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Marty

['Member']Joined: October 27, 2015 at 15:59Last active: December 30, 2023 at 02:018 discussions216 comments
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Philosopher interested in Phenomenology, German Idealism, and Christian Existentialism.

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Kierkegaard, Aristotle, Plato, Hegel, Schelling, Kant, McDowell, Brandom, Sellars and Mumford.

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“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation... Will replaces vision; temporality of the act outsts the eternity of the "good-in-itself"As the product of the indifferent, his being, too, must be indifferent. Then the facing of his morality would simply warrant the reaction "let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die." There is no point in caring for what has no sanction behind it in any creative intention.”
? Hans Jonas, The Phenomenon of Life: Toward a Philosophical Biology

Discussions (8)

KK Principle

May 28, 2018 at 16:36 14 comments Metaphysics & Epistemology

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A baker does all those things too! But bakers aren't philosophizing, nor philosophers.
January 09, 2022 at 16:51
So, let's say there is a motivation, but the motivation is constitutively built-in to the reason itself. There might be a contingent emotion associate...
January 09, 2022 at 16:35
An affect isn't the explanation for our action, just a consequence.
May 04, 2021 at 17:54
Where does it say that in the article?
May 04, 2021 at 17:53
I think another conclusion you can reach is that empirical evidence underdetermines our actions, and empirical evidence can never give us justificatio...
May 04, 2021 at 16:09
All it shows is that sometimes we use emotions to make judgements. That's not controverisal.
May 04, 2021 at 16:07
They are the tools for grounding. I don't understand why ideal relations/inferences need to be grounded, either. Presumably, if we make judgements, we...
May 04, 2021 at 16:03
Epistemic justification/explanations.
May 03, 2021 at 18:23
I don't think I'm quite following which part you've disagreed with.
May 03, 2021 at 16:28
I'm not sure what you mean by "determining the truth of this system." And why that has to be done after the fact. If I'm acting based on ethical reaso...
May 03, 2021 at 16:26
I'm not really sure how that article proves that all of our decisions require prior desires/ some prior disposition or emotive backing. I'm also appre...
May 03, 2021 at 16:19
Yeah, I'm not sure if people often just pretend to believe in stuff, but that they do believe in stuff that works in a very confused way. And no, I ha...
November 02, 2020 at 18:39
I'd have to say that maybe that's partially true. There's a sense of where logical positivism dropped away seemingly useless metaphysical language, bu...
October 28, 2020 at 02:05
I'm sympathetic to the idea, not sold, yeah. I think there's a sense of when one assumes an "outside-in look", then it seems very pointless as a whole...
October 28, 2020 at 02:01
Okay, take for example the debate between Idealism and Realism. I think it's highly confused. Nobody believes in the idea of a world completely made o...
October 27, 2020 at 23:56
It's not even a division between academia/non-academia. Just doing philosophy past asking ordinary existential questions and basic epistemics. Which i...
October 27, 2020 at 23:52
Well, if philosophy was pursuing wisdom, finding truth, and there's people that do it for thousands of years, wouldn't you see at least one sufficent ...
October 27, 2020 at 23:51
It's fine to call "philosophy" just asking question as long as you know that's not what it is anymore, nor how any philosophers now practice it. I tak...
October 27, 2020 at 16:48
But mereology is a philosophical inquiry for the last 2,500 years. People in philosophy attempt to answer questions like these all the time.
October 27, 2020 at 16:47
Well, I thought I addressed some of these concerns but I feel like these type of responses sorta don't get at my anxiety about these concerns that I r...
October 27, 2020 at 16:27
Maybe. But the point of this thread is to rid us of that anxiety. So for example, If I turn my hand into a fist, does a new object appear? Or is it th...
October 27, 2020 at 16:18
Yeah, so, saying, "saying philosophy is useless is philosophical" is, I think, missing the point.
October 26, 2020 at 23:13
What makes parsimony a metaphysical commitment that one ought to take? And there seems to be a lot of examples where the opposite it true: the parts a...
October 26, 2020 at 18:12
