Either you are misreading phenomenology( especially Merleau-Ponty) or you have an unusual definition of ineffable qualia. A direct quote from him to b...
Let’s not worry about which is right and which is wrong. I’m simply trying to determine how Peirce’s model of the relation between whole and part diff...
I think you’ve got it backwards. It’s the material world that transcends our intending acts. Material nature for Husserl is an abstraction, an idealiz...
It’s certainly the case that there is no validity to experience if by validity we mean formal logical validity. But there can be a pragmatic validity ...
It may be a sorry level of analysis , but it is a reality of today’s academic culture, for better or worse . I’m sure you remember Alan Sokal. Like Sa...
If the informational view and the dynamical view are complementary aspects of a whole, how does Peirce’s triad relate to this dialectic? How does the ...
Would you be able to suggest a link to your favorite source for a thoroughgoing account of affect? I really want to zoom in on a text you can endorse,...
Now be nice. I didn’t mean that to come out the way it sounded. I’m not sure why I mentioned it , except that I’m curious as to what impact the ‘scien...
The distinction as I see it is between language as the corespondence between a symbol system and a pre-existing source of information , and language a...
Have you ready any Husserl? There is a lot of him in here. Husserl told us that to get to the ‘things themselves’ we have to bracket what we already k...
Have you ever gotten into it with the Wittgensteinians on here about his critique of the idea of language as representation? If you look up some of th...
I’m curious. Do you not want to promote him because you have issues with his model of language and science? I may surprise you . I have a background i...
stored info Doesn’t the notion of a Markov blanket require a strict delineation between the entity doing the fitting and that which it is attempting t...
The idea of ‘fitting’ is problematic for enactivism. Let me introduce here what is considered one of the original texts of enacticism, The Embodied Mi...
Yes, but what kind of interaction? I’ve been presenting a model of affectivty that is only supported by five authors that I know of, and they are draw...
Husserl wrote that the grounding of logic and mathematics depends on an idealization of the object. In order for there to be an object with extension,...
An awful lot of revisionist scholarship has been offered up in recent decades arguing against the idea that the medieval period was a time of stagnati...
Let’s say that we define pattern as a particular way in which elements of a plurality or multiplicity are related to each other to form the whole. At ...
The prevailing view among neuroscientists is that the cognizing organism actively attempts a useful fit between incoming stimuli and internally genera...
I agree with you about language. I’ve been arguing the same thing on the ‘what is information’ thread. Biosemiotics is all the rage these days, but it...
He argues that that the assumption of ‘conceptual scheme’ requires the above presumption: “ In giving up dependence on the concept of an uninterpreted...
Is anxiety part of the stress response or is the stress response simply an accompaniment to anxiety? If someone loses sensation, such that the physiol...
Actually, I was thinking more of Putnam here. Davidson wants us to believe the idea of a conceptual scheme presupposes a dualism of scheme and an unin...
I do have problems with Davidson’s argument against incommensurability of schemes. For one thing , memory is reconstructive. There is no veridical pas...
That’s true, but they do know when their paradigm is crumbling , because this is for Kelly the meaning of what are conventionally called negative emot...
What I’m wondering here is how much of a role a sociobiological component plays in your model. Are these just general capacities for affectivity and m...
“ Kuhn’s notion of incommensurability evolved over time. “Since 1962 Kuhn's concept of incommensurability has undergone a process of transformation. H...
“ What if you are a social constructionist like Ken Gergen, who has certain affinities with phenomenology? Does the following sound like ‘directing co...
I should explain that empathy as it is understood within phenomenological and cognitive research is not the common meaning of the term. It doesn’t ref...
What defines a social context? I have two parents and two brothers. We all lived in the same household in the same city. My older brother is 18 months...
I don’t dispute that the disturbances are at a deeper neurodevdevelopmental level, I am trying to point out that shifting the account from the cogniti...
Yes, I read about that. Wittgenstein apparently did read Peirce , although only mentioned James as someone whose work he was enthusiastic about. And y...
Yes, I read them, and I agree with what you wrote: Did you ever see this comment Lakatos supposedly made to British philosopher Donald Gillies? “Wittg...
I think your starting point is too over-determined and abstract. Individual sense and interpretation get lost when we begin from a monolithic ground o...
I may have missed the post where you get into the details of this. There are a number of fans of the later Wittgenstein on here, and they may be of he...
The claims I made included models of schizophrenia and autism. These illnesses involve deficits in empathy whose elucidation requires a theory of empa...
I just slap them. Does wonders for my personal growth. Seriously though, there’s a way of talking about development without reducing it to a linear pr...
An epistemic cut, the attempt to glue back together the objective and the subjective, which we decided to separate many centuries ago, is only necessa...
By changing the way you understand these things, you change the things themselves. Time and space, in the way they are commonly understood , are const...
Never accept reality as it is. There is no way that things ‘really really are’ in themselves , outside of all construction of them. The universe is am...
I’ve never been much of a realist. Too conforming . I’m more of a constructivist. If you dont like your reality, construct a new one. And keep in mind...
Human relations are the background condition for everything we do, whether alone or with others. It may be true that philosophers spend much time phys...
I think the tragedy of death is great fodder for mental masturbarion, but fear of kicking the bucket isn’t what makes people into miserable nihilists ...
You mentioned illness, being stuck in a miserable job, and lack of friends as reasons to be pessimistic. In you own life , what are the things that ma...
I think what I suggest leads to good science and practical knowledge in the following areas: the understanding of affectivity , including mood, emotio...
I wanted to add the following discussion of information by Anthony Chemero, in which he contrasts an enactivist view of it from representational, comp...
That’s the Dawkins reductionist view. The holistic alternative recognizes that dna and rna are not autonomous structures but components of a cellular ...
If one rejects the tenets of first generation cognitive science in favor of enactive, embodied approaches, then life is not a process of copying, mode...
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