John Doe

Not to stray too far off topic, but what you say about your reading of Latour here is something I've noticed more and more in my own experience readin...

I think it's not so much that I am more optimistic than you about the camaraderie on this forum than it is that I am far more pessimistic than you abo...

These are valid and interesting points, but I’m not sure that they are cause for disappointment. I think that most of your concerns reflect the limita...

But it's not a trivial point. It strikes me as a particularly narrow viewpoint to reserve the title of capital-p Philosophy for the practice of attemp...

I have been debating whether to try and dispute this post point by point. But I think that all of my concerns lead to this: Why do you take philosophy...

What exactly, on your view, did they accomplish? Many of the pre-Socratics articulated beautiful and thought-provoking visions of the world and realit...

Sorry, I don't think that I understand what is meant by "semantic quibble" here. I'm not sure if you're objecting to my way of posing things ("how stu...

I think that it might sometimes help to break these words apart and refit variations on each word into Wittgenstein's sentences just to see what comes...

Could you reproduce what you consider to be the relevant/important passages? It feels like having a bit of text to work from might help give some dire...

I don't want to be a nuisance, stepping into a very serious thread with an overly academic remark, but have you read Anscombe's "Modern Moral Philosop...

Well, I wish you the best of luck. :smile: I hope you might consider the alternative of embracing the idea that it is not a question which admits of a...

I'm not posing an objection as much as a skeptical worry that you're a flesh and blood animal employing concepts which you acquired in the course of p...

I'm terribly opposed to this method of going about things. I fail to see how it makes sense to investigate the origin of all that is, and the origin o...

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That's because it's not cognizable, it doesn't admit of being put in the sort of conceptual shape necessary for knowledge. Indeed, it will be gesturin...

No, it was....oh, I see what you did there. :wink:

Perhaps I misspeak. I like your polemics. But I guess I just assume that the purpose of raising legitimate questions is to understand what a philosoph...

Good, because feelings are not a "self"; that would be a stupid position indeed and I'm not sure what I said in my crude characterization of Heidegger...

Well, I would be curious to see how a hardcore Heidegger apologist defends his bawdy use of language in phrases like Das Nichts nichtet - which needle...

Very well put. And when dopes like Kant attempt to reaffirm the value of human life and dignity on the basis of some vague, indeterminate transcendent...

I don't think that philosophy as a way of life is about discovering truth and internalizing that truth through synthesizing and systematizing these be...

Sounds good. Give it a think and let me know. I'll try to respond to the thread (problem of sensation) more substantively tomorrow.

I'm working on a dissertation heavily focused on Merleau-Ponty. If you find sufficient interest in a reading group I would be happy to lead it or at l...

Yeah, I mean, I don't know how many over-caffeinated grad students are just this moment sitting in a library, writing some article or dissertation aim...

Which is what I take to be interesting about your post. It seems to imply that reflexive behavior builds up gradually into a mind thinking about itsel...

So on your view does the capacity to move meaningfully within an environment constitute consciousness, since it implies a bodily modelling relation wi...

Might you be willing to expand on this post? I'm not sure that I understand how your position is supposed to work. If we define consciousness as aware...

Yup. And people who have a lot of debt very often leverage positions of influence for financial gain.

Not really, unless you believe a man who has spent most of his life in serious debt is a billionaire.

This is a really excellent summary/analysis. :up: I just wish to mention one thing: My feeling is it's a failed incentive structure. Trump -- who is e...

I consider any and all election meddling an affront to basic human dignity, be it committed by foreigners playing power politics, racist sheriffs play...

Call me old fashioned, but when the Russian government is actively trying to influence and manipulate our democratic elections, while the Trump admini...

I mean, I take the really interesting question that is gesturing towards -- let's call it the upshot of Tyson's slightly flippant talk -- is what aspe...

Definitely intense -- that's a course designed for graduate students looking to market themselves as a specialist or competent in Wittgenstein scholar...

No I have not. And I have explained why this accusation is wrong. I accept that democratic politics is about winning elections and making institutions...

Well that's needlessly personal. I'm a graduate student in philosophy who recently joined this forum, I am largely sympathetic with your political bel...

Well, I've been living in Europe for the past four years. But that's immaterial because the rise of right wing authoritarian thought and practice is a...

It's not conservative analysis. We as members of the far left are asking: How did we lose? What did we do wrong? Why were we on the left not capable o...

For what it's worth, I think this is the correct response to what he has done to each of us *personally*. I had been away from the US for four years b...

Fishfry said nothing in his post to indicate that he was a Republican. On the contrary, his points were all in line with a far-left critique of the de...

Well I suppose at that point Kantian vs. Utilitarian vs. Virtue ethics will be settled. I guess I'd just pray that Kant was right -- that any hyper-in...

Hey Posty, sorry I was unclear in my original post! The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has made the PDF pub...

Yes, I agree, and this same reasoning is exactly what absolutely infuriates me about the idiotic cliche belief everyone seems to hold that suicide is ...

Indeed they do, that's why it's the perhaps core issue of Wittgenstein scholarship, and certainly the most aggressively contentious one. It doesn't he...

Assuming you are looking for clarity and consistency over abstruse technical insight, I would highly recommend you all consider using this book. It is...

Here are some of my thoughts, since I have been struggling a lot recently with the question you are posing. My underlying issue is this: Are you sure ...

Just want to chime in with something lightly off topic that might as well (properly) go ignored. My first thought when I casually glanced at the title...

I mean, surely sensible people understand that those are all cases in which the purported evidence of IQ is being used to justify existing racist sent...

In some sense, I am not sure how these sentences hang together. You are - and I am - what you/I make of ourselves in the world. Your dealings with the...

Well, I think that this is a readily fixable philosophical mistake. You are using "clearly written" as a universal standard. What is "clear writing" t...