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One can - and should - also see inorganic, macroscopic bodies as diagrams of forces too: bodies of water as diagrams of water flows: https://eoimages....
March 26, 2018 at 12:49
I've always loved the word 'articulate'. From the Greek arthron, meaning 'joint'. Giorgio Agamben glosses it as such: "arthron, an articulation; or ra...
March 26, 2018 at 11:23
Rodin's The Kiss is probably another, awesome example of bodies as shaped by forces, although perhaps one can speak here of amorous forces, eroticism ...
March 26, 2018 at 11:07
Hmm, I'm not sure about this connection. Politics derives from the Greek polis or city (as in metro-polis), which in turn has cognates to the Greek po...
March 26, 2018 at 05:42
Wilfrid Sellars - Naturalism and Ontology Wilfrid Sellars - Science, Perception, and Reality I've read some of Amery's book on the holocaust, and it w...
March 25, 2018 at 15:58
I agree entirely. The focus on mind has always been a bit of sideshow I think - albeit a deeply interesting one - but a sideshow nonetheless.
March 25, 2018 at 09:25
The philosopher that might be most relavent to an investigation like that might be Bernard Steigler, especially his Technics and Time trilogy, where, ...
March 24, 2018 at 04:39
As I said earlier, one can accept - one should accept, as a necessary condition of conducting science at all - methodological reductionism without at ...
March 24, 2018 at 04:10
Ahh, the Ellis comments are wonderful! This in particular: "Whether we agree on causation or not depends on the weight you put on the words “nothing b...
March 24, 2018 at 03:39
It's important to note that this is entirely implausible on any reasonable reading of M-P, who spends page after page in the Phenomenology arguing aga...
March 24, 2018 at 02:38
Just to clear up some terminology, Crowther does not use EFT as a synonym for 'emergence'; indeed, the whole question is whether or not EFTs admit eme...
March 24, 2018 at 02:21
No, that would be theology, not philosophy. Explanation follows the explananda wherever it goes, it does not subordinate it to prior stipulations. In ...
March 23, 2018 at 10:53
@"Pierre-Normand", So I just finished reading the Crowther paper and damn it's excellent. It vindicates, I think, my avoidance of talking about emerge...
March 23, 2018 at 08:51
This is perhaps a worthy debate topic of it's own, but the distastefulness - If I can call it that - of having something like a Black History Month or...
March 23, 2018 at 05:46
One thing to note is that I've been quite careful to avoid the word 'emergence' when talking about alot of this stuff (take a look, I don't even use t...
March 23, 2018 at 05:22
But words like 'Absolutism' and 'Relativism' are just words, nominations. What does it matter if you call something 'absolutism' or 'relativism'? You ...
March 23, 2018 at 02:11
'Dialectical Materialism' is one of those phrases that has always struck me as meaning whatever one wanted it to - an empty signifier, as it were, ope...
March 23, 2018 at 02:04
Lefebvre's The Production of Space is one of my favourite books ever, and the work of Doreen Massey (Space, Place and Gender) was transformative in my...
March 22, 2018 at 07:38
Also, I very much appreciate your reading of social media in Debord's terms - obviously something he couldn't have anticipated - and I think your rere...
March 22, 2018 at 07:09
Finished chapter 1 as well. An interesting read so far. The two most immidiate points of reference that come to mind are Zizek and Agamben. (1) Re: Zi...
March 22, 2018 at 06:59
Yep! Also sangiovese, one of my favourite drops of red. Also also - and this is the religious reference I was actually looking for but couldn't rememb...
March 22, 2018 at 04:00
That's actually a really interesting example because it allows me to make a distinction I hadn't thought of before: chronopolitics as tactic and chron...
March 22, 2018 at 02:32
Just make sure you design the exhaust port so that a well placed proton torpedo can bring it all down.
March 21, 2018 at 16:38
Thanks! I don't know about Leibniz though - time and space remained 'well founded phenomenona' for him and as such don't really have any ontological s...
March 21, 2018 at 16:22
Because I just so happened to use it: Desanguinate: to remove the blood; to drain one of blood or hope. Or it's opposite - Ensanguination: to stain wi...
March 21, 2018 at 12:33
Kant was right, at the very least, about the 'necessity' of space, but was wrong, I think, about his conceptualization of space (and time) as merely f...
March 21, 2018 at 12:12
Very cool (that may have just been the only psych paper I've read in my life from start to end, lol).
March 21, 2018 at 11:37
Amazing!
March 21, 2018 at 10:26
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March 21, 2018 at 08:58
Potentially relevant bit of science reporting: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/although-they-cant-tell-us-about-it-infants-can-reason/ "The re...
March 21, 2018 at 07:51
Yes, but who doesn't claim to 'see things as they really are'? This is why I insisted, in the OP, on the rhetorical trope of the 'is only...' when it ...
March 21, 2018 at 04:33
Excellent :D This is, obviously, a different topic, but I think you're on exactly the right track; I don't think truth has ever been an index of philo...
March 21, 2018 at 04:28
I'm glad you're finding some of these threads useful, or at least provocative! Note that the thread on gene expression is basically an example or a 'c...
March 20, 2018 at 17:20
Thinking a little about this in terms of information, part of what it means to subscribe to reductionism is to say that context contains no informatio...
March 20, 2018 at 14:20
Yeah, having someone like Weinberg doesn't help, but I suspect that the basic answer is that it's not as 'pretty'. To say that everything is just 'ato...
March 20, 2018 at 08:06
It's odd isn't it? I mean, the idea that context matters is so simple an idea, yet it is routinely ignored despite it. And it provides such a simple r...
March 20, 2018 at 06:37
Ooh, I see what you mean. But yes, all investigation ought to be scale specific - which is not to say that it isn't interesting or important to unders...
March 20, 2018 at 06:19
Woah. Just read a synopsis. Pretty scary indeed!
March 20, 2018 at 04:36
https://6legs2many.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/fire_ant_forking_raft_bridge.jpg https://6legs2many.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/fire_ant_curved_raft_fl...
March 20, 2018 at 04:26
Yeah, it's actually a really hard mindset to shed, and it inevitably creeps back when one isn't paying attention. It doesn't help when people talk abo...
March 20, 2018 at 04:23
Dem corckscrew horns, yo.
March 20, 2018 at 04:07
It's actually an abandoned termite mound, taken over by fireflys. They're using it to catch prey!
March 20, 2018 at 04:06
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Pierzga_2006.JPG/800px-Pierzga_2006.JPG http://vrf.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/upload...
March 20, 2018 at 03:55
Damn you. I've had Spectacle sitting under my bed for a few years now and now you're going to make me read it along with you :<
March 19, 2018 at 16:23
Here is one of the clearest primers I know, although it explains it through reference to Merleau-Ponty. But yeah, the Anderson paper is awesome. I cou...
March 19, 2018 at 15:47
I have vague intuitions about this question, but I'm still lacking the conceptual clarity I need to really address it properly. There's a whole nexus ...
March 19, 2018 at 12:01
Hah, I've read that Floridi book - pamphlet, really - but unfortunately found it so painfully average that I think that connection would have escaped ...
March 19, 2018 at 10:33
Identity politics!
March 17, 2018 at 01:38
Me, mock? No, no, pathological paranoia is a serious problem that should be treated with the gravity it deserves!
March 17, 2018 at 01:27
A quick study, you are!
March 17, 2018 at 01:12