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This is a pretty Newtonian declaration actually, insofar as Newton himself famously refrained from 'feigning any hypothesis ('hypothesis non fingo') r...

I laughed, but it was a morbid laughter.

Can you provide a reason for this so-far unwarranted inference? Why would a widening of what we understand to be argument 'dilute it's significance' r...

There is so much amazing work on this out there actually, especially in the sphere of political theory (where Habermas especially is routinely called ...

I did, and you didn't engage with anything I had to say at all. You simply reasserted your original point without addressing anything I said. So you c...

No, all this is just a thin excuse for not having made any earnest attempt to understand the work in question. I dismissed you as a reader of Foucault...

You animus about Kant reminds me of this wonderful passage by Raymond Guess - a political philosopher, in fact!: "I think ... the Kantian system is a ...

And I get how your lack of comprehension skills would lead you to that false conclusion.

http://nautil.us/issue/46/balance/survival-of-the-friendliest Nautilus recently had a very nice article discussing issues exactly related to this topi...

Bahaha love it.

I'm not asking you to 'uncritically accept his doctrines', I'm asking to you get those doctrines right, which you are not. Your critique is inapplicab...

So long as you continue to oppose 'argument' with power - and conflate power with discourse - you disqualify yourself as a reader of Foucault.

Of course your use of words matters. You can't complain that some philosophers are too slippery with words then complain that others are being too ped...

At no point in any of his works did Foucault propose that argument be 'replaced' with discourse, nor truth with power. Neither did he equate discourse...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/famous-philosophy-professor-accused-sexual-harassment?utm_term=.cbonaVKKx#.faxXzmNNY Uh-oh. Searle's been naught...

Despite that line, I don't think neurodiversity precludes, as if a blanket rule, all attempts at treatment or efforts to get by better day-to-day. The...

A vocabulary which I quite like - but is not without problems - refers to mental disorders as a matter of neurodiversity; in which case the distinctio...

It's not 'work' in the singular but works in the plural tho. Works that have made me explore everything from aesthetics to ethics, power and desire, r...

My experience teaches me differently. Some of my favorite works of philosophy are on exactly these kinds of questions, and I have learned immeasurably...

Let me know if you do end up getting on it, I'm hoping to read it sometime this year maybe, it'd be good to have a reading partner : )

Have you read Mark Wilson's Wandering Significance? He's a college of Brandom I think (who wrote a glowing review of the book) and it's been cited in ...

What are the possibilities of democratic politics today? What is a demos? What is political action? How is each constituted, sustained, and undone? Wh...

But did you charge the flux capacitor?

What's the point of this question? Evolution doesn't abide by the banal disciplinary borders of institutional study. If you want to say: 'evolution is...

The 'strict definition' of Darwin? Or the 'strict definition' of Susan Oyama? Or the 'strict definition' of Mary Jane West-Eberhard? Or the 'strict de...

Well as far as I can tell, Marchesk wants to limit the scope of evolution to - variously - that which is 'biological' (and not 'technological'), and '...

Ok, and with respect to evolution, their significance (as distinctions) is....???? What difference do these differences make with respect to evolution...

Yes, and gufflefloomps aren't flufflehoomps - so what? What's your point? You can't just sprout off meaningless distinction after meaningless distinct...

And an organism is? Or rather, again, don't just give me another distinction, give me the difference this difference makes. You could have said 'becau...

And what utility do such distinctions have when it come to evolution? In other words, what difference do these differences make, as far as evolution i...

As I've indicated, my objection is purely empirical: my point is that by defining evolution as narrowly as you do, its you who is 'telling scientists ...

And what makes you think 'the scientific sense' of evolution is so narrowly defined? What empirical fact would sanction such an artificial definition ...

Evolution is nothing but a process of change, wherein the unit of change is a developmental system (see: http://paulgriffiths.representinggenes.org/wo...

I don't care to answer any of these counterfactuals unless you provide a reason, in principle, why these can't be considered part of evolution. Otherw...

Then you haven't heard of niche construction, one of the basic mechanisms of evolution? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niche_construction Again what yo...

To the degree that the unit of evolution is a developmental system, then yes, there is nothing in principle that would rule out technology from being ...

Ok, thanks for joining.

Cite a reason, in principle, why it isn't. The onus is on you here. Your disbelief means nothing.

Yes I disagree. The Nature/culture divide is bad philosophy spliced onto perfectly indifferent science.

Why? Provide a reason, not just just state an opinion.

Yes you are wrong, as far as evolution is concerned. Individual genetic 'defects' mean nothing evolutionarily unless they come to define a species as ...

No, evolution does not 'pit one's genetic composition against the environment' because individuals and 'people' are not the subjects of evolution. Pop...

There are no such things as 'evolutionary rejects' - or rather, the only 'evolutionary rejects' are dead species. If you're alive, you're winning. Tha...

The index of 'evolutionary success' for a species is simply survival. It's a numbers game, that's it. The 'living conditions' of that species is irrel...

Evolution is indifferent to what is 'natural' or not: if the results of evolution happen to be a bunch of intelligent apes who can invent things like ...

Ahhhh after finally buying a new hard drive I have access to my philosophy pdf collection again which I have been without for like six monthhssss. It'...

The best thing I ever read on love was in Adriana Cavarero's - Relating Narratives: Storytelling and Selfhood; she touches on it only on a couple of p...

Eleni Ikoniadou - The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic Paul Patton - Deleuze and the Political Hannah Arendt - The Life of the Mind

At the level of sheer textual fidelity, the line is explicitly that the meter rule is neither a mater long nor not a meter long. Neither/nor, not both...

The issue is to pay attention to the generation of classes, which always takes place by reference to a paradigmatic instance which is then subsequentl...