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On what grounds? And how does that relate to what you said before?
April 23, 2020 at 08:38
It's hard to know what to make of this. Perhaps you can elaborate.
April 23, 2020 at 08:24
Too late.
April 23, 2020 at 01:25
Okay buddy *pats*. Make sure you untwist your panties on the way out.
April 23, 2020 at 01:06
I think you uh, posted this in the wrong thread.
April 23, 2020 at 00:43
I really don't understand your objection. Like, what is your actual point? That we don't always experience emotion? Thay emotion is somehow unreal? No...
April 23, 2020 at 00:37
I'm not entirely clear about how volition fits into the picture here, if at all. I think Barrett does have alot to say about it in her book, but I hav...
April 22, 2020 at 15:38
I have very little positive to say about 'the will', so I'm afraid I don't have much to say about it in connection with the OP at all.
April 22, 2020 at 15:28
Ahhh of course! I'm kicking myself for not having thought of that! Felicitous and infelicitous emotions - of course. This way of thinking allows one t...
April 22, 2020 at 15:24
It's an interesting question - I imagine that there must indeed be certain neurological features, which, when underdeveloped or malformed, inhibit the...
April 22, 2020 at 14:46
I would suggest that there is persistent disagreement in philosophy because agreement is not a goal, even an incidental one, of philosophy. Agreement ...
April 22, 2020 at 11:18
Skim read closer! "Like beliefs and memories, however, emotions are not things. They are states. ...The experience of emotion is not the result of an ...
April 22, 2020 at 09:58
https://nypost.com/2020/04/21/de-blasios-social-distancing-tip-line-flooded-with-obscenities/ "Mayor Bill de Blasio’s critics let him know how they re...
April 22, 2020 at 09:43
This is a common view, but it is not one that seems to be substantiated by the evidence. To quote Barrett's review article:
April 22, 2020 at 08:37
I've been trying to think about this and I think you're entirely right to think about this in terms of modality. I hope this is not a case of me just ...
April 22, 2020 at 08:11
Of the three papers I've read, there's only one reference to Wittgenstein in connection with her use of the term 'family resemblance'. That said, this...
April 22, 2020 at 07:31
Can't have a livelihood when you're dead. It's in the name, see.
April 22, 2020 at 06:14
Yeah that's the one. I can link you a copy if you'd like. That particular one is more brain-sciencey though. The more conceptual paper is her "Solving...
April 22, 2020 at 06:13
Ah, but the question is how we treat the distinction; over the kind of power and rhetorical relations we set up in a society where people are differen...
April 22, 2020 at 05:29
I suppose, but only because it's used that way right now. I guess - to be less facetious - I don't want math to be anything all that special. It's a l...
April 22, 2020 at 04:53
Go big or go home Banno - nothing refers to anything, not even words! - unless used in that way, of course. It's as they say about guns: words and num...
April 22, 2020 at 04:23
The rich are not getting their promised ROI. Gotta sacrifice a few (tens or hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers, predominantly african-americ...
April 22, 2020 at 04:14
One thing that seems quite striking to me is exactly this parallel with phenomenology; just as Husserl gave an account of perception in terms of the '...
April 21, 2020 at 14:11
Yeah it does - anger is a kind of nominal melting pot: we put various ingredients in, and you get a family resemblance of results (called 'anger'), bu...
April 21, 2020 at 08:29
I might prefer to say something like: there are many states called anger, each of them variantly evoked and produced across a range of different situa...
April 21, 2020 at 07:34
The Trump campaign has a bunch of boomers who have just discovered memes placing white text on American flags and skulls while they herp-derp amongst ...
April 21, 2020 at 07:01
This is really good, the bolded part in particular. I tried to skim over the essay but Dewey doesn't write in a way amenable to skimming for me. Gonna...
April 21, 2020 at 04:35
Lots more besides, but I think you're being performatively stupid atm.
April 21, 2020 at 04:06
I suppose that what interests me isn't really the affect/emotion distinction, which sure, is objectively interesting or whatever, but that's just mech...
April 21, 2020 at 03:36
I haven't yet read the book - it's been sitting on my shelf for the last however many months and I only have the discipline to read one book at a time...
April 20, 2020 at 15:29
A note on this - this is, in a way, exactly what follows from the kind of account given here (hence my quick reference to William James in the OP: emo...
April 20, 2020 at 15:25
Yeah, it's important not to conflate this with a kind of 'voluntarist' account of emotion where I can simply feel whatever I want whenever I want. In ...
April 20, 2020 at 15:12
Insofar as they are new they can only have been learnt. That's what learning is. But let me try and answer more substantively. I can't address your wh...
April 20, 2020 at 15:07
I edited out my reference to Wittgenstein's 'family resemblance' to fit in a bit more about emotions as skills, but I'm glad you caught it because I d...
April 20, 2020 at 14:19
She doesn't talk a great deal about developmental aspects in the papers I've read so far (perhaps she does more in the book - @"possibility"?), but sh...
April 20, 2020 at 14:06
Nope. (Although the findings here surprised me too!).
April 20, 2020 at 12:58
Will reply more substantially in a bit (dinner time), but a quick copy and paste: "In a sense, a situated conceptualization, because it is designed fo...
April 20, 2020 at 12:48
This is a very good example of exactly the opposite of the account relayed in the OP.
April 20, 2020 at 12:28
From a commentator I follow on social media: "If you look at Joe Biden's central role in expanding the prison industrial complex, shepherding universi...
April 20, 2020 at 12:05
On the account given here, this is exactly the wrong way to look at things. Or at least, it is only half the story. As a matter of conceptual evaluati...
April 20, 2020 at 11:53
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April 20, 2020 at 10:39
Nah man, M-P is everywhere.
April 20, 2020 at 10:14
I was going to mention exactly this. Just as Freudian lingo is part and parcel of everyday vocabulary (unconscious, libido, ego, id, on the couch, etc...
April 20, 2020 at 06:21
Also America is simply a plutocracy with a weak democratic spitshine (this is what 'trickles down') so no, don't blame 'the people'.
April 19, 2020 at 18:42
I guess when your country is founded by a paedophile slaver rapist like Jefferson that's why it turns out the way it does: with a 2020 election choice...
April 19, 2020 at 18:07
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1251127127098957824 :flower:
April 18, 2020 at 08:14
https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1251275775627669512 Liberate!! ... Souls from bodies or something.
April 18, 2020 at 08:06
And in case anyone had any doubt about the small-minded anemia of the Obama administration: "To his most hopeful followers, Obama’s unique gift was be...
April 18, 2020 at 05:45
Carter? Who at every turn did what he could to undermine the Sandinistas and pave the way for the Contras and their murderous regime? (Cemented by Rea...
April 18, 2020 at 05:05
Nah . You don't get to accuse someone of racism on no basis and then pretend you want to have a level conversion.
April 18, 2020 at 04:11