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Fascinating stuff. Do I think any actual conversation is stably or reliably ideal ? No. But I don't think Apel does either. For all have sinned and fa...

:up: Yours may be better. I also like to think about critical rationality explicating its own nature. The self-investigation of reason, which is natur...

All very well said. I agree. And I'm not a Platonist, because my ontology is resolutely anthropocentric. Not on principle, but just on logical necessi...

Undeniably fascinating insight, but I must object. It's the familiar experience of the brain in causal relationships with other familiar objects that ...

It is a classic theme. Derrida tried to make difference god. Is Reality is a self-differentiating self-perceiving self-thinking godstuff ? Maybe kinda...

Well I admit I'm speaking a high and fuzzy level of generality. But I take critical philosophy to be interested in articulating the limits of speculat...

I agree that some serious organization is going on. 'Choices' seems correct, but I think we need to add a temporal dimension. I am responsible for wha...

Respectfully, is this statement itself a lie then ? Or should I at least be careful not to assume your intention to be honest with me ? Are you not te...

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. That's not phenomenology. Not if we mean Husserl & company. I recommend Zahavi's Husserl’s Phenomenology (Cultural Memory in the Present) if you are...

:up: Hence the 'foolishness' of the philosopher who 'wastes time' on such things --and yet the intention is to write nonfiction.

I think you make an important point, but of course I say that there's entanglement and interdependence. In some sense, spirit is a self-modification o...

This is great issue. Even without the collapse, it's still interesting. At the moment, I don't think the 'answer' is complete or whole or intelligible...

:up: Nice ! You are very close in this to my understanding of a minimal foundation for inquiry. Thou shalt not engage in performative contradiction. A...

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:up: Pinker's Enlightenment Now ! (however one feels about its tone) is great on the importance of any radical change in the cost of energy. In a cert...

:up: Well I shouldn't be surprised. I think we both appreciate Kant and (in my case, anyway) the Kantian 'intention' or project in general. Positivism...

It really is (even if there is some irony in your remark.) Ever look into Cantor's ordinals and cardinals ? Beautiful stuff. Just finding a way to enu...

Constituted without the help of brains ? I love Husserl, but I won't follow him just anywhere. I continue to claim that we can't circumvent the assump...

Mathematicians might use a minimal substance of symbols in order to play with form with the 'weight' of substance minimized.

I guess my issue is that this itself is a philosophical claim. Yet I don't care about academic departments. So I'm talking about a mode of discourse t...

Again, reasonable. But I'm tempted to say that they articulate norms that are 'found' or 'given.' This is not to deny creativity altogether. I just pe...

:up: That's a reasonable claim. I don't think it's the whole story though. I have some of Cantor's original work in translation, and it's very much an...

Yeah that sounds right ! As you may know, set theory brilliantly (weirdly) builds everything from the empty set. I visualized it as Bubbleverse. The e...

This is a rich issue. Many purveyors of the hard problem are way too cocky about their grip on the concept of consciousness. But I understand their gr...

I agree that they can't be identified. We need only look at the different roles the concepts play. On the other hand, my ignorant presupposition is th...

We seem to agree that some thinkers get a little sloppy and pretend they can do away with subjectivity altogether. I try to do justice to subjectivity...

Yes, I agree. And this is why I like to use 'ontology' for the more technical-scientific aspect of philosophy. Husserl is, for instance, not writing s...

Yes, so it's very difficult. Rorty viewed philosophy as essentially Kantian. It is theory of knowledge, of the structure of all possible inquiry or ex...

I can definitely agree that anyone who wants to deeply understand reality is going to end up shoulder-deep in metaphysics. But it's almost a tautology...

:up: The necessary exclusion you mention is also my approach. A minimalist foundation (reasaonable starting point) is precisely the outlawing of perfo...

You might be right. I'm supposed to be a mathematician (by formal education), but I mostly read and write philosophy. I'm corrupted.

Perhaps you could elaborate ? One possible interpretation: life ain't just discourse. It is feeling and seeing and hearing and not just reports of suc...

:up: Yes, all of this. Sort of part of what I mean by endlessly clarifying the radical intention. The 'project' comes in many flavors.

:up: Absolutely. So there's an existential decision to live in a beautifully impersonal way, which I understand as maximally social. I want to be us a...

:up: That's the spirit of my recent topics. Down in it. Hopefully the opposite of escapism. Trying to tell the essence of the whole truth. Can't spell...

How about the destination being a kind of horizon ? Always forward. 'On.' An intention toward the clarification of that very intention.

:up: Yes, and I'd elaborate with a community of creatures of flesh in its surrounding environment -- and autonomous normative rationality itself. I'm ...

Actually that's very much it. Ain't no world without skin in the game that we skinbags can know anything about. Reality apart from human personality i...

I agree, but we don't want to smooth out the actual personal subject too much, because rationality seems to be normative on the personal level. I can ...

:up: expectations misaligned with reality To me this hints at ontology. What is this reality ? The sciences are a prime source of information, but I c...

I very much think that a mathematician or physicist or biologist can do genuine 'ontological' work themselves. My OP would also apply to nonapplied sc...

:up: Fair enough. I think all of are philosophical in the navigation of our identity. Who am I ? Who should I be ? Fundamental questions in a free-ish...

I think we both agree that they have simply assumed a flawed ontology. It's crucial that science looks around any particular human subject. It's absur...

Excellent question ! For my money, the first big shock was just Voltaire and the wrecking crew of his time. The Enlightenment itself (atheism, humanis...

I don't think it's that easy for a professor to speak from authority (they can be ejected for speechcrime), but certain movements seem to take certain...

:up: I love this classic. Just a hint of madness. Great parody. Wittgenstein might have included it in his unwritten book o' philosophical jokes.

:up: Great quote. Like it or not, we seemed forced to do philosophy, and I include the possiblity of trying to avoid doing so, which just means a mess...