mcdoodle

I'm not sure how elaborate I can be. I wrote a paper about mood earlier in the year (I was doing a graduate diploma) so I read a fair amount about tha...

This is all very anti-metaphysical. Maybe that's where one ends up but I think it would be fairer to Heidegger, and to Tim, who is asking metaphysical...

'Honesty' is interesting, MacIntyre for instance sets much store by it as a virtue, and its virtue is not something I understand. My equivalent moment...

When me and my ex split up and I moved to this smaller place 11 years ago, the hardest thing to decide was what to do with all the books. How do you d...

Hate speech is about groups, surely? The hater singles out people by a mean epithet for their group. They are usually hoping to foster prejudice again...

Cracker has been going since the late 18th century.

Excuse me butting in. There is on Heidegger's view in this essay a clear set of relations between being and language: His language often becomes tortu...

I always attribute the notion that 'Not bad' is my highest accolade to inbuilt dour Yorkshireness :)

By an amazing coincidence (!) this relates to work I did on 'mood' last year. I partlyused the work of Edward Tronick (E Z Tronick in the academic wor...

I am game to talk about it. :) Per LInell, whom I mentioned earlier, talks about the inter-world. In his online 'dialogical notebook' which you can fi...

There do seem to be initiatives in north America. Like this one: http://www.dialogicpractice.net

Shame on you :)

Pardon me, I'm about to plunge back into the academic fray so I'm thinking that way :)

Posty, glad to see I've returned from holiday and you're still about. I regard the idea is not so much anti-psychiatry as taking a step back to ask wh...

Un, I am very interested in this from the philosophical perspective. The philosopher you quote briefly, Christian de Quincey, seems since to have wand...

On the wiseass front...it's always struck me as surprising that the classic example (who first cited it?) is 'billiard balls'. This places the entire ...

Sorry to hear that Posty, take care of yourself. Keep reading the Wittgenstein.

It's true, I would need to go back to square one with individualistic game theory, to criticise its relevance to another discipline. I just thought qu...

The Wittgenstein line is that the meaning of *words* is mostly their use. Propositions are a different kettle of fish, surely. A future-contingent pro...

But what then do we do with what's left over? There will always be some surplus of meaning left behind in ordinary language which logic hasn't capture...

It's a couple of years on. And McDoodle did get his distinction! My view now is: the ordinary logical form does not and cannot accurately reproduce th...

Thanks, good paper.

I've got to tell you, debating things on a philosophy forum is not, in my view, going to help these stated objectives. You may need a better strategy....

I have a similar reaction to Hanover but from a different angle: that the tag-example is oddly individualistic. It would only start applying to politi...

I feel Monty Python should re-form specifically to answer this question: What did the Enlightenment ever do for us? - OK, apart from inaugurating mass...

'Not in any rational scheme of perception.' There, it ll makes sense now, right?

It surprised me that I felt personally offended by your posts, Mariner. I felt peripherally touched by the Arena bombing because I passed through Vict...

I ink, therefore I am.

I think there is a third option, consequentialism, that one should take account of outcomes, besides virtue ethics and deontic or rule-based notions. ...

Well, what do you mean by 'an "ought" of sorts'? That's the question. I still want to emphasize that I'm reporting a view of the ancients which was sp...

I was just trying to be pedantic about the source in ancient Greek, not express an opinion of my own. It's commonly accepted that the ancient world di...

I'd have said I was flaunting it, buddie.

I think these are two separate questions. 'Motivation' is a word we use for reasons we ascribe for our behaviour. 'Why we do what we do' is best answe...

There's no necessary relationship between (not) forming bonds and getting ahead in life. If you pursue your education and fail to make bonds in the pr...

I think your 'ought to' isn't right, but otherwise, yes. It is for Aristotle the nature of humanity to pursue eudaimonia, flourishing, and the route t...

Well, my memory of Cowie's stuff is he too was grappling with a similar distinction. For him, in trying to re-imagine emotion to talk computer languag...

I suggest a bracing read of Peter Singer, who will be stringent about your ethics, while playing some favourite tracks through headphones.

I have only been studying philosophy in my 60's. I think following your nose is quite a good way to get going. I started that way, then I went to coll...

My Wittgensteinian claim is that 'it's raining' and 'it isn't raining' do not exhaust the possibilities. I live in the Pennines, where yesterday it wa...

I notice you smuggled in this awful confession without fanfare. :)

Well, I think a more complicated model like the one praxis quotes for 'affect' is clearly better than a simple positive/negative one. But such models ...

I did a lot of reading about emotions earlier in the year. I was particularly struck by work done by Roddy Cowie et al for the HUMAINE project - tryin...

Well, as I said, I just don't see emotions this way, I think they are too complex to be divided into positive and non-positive. You state these ideas ...

OK. Personally I find this division between positive and negative emotions hopelessly simplistic. It's handy when psychologists want to do some counti...

Could you unravel the negatives in this sentence? I don't understand it.

The approaches you don't appear to be exploring are (a) virtue ethics, a process of learning good action grounded in the interplay between your reason...

Yes. I remember it as deeply creepy :)

My caveat to this would be that much reputable social science understands this in advance and the researcher(s) outline their biasses upfront. You can...

My brother, the Richard Dawkins style ultra-rationalist of the family (I am the woffly Green), nevertheless has insisted, gazing into his blind spot, ...

I don't think this is established as a fact. Do you have a mainstream news source that accepts the timing cited in your conspiracy theorists' blog? It...