Just to be clear, I'm not really trying to set up a distinction between philosophy and ordinary life ('changing a tire'). I'm interested rather in a d...
In a way I do think holism is 'inescapable'; much though, in the same way that the fridge light is inescapable: its not on when you look, its on becau...
I've read some of Sheehan's work on Heidegger before and I found all very good. The emphasis on 'meaningfulness' was always - I'd like to think - how ...
I've always had a profound distaste for this kind of 'mysterian' conception of philosophy - if I can call it that - which treats philosophy as though ...
You misunderstand. Nothing about what is said implies that the observation influences the motions. The change can, and usually does, take place on the...
Exactly. All names are entirely arbitrary, even those so-called understood as one's 'real name'. The line between reality and fiction does not run bet...
I don't doubt this at all. I just question the necessity of routing philosophy through the swamp of theology to get at the same insights. Deleuze has ...
Its such a lazy argument. Over a long enough time-span, any bullshit scenario I make up is more likely to be the case because time. Time, therefore, i...
Heh, I guess it is a pretty elliptical piece of writing, one that does more to circle around its object(s) in various ways than approach them directly...
A few things. First, I didn't say that there is no distinction between imaginary and actual. All I would say is that language is indifferent to any su...
I'm not denying that some names have a 'direct' reference. Of course some names do. The question is over the nature of this directness. And the point ...
The trick is to recognize that all names - even the most seemingly concrete, 'real' instances of them, like Abe Lincoln or Amelia Earhart - 'refer' in...
There have been interesting attempts to claim incarnation from a materialist perspective - Zizek and Virno come to mind - but I generally find the who...
Hah, I actually never got round to reading GG, even though I thoroughly enjoyed Braver's A Thing of This World. Heard plenty of good things about it t...
That was a really good read, but like alot of articles on identity politics, it doesn't seem to get to the heart of the matter, which is that identity...
Yeah, part of what I'd like to argue is that this kind of approach to things simply is idealism par excellence, and an insidious one at that, insofar ...
But what would be the point of that? I mean, in the case of chess, sure, you set up a bunch of more or less arbitrary rules with the goal to make a fu...
I think there's a misunderstanding here: I'm not against 'big picture claims' (Gould is wonderful, as is Darwin!), and I invoked Weinberg and Dawkins ...
Walter Ong - Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word Giorgio Agamben - What is an Apparatus? And Other Essays Fernando Zalamea - Syntheti...
It's not my job to address connections that you're making and not explicating. 'In the realm of information'; 'hint at a kind of theory of information...
I spoke of neither emergence nor information - I haven't used the former word even once in this thread so far, and the latter only appeared once in th...
Critique? It's barely more than a blunt assertion with no grounds provided to give it even the semblance of substance. As it stands it's basically one...
I doubt Cat would make the naive and boorish mistake of identifying abstraction with idealism - especially since he seems to reject the latter term as...
While I'd like to think that yes, materialism does entail more mature, more elaborate theorizing than the various idealisms which it arrays itself aga...
Yeah, this would definately be another instance of what I'm referring to. This is not a bad way to put it, although I might quibble a bit with 'percep...
Some, sure. But it makes little sense to say philosophy belongs, or ought to belong to that subclass. The rules of chess are more or less utterly cont...
This is all well and good, but rules are immanent to use, and it's not a case of 'group consensus' which determimes them, as if from above and without...
So much the worse for philosophy and philosophers if we have to entertain that shit out a shallow sense of intellectual 'openess'. Millions didn't die...
Hmm, this is not quite what I had in mind. A biological example maybe: genes were once thought to be something like blueprints from living organisms. ...
I didn't say they were. I said attempts to give them substance in the absence of any conceptual motivation would make them so. The OP is one such atte...
Again, the question is what any of this has to do with subject and object. I'm not saying no answer can be given. I'm just saying that one needs a spe...
I don't doubt any of that. I'm just saying that these problems were not articulated in terms of subject and object. Any translation of ancient Greek w...
The subjective/objective distinction didn't even exist until the 18th century or so, so even if one were to try and employ it to address 'the distinct...
Yes, but in a way far removed from this kind of arbitrariness. And 'warding off epistemological concerns' is meaningless. What concerns? And why are y...
Why? Without some conceptual motivation to which the distinction responds to, it's just an arbitrary excercise. Kant, Scotus, and Poinsot all had a se...
I will never not take joy in pointing out that 'objective' used to mean exactly the opposite, and that for the Scholastics, that which was objective w...
Not given, I think: Bronia helped Marie get an education, but it's not mentioned whether or it was Bronia's financial contribution that helped Marie (...
Originally posted by @"Iwanttostopphilosophizingbutikant": "The evidential problem of Evil can be understood as the following argument: In many sad ev...
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