One can - and should - also see inorganic, macroscopic bodies as diagrams of forces too: bodies of water as diagrams of water flows: https://eoimages....
I've always loved the word 'articulate'. From the Greek arthron, meaning 'joint'. Giorgio Agamben glosses it as such: "arthron, an articulation; or ra...
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 ...
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...
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...
The philosopher that might be most relavent to an investigation like that might be Bernard Steigler, especially his Technics and Time trilogy, where, ...
As I said earlier, one can accept - one should accept, as a necessary condition of conducting science at all - methodological reductionism without at ...
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...
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...
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...
No, that would be theology, not philosophy. Explanation follows the explananda wherever it goes, it does not subordinate it to prior stipulations. In ...
@"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...
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...
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...
But words like 'Absolutism' and 'Relativism' are just words, nominations. What does it matter if you call something 'absolutism' or 'relativism'? You ...
'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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Potentially relevant bit of science reporting: https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/although-they-cant-tell-us-about-it-infants-can-reason/ "The re...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Hah, I've read that Floridi book - pamphlet, really - but unfortunately found it so painfully average that I think that connection would have escaped ...
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