Pantagruel

Often I find myself ethically offended when I encounter selfish uses of the systems I manage by people who are exploiting their position and authority...

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I agree, this I would say is the operation of habits. As mentioned though, will can also be internalized towards the modification of our own habits. W...

That is what I was trying to catch in my intro - intending to do something is a choice, but there can be obstacles to enacting a choice. To what exten...

Hmm. And I tend to think the opposite. Two people can have the exact same physical abilities, but one person is able to push further - past the pain b...

Ordinary language is essentially a kind of socio-cultural baseline. If you believe (as I do) that one aspect of philosophy is that it re-integrate spe...

From a purely pragmatic perspective, I'm fairly certain that our minds operate through habits. Even your "style" of thinking is a habit which can be c...

And what constitutes language? There are many kinds of non-linguistic communication. Even very simple organisms share information. I would suggest tha...

Oneself as Another by Paul Ricœur Keen to read this as it is relates to my own 'core hypothesis': as individual thinkers we are critically limited by ...

My favourite fantasy series, alongside the Deathgate Cycle.

Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen R. Donaldson

Yes, and I agree completely with the interactionist (embodied or enacted) approacth. However Luhmann is reconceptualizing the system in such a way tha...

:up: On Gutenberg too.

It's a great read, everything that is good about Dewey, insightful, direct, beautifully written.

Neuroscience is illustrative, however it may not be fully explicative either. Luhmann has an interesting take, based on an innovative brand of systems...

Yes, logic can be overrated. Dewey differentiates between two fundamental original orientations in philosophy, the "lower" practical-technical and the...

Reconstruction in Philosophy by John Dewey

I'd suggest reviewing Laszlo, focusing on bisperpectivism. You need a good overview of systems theory to move beyond the highlights I offered. See if ...

Well, more specifically, reality can be viewed as consisting of complex-adaptive systems across any theoretical domain, and these share properties ilk...

Embedded cognition is systems theoretic in nature. Many people view systems theory as offering a new paradigm of reality in which some traditional pro...

I think the fact is that is happening, is a basic feature of the mind-matter system, so isn't really mysterious.

For me it is his only redeeming quality! lol.

Similarly Apel talks about the "rational determination of situational boundary conditions" - I like the phrase situational awareness.

I read something about 2 years ago that noted that the best metaphysics tells the best story. I'm still trying to dig it up, it was told particularly ...

When I contemplate the theories and experiments of embedded and embodied cognition they seem not so much as to invoke the mind-body problem as to blur...

Quite by accident I came across this bit in Dewey (Reconstruction in Philosophy) that nicely contrasts reason in its practical versus its rationalisti...

Great question. A history of reason would make an interesting read. :chin:

This is pretty much where I was heading. Do you think that is just a congenital or organic deficiency? Or did they lose or renounce the ability to be ...

I will admit that my own approach to the reasonable-rational problem relies heavily on exemplary usages in ordinary language. I don't see a problem wi...

Ok. But if experience is empirically contingent, then there must be some empirical differentiator? Even if it is like the same light shining on two di...

No but often it seems that very different perspectives on the mind do suggest that some people do have fundamentally different experiences of thought.

Right?

...potentially rational?

I am very much on board with this. I see all of our thought (that is not trivially practically oriented - thirsty, get a drink) as being driven by lon...

More so I am thinking about analyticity as a mode of thought (leading to analytic knowledge). And syntheticity. Aligning with deduction and induction ...

Yes, I was questioning in a more organic sense, if someone is criminally disposed, could that person ever truly be considered to be rational. Not in t...

I see divergences in reasoning and objectives emerging. At this point I would question (following @"Bartricks" detailed differentiation between variou...

I'm acknowledging it, not sure what you mean by upholding it? And yes, I do think that standards of rationality vary both historically and culturally....

To the extent that synthesis means linking together what is apparently unconnected it is consistent with the function of intuition for sure. The ordin...

But standards of rationality change. Slavery was an accepted institution in ancient Greece. The slave Epictetus was a Stoic, which makes sense. But th...

Could this be described as alternating phases of syntheticity and analyticity? Analytic thinking seems to fit the bill as a kind of framework of ratio...

And this is another aspect I think. Reason is also social and dialogic/dialectical in nature. Even when we think, we reason internally as an internal ...

I think so too. And tradition-authority influenced.

And do you think, for example, that these reason-orientations would tend to produce different orientations toward various philosophical topics, so som...

I think instrumental rationality aligns closely with something I mentioned, which was situational awareness. Vera mentioned how one can think instrume...

It concerns the distinction between deductive nomological events which have "explanations" (are cases of laws taking place in specifiable contexts) ve...

I think the terrain can be mapped. I'm reading Understanding and Explanation; in exploring the contention between the scientistic and hermeutic approa...

Yes, trying to capture some kind of paradigm descriptor of thought in its purest or ideal form. I believe there are elements of logic, ethics, awarene...

I was thinking of a criminal. Who can have high situational-awareness and make complex plans. But is that sufficient to rationality?

This tracks with me. I was continuing my inter-evaluation with ethics (which I think is another top-level descriptor). What if ethics is just the proj...