Constance

Look at phenomenology as a presuppositional analysis, and just that, of what we experience in the usual way. I certainly won't bore you with what they...

I would never argue against such a thing. Never crossed my mind to even try. But the issue of ineffability is not about how air tight language's hold ...

But this goes to the point, which is that ineffability is defined in such a way that the foundational issues of our existence are rendered nonsense, e...

Didn't mean to provoke. I though everyone knew analytic philosophy went nowhere. Private realms of deep insight? Well, are you saying private realms h...

But this just puts the burden on the term "objectify". I prefer to say one faces something, and this something is more or less closed or open as to wh...

Just a thought: There is in place a structural problem, which is that you can never get the bottom of what time is since time is presupposed by the "g...

Interesting: See how Eugene fink takes Husserl's reduction down to the Kantian cutting edge, where the occurrent experience is at the threshold of its...

Just to note: Is language so inhibitive? If God were actually God, and this was intimated to you in some powerful intimation of eternity and rapture t...

But then, phenomenologists had a lot to say. One cannot say the presence of the world, but what does this mean? One doesn't speak in this way about an...

It is not an historical claim and cares nothing for historical consistency. Philosophy isn't the history of philosophy any more than empirical science...

But it is this "good reasons" attitude that stands in the way of acknowledging something important, that the move toward an analysis of language and t...

It's too long, I know. If you have time: Think of it reductively: it is not about what cannot be said, but about what has to be removed from thought t...

I disagree. there is only one issue, but this plays out in complicated ways, and I am of the evolving opinion that these are pragmatic in their nature...

The idea of appearances all the way down is completely absurd. The essential task that philosophy brings one to is not the drawing of a line between a...

No, it's not crazy at all at this level of analysis. Nobody, from Kant through Derrida says so. But as a way to describe the foundation for knowledge ...

You comments on Kant are unclear. Cognitive openness? Background of intelligibility? Both of these could be affirmed in the CPR. But you have somethin...

The scientific method insists on standards of confirmation that are not arbitrary. A "feeling" that something is the case as it is taken up by Strawso...

For me the telos rests with what I see as simply without doubt, the most salient part of our existence, which is value. I've said it before, but it al...

So I've read it, and as I knew, because I have read enough analytic philosophy to know, it was nearly altogether empty of content. These philosophers ...

I have strawson' paper here. Give me a bit to read it.

Not clear as to why the notion of teleology helps this here. I mean, to me, it makes the matter complicated, as if now one has to reconcile the world ...

My uncle is not an abstract system, granted. This here is meant to test the plausibility of a physicalist/materialist ontology. You have to take a rad...

Compatible, but like knitting is compatible with geology; consistent, no contradictions arise, but simply because they are talking about different thi...

Absolutely not! I, for one, don't come to this forum for conservation. I come to explain and argue, and in the process, I clarify what I think, to mys...

You should have led with that.

Actually Benj96, the whole matter would rest with how willing you would be to go into this. Time, that is. Science and philosophy are completely diffe...

When I take a hard, close look at the world, the first thing I encounter is myself. And when I reduce this encounter to its pure apprehension, dismiss...

But benj96, that is an answer a scientist would give. How about a philosophical approach?

But if causality needs a context, so does time. Of course, physics. But when a physicist talks about causality or time, their observations look to the...

Yes, it is. The matter calls for a very different conception of what a brain is, what anything is, and what conscious events are, and this is not goin...

But are you reading what I wrote? the assumption of a physicalist conception of the world as foundational provides NO epistemic extension so that othe...

I agree; although I would argue about the egoic delusions. I mean, that gets complicated as to the self being so disposable.

The objection is not to say this is wrong, but that there is a deeper level of analysis that takes up the assumptions of what you say, the presupposit...

The tonnage of human suffering keeps me awake. I make a lousy Ubermensch.

I claim that the whole system of understanding is based on a lie, to put it dramatically. I am not arguing from the perspective of a categorical conte...

I knew a philosopher once whose least favorite word was 'intuition', because people take this to mean some kind of non propositional knowledge, a yiel...

I don't think language is historically more fundamental than culture, but is it even analytically more fundamental? For the analysis of a particle of ...

Well put, I think. And, in the nostalgia, it is no longer recollection, for the experience itself is occurrent. As I remember, as Wordsworth put it, c...

But I want to point out that it is not that internal, external, real and the rest are obviated by the subsuming internal events of the brain that proc...

Consider that there is impossible to talk about the relationship between an agency of perception and that which is perceived, not simply because it is...

I don't have an Uncle Sidney, so put your concerns to rest. Yes, I understand. But the world is not mathematics, is it? The dropping off place for you...

?? Well, it is a rather flippant pov to say this. It is your problem because it is a philosophical problem, and this is a philosophy club.

But none are suitable to the issue at hand. Very helpful, but they miss the mark. Sorry for the long response, but you asked a big question, and I'm n...

But my being me has nothing to do with it. The matter presented as an objective and arguable problem. I mean, if you really think my uncle is unproble...

As I do your insightful thoughts.

But it wasn't overlooked. Saying something is an electrical impulse itself is subject to the same issue being raised, so the question is clearly begge...

But how do you escape the final description of all you say above being brain events only, even, and this is important, the reference to something bein...

Yes, as I see it, this is poignantly true. So then, how do I establish a reasonable idea that can make Sidney a person, apart from me, over there, and...

Rorty put it nicely: How is it that my relation (my brain's) to my uncle any different from a dented car fender and the offending guard rail? The qual...

I find that fascinating. My daughter is an illustrator and she had this morbid curiosity about working in a mortuary, a kind of "goth" obsession of a ...