To the degree that a theory is meant to do explanatory work, to provide good, substantiated, reasons why the explanandum behaves or exhibits the behav...
Another appeal to me of the turn to expression is that it accords nicely with Deleuze’s insistence that the priority afforded to ‘what is…?’ questions...
Not quite any of these; to put it more simply, for Aristotle, the 'characteristics' of Being are the same as the 'characteristics' of language. Aristo...
Evidently quite a bit, considering the frequency with which it is done. You should read - if you can get your hands on it - Aaron Schuster's "Critique...
If we didn't care we wouldn't complain. These things are complimentary, not disjunctive. The apathetic on the other hand - those who don't even care e...
I realize we didn't reply to this, but we had a small discussion over in Mt. Mod, and we decided against it. It was a case of letting those small ques...
While it's true that one often 'finds predication at the bottom of things', one has to wonder if this is due to a confusion of the tool for the object...
This seems to me a verbal dispute rather than a substantial one, but the point is well taken. In fact, the 'insufficiency' of the speech-act unto itse...
Members can change their screen name, but they have to request it, and can't do it on the fly. If you think there's a particular member running more t...
It would be a curious epistemology though - a kind of para-epistemology, in the sense that this kind of analysis would not be a search for 'adequation...
Reflect for a moment what it would take to get you - and not only you but your entire town - to leave everything you have and move - not to another to...
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism Paolo Virno - When The Word Becomes Flesh: Language and Human Nature Paolo Virno - Essay on Negation: For a Linguisti...
I hate it when my refugees - who've left their home and everything and everyone they own and know behind - don't look the part of my poverty porn fant...
As do I! The only thing I'd add is that a coherent problem is a grammatically well-formed one. This does not mean the problem of time is 'merely' ling...
"An explanation of time"; as if: "What is explanation of dog? Can science furnish explanation of dog? Or only philosophy give explanation of dog?"; Sh...
If I understand you right, this is more or less what I think is the case: the problem of how to understand philosophy is itself a philosophical proble...
I simply mean that language is a practice like any other: playing football, walking a dog, brushing teeth; to use language is to do something. And 'do...
All philosophical problems are linguistic in nature - to understand the problems is to understand the language; but the nature of language is itself n...
Because this is an incredibly simplistic, and dare I say, naive, definition of a map. Maps at their most abstract are simply ways of condensing and co...
And that point had to do with the fact that maps must always be pluralized to be of better use: that anyone seeking 'one map to rule them all' was see...
It's not 'trying to capture philosophy' as if to represent or reconstitute it in some way or another - it is philosophy. I'm not convinced you've read...
This isn't a question of information 'availability' as it is expressive power so you 'getting technical' is you talking about something else entirely ...
The point is that dimensionality is not only visual when it comes to maps (or anything else for that matter): a dimension simply designates a variable...
But cartography isn't constrained to any particular number of dimensional degrees at all; consider Minard's famous map of Napoleon's campaign in Russi...
There's simply no way anyone with any familiarity with Wittgenstein could make this kind of argument with a straight face: as if the metagame is here ...
In a way this is the question that defines the terrain of nominalism: to answer this is to have a theory of nominalism, and there are quite a few of t...
Perhaps a less confusing way to put it is that nominalism doesn't necessarily have to be committed to the denial of universals as such. What it denies...
Definitely. To employ a language-game is simply the minimal criteria of any coherent discourse, let alone philosophy. To set out a language-game in wh...
Is the distinction between two approaches to philosophical systematization well-founded? Does cartographic philosophy meet the challenge of positively...
Sufficient to the problem as articulated: the physiognomy of our problems, as John so felicitously put it. Do they not teach the basics of immanent cr...
... Unable to be decided in advance of the issue's being articulated and its implications laid out. No doubt this seems like magic to anyone unacquain...
I agree - this kind of thing is therapy. Even philosophical therapy, if you will. But it sure as hell isn't philosophy, even if it is parasitic upon i...
Mmm, and I have serious qualms about this. This 'use' - in the instrumental sense, like a bureaucrat's - doesn't seem to me to respect the autonomy of...
Eh, don't read too much into it. I'm not replying with much seriousness or interest to the windbag I'm responding to there. But if I were to try and f...
It wouldn't happen to be part of the dialogue in Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World would it? I don't have a reference on hand, but there's a bit early ...
Heh, no worries! I wouldn't worry too much about the consolidation though! One nice way of thinking about studying philosophy is in building a persona...
Ah, sadly the academy isn't perfect. They'll let any old dolt through once in a while. Somtimes, rooted agape by a series of shiny letters, people eve...
Who said anything about universal? Every investigation defines its own object and stakes; any competent reader can assess how well it goes about doing...
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