Social philosophy is, ab initio, aware that by being professional it, in an important sense, artificially disconnects itself from its true subject mat...
Yes, this is exactly the sense in which I started the thread. The products of the actual reductive enterprise are valuable, as this can in one sense b...
I think there is an entire spectrum activities that are incumbent on the human race collectively and individually also. So perhaps not every person in...
This is a pretty complex question. Habermas, for example, sees over specialization as one of the main causes of alienation in modernity. No doubt, we ...
Pfhorrest, there is no intertheoretic reduction of chemistry to physics. What really interests me is how a geometric construct called the amplituhedro...
That seems highly hypothetical to me. Like angels on the head of a pin hypothetical. I would say the syngeristic-holistic fact of reality transcends s...
I think that's the whole point is that we couldn't just do that. That's the essence of system-emergent properties. As systems co-evolve, new types of ...
Analysis and reductionism are not the same thing. You can analyze anything into its components. It only becomes reductive when you assume that every p...
having the "capacity to act" is the same thing as having the "capacity to initiate an action" to be more precise. So if you can "initiate" an action t...
I think the whole "non-issue" started with the rapid advent and hegemony of science qua mechanism. I think the concepts of "mechanism" and "progress" ...
Here's what I don't get about this type of argument. The very definition, "having the capacity to act" is equivalent to "initiating an action" i.e. au...
Very interesting. I read Derrida and Wittgenstein 25 years ago, and did not like either. I think I lacked sufficient context to really understand them...
Yes, this is becoming pretty much universally appreciated I think. The law of conservation seems to be the one universal constant, and it is uncomplic...
Yes, that is a pet peeve of mine also. "Planet" is a descriptive category, but it is also an historical one. Scientists can be somewhat...overzealous ...
Yes, I agree, it is almost as if a big part of the battle is internal. If I didn't know better, I'd swear it was the 'little ego' trying to stave off ...
I like Popper's three world approach. He describes concepts (social constructs) as constituting their own unique realm (world 3) and quite successfull...
Observations? It's intended to be more of a synthesizing exercise, bringing some concepts and points of view together, in the context of my own unders...
Sorry Pfhorrest, I don't understand the point? I'm not saying that reductionism qua analysis is invalid. I'm saying that concluding that there is noth...
Well, everything you wrote surely hinges on this one assumption. I have to ask, do you think this is really the only possible relationship that is pos...
Yes, what Marchesk said. :up: The line between a reductionist approach and a non-reductionist approach is pretty clear, and I don't want to get bogged...
Many thanks! I have been a strong believer in embedded cognition since the Varela, Thompson, Rosch book The Embodied Mind. I found it interesting rece...
Absolutely. The science of sociology has evolved more or less self-consciously to fill this niche, which is what I'm focusing on now. Since the winter...
Lol! Dilthey is pretty thick. Like a quagmire, but if you get enough underneath you, it is solid enough to stand on. I bought the three volume set abo...
Yes, I am in this particular case focusing on the eliminative/deterministic aspect because of the connection to will and freedom. But I feel the argum...
Yes, I have read 3 volumes of the works of Dilthey, who is one of the great historians of ideas. I think that the history of the idea of consciousness...
Yes, that is what Popper would call the positive products of a faulty metaphysical research program. Reductionism/determinism proves that there is an ...
A human being's autonomy always occurs within a context which is potentially open-ended. An automaton always operates within some well-defined context...
I think there is an often overlooked sense of will as restraining or opposing desire. Will as self-control. I think the whole notion of appending "fre...
But don't conflate this reductive tendency with the critical activity itself, they are not the same. So your criticism of critical objectivity applies...
I wonder if the experience of thought can be reduced to purely symbolic form? The human experience of consciousness is the product of an instrumental ...
Huxley wrote a book called "The Island" about the doomed utopia of Pala, a technologically limited but socially advanced society. Mushrooms played a k...
:up: I just thought I would share. I find that the works of great thinkers are invariably sprinkled with aphoristic gems that are like little bubbles ...
What an awful lot of commentary on poor old "communism". I'm sure everyone is aware this is an umbrella term, which covers an awful lot of ideological...
Yes, "cognitive empathy" is the ability to take the perspective of the other and it is germane to personality development in sociation. edit. However ...
I'd call this romanticizing rudeness. As soon as expletives and insults make an appearance reasonable discussion has ended and a reasonable party woul...
Actually I don't think this is true. Objectivity is definitionally and conceptually linked dyadically with subjectivity. A thing is objective if it is...
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