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/uploads/resized/files/xz/tqbb73kz625v8txp.jpg This morning's view :D Happy New Year all!

Exactly. Such a thought experiment proves nothing but a basic misunderstanding of how evolution works on the part of anyone who would propose it. An e...

Err, bodily regulation happens with values within expected ranges for a particular animal's environmental niche - a change from mouse to elephant and ...

Hmm, speaking of, Matt Damon's latest, Downsizing, really ought to be a kind of horror film, where people just die horrifically. And then there's Hone...

Ahh, thanks for this! I love that he moves into a discussion of architecture at the end of the paper, and I think it's so important that these princip...

Yep, exactly - the entire hylomorphic schema inherited from antiquity - determinate form descending upon inert and ready matter - needs to be shot out...

To the degree that there is a 'specialness' to philosphy, I've always considered it to lie in its generality: it's non-specialness. Sellars' definitio...

I don't think there's any use in speculating on negatives.

: ( But also yay!

May I suggest: Nancy Cartwright, Ian Hacking, Isabelle Stengers, Peter Galison, John Dupre, Bruno Latour, Lorraine Daston, Alexandre Koyre. None of th...

Also, I really liked your paper. The second half - on the 'phenomenology of writing' - although I don't think you use the term (very reminiscent of M-...

Not really. To nick a saying of Feynman's, FOPL is as useful for talking about grammar as ornithology is to birds. You're not engaging with anything b...

I'm back at work for a day or two which means, ironically, that I have time to respond to interesting posts again! Hopefully the momentum isn't entire...

I've cited plenty of links in our discussion so far. Educate yourself.

I'll be a if I want to, especially to someone who is a needlessly aggressive pedant about employing the word evolution to describe a series of linked ...

PS sorry I've left this thread quiet, Christmas is a busy time of year, hopefully I can give it some attention in the next few days.

Poor Charleton, who has left both variation and evolvability out of his understanding of evolution.

"Looking at molecular machines has made me realize that evolution is the only way these machines could have come to exist. As we have seen, life explo...

Merry Christmas all! Here's the 2017 reading list (*** indicate favourites): Political Theory Hannah Arendt - Between Past and Future: Eight Excercise...

:D Thanks for your continued positivity, at all times.

Merry Christmas, bitches.

I'm going to make a thread about exploding elephants. It's going to be great.

I will say, in defense of Wittgenstein, that despite the popular (conservative) mischaraterizations of his work, language-games require no determinate...

Eh, I'm not turning this into a debate on FOLP. It's uninteresting and not worth the time. Academic snake-oil and astrology peddled by philosophical c...

It's the mummification of language, it deals with language as a dead artifact, made for priests and morticians of language. Grammar deals with declens...

I don't like it because it's abstract nonsense that misses literally everything interesting about language. Anyway, sorry I'm being short, I mean to r...

FOLP can go Flop itself. A bunch of analytic philosophical tripe. Yes to this though.

Yeah.

Buffeted on one side by someone who says my conception of language is too narrow, on the other by one who says it's too large... Will have to do a bit...

The literal goddamn definition of evolution is heritable change. 'Abuse of language' more like 'denial of kindergarten facts'.

I think you need to make a distinction between two kinds of nonsense. The first is grammatically correct nonsense, perhaps the most famous example bei...

So much the worse for your understanding of language.

Surely that whole description strikes you as an incredibly clunky and forced description of any viewing of visual art? Certainly it would be far, far ...

In what way would it involve such a grammar, and why?

It is incontestably the case that evolution innovates, and that it does so without a hint of consciousness. The so-called 'incorrigible distinction' y...

I never said that perception is an unmediated contact with the world. Neither did I say that "language doesnt allow the communication of visual or aud...

Books. Or, failing that, a gift card for books.

And the authors acknowledge this: "The genetic assimilation of these capacities was most likely partial, rather than complete. It could not have led t...

The two cannot be considered in isolation when discussing the genetic assimilation of language.

I disagree. J+D provide a very plausible account of exactly how such a positive change would come about: "Let us assume, then, that some of the adapti...

Yeah, I wouldn't want to disabuse you of your now publicly embarrasing ignorance of genetic assimilation and how it works.

Sure, you're welcome to understand language in as broad a manner as you like. However, the introduction of grammar marks a qualitative change in what ...

Yeah that sucks dude :( Hopefully she turns up.

Confusion and the need to dispel it; disorientation and the need to get bearings; incomprehension and the drive to resolve it.

/uploads/resized/files/vu/pogzsiu5ifx68kqm.jpg Christmas begins.

Perhaps another way to look at it is that your concentration problem can be fixed. The problem of sustained attention is not yours alone, and is actua...

That our 'access' to ourselves is not an iota different to our 'access' to the world was established by Kant, and has been... well, incorrigible ever ...

If a lion could speak, we could not understand him. Sign language has a grammar. I'm not sure about dance. Perhaps particular dances, or even dance co...

But Banno, you have not translated her statements into speech. If a lion could speak... Let's not be slippery with terms.

Sigh. Well threaded ground, again irrelavent. Enough of the catechisms, engage.