Being able to shoot lazer beams from my eyes to melt my enemies would probably be a survival advantage, but it doesn't mean that it 'will most definit...
To come back to this: they really aren't. There's no actual individuation that goes on at all: the whole idea is that possible worlds are a given set ...
I prefer the more mundane 'impossible'. It interests me too because in political theory there is an approach to understanding proper political action ...
Au contrarie, the idea is that the adjacent possible takes the wind out of reductionist sails. The Kauffman paper I linked to is not for nothing title...
A brief response to this as I'm about to hit the sack: part of what I want to do is suck the explanatory air put of possibility-talk altogether; possi...
Well, to put my cards on the table early, I think the whole attempt to cash out possibility in terms of possible worlds is a giant mistake, and that a...
Nah, not demarcating experiments from non-experiments: I meant that experiments are themselves an exploration of 'demarcations', or limits that are no...
This kind of reproach to Nietzsche is a common and consequential one - one finds it in Arendt and Heidegger, to name two figures off the top of my hea...
Yeah. One of the interesting things about history of the idea of exaptation is that it found a home in the study of technology (exapted to the study o...
Nietzsche's problem was that the appeal to the transcendent - at least in its classical guise (e.g. Plato and Institutional Christianity) - always cam...
Related, for sure, but I there's a deeper semantic inflection here regarding the interplay between environment and 'thing' (a deeper focus on relation...
Hmm, okay, but I think I'd still put it differently. I'd say exaptation speaks to modality of the relations that compose the appendix - or anything el...
Eh, I kinda understand what you're driving at but I think the attempt to draw a distinction between 'concepts' and 'things themselves' within language...
But this is just what I've denied. At no point in the OP did I invoke a distinction between 'descriptions' and 'the thing itself'. This kind of Kantia...
I'm almost entirely sure the subject-object distinction came about long, long after the ancient Greeks, and that the words - or their equivalents - di...
I guess one of the things I would like to put into question is the very idea that there is any sort of 'in terms of itself' that belongs to anything. ...
A default approach should be: anyone who invokes the subjective-objective distinction does not know what they are talking about, unless proven otherwi...
Not forgetting that krisis in Greek means 'judgement', or the moment of decision (in medicine: the moment where the patient hovers between life and de...
Ronald Bogue - Deleuze on Music, Painting, and the Arts Wilfrid Sellars - Science, Perception, and Reality (replacement copy for the last one I lost i...
One can only imagine telling someone who hates racists - because he or she has had to put up with racial vilification all their life - that their hate...
Solo was fun! I enjoyed it because it really felt like 'a Star Wars story', like, a kind of side-story that just so happened to fall in the SW univers...
"What can a machine do? (Not this or that machine, by the way, but machines in the abstract) Tell me! Oh you can't tell me what a machine can do? Well...
@"fdrake" @"Srap Tasmaner": My favourite example from the OP's paper was actually its discussion of infinity, which I didn't bring up for the sake of ...
I'm not sure one can reason with it so much as attempt to show that another logic is possible - beginning, perhaps, by trying to show that sexuality i...
I actually also think Twilight and The Antichrist are among the best of Nietzsche's works. They're just the right mix of sharpness, cruelty and insigh...
the article cited in the OP is pretty good on this: "Once Rodger’s friends or the girls at school see him with his new thing, he thinks, he will final...
Who said it's about debate to begin with? Debate has never been situated on the side of truth: the very etymology of de-bate stems from contest and ag...
I think one of the best things one learns while doing philosophy is exactly how to identify ‘losing games’, and with it, how to remove oneself from th...
'Incels' are scum and deserved to be treated as such. We're not just talking about 'lonely men', we're talking about lonely, resentful men who, ideali...
Alsooo, there seem to be some here who think that the kind of 'math problem' I'm comparing philosophy to is some stupid banality like "2+2=?". But thi...
Thinking about this more... Systematization is like The Game. The Game is unwinnable and only has one rule: don't think about the Game. You lose when ...
Yeah, look, I agree with this in its entirety (it's Deleuzian becoming! Becoming-friend; Becoming-'The-something-else'...), but fuck, man, it's not ea...
There's little of substance to discuss here I'm afraid; a game of bad faith and ignorance - the one generating the other by turns - that I'm uninteres...
I think this is close, but runs the risk of confusing philosophy for ordinary 'sense-making' which we do everyday; the 'mere' act of perception, for i...
This post is interesting because it so clearly shows just how far our common points of reference are, and why, perhaps, we're simply speaking across e...
Well if it's out of your understanding then you can't object to it because you'd have no grounds to do so, by your own lights. I suspect you want to a...
The thing about God is that God is always invoked as an unexplained explainer: God doesn't explain anything at all, he's nothing but a stand-in - a sy...
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