Well, the humanities in general tend to be viewed as "less scientific" compared to the traditional scientific domains (physics,chemistry,biology) but ...
Yes, the whole problem of symbolicity really is the crux of the modern problem of thought I think. Not a simple problem either, there are so many diff...
The proposition that the individual exists is an ontological claim. And it depends on the perspective being taken. The individual cells in your body e...
Are you suggesting that there are different kinds of thinking? I never really thought about that before. Off the top of my head, however, I would beli...
Oh my goodness, I wouldn't say so, no. Writing is a unique capacity. You are actually kinaesthetically integrating with words, concepts and ideas, you...
This is a non-sequitur. Individual features are meaningful at an intra-systemic level certainly. Exactly. This is why Mead stipulates that, in order t...
Here is Mead's account of how mind and self are social emergents, and language provides the mechanism for their emergence. In order to express your id...
Yes, that is exactly what systems theoretic analysis does, establishes that systems of all types exist and behave according to predictive models. The ...
Habermas relies heavily on the categorical imperative in his theories on legitimation in discourse theory and deliberative democracy. Certainly he fee...
The usefulness of a theory certainly is a better indicator of truthfulness than of falsity. Whereas an utterly useless theory, if not false, is at lea...
The very idea that, just because metaphysics is 'beyond physics', it somehow implies that physics (science in general) is invalid or untrue is ludicro...
Not so. They are simply based on a systems-aware perspective. One which you reject in favour of your individual-centric perspective. Which is no less ...
Here, this is a pretty comprehensive article with lots of citations. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-013-0131-x I would never want to...
Distributed cognition has been studied extensively and experimentally. Hence it can be said to have empirical evidence. It is certainly a different pa...
Rather, this is entirely what is in question. I think we have reached the impasse of a basic difference in approach which your premise about concepts ...
If concepts arose as the result of the interaction of individuals A and B, then the concepts are a function of those two organic beings. Since concept...
Yes, read huge amounts of high-quality writings, and write every chance you get. If such is your aspiration, then lifelong/higher education sounds lik...
The premise that concepts arose through interaction is pretty fundamental. Think of the genealogy of the mind. Individuals did not evolve in a vacuum,...
You are proposing that truth requires the elimination of error in one's previous conceptions, including possibly presuppositions. That's a very solid ...
That is not a false premise, but an established scientific fact. Aggregates of human behaviours have been proven to be amenable to systems theoretical...
That is a complete mischaracterization. Scientism claims that scientific certainty is exclusively authoritative, even in domains that are beyond that ...
I've spent the last six months reading material which entirely contradicts your position. Mead, Parsons, Habermas. Of course, you are entitled to your...
It may indeed be a scientific term, nevertheless, the species is also the sum total of its organic constituent entities on the planet. And we are not ...
The species certainly not an abstraction. It is entirely concrete. And as the overall expression of cumulative genetics, arguably more concrete than t...
Ernst Cassirer, Language and Myth "In this study Cassirer analyzes the non-rational thought processes that go to make up culture. He demonstrates that...
The species includes the individual, the individual represents the species. Just think about what it would mean to build up a framework of communicati...
Check out Fritjof Capra's A Systems View of Life to see the scope of the model's applications in hard science. I'd start with Ervin Laszlo's Introduct...
The facts of evolution and civilization seem to support the position that we are social animals. The very idea of an individual entity abstracted from...
Exactly. Habermas' argument is that in a past-traditional, pluralistic society the weight of cognitive processing would be very high otherwise. So soc...
There can be disagreement between norms in the sense that there are differing normative positions. That makes dialog more difficult because people are...
I guess the best way to answer that is take the notion of "ontological truth" for example. Whatever conclusions that can be arrived at through special...
Habermas says that our communicative actions derive from a massively shared lifeworld (lebenswelt). This is a background set of assumptions so fundame...
Well, if god is not bound by morality then equally he is not bound by rationality. So if rationality is no longer the arbiter of meaning (because god ...
It sounds like you are drawing lines similar to those of Locke, between passive and active thought. Personally, I would describe all types of thought ...
The first premise is a veiled ontological assertion. Among all beings, there is some being which is the greatest being. That being is God. It doesn't ...
I would. But then I'm a strong subscriber to a systems theoretic interpretation of reality. From a systems theoretic perspective, even inanimate thing...
If you think we should get into the mechanics of thought, then I'd dive right into things like "passive volition", which is an advanced yogic concept....
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