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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Clearly the standard of significant difference here is affective capacity: something's capacity to affect and be affected. The flea is affected by lig...
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 ...
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 ...
Indifference from the perspective of constituted differences and similarities. It might well be the case that viewed from the 'process' side of things...
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...
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...
Edward Campbell - Music After Deleuze Alessandro Ferrara - The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgement Bonnie Honig - Emergenc...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
The trick is to recognize the specifically philosophical, rather than theological import of much of what is discussed. Agamben, from whom the quote I ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Yes evol is right. Torture is fantastic. Really great stuff. Gets results quick smart. Especially against dirty radical Islamic terrorists. Who are ev...
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 ...
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...
Beating is awesome! Think of all the discipline! And the moral principles we can instill! Principles! And discipline! Great Things! For A Great Humani...
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...
Ah yes, the Russians, those stalwarts of civilisation, whose parliament just voted to decrimialize domestic violence, so long as the victims don't end...
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...
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...
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