I'd prefer not to, because I think that while brief, Chapter 2 is dense to the point of impenetrability, and especially its last long paragraph is alm...
I never thought about this before, but it may be a bleeding of the style of German theology into mainstream philosophy. I haven't read enough of it to...
No. People point to Kant, but Kant to me is like Husserl – overly academic and self-conscious about rigor. To read Kant and Husserl, you just need to ...
Yeah, I hate Heidegger's style, but the 'continental' way of writing is ultimately Hegel's fault. It just becomes ubiquitous following Heidegger. One ...
Fo the record, Nausea is a hilarious book that deserves a read. Lines like the one in the OP aren't at all uncommon. I pretty much agree with the sent...
There are formal accounts of subjective truth being developed by Peter Lasersohn, John MacFarlane, Mark Richard, and Max Kölbel out there. I think the...
No, I haven't. I don't really have a strong background in literature so he's a little intimidating to me. It could be, but then people who write both ...
I'm a bit of a semanticist, and my take on truth is the following, not representative of anyone else's. Truth and falsity are just values distinct fro...
A Socratic question is appropriately penetrating, not something about a factum. A writer can objectify and aestheticize a certain theme without being ...
I'm not sure. But one of the things philosophy gives a person, in my view, is the ability to continue a Socratic conversation up to a certain number o...
If analytical philosophy is a genre of poetry, I don't think the people practicing it are necessarily worse-off. There's a banality to writing that ha...
Some scholars have argued this, but I don't think there's any textual evidence for it. If you want to go that way, that's a possibility, but I don't t...
This rhetorical move is a little weird in that you have introduced the term 'immediate' and then demanded of me what to make of it. But I don't know, ...
He comes back to it later I think. Anyway this is kind of neat, it's like a big word puzzle. You have to stare at the sentences for a long time and fi...
We will probably talk about the in the group, but a large part of the project here seems to assume that if 'indication' were ineliminable from express...
I wouldn't know – but I'm having a very hard time reconstructing the points being made. Chapter 2 feels like a chunk is missing. He says some things, ...
Ideas is mind-blowing. Husserl comes off as a self-conscious, almost constipated writer, and so has the bizarre distinction of conveying almost mystic...
Aristippus, Arete, Theo the Atheist, Hegesias, and so on, all provide evocative portraits of ancient sages, who each had their reported virtues and bi...
If we see philosophy as ironic in the Socratic sense, then we only adopt the assumptions we need to on the terms the debate requires. Philosophy is a ...
Not at all. I think actually that any amount of planning is technically consistent with the position, because any action is consistent with any positi...
I thought we could just pick an arbitrary day to start each week, and then spend the week discussing the chapter. So yeah, we could just say that each...
I've thought a lot about this, and I think these meta-philosophical questions are important. While this is not contained anywhere in the ancient evide...
Having read both through the introduction and the first chapter, I think it would be prudent to start with the first chapter instead. The intro is ver...
Okay, it looks like the introduction deserves a separate discussion. With that said, are people okay with a ~2 month span, about a week per section? I...
I think the connection is that the logical empiricism advocated by Russell and Ayer saw all ordinary things as logical constructions (out of sense dat...
Not at all. Part of what makes something mysterious is that the mechanism behind it is not know, and so there are infinite ways, not one, for somethin...
But I haven't said anything of the sort. I've given my reasons for believing what I believe in detail. I don't see your characterization of the way th...
I think the ethic of explanation is interesting. There is a tendency for a certain kind of mind to become upset, even enraged, at the idea that there ...
But I've never claimed it wasn't a 'production,' whatever that might mean. My claim was simply that people are separated in such a way as not to brook...
Okay, let's go ahead with the Derrida, 'Voice' translation preferred. Let's give a little time for everyone interested to get their hands on a copy. I...
Solipsism in this empirical form (as opposed to the Ayer/Wittgenstein transcendental form), if you like, just the admission that not all things are am...
Again, only if you assume the only way to be self-conscious is through introspection, of oneself as transcendent object. I think the lack of escape fo...
This is a good way of putting it, and I'll add to the criticism above about a feeling-based account being incapable of thought: it's only passions tha...
Do you equate there coming to be a self-other distinction with someone realizing there is such a distinction? Because the argument doesn't make sense ...
To clarify, the slide from introspection to self-consciousness in the OP, while fallacious, is not accidental in that it is the only model of self-con...
I realize this, but thank you for admitting it. Generally speaking there are a number of pairs of checkboxes that you have to check one side of to be ...
It haunts our discussions mainly as something to accuse one's opponent of, in order to seem less like someone who would disagree with the sort of line...
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