That makes sense. I see all entities on a the semantic inferential plane. We see our spouse's eyes and not internal images of those eyes --- even thou...
The problem with the construction view (if taken too far anyway) is that we only believe we are trapped inside a construction because we take that sam...
Sure, and they'll be a variety of reactions that follow. Some will embrace 'gloomy' and serious thought, work it into their heroic myth. I very much e...
Ah, but that's what I'm saying too. We are thrown into the existential situation. It's a fundamental aspect of reality. We know nothing of reality as ...
Exactly. Brandom specializes on this issue. I am responsible for my claims, and they should work together coherently. We live together in a normative ...
This claim gets something right but it's a little reckless. “The "objects" to which our performances must be held accountable are not something outsid...
I like what you wrote in that thread. The observer and the observed are entangled in the observation, and this observation displays the same entanglem...
Just to be clear, I imagine a world in which cities alternate between tyrants and democracies, almost randomly. So there's change/motion, but the time...
I think the big picture is that you want to humanity deciding to go extinct to be more plausible. As others have mentioned, reproduction is the last t...
I like Zapffe, but I'd class him as one among many psychological philosophers. His points above are reminiscent of Ernest Becker. I like them both. Ke...
Another related issue that occurs to me is the shift from the low-tech plausibility of an essentially cyclic world to a sense that the world was devel...
While Husserl himself may not be entirely consistent or definite in his meaning, in my experience those strongly committed to some kind of 'indirect r...
I'm on a Husserl kick lately, and I think philosophy buries its gravediggers in the pile of their own performative contradictions. The 'true' science ...
:up: :up: You mention Chomsky, a great example. I've recently read some great John Berger essays as well as his Ways of Seeing. Deep stuff, 'philosoph...
Yes, I believe in consciousness or subjectivity, but I'm a direct realist (which is maybe the source of the misunderstanding?) I think of consciousnes...
I don't think you can sweep science in its wider sense aside, because I have to figure out if it's true that we have Zapffean programming. I can also ...
I think Husserl had the right general idea in his conception of phenomenology, which doesn't mean he was always right on the details. He understood ve...
I like the quote from Genesis. Timebinding sentient mud. As Feuerbach saw, the qualities of reason are not-so-coincidentally the qualities of God. Our...
I wrote a little essay on my biolinked website that casts the embodied species-essence as the genuine transcendental subject. I say that we are forced...
A little more Husserl, from the same section: §52. Supplementations. The Physical Thing as Determined by Physics and the “ Unknown Cause of Appearance...
I take Husserl to understand the scientific image as a mere enrichment of the manifest image. It should not be understood as a mathematical analogy fo...
I think you are aiming at something like what I call the entanglement of the object and subject. They cannot be isolated without absurdity. Indeed, I ...
I totally respect going at Heidegger's themes without the baggage. I love Heidegger, especially the earlier stuff, but it's still nice to try to find ...
FWIW, Merleau-Ponty describes the philosopher as exactly the kind of person who finds the ordinary mysterious and full of complexities. The most basic...
I can see why you would say that and partially agree, but we should consider that poetry (fiction) can be more honest than history as a sort of conden...
Exactly. The heart of all of this is holism. Fundamental ontology is a holism that doesn't cut corners or rip out a mere aspect or piece of reality an...
It may be a parasite on the glory of technology. Granted that we worship power, any philosophy that seems to ride that particular coattail is a good b...
I understand why one might make such a claim, but my concern is that a personality uses just that kind of statement, which I'd call philosophical, to ...
In my view, blueness and pain are actually just as caught up in the causal nexus and 'logical space' as everything else. Pain is used to explain behav...
Yes. There's a default indirect realism that crumbles upon close investigation. I saw things like that myself once. It's probably because I was a scie...
Physicalism has a bit of a blurry meaning, so I'll try to more carefully specify that what I'm challenging is the intelligibility of the species-indep...
Another way of phrasing it: The only world that we live in and care about and can talk about meaningfully (the 'lifeworld' in its fullness and depth) ...
In my view, the conception/meaning of wavelengths is entangled with everyday experience. If I ask you what you mean by wavelengths, you'll have to tel...
In my opinion, the tricky part here is the relationship between the individual human and the time-binding cultural community that (in some sense) thin...
Yes, I consider myself very much in the phenomenological camp. Merleau-Ponty, inspired by Husserl, famously stressed the flesh as a metaphysical conce...
Yes, I think we agree that some philosophers don't give subjectivity its due. Let me offer a quote from §52 in Ideas. (I add emphasis to sense as mean...
It seems to me that we living human beings now, when we think of the time before human cognition, can only project the-world-for-us in a way that does...
This last part especially appeals to me. I associate it with Heidegger, who was strongly influenced by Aristotle. Truth-telling is often a pointing-ou...
I agree. I suspect that it's (ideally) a sublime style of sociality, a way of seeing others and of seeing one's own claims from the outside. One tries...
I think it's reasonable to consider motives like this, but doesn't this folk-psychology cut both ways? The religious person is 'just terrified to die'...
:up: I suspect that such clarification is interminable. I'm on a Husserl kick at the moment, and he and the other phenomenologists seem to understand ...
I think you are right that the emphasis on sight misleads us. Strangely enough, Husserl's careful analysis of sight is also curative. The spatial obje...
In my view, it'd be hard to sincerely act as if anything goes. Maybe Popper (for instance) isn't the final word, but he can be taken as one of many th...
I think what you present captures something crucial about critical thinking but underestimates the radical sociality of reason and fails to account fo...
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