Yeah, but that's beside the point. But the problem is this doesn't usually occur. It rarely occurs, if ever, in philosophy. And the way to come to a c...
October 26, 2020 at 18:10
Also, if the result that we end up using just common sense. Isn't that just the entire point that's being made here?
October 26, 2020 at 17:51
I don't see that being the case? There's plenty of committed individuals who have come up with proofs for the existence of essences, substances, mereo...
October 26, 2020 at 17:48
But that doesn't seem to be the case because we're still debating the same questions two-thousand and five hundred years later. With more nuanced, sur...
October 26, 2020 at 17:41
I suppose the same way one can make Logic or Aesthetics "first philosophy"? Or the same way one can start a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle with this piece...
October 26, 2020 at 17:38
May I ask how can one make Ethics first philosophy? I never understood this view but I'm sympathetic to it. How do you argue against general objection...
July 02, 2020 at 17:37
But particular thing doing other particular things isn't saying anything more than "things happen". That doesn't have any explanatory power. Why does ...
March 30, 2020 at 21:39
But you changed the investigation I brought up. It's not that acorns will become oak trees, it's that all oak trees were acorns. Why? And what is the ...
March 28, 2020 at 17:25
Again: You got dynamism, conceptual content, said conceptual content constraints what the properties of any object is (through physical mutual incompa...
March 25, 2020 at 21:00
I don't understand.Just because you can change ends, or the potential can change, it doesn't mean that things aren't working dynamically towards ends....
March 25, 2020 at 20:50
Look, if there's conceptual content, if there's dynamic, interrelation, holism, if things are operating towards ends... What the hell is purpose if no...
March 22, 2020 at 03:13
No causal action is done in isolation. When we say phrases like, "This causes that" we're talking about relatively localized events, states which have...
March 22, 2020 at 01:16
Ah, okay. Well, when the artisan 'imparts' his concept onto the work of art, the art doesn't take on the inherent form of the artisan. All it does it ...
March 21, 2020 at 20:12
I'm not sure I see the difference. Unless you're suggesting the word "imparted" is an external relationship that does not pass down a form, but just e...
March 21, 2020 at 07:04
I think that's a reasonable concern. However, you don't have to isolate them, actually. You can see how identities (subjects, objects, processes, etc)...
March 21, 2020 at 07:00
The one I gave using Kant is pretty sufficent!
March 20, 2020 at 22:03
That would only be true for extrinsic teleology, not intrinsic. They don't "come" from anything. They are constitutive of the object/process/state of ...
March 20, 2020 at 18:56
I'm not sure if that's useful. That seems like a false dichotomy. Mechanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_(philosophy)
March 20, 2020 at 18:48
I don't see why using Google's definition is useful when addressing philosophical concepts. You think that Google is going to define mechanism in any ...
March 20, 2020 at 00:05
Extrinsic teleology is imparting a teleology through the intention of an artisan onto an artifact. It's direction is proportional to the concept that'...
March 19, 2020 at 21:25
Well, then, we're just equivocating on what a mechanism is. What's your definition of it? You don't need knowledge of an ultimate purpose in order to ...
March 19, 2020 at 21:18
I don't understand how ego-driven activity isn't teleological. And I don't understand how inferences are a mechanism. They are reason-giving, and driv...
March 18, 2020 at 01:14
I'm not quite sure if I follow how this is an argument against teleology. You seem to be saying there is an analogy between teleological explanations ...
March 17, 2020 at 04:01
I'm not sure if those are inferences as much as they are dispositional tendencies occurring in the brain. They are not strictly epistemic events, but ...
March 17, 2020 at 03:45
I can understand what it means to transfer momentum from one object to another, but I certainly don't see why most physical systems work this way — th...
March 13, 2020 at 05:08
If all teleological explanations occurred after-the-fact, then they should not be able to have predicative power to generate explanations of the futur...
March 12, 2020 at 15:43
But then the question gets pushed back: why do we have to say the theory of functionalism is non-teleological? Just because you have an input and outp...
March 12, 2020 at 15:31