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Yes, but that's not quite what's at issue here, which turns on the 'qualitative' difference that examples exhibit compared to ordinary instances of la...
February 25, 2017 at 03:19
Adam Kotsko just published a very well received book on the subject, The Prince of This World, which will be an excellent starting point for your rese...
February 24, 2017 at 16:02
Actually we're all iterations of mod-bot. We're not real people.
February 24, 2017 at 13:07
Heh, admittedly it's kind of obscure, and not the easiest of topic to really follow up on. But the cool thing - I think - is that something as 'pedest...
February 24, 2017 at 12:43
Public forums as these are, I actually don't think it is reasonable to expect that threads will or ought to remain on topic. At the very best, a threa...
February 24, 2017 at 12:40
Ha, well I haven't watched MM, but I think this temporal consideration is exactly right: generalities are always generated, and whatever force they ex...
February 24, 2017 at 06:18
I don't at all follow. You just seemed to have slapped on a bunch of labels using a vocabulary nowhere entailed by the previous discussion. Exactly wh...
February 18, 2017 at 16:38
Clearly the standard of significant difference here is affective capacity: something's capacity to affect and be affected. The flea is affected by lig...
February 18, 2017 at 16:15
Ok. Because nothing in nature makes a difference to anything else unless it has a disposition. Got it.
February 18, 2017 at 15:05
Like I said, if you take these terms to simply mean a difference which makes a difference, you can empty them of psychological baggage. It's just not ...
February 18, 2017 at 14:43
How about in-significant? Wind might be insignificant for a rock unless it reaches a certain velocity, depending also on the rock's weight, the force ...
February 18, 2017 at 14:21
Indifference from the perspective of constituted differences and similarities. It might well be the case that viewed from the 'process' side of things...
February 18, 2017 at 13:57
But it's not that 'everything is different', it's that 'everything is different (or similar!) with respect to....' Without this 'with respect to', its...
February 18, 2017 at 13:33
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February 17, 2017 at 07:08
Perhaps the most immediate result is that in this model, the self loses any inherent epistemic privilege to itself: i.e. the self is an object of know...
February 17, 2017 at 00:55
Edward Campbell - Music After Deleuze Alessandro Ferrara - The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgement Bonnie Honig - Emergenc...
February 17, 2017 at 00:19
Conceptualizes it's own nature how? Pre-Kant, the general tendency to posit an immediate link between the thinker and the thought (Descartes is paradi...
February 16, 2017 at 12:59
It's a question of the nature of that which is 'doing the conceptualizing'; it's the reflexive impetus of the critical philosophy. No one can claim to...
February 16, 2017 at 10:16
Late to chime in, but with respect to Kant, his most significant contribution, it seems to me, is the doctrine of the transcendental illusions: those ...
February 16, 2017 at 09:21
I agree with this, with the caveat that Ockham's nominalism remains committed to a substance-accident model of being which, for all his radicalism, no...
February 15, 2017 at 07:00
I think you're right to hit on belief as the hinge upon which this turns, and I think indeed it's a matter of 'practice' which is at stake here. The c...
February 15, 2017 at 01:51
The trick is to recognize the specifically philosophical, rather than theological import of much of what is discussed. Agamben, from whom the quote I ...
February 14, 2017 at 01:17
Part of why I find scholastic philosophy so fascinating is precisely because it so rigorously tries to make a place for God, while at the same time tr...
February 13, 2017 at 05:12
Daniel Heller-Roazen - The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World
February 13, 2017 at 01:53
I find etymology useful for breaking the sedimented semantic resonance of words. Or rather, etymology shakes things up a bit, allows us to recognize t...
February 12, 2017 at 15:01
What a fascinating discussion! I was most struck by the vigorous push-back from some of the commentators to Pigliucci's post. Many of the ideas he esp...
February 09, 2017 at 17:24
:D Yep, you got it!
February 09, 2017 at 09:09
Wittgenstein lived, wrote an essay, left some notes, and died.
February 09, 2017 at 03:51
Catherine Mills - The Philosophy of Agamben Benjamin Noys - The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (rereading)
February 07, 2017 at 12:17
This is true, but if one pays attention to the specifics of what Plato actually says and does with sound, what he consistently attempts to do is extra...
February 06, 2017 at 15:38
I guess I'm not so concerned about a 'metaphysics of hearing' so much as what the experience of hearing can offer a metaphysics: a different focus, as...
February 06, 2017 at 12:49
Yeah absolutely - there's definitely a kind of cosmic, a-centered element to sound that doesn't jibe quite as well with the visual; even the language ...
February 06, 2017 at 12:41
Perhaps the point is better specified in terms of representation than spatio-temporal orientation: the visual tends to be thought of as either ‘the th...
February 06, 2017 at 11:55
Perhaps - and again, I'm working in an exploratory mode here - the precise advantage in thinking in terms of sound is exactly this inseparability of m...
February 06, 2017 at 11:40
The Tractatus never did much for me, but the PI is a consummate work of philosophy. My fundamental takeaway of the latter is as a kind of methodologic...
February 04, 2017 at 11:19
No.
February 02, 2017 at 16:05
No.
February 02, 2017 at 15:24
If you're interested, there's a rich and pretty lively literature on this phenomenon, but probably one of my favorite's is Heinrich von Kleist's "On t...
February 01, 2017 at 03:20
Perhaps interestingly, I think the experience you mention often - if not always - comes about in the very process of 'working out' the thought to begi...
January 31, 2017 at 06:44
Aden Evens - Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience
January 30, 2017 at 06:27
Their problem not ours. Make PF great again.
January 28, 2017 at 14:20
Yes evol is right. Torture is fantastic. Really great stuff. Gets results quick smart. Especially against dirty radical Islamic terrorists. Who are ev...
January 28, 2017 at 12:59
Chaos bad! Sacrifice good! Especially when we ward off chaos with shame. Nothing better than a society full of shame. Keeps things in check. Which is ...
January 28, 2017 at 12:49
Yes I suppose you're right. Beatings are too valuable to be handed out willy-nilly. One must beat well and beat hard, or not beat at all. This will fo...
January 28, 2017 at 12:37
Beating is awesome! Think of all the discipline! And the moral principles we can instill! Principles! And discipline! Great Things! For A Great Humani...
January 28, 2017 at 12:32
Whatever do you mean? I'm a staunch advocate for moar beatings. This is great news for all mankind. Also childrenkind. Who need to be beaten more. Bea...
January 28, 2017 at 12:27
Ah yes, the Russians, those stalwarts of civilisation, whose parliament just voted to decrimialize domestic violence, so long as the victims don't end...
January 28, 2017 at 11:47
People use the word 'nothing' in ordinary language all the time without issue. The confusion only comes about when the word is treated as as somehow p...
January 28, 2017 at 05:34
Oh but see if you just define it differently then the other thing won't exist because that's how reality works see.
January 27, 2017 at 11:51
Nice link to Linda Nochlin's canonical feminist essay on how institutional barriers and not talent - and least of all 'biology' - have made it very ha...
January 26, 2017 at 18:01