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I think there's a nondualist way to do justice to subjectivity. If we think of consciousness as the being of the world 'for' a subject and from a pers...

Right. They take the sense organs as real in order to argue they are not real. But they don't notice the dependence on the thing they cancel --- becau...

Indeed, and I myself think there's something profound in MS, but it must be applied to the species as a whole. Part of it is true 'locally,' in that t...

I applaud the insistence of relevance. I agree with your cynicism (hence my thread on the foolishness of ontology). But you seem to be on the edge of ...

I can understand the motivation, but I'd say that a crucial ontological breakthrough occurs precisely when we stop pretending that we as philosophers ...

Agreed. A deep issue ! Articulating the essence of articulation. I think you bring up a fascinating issue. The concept dog is different from any actua...

:up: Yes, it's intended to make explicit what is obvious once we notice/recall it.

We agree very much on this. One of my pet themes is the 'hero myth' that structures a personality. We need a grand metanarrative or basic map to navig...

I take you to be articulating a valuable pragmatist insight. I read the neopragmatist Rorty very intensely and closely, and I was strongly influenced ...

I'm very much with you on the angst and difficultly of self-critical self-knowledge.

What I was hinting at is that people don't want the truth from me -- or from you. Or they only want a little bit of it, the piece they need to get the...

:up: Yes. I totally embrace our freedom. Counterfactual hypothetical conversational community. To me it's crucial that we have our personal creativity...

FWIW, I think Husserl makes a good case that even familiar objects have a kind of transcendent infinity. I can't see this lamp on my desk from every p...

Well, sure, but, respectfully, this is obvious and tangential. Consider also that you'd have to argue for this claim if it wasn't so obviously true. I...

I think we both agree very much that there's always more to find out and clarify. I have to disagree there. I think maybe this is an indirect realist'...

Of course you don't rule the world. A tyrant can hang you for calling him a silly bald motherfucker. Actual life, as the foil of the ideal, is always ...

Only in the sense that all critical rationality is. My OP is a fairly ambitious ontological thesis that explains the relationship of what's called 'mi...

I suggest that you've wandered into performative contradiction. You tell me to understand the 'limitations of rationality and logic.' Wouldn't this un...

I've looked into Harman. Can't say that I was won over, though I like his style. I embrace anthropocentrism as inescapable myself. I'm a correlational...

:up: 'One is one around here' or one is mentally ill.

My issue is: why do we insist that the familiar world is appearance behind which lurks some Reality ? As far as I can tell, it's only by taking brains...

It's a rich concept. As consciousness, we can say it's a view on the world. As a discursive subject, it has views and responsibilities. We keep score ...

:up: To me this is a big piece of Husserl, the seeing of our seeing. The subject is usually 'transparent' unless it's practical to drag him or her (or...

:up: Along these lines, he would also only accept the potentially experienceable as meaningful. Reality is 'horizonal.' We haven't seen all of it. Wha...

I suggest that it's just the world. The world itself is not an entity. There's a radical pluralism in this view in that we don't force being to be uni...

Is it impossible for a brain to be trained to run two personalities? It'd probably be difficult, but maybe possible, if folks were mean enough to expe...

How about you let me do your thinking for you ? This joke is to wake you up maybe to what autonomy really means in this context. A philosopher who thi...

:up: I don't like labels much either. The real stuff is in the back and forth. Meaning is intensely cumulative and contextual.

I'm trying to actually resolve some confusion here, on both sides. You seem to ignore what it means to grant toothaches and rumors the same ontologica...

Yes, that's the issue. We are discursive subjects. Is the 'ego' trapped in the brain ? Or is the ego a character on the stage of the world ? Making a ...

Well I think it's hard work getting clear on the most basic concepts especially. Hence the foolishness of the ontologist who should be marketing dick ...

Note that I'm saying that nostalgia and rumors and butter and integers are all equally real. Integers aren't easy to place in space-time. Rumors are a...

Also why I insist that the ego is flesh. I think it's this basic bodily boundary that inspires us to further develop the tradition of the 'soul' -- of...

I will happily grant you that toothaches exist in a different way than protons. But they too are in the one-layer world, seen from many perspectives, ...

I'm afraid this is trivially true. As John Berger says at the beginning of Ways of Seeing, we see before we can talk. The world surrounds us. A painti...

The main thing here is to grasp the radical and I think surprising centrality of the usually backgrounded philosophical situation itself. If you want ...

There's a dualism taken for granted here. In my opinion, the issue is especially here: but they cannot describe the subjective experiences of such org...

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It's a weird point, so I'm not surprised if I didn't find the best words. Actually I'm saying that the meaningfulness of the measurement is independen...

If you and your mom are on opposite sides of the room, and she is nearsighted as fuck and can't find her glasses and you have an eagle's eyesight but ...

I disagree. A good description of what I'm talking about is Zahavi's interpretation of Husserl in his intro book. But I'll sketch the basics. I see th...

Consider this possibility: Consciousness is just the being of the world for various embodied subjects. We don't live in private dreams. Your toothache...

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Don't worry. I'm an atheist. I don't even believe in ghosts. I like etymology: mid-14c., "escape inclusion in; lie beyond the scope of," from Old Fren...

The above is just the horizonal-ideal 'we' already discussed, the we-to-come, the city of god. I'm happy to grant that we are all in some sense misfit...

It's just not Husserl. Other thinkers engage in the same sci-fi, sometimes quite brilliantly. I'm not even saying it's worthless or completely wrong. ...

Purple cheese leaps from the nostrils of hello. That violates semantic norms, right ? Or does it mean whatever I want to it mean, because I meant (in ...

I'm sorry. Who are you ? Why are you asking me this ? The temporal dimension is us keeping score on who's said what and who owes who an explanation or...

Recall that, in 1984, Winston is destroyed psychologically. Rorty goes into great detail about this in CIS. The Inner Party makes it impossible for Wi...

I think we need to see the self from the inside and outside at once. :up: I agree. Dramaturgical ontology. Who am I ? I 'shit my pants' when I 'lose m...