Interesting. So you agree with that rather nuanced criticism of being dressed-up wu wei? or with the very common accusation (especially of those who h...
It does. The "water we swim" is exactly right -- it's right there around us at all times, and for just that reason is the last thing we notice. The me...
Well I still don't quite understand fully, but perhaps you're referencing his conception of "temporality," which doesn't view the future as "after" or...
Well you're in good company in that assessment. I'm not sure why you include Spinoza, however. Surely not the clearest writer either. Where? I didn't ...
Agreed. Dreyfus was an excellent teacher. I'd check out his Berkley lectures as well -- they're online (YouTube et al) for free. His Being-in-the-Worl...
But he made clear this is an existential analytic with the question of the meaning of being as an aim. So plenty will be left out of this, necessarily...
It's true that "care" and "concern" do have unintended connotations, although I wouldn't say he's misunderstanding the world. But I agree with you tha...
That's true, but remember that this is because he didn't publish anything else until much later. In any case, I only mentioned Being & Time because it...
I consider the "mind/body" dichotomy of Descartes a dualist substance ontology. The "res" is precisely that in Latin (or at least how it's often trans...
I think we can, metaphysically. The Cartesian ontology of "mind" and "nature" ("body" -- res extensa), while like I said is powerful and important, I ...
No doubt there's much truth in that. So you mean a kind of relation between "thinking" and "being," or more of a questioner in relation to what's ques...
:roll: Okay... Yes... Fair enough. Notice I said "more of a positivist" -- meaning more in alignment with that tradition, not necessarily encapsulated...
I haven't attempted to define being in general. But every particular being or class of beings "is," including language and norms. A pre-theoretical un...
And probably many whom we call "philosophers" today. I hope that's not true, but it may very well be. In school I encountered plenty of philosophy tea...
Right, because being isn't a being (an entity) at all. I don't. No, because I have no idea what "the Being" would mean, nor why it's capitalized. That...
Making a persuasive definition is an anti-philosophical vice? That's puzzling, if that's what you're saying. But as far as the first sentence goes -- ...
Well then please point them out -- I'm happy to learn. You mean as part of a faculty? Or in a university? Yes, I'm not part of any university faculty,...
I don't put their books under "natural philosophy," they do. If nothing else, is that not an interesting historical fact? Just take it as that alone. ...
I have heard you loud and clear. You've said repeatedly that mathematicization and experimentation are key features of at least modern science. I myse...
The "come on" was perhaps too colloquial, but what I meant there is that we cannot only appeal to intuition when attempting to formulate a technical n...
What Banno is presenting, if I had to pick a category, is similar to what's called "analytic philosophy," of which I imagine you're familiar. Personal...
Well I don't necessarily agree with that characterization, but I understand what you're getting at. Again I'd revert back to what I said before: appea...
I don't know why you say "baseless" -- it was speculation on what the world is made of based on at least some observation, experience, deduction. And ...
So I'm interested in what the moderators think of the following: This doesn't violate any forum guidelines? If you can ban people for not capitalizing...
True, but this is completely irrelevant. Well that's debatable too. Is logic a kind of philosophy? Many have tried to reduce mathematics, at least ari...
And the latter is what philosophers supposedly do? Science investigates domains of beings in nature -- physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology. Henc...
If "speculative philosophy" is making claims about the world that can be proven wrong, it's natural philosophy. Science engages in speculations all th...
So citing what "contemporary philosophers do" is a good argument against philosophy being ontological. Why? Who's to say they're doing philosophy anyt...
If I've made mistakes, you've certainly not demonstrated them in this discussion -- except perhaps writing "Aristarchus" instead of "Eratosthenes," wh...
Yes, because there is a difference: one is concerned with beings and beings as such, one is part of natural philosophy, namely the questioning, theore...
And this is not a good argument. It's not "archaic" because no one has described philosophy that way -- besides Heidegger, perhaps. Is the 20th centur...
How someone who treats the sociopath in office like a cult leader isn't embarrassed to make a joke like this isn't surprising. You don't see the irony...
But without quoting him. ;) Heidegger can be confusing, no doubt. A lot of the difficulty is the translation from German to English. But this is one c...
Yes, he is. His writings are not restricted to the history of science. I never quoted him. It appears "intuitively fairly clear," yes. That's not sayi...
I quoted Putnam because you asked for one, and seemingly never watched the video - which I said from the start was merely an introduction to the philo...
I agree wholeheartedly. That would be meaningless indeed. I think so to. They have similarities and differences. But like I've said before, a major di...
https://chomsky.info/201401__/ Chomsky is also a historian. There are others, and videos online as well. He discusses the mechanical philosophy of the...
They do initialize publicly. Rules get created or destroyed all the time based on experiences. The 3-second violation in basketball was created based ...
That doesn't make them a priori in origin at all. It simply means a human mind conceived them at one point. If we count any rule as a priori that huma...
Not until the late middle ages do you have experiments in medicine. Al-Baghdadi and others performed interesting studies in anatomy and physiology, al...
It can be, and there are examples. But there's no method to distinguish science. You haven't read any of them, I see. Chomsky is not talking about lin...
I'm not sure what "include" means here. I'm not saying the questions and problems of physics is "philosophical" work. As I said, they're different, bu...
I agree that human behavior is complex. Maybe it's helpful to state clearly what I'm not saying: I'm not saying the sciences don't exist. I'm not sayi...
Interesting. Reference please? By simply doing things in a different way. This sounds like a cop out, and indeed it is in a sense because it's an open...
This is meaningless without a context. We have memory - experience is what's happening right now, shaped in part by past experiences. You didn't say s...
Returning to the thread's main topic again, the proposal I put forth earlier was not mine, but Heidegger's. I wanted to gauge reaction to it. Other th...
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