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Play nice boys and girls.

But fdrake is almost always smarter and more well-informed than his opponents.

Some brief remarks: (1) Re: light and darkness - wait for the fuller discussion on light that takes place in the "Violence and Metaphyscis" essay (the...

Heh, if it helps, I reckon the first essay is the worst - or rather, the most inconcequential - in the whole book and can actually be skipped entirely...

How you finding Writing and Difference?

I suspect the OP simply meant 'as a discipline' rather than 'as a science'. Be nice yall.

Raymond Ruyer - Neofinalism Elizabeth Grosz - The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism Turns out, holidays are not as great fo...

That's the worst thing :( Sorry to hear that man.

Damn. He discovered the thriving hive of postmodern lefty neo-Marxist socialist gender feminism that we are (might have left off a few adjectives ther...

I really enjoyed that review, lol. I've read very little of Pinker and nothing I've read about him convinces me that it's worth my time. Given that I ...

I like the understatedness of this one: /uploads/resized/files/tr/jwjc2chpqolr9e4f.jpg

So, Vietnam is ever so slightly stunning. /uploads/resized/files/9h/il5jg3ru4jsou3ia.jpeg

One thing to note about Bergson's concept of duration is that it is not, despite popular misreadings, limited to our/human psychology. For Bergson, ou...

So correct the damn science and stop playing the 'science is bad for philosophy' card. It's a disservice to both science and philosophy, the antagonis...

*Whenever it helps you pitch your spiritualism as a 'reasonable' alternative to the scientific caricatures with which you like to tar science with, ev...

Ah yes, the most toxic poster on the forum, speaking in defense of tone, how quaint.

I quite liked the suggestion, made elsewhere, that the solution is to ban schools to protect guns. I think that would be reasonable. After all, only o...

Yet you have never once ceased to bring up the adaption myth when talking about evolution, almost always without acknowledging its mythic status, and ...

Just briefly on this, my interest was less in the science itself than in the rhetorical moves made within it: the illigitimate jump from spatializing ...

I know I briefly addressed this exact passage in my post prior, but on further reflection, there's more to be said with respect to the question of tim...

At some point in the next couple of weeks I will do a thread on this, but the idea that 'we are all evolved by a process of natural selection' = 'ever...

I dunno, 'oh common man' has a lovely tinge of aristocratic scorn which I quite like.

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I never thought about it this way, and you're right, I really do like this. My first thought was to Deleuze's reading of Spinoza, in which he aims to ...

They were all suffering from Blanchot worship, who actually did manage to almost never appear in any photos. Foucault expressed a similar desire ("I d...

Ah, yes I suppose I'll get around to it. I'm on holiday rite now actually so let me find some time to give it a deserving reponse.

Heh, ever since Heiddeger it's been a game of pin-the-metaphysics-on-the-philosopher as though a pejorative. There's something incredibly stifling and...

But distinctions only matter to the degree that something is at stake in them: that they constitute a difference that makes a difference. Your particu...

I would only be slightly callous if I said literally every philosopher from Heidegger onward (or at least, every philosopher familiar with, and conver...

Leaving aside your usual idiosyncratic and totally non-standard understanding of 'Being' as exclusively pertaining to the 'human' or to 'knowledge' or...

After all, Aug is a sensitive new age man in touch with his emoti(c)ons.

If by 'read tons' you mean 'watched a few Youtube videos'.

A so-called Bergsonian who proclaims that there is no such thing as illusion. The only conclusion to draw is that he’s never read Bergson in his life ...

There's a great anecdote in Freud's essay on negation, where he tells the story of one of his patients who, in relating a dream, adamantly insists tha...

Fixed it, I cut off the last character in the link.

If you like Taleb, you might be interested in Elie Ayache's The Blank Swan, which builds off Taleb's work and infuses it with a good dose of continent...

:D

Bergson on the poverty of what he calls finalism: "But radical finalism is quite as unacceptable, and for the same reason. The doctrine of teleology, ...

But I love Bergson. And of course you haven't 'read such revision of Bergson as this'. You're entirely uneducated. But enough with you.

Bergson is a fantastic author and even better philosopher, but I wish he had better advocates than the likes of Rich, whose Bergsonism is a caricature...

*yawn*, atheism is such a boring position to be defined by. As if the question of the divine was important or significant enough to warrant being defi...

If you can read 'hand waving' as 'everything to do with', then I suggest you brush up on your comprehension skills. Irrelavant. What exists is the und...

Noooo, the flourish of color from the dress is what makes the portrait. That re-framing also messes with the rule of thirds.

I love, love, love both portaits. Think they both look absolutely stunning.

That Alvin Plantinga is in any way reputable is an indictment on the intelligence of our species. I've given reasons why the formulation is grammatica...

Yeah, and the premise is nonsense, or at least worded in a purposely misleading way. That a cake 'exists in the understanding' means precisely that th...

Yeah, Charlie I don't think you understand what's going on at all. I'll have to get back to you later on - I'm heading overseas in a few hours and mig...

Luckily, existence is bivalent: either something exists, or it does not. The rest, like your post, is word-play.

Not in your formulation. Compare: (1) God exists in the understanding, but not in reality (7) Hence, it is false that God would exist in the understan...

I didn't make it into a non-sequitur. It is a non-sequitur. As for this: Leaving aside that you've changed the sentence structure so that it no longer...