great bulk of the nonacademic culture that surrounded them , their ideas were generations a...

Yep. Transcendental subjectivity is what is left after one has performed a thoroughgoing reduction of everyday experience. One could perform a partial...

Unless you’re a Continental philosopher, in which case everything comes down to ‘Will to Power’ or ‘ Dasein’ or ‘difference’ or ‘ transcendental subje...

Each man probes a different part of the elephant’s body and comes up with his own interpretation of what the elephant looks like.

You’ll also notice that everything about this ‘same’ world he refers to is going to be idiosyncratic to his perspective, such that he will have to use...

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What Kant, Hegel and Peirce had in common was their grounding of Being in divinity. Peirce posited God as the source and creator of the dialectic , a ...

But there are different ways of looking at universality. One could say , for instance , that there can be no existent , no experience, no world withou...

But is it a universalizing structure? The asymptotic approach to truth that Kelly envisioned doesn’t originate at the intersubjectively normative but ...

Thanks for reading and citing Kelly. It gives us a shared focus. I think you understand this correctly , but just to make sure, whereas a concept unde...

The modular view of mind has a long pedigree in cognitive science. Check out Marvin Minsky’s ‘Society of Mind’.

Part of what’s throwing me here is that , while I do make use a notion of dialectic , it is closer to George Kelly’s concept of the construct as dicho...

infinity and the infinitesimal are two poles of the same concept, and that concept depends on a mathematicized view of the natural. The geometric conc...

Hi there. As I mentioned in your previous OP, the ‘existentialist’ reading of Nietzsche is only one interpretation of his work, and I think it’s way o...

There may some truth to that with regard to Sartre, but Merleau-ponty’s ‘body’ is not only my body , but the social body. According to Merleau-Ponty, ...

The way I see it , being about something entails having an attitude and aim toward that object. I understand what you’re saying. Instantaneous percept...

I want to focus on the language you are using here. I know it is tentative, but let me start with infinite. Infinity pertains to an already establishe...

I’m talking about a very subtle phenomenon. But notice your perceptual world as an example. There isn’t a single object you can pay attention to right...

I certainly agree that difference is primordial. This sounds a bit like Jean-Luc Nancy’s Inoperative Community, a community of differences in which th...

To stay one step ahead of the bill collector. Who says philosophy isn’t practical? Also , because I’m assuming it is the human condition that we find ...

I’ve been reading Salthe and enjoyed seeing his use of the concept of vagueness in the context of bypassing the law of non-contradiction. I also. pric...

These are only quantifiers if they refer to a quantifiable quality , something with an aspect that can be counted and measured. But in the hands of ph...

Have you looked at Husserl’s notion of intentionality? He begins from a notion of the present as ‘thick’ or ‘specious’. This time consciousness underl...

There is more than one way to understand reason and rationality, as Husserl showed. The motive force behind his phenomenology is the striving for fulf...