It's like saying: wow, look at all these various languages that have nouns! Guess Nouns must be Platonic Entities. It's reasoning made for and by idio...
I'm loathe to talk about subjectivities in terms of 'experiences', which reeks of a mentalistic vocabulary that I'd prefer to be expunged if at all po...
And? The unarticulated premise here is that this mutual recognition entails 'independence'. But this is clearly nonsense. That people recognize words ...
Yeah, that was the passage I had in mind when Janus mentioned it. That, and, loosely connected, Voltaire's critique of Leibniz's best-of-all-possible-...
Yep. All you end up getting are these miserable negative non-specifications that are more than happy to specify what Platonic entities are not, all th...
Thanks! It's really very introductory, and in fact so-called 'critical theory' and 'cultural theory' is full of this stuff: 'what kind of subjectivity...
I think this is a great question, and I think it's important to show that, if most of what could-be-math is junk, then we've come across that junk bef...
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/bogus-homeopathy-data-published-in-top-journal-sparks-outcry-facepalms/ "Editors at a respected scientific jou...
But no one but you is talking about 'real'. There's something very insidious about the idea that unless something is eternal and timeless it can't be ...
Uninteresting in the sense that it does not even count as mathematics; not 'uninteresting, but still mathematics'. Rovelli's other example, of linear ...
Just quickly, on this - Do you know if this is something that is in Daniel Everett's discussion of the Piraha language? I ask because I think there's ...
Mm, I'm of a know-thy-enemy type as well. You fight cancer by studying it rigorously and prodding it incessantly. The Sophist remains one of my favori...
Surely, if one squints hard enough one can see Plato in anything - which is not necessarily a bad thing (Deleuze: "The task of modern philosophy has b...
There's a famous essay by Arendt ("Tradition and the Modern Age"), where she characterizes our age as one that has effected a series of 'turning-opera...
No. Explanation isn't a lego-house where you stack bits on other bits. Things are more complex than this. Without going into it, the point is simply t...
Depends on how you understand the range of 'explanation'. If you think science exhausts the claim to explanation, then this strikes me as a reductive ...
In lieu of an effort on my part, this blog post gets the general gist of it right, I think: "Wittgenstein inverts the antiquated western metaphysical ...
I was just thinking earlier that I can think of few philosophers who were quite as diametrically opposed to Plato than Wittgenstein. And if one thinks...
Off a cliff, preferably. Along with the rest of Greek philosophy. But those labels I think obfuscate more than they clarify. As Banno relates, asking ...
I mean that the question is inappropriate, and that you're not paying close enough attention to the context of the use of 'here' in your statement. Th...
I don't think this would be the right way to put it: in a strong sense, the subjectivities we inhabit are constitutive of who we are as people: your a...
:up: "A thing is identical with itself."-There is no finer example of a useless proposition, which is yet connected with a certain play of the imagina...
Yup. Science journals get all sorts of rubbish published in them all the time. And for anyone without an ideological axe to grind, the issue is a soci...
They won't get it from science because free will is a conceptual knot. It will be dismantled by conceptual means. Or possibly political ones. And besi...
The confusion of freedom with free-will is one of the greatest philosophical tragedies ever staged. It has as much to do with freedom as foreclosure h...
You don't need any half-assed concept of 'free will' to defend this view. You just need a half decent understanding of how society works. Dan Dennett ...
There are no convincing arguments for or against God's existence; there is no arguing the case for a malformed question. The effort itself is abortive...
Heh, this was the very first thing they taught us in undergrad linguistics: the dictionary is descriptive and not prescriptive: it tells you how words...
Mark Twain, on 'The Awful German Language': "It is not well to dwell too much on the separable verbs. One is sure to lose his temper early; and if he ...
Baden's being modest. The long term plan is to have the forum become one giant super thread where we don't even have opening posts any more. For effic...
Hmm, I think you've misread, or I was not clear enough in my exposition (or a bit of both): it's not that names were of pure objects to begin with; qu...
I think a useful way to think about Gods is in terms of mediation; Gods express the desire for immediation or of the immediate - of doing things witho...
So? People are insufferable fanatics. As if this is not all the more reason to marginalize and ostracize these monomaniacs - your description being an...
A general rule of thumb: if the publications you read don't frequently address questions of economic justice and power imbalances, and don't employ cl...
@"Marcus de Brun" was banned (a few days ago now, I forgot to note it here) for posting a whole series of pompous rants about 'censorship' of his post...
There's a world in which Aristotle, after having written his Physics, instead of writing the Metaphysics (after-Physics) instead wrote a companion vol...
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