Who cares what the alternatives are - even though you're clearly aware they exist. One doesn't have to ask for alternatives to square circles to say t...
When you have to invent some other-worldy realm in order for your question to make sense, then then one's question is a shitty one. But that's to be e...
Also, I just watched Wolf's WHCD set, and it' was amazinggg. It was the best one since Colbert's set however many years ago. The butthurt by snowflake...
Eh, 'archetypes' and 'shadows' hew far too close to ghosts and spooky woojoo for me to take with any measure of seriousness, and at least Frued and La...
Nah Lacan despised what he called depth psychology and even Freud warned against the 'black mud tide' of occultism (to Jung's face!) which is just abo...
He was banned because he was an incredibly polemic poster who did nothing to actually argue for the positions he held. He degraded the quality of conv...
"Perception is essentially differentiation, gradation, specification of distances, formation of tensions, reliefs, contrasts. To not perceive somethin...
QM makes the idea of free will even more implausable, not less: " reject the common sop that somehow the indeterminism of quantum physics helps us out...
The Topics can be found freely online - here is the first book which I reference explicitly in the OP: http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/topics.1.i.ht...
Yes, but this aspect is tributary or parasitic of the more primary fact that a 'dynamic' problem is one which does not simply re-state it's solution i...
Turns out, some of our DNA looks like this (on the right): https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0968089614004064-fx1.jpg https://www.scimex.o...
I'm not sure at this point that Kanye even knows. I think at this point it's just sheer insinct, 'the kind of thing a Kayne does'. It's actually prett...
As far as not having to deal with a fucked-up political culture, where apparently Nazis are par for the course and in need of defending, it's pretty n...
Nah, just human. A non-American human at that, so I don't have to tiptoe around calling Nazis fucksticks, because it'll hurt the feelings of some snow...
Follow up from the previous BBC post I mentioned regarding the heart's role in how we relate to the world: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180423-ho...
I left my Sellars book at a work function :cry: Just started to reread Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind too :broken: Until (if?) I get it back - Dani...
Couldn't imagine a more horrible kind of life, one driven solely by necessity. There's a reason that there's a long running theme in philosophy that l...
But if you acknowledge the as-structure, then a token-type relation 'falls out' of it: an as-structure is a sumsumptive structure where something belo...
No. There is no ethics involved in any such behaviour, no more than there is ethics involved in the wind blowing a leaf away 'by necessity'. Such an a...
But ethics is just that space opened up between biological necessity and extra-biological contingency. A life driven by necessity is an a-ethical life...
Depressing but true. Ironically I think it's actually really hard - perhaps much harder than being 'hyper-nuanced' - to weave a good, punchy tale with...
Hah, that's a very generous way to respond to my grumpiness about Laruelle. Funnily enough, my favorite formulation of the role that philosophy or 'th...
The heart may not be able to think per se, but there's strong evidence that its role as a keeper of internal rhythm is vital to our ability to think a...
Hmm, but I think the relevant qualification is the 'as' here; I mean, this is the structure of intentionality as such, the 'as-structure' that Heidegg...
Sooo, my rant aside, this is where I begrudgingly acknowledge that OK, there may be some extra-psychological payoff to Laruelle's notions, and it's in...
I really get Laruelle's project, I really think I do, but my gosh do I also think the point is overstated. I mean, yeah, OK, there's a difference betw...
I remain sceptical. After all, germ cells are not organisms, and the reason that they don't age is that they - exactly like cancer, actually - remain ...
Yeah, but this is a different issue, no? At stake is not a question of tokens and types: by your own description, 'doggie' isn't a particular. I mean,...
Yeah but I wanna say that this is exactly the desired outcome! I think what this dizzyiess assests to, when all is said and done, is nothing other tha...
I'm not sure talk of 'parts' and 'wholes' is very appropriate here; I'd perhaps like to think about it in terms of Kant's dove - Kant imagined a dove ...
I've finally come to the doorstep of the famous Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind essay in this book. I remember giving it a go a few years ago - in a...
Cancer is fascinating and terrifying because it is literally a kind of superabundence of life itself: life without the limits that normally constrains...
There was a great article by Peter Hoffmann in Nautilus a little while ago, weighing up the different takes on why we die (or age, rather). He does a ...
One thing that Clark focuses on is the role of language in allowing higher-order abstraction to take place. The monkeys had to use physical tokens to ...
But isn't a 'pair of like objects' a type? I mean, one of the things I want to say is that there are no types in general. There are only these types a...
I really want to read Millikan. All I know about her is that she fuses Sellars with biology in some manner and that sounds super super intriguing to m...
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