Don't forget the festival of cruelty. Maybe people often check the news to get their fix of others' suffering, pretending it's a drag (maybe it's also...
He articulates quite well a default assumption. He makes a certain (questionable) conceptual norms explicit. But what he presents is no discovery. He ...
This assumption of the instrument/medium is what's being mocked as a fear of truth that confuses itself for a fear of error. With suchlike useless ide...
The better our bots get, the more it seems that yeah it's continuous with animal communication and we even have synthetic brains analogous to our own ...
What makes what a particular human being does science ? I suggest also that mind-independent world is way too biased metaphysically. I claim that scie...
Let me use some weird rhetoric to try to get the point across. The following is not meant to be rude. Who cares if you can see it? Seriously, who ? On...
I think (?) inferentialism would say yes, but of course we have to think of all possible inferences involving 'define.' Personally I find this plausib...
I'm actually just trying to pass on mainstream philosophy from the 20th century in my own playful way. As I see, it is pretty radical at first, so it'...
I would say that the 'I' is indeed a construct in the sense of a social norm. Of course we have individual bodies, so the issue is how these bodies ar...
Personally I don't want all of Kant's baggage, but I love what Brandom takes from him in that passage. Naturalism seems like a blurry concept, so I lo...
Ah I see. So let me be clearer then. We obviously have some kind of average blurry understanding of what words mean. So we can go to the grocery store...
Fair enough ! W is so elusive that I can only argue for one assimilation among others equally reasonable. Have you looked at Braver's Groundless Groun...
I'm arguing from the success of language. I am looking under certain rocks , not pretending they don't exist or don't do their job. The issue is how. ...
Ah Lou ! Fight Club reference ]. I don't doubt the self or language. I'm the opposite of a skeptic in some ways. No they not. That just they grammar. ...
I'm wondering if it's about a kind of monism of prepsychic impressions that get sorted tentatively into self and world ? Personally I've never seen an...
It's been awhile, honestly. But am I wrong to remember him building everything from impressions of various distinctness ? (So maybe he's a monist like...
I think Brandom's theory of the self is pretty good. He bothers to do what Descartes couldn't even grasp as necessary, which was to explicate the phil...
I think this is an angle. But what is the unity of perception ? Is this linguistic ? Is it part of our convention or habit of thinking about ourselves...
Come away my friend from this Cartesian obsession with certainty. It's not about whether P is true. It's about whether we know what the flunk we are t...
I totally agree that it's not so new (being-in-the-world), but I gotta stick up for Heidegger's early stuff before he took up that tiresome style. I'm...
A little more from an inferentialist perspective: If philosophers fail to define their terms, they get nowhere. To evaluate this statement is to decid...
But, respectfully, that's beside the point. Whence the rational norms ? Whence this language in or even as which beingthere finds itself ? Whence the ...
Here's a Brandom quote from my Becoming Whole discussion. Kant’s most basic idea, the axis around which all his thought turns, is that what distinguis...
Not sure exactly what you mean. In case it helps, for me the lifeworld has birds and blunders that we can talk about. Such articulated entities are ju...
Wild ! I'm glad you came out of it. It really does permeate our culture. As we've discussed before, Plato's cave is one possible major source. A certa...
I will say that Brandom puts conceptual norms between us rather than in us. As I take him, there's no supermatterstuff or supermindstuff. There's us i...
No offense taken, just to be clear. I'm pretty much an antiskeptic. I reject mental images as a bad invention, a bogus middle man, that encourages a m...
Certain metaphors became dominant until young men in 2023, having inherited those hardened and venerated metaphors, think it makes sense that maybe th...
:up: Yes. Of course any cute summary is liable to objections, but that's part of it. I am not locked behind some screen in a control room. Beingthere ...
I'd even claim that the concept of raw experience is itself a philosophical construction, a meme that caught on, perhaps because it was a good crowbar...
As far as I can tell, you are what I'd call a dualist. I prefer a phenomenological direct realism. The world and language and us and linguistic norms ...
You aren't the first to point this out, and I think you are correct to do so, and that it's significant. As you probably know, his linguistics is more...
Do what now ? :chin: You have misunderstood me completely. I don't blame you or take it personally. I just want it on record. I may able explain more ...
It seems to me that any postulated origin will have to be taken as a brute fact, until it is replaced and explained by an earlier postulated origin. I...
As I see it, a scientist whose work is particularly threatened by religion's attempt to hamper it is even more justified than most in putting on the p...
As I see it, this is why Heidegger had to transform Husserl's phenomenology and make it interpretive. Language is the organ of perception. We can neve...
:up: Exactly! I'd even say that our enculturation is largely a being stuffed with contingencies as necessities. So it's as if most of the damage is un...
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