What specifically makes it anti-realist or idealist though? Like, you're missing a step. 1. Meaning and truth of statements like "the chair exists" is...
But once you cash language out as a kind of significant behavior - as an action - it's no less puzzling than how me pointing to a chair 'refers' to a ...
Interesting you say that because the traditions that I draw these ideas from are almost exactly these two quarters: 'postmodernism' and Wittgensteinia...
Less as rhetoric than as incantation: "To make metaphysics out of spoken language is to make language convey what it does not normally convey. That is...
Would it not be better to say that the difference between language and reality is a difference that insinuates itself as reality? The way to cash this...
I think one needs to be careful with language here - I don't want to say that language is 'derived' from a more general set of behaviors so much as I ...
Not in the slightest. Constraints are always enabling constraints: their valence is entirely positive to the degree that 'restrictions' on the free pl...
Ooo, that Foot article (which I voted for), reminds me of another that might make for good reading the month after: G. E. M. Anscombe's Modern Moral P...
That's fair enough PB. I guess I didn't name any explicit targets because A) I'm trying to aim at broader tendencies and attitudes in philosophy than ...
Great quote. And I hasten to say that I don't disagree - if anything, these sorts of studies underline just the point of the OP: that the use of langu...
Eh, I'll try and speak in the idiom of those I'm conversing with for convenience sake. If I were to be honest, realism - of any kind - is not somethin...
Trust you to ask the hard questions @"Aaron R"! Anyway, I'm not entirely averse to rethinking representation, and if I come off as being so, it's more...
This makes sense to me, both from a phenomenological perspective - Baggs writes alot about overload on her blog - and in terms of the language of cons...
Yes, but meaning is the parameter of distinction here; with respect to meaning, can we draw any metaphysically significant division? The argument says...
Actually @"Michael", @"Aaron R" is on point here, which is that once you include 'non-linguistic components' within the ambit of the linguistic, any h...
There's not much sense in talking about 'realism' or 'anti-realism' as abstract categories. One needs to speak about these things with respect to some...
It's precisely this nexus or interface, as you call it, that fascinates me so much. Once meaning becomes unmoored from language, you open yourself up ...
@"Baden" - Yeah, I think that is perhaps what I find stale, or at least artificial about some analytic approaches to language; it's treated as a sort ...
There is nothing intrinsically wrong with 'partial theories', and the onus is on you to show that language functions univocally if you want to make th...
A word on what I like about the whole Davidsonian approach to language, although it's not specific to this paper as such (hopefully it might throw som...
Right, gonna reel some thoughts off in order to work them out in the process of writing. It seems to me that the thrust of Davidson's paper is somethi...
Oh don't get me wrong John - my point is that it's precisely because VR or video games are never 'purely' video games, because the 'space' involved wh...
With respect to video games, I actually agree with TGW here, but not necessarily for reasons he might appreciate. I think that it is indeed disingenuo...
Sounds good to me! I think you're entirely right to say the the LEM in Simondon is not false per se, but simply inapplicable, or rather only applies e...
A lovely article, Jamal, one in keeping with my own sensibilities. I think one thing to keep in mind re: the pervasiveness of the argument is that it'...
Aw, I'm going to miss my brief stint with the banhammer. In any case, it's simply best not to go about mentioning this place on PF anymore, not even i...
Quine is always fun to read, and his "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" and "On What Is" have alot to be discussed in them. Otherwise, some other, more left o...
I think I understand what you're trying to say, and I think it's been something I've been grappling with in my own musings. I think one answer to what...
@"Jamalrob": I think you're right that what's interesting about the paper is that while it ultimately ends up laying the groundwork to undermine the f...
I thought section four lacked a bit of rigor; you should have cited the studies done by Chicken (1984) and Chicken (2003) to substantiate your thesis ...
I think this question, right here, is perhaps the philosophical question par excellence for our age. Ever since the post-structuralist onslaught again...
I'm more or less in agreement that the idea of moral principles (understood in terms of 'rules') are exactly the wrong way to go about thinking morali...
@"jamalrob": that's an excellent quote actually. I've been struggling over trying to frame the idea that memory is created in real time - while still ...
Woah, end of en era indeed. I'm going to stay on for a bit to clean up spam and so on, but I've lessened my contributions to the forum for a while eve...
Thoughts on rereading the paper: It strikes me that the paper is somewhat incongruously named with respect to the actual analysis that takes place in ...
@"fdrake": Yes absolutely is it a question of the the very conditions of affordances. What's important here is that this ties perception right back in...
Yeah this is a good point actually - a need to be careful with language. To thematise it though, Morris for instance frames the geometrical field as a...
This seems to be on the right track, and I'd suggest that what ties the sorts of things you've listed together is the 'mark' that they've left on the ...
Here's how Morris explains the Muller-Lyer illusion: "The line segments are welded into arrow structures the visual expanse of which bulges outward or...
To take up an old saying of Leibniz, the OP is right in what it denies, but wrong in what it affirms. I think it's more or less uncontroversial that t...
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