Constance

But Wittgenstein would never put it like this. The world-in-itself? This is Husserl talk. Tractatus-Witt would say this is just nonsense. The world is...

But then, God IS ethics, an embodiment of ethical indeterminacy. That is, at the end of inquiry regarding what ethics is about and the search for just...

It's forward looking process of programmed responses. If......then..... is essential the structure. This reflects the basic structure of experience it...

Pull back from this, whatever it means. All things that are known to be can be analyzed as known in a knowledge relation. This relation bears analysis...

I believe that would be the algorithm.

All knowledge relations

Philosophy discusses the presuppositions of knowledge relationships. No object, then nothing to discuss.

I am not saying philosophy is a science. But consider taht language itself is an application of the "scientific method", the hypothetical deductive me...

The aim of the Meditations is a complete reforming of philosophy into a science grounded on an absolute foundation. That Implies for Descartes a corre...

Granted. But it can be argued that all of the elaborations and elucidations in philosophy are far more determinatively based that literature. The latt...

Not perfect systematizing of our affairs, but perfect happiness. The former is an entanglement, and the confusion take place in thinking the logical g...

Just two things. One is that lack of signified. The self effaced signified is meaning self deconstructed. That is, deconstruction is self deconstructi...

Just the obvious point that one tells the different between experiences according to their, well, differences. Clear as a bell; so clear one wonders w...

Not a new era of nuts and bolts metaphysics. Religion is philosophy's new task. Popular religion did not survive the Enlightenment (as we witness its ...

That was perhaps off putting what I said, but philosophy is not going anywhere ELSE as I see it. As you would have it, it would devolve into the "phil...

Literature is an evolving concept. It reflects the issues that arise and complicate our lives, and it has in this "relevance" and moves with the times...

That is a lovely obituary.

I think you have your finger on something here. How do we know that all knowledge experiences are hermeneutical if the same hermeneutics applies to it...

Thanks, I'll read it this weekend, perhaps.

How do you distinguish the influence between the good feels in general? One simply does. Keep in mind that hypoxia is a term that belongs to pathology...

Yes, that sounds right. But he followed Dewey, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Kuhn, and Derrida and on the other side of the fence there was Davidson and ot...

Derisive comments about Kant, and adoring ones about Peirce, et al, but then Peirce did have his "long run" views). But the traditional pragmatists ar...

No really. Ask yourself, what is a pragmatist's ontology? Why pragmatism, of course. Truth is "made" not discovered. Surely you don't think Rorty is a...

Who knows. I don't see the promise, though. There is only one true "undiscovered country" and this lies with revealed philosophy, with revealed phenom...

And you remain mundane, as always.

Christians are the MOST compromised in their clarity of thought. You might as well ask a child. Christians are my pet peeve because they think dogmati...

Just to say, I know you are not fond of postmodern thinkers, but your recognition of this redundancy is the kind of thing that puts language itself on...

Talking out of your hat. Dissing Kant, then saying nothing at all about this. You know, the pragmatists are all closet phenomenologists, if you give p...

Take my cat: The term 'cat' is arbitrary: you know, the noise we make and the knowledge we have of those furry living things never gives us something ...

If I take you correctly, since there is no interpretative standard that can stand as a center to deny one over ay other perspective, then each perspec...

Take pragmatism, the Dewey, Peirce, James, and then Rorty. Take Rorty: a thoroughgoing naturalist, like Dewey (like Quine), in many cases. But behind ...

It is a reflection of an intuition. Take causality, a very strong sense that something cannot be a spontaneous event. The strongest I can think of, th...

That is the fallacy of scientism. Making systematic guesses is science's job. But philosophy's "guesses" are thematically different. Not to ruffle fea...

I mean that the insistence of ideas like, one cannot conceive of a thoughtless world, retain all of their authority.

"Not that ‘before’ we came along that it didn’t exist" "IT"??? This is the problem.

Perhaps not so useless; after all, it is not something to be measured by how it looks in the dress, the posture and behavior, and so on.

Well, the broader context is philosophy's world: pull away from mundane affairs and ask more fundamental questions, like what does it mean to know som...

But this line of thinking simply denies that there is anything "there" in some emphatic, irresistible way. I may not know what things are, but THAT th...

Really? Tumbling down? As I understand it, the picture theory of language was abandoned, but the insistence of logicality was not. For me, no one has ...

I would agree if it just wasn't for that pesky absence of -perspective that is at the center of the issue here. The whole idea is to imagine the world...

Well, not hostile, just in disagreement. Witt writes: Thus the aim of the book is to draw a limit to thought, or rather—not to thought, but to the exp...

It's is just an argument from nonsense. To talk about perspectivelessness is nonsense.

Bad metaphysics is metaphysics that has no grounding in analysis of experience. Talk about God as omniscient, omnipotent and so on--one asks, for evid...

The idea of a blind spot implies that we re blind to something, something there that we cannot "see". If it is conceived as a metaphor, then it has to...

Yeah, but I think you know where this goes: In order for the "without any perspective" to make any sense at all, the concept of perspective has to mak...

You are right, and I hadn't read it all the way. So now I've read it, and I do appreciate the direction it takes. But my views on this run rather radi...

Frankly, consciousness is not the hard problem, as I see it. It is the one thing IN consciousness (all things are, no?) that is worse then hard; impos...

Teetering on the edge of phenomenology. Science cannot be the "measure of man/woman" because it is an abstraction that merely quantifies the world, an...

But of course, all there is, is blind spot, for positing what is not blind would issue from what is blind. In the Blind Spot sits experience: the shee...

True metaphysics is an idea established by OUR deficit. Take away the deficit, then there is no metaphysics, nor physics. To think of an "absolute" me...