Ciceronianus

Dammit, I thought this was going to be about the Haddaway song.

From what I know of Brassier, which I admit isn't much, he objects to what is called "speculative realism."

Baden will evidently be shutting us down, justly no doubt, and perhaps we can continue this elsewhere. But I think you're drawing a distinction--not m...

I would say as to any action that it takes place. So, walking isn't a state of existence; we walk, (talk, eat, draw) however. When we categorize we do...

Well, I wasn't claiming you suggested any form of biological alteration; just stating that we have certain physical characteristics which shouldn't be...

For good or ill, we can't disregard biology, and we do have characteristics which are peculiarly human relative to other creatures and things in the u...

I I doubt "irrespective" works here any more than it would as to any other category. I don't see this as a radical change, and think it's been coming ...

We categorize, certainly. So, we categorize yet again, and claim that what we are now is a separate category, different from others like the categorie...

What we are is a function of our existence as a part of, and interaction with, the rest of nature. There is no us outside of nature. What exists now i...

And risk being accused of patronizing? Don't judge me, by the way.

Remarkable. I recall something about 9 innocent bystanders being hit by an officer of the NYPD not long ago. Strange how law enforcement on TV and in ...

I doubt that an armed citizen has the ability to shoot accurately in a tense situation let alone in a fire fight. It's no easy thing to use a handgun ...

"Oh construction," actually. We can be nothing more according to the wise of our bleak times.

So, you assume Judith Butler self-identifies as female, and you characterize her as a woman, eh? You victimize her by failing to understand the restri...

I was so hoping that Peirce's How to Make our Ideas Clear might somehow be chosen, even though it wasn't included among the options, as a kind of dead...

What's not to like?

You seem to be stating that there is progress being made in addressing problems which have no satisfactory resolution. It just doesn't involve resolvi...

No robot could spot weld like I did back in the '70s. They were so astounded they switched me to spray-painting after a time. I suppose you'll say rob...

Being a lawyer, and getting old, has made me persnickety. Getting old has probably also made me fond of the word "persnickety." I use it as often as I...

Not the Founders, no. Although Washington fought in what we call the French and Indian War, that was some time before he became a Founder, and the fai...

Not Reagan. It was the first Roosevelt who started our grand march along the path of imperialism and into what Washington called "foreign entanglement...

Substitute "politicians" for "philosophers" and the statement might be true. But we must remember that Mr. Rubio has not merely the looks of a 14 year...

It's irrational to expect certainty, or require it. We get along quite well without it. It's when we think we need it that we begin making things up. ...

Point taken. But my impression is philosophy isn't primarily devoted to making us better thinkers through the consideration of unsolvable problems.

Mmmmmmmm. Horseradish. They make it themselves. It's served chilled, in a shot glass, with black bread and sliced pickles.

A great addition to The Great American City, the place of my birth, a town that will never let you down and which even Billy Sunday couldn't shut down...

Huh. The title of the thread first, I think. An armed society has been a very polite society. In those happy days when the code duello applied and gen...

For those it might benefit this essay, or rather the book in which it appears, Inquiries into Truth and Representation, is in Scribd. Perhaps if the e...

I hesitate to say anything about particle physics, but if "progress" includes an increase in knowledge and understanding of the subject matter of inqu...

You're quite right; there are philosophers who are addressing those problems now. I should have noted that. As for the more abstract, there is no prob...

"Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophe...

I feel bad about hijacking this thread, but in for a penny... Certain of the ancients and probably most of those living in the middle ages thought the...

A machete blade is normally less than two feet in length (I have two of them). It's what I like to call a very personal weapon, which is to say that t...

Well, I disagree, and think Heidegger's belief that we were once innocents relying on and relishing the providential bounty of nature is indicative of...

It's been some time since I read the Question concerning Technology as well. I just took a quick look at it again. I don't see how you get the impress...

Well, okay, but I think there's a difference between establishing there is no basis for great philosophical claims and making great philosophical clai...

No, by using the words "would never" and "even if he was" my intent was to indicate what I felt would have been likely had there been influence, not w...

You know, I've always felt Carnap was a logical positivist, a card-carrying member of the Vienna Circle. But perhaps I have a restricted idea of analy...

I'm slowly reading the following: Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin--Ostler Studies in Ancient Society--Finley, Ed. The Life and Riotous Times of H.L...

No, by saying "purported new insights" I mean insights thought to be wholly new, which are, in fact, not new. I have already said that I don't think D...

It certainly may be I'm simply unaware of those analytic philosophers who claim to have ascertained our fundamental nature, or that of the universe.

The only work by Schopenhauer I'm certain I read is The Wisdom of Life. I may have read other essays by him, but if so I've forgotten. If I did, it wa...

I don't know what you mean by "preempted." A more accurate word would probably be "anticipated." I doubt either directly influenced the other, though ...

The "destructive" part may derive from the political influence of nihilism, first in Russia in the 19th century and then elsewhere. Political nihilism...

I forgot about Essays in Experimental Logic. Dewey's essays are more readable than his longer works. Perhaps his writing style is responsible for the ...

I don't know what "innately impressive" means, not even when it is capitalized, nor do I know why it matters whether or not the universe has this char...

For those who may be interested, here's a link to an article discussing how Dewey anticipated (and I think effectively dealt with) many of the issues ...

@"jamalrob": I would say , Logic: The Theory of Inquiry, Studies in Logical Theory and Experience and Nature. Be warned, though; Dewey's a hard read. ...

@"jamalrob": The problem is the assumption that there is (must be) a location in which thinking takes place, isn't it? A location beyond, that is, the...

What fun! Currently, several herniated discs in my cervical spine. As far as I know, I still carry a stent in me from the heart attack I had a few yea...