My point was simply that the observer is bracketed out because it is methodologically impossible to incorporate the observer into the models which are...
Thanks for your thoughtful response, Moliere; while you haven't convinced me to read further into Derrida, I can relate to where you seem to be coming...
It is inevitable that money will be spent on such investigations. Sometimes there are beneficial spinoffs from scientific investigations. Personally, ...
If that is so, then provide a textual reference which unlike the one you did provide is not a mere apologetic, lacking any argument for why we should ...
Maybe there is more of focus now than thirty years ago...I don't really know. Maybe it's a category mistake to expect neuroscience to explain consciou...
Confusion all the way down...I like that! I'm not so keen on Rorty's relativism, or at least I think it only applies to the relatively minor moral val...
Why would you say that approach doesn't seem to be working? Are you just referring to neuroscience, or the whole of science? Neuroscience may not have...
Nice little article! I don't see any alternative for science than the Galilean approach. Bracketing out the conscious observer is analogous to, and th...
Right, I think it is obvious that reality, if we mean what is experienceable (which we should, since we cannot talk about what is not experienceable, ...
OK, I got the idea, but I want to know why and how they are philosophically important. If all he did was paraphrase Heidegger in even more obscure lan...
Yes, I've said as much myself, but that doesn't change the fact that the truth or falsity of the abstractive thought exemplified in propositional asse...
I meant not separate in any ontological sense. The prey and the predator are parts of the environment that only stand out in the sense of being notice...
The significance, as I see it, is that thinking in terms of number is, along with identity, an artificially exact mode of thought. Also, I think it is...
It has nothing to do with language except insofar as we use language to report. And I'm not talking about "relevant meanings" either. Find any complex...
As usual I don't know what Derrida is trying to say there (if in fact he is trying to say anything). Right, I already know that is your opinion. It's ...
Yes, that's another way of looking at it. But it remains true that when it is raining it is the sky or the cloud, if you like, that is raining. He is ...
Sure, language is ambiguous, and we can say that there is a certain quantity of tomatoes or a certain number of tomatoes. But the quantity of tomatoes...
:up: I'd say that people came to understand the principles of perspective and to explore image-making in accordance with these newfound principles, an...
" NUMBER IS DIFFERENT FROM QUANTITY This difference is basic for any sort of theorizing behavioral science, for any sort of imagining of what goes on ...
The postmodernist who best represents the obscurity I have in mind is Derrida; his idea of the endless deference of meaning I find unconvincing and hi...
Very few painters have the ability (or desire) to represent any subject with photographic precision. How much less able are the unskilled to do that? ...
Yes, but all the names of the apple are names of the apple, not of anything else. I don't think our language has a tenuous grasp on the shared world o...
:lol: Yes, death or injury I guess. But still there are countless truths that deal with the natural constraints of a physical world: I can't walk thro...
I agree, but the construction is based on the obvious commonality of human experience, which cannot be entirely explained by human construction. We ca...
Sure, but you are yet to even begin an argument for necessary truths as far as I can tell. In any case if you did present an argument, I would address...
Lawson seems to think that the way we divide the world up is somehow arbitrary and entirely dependent on us. I think that kind of postmodern thinking ...
How do you know that some truths are necessary? How do you know that logic is not "something of our own manufacture"? Is that an argument from authori...
As I read him, 'closure' means the assigning of identities, attributes and relations to things on the interpretive basis of inferential understanding....
We can assign, in the sense of feel, "truth value" in the affective. It has the sense of actuality, of truth in the sense of alethia or revealing (or ...
I haven't said we can't know anything about reality, I have said that the only reality we can be sure of knowing anything about is the human-shaped re...
Fair enough. I'll just add, in case of any misundertsnding, that I don't think it is due to convention that we agree as to what is real, even though t...
I was thinking of it as a question of justice taking it as a given that all political and economic policies should be useful to everyone, and dismissi...
A more useful question would be "useful for what?". For example, we all already know who capitalism is useful for; the salient question is whether it ...
I am pretty familiar with Husserl, Heidegger, some Merleau Ponty. I understand that Husserl brackets the question of the existence of an external worl...
Lawson is basically a pragmatist, as I read him. Truth can be defined as "what works best". Those who dislike uncertainty or ambiguity will not be sat...
I agree with this, but this revelation is commonplace; it is with us every instant of everyday experience, in that which exceeds our discursive unders...
Verbal discourse is its own unique form of discourse. There can be kinds of discourse in body language, in visual language or musical language. But it...
You'll need to back that assertion up with some argument or textual citations. In any case the term 'intersubjectivity' is not owned by phenomenology ...
I have no idea what you are referring to. The implications of our existential situation are a matter of interpretation as I see it. I see science as p...
I don't think everything is a convention, but I do think that everything we know is conventional. The reality we know is conventional, and yet I think...
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