That you can chose to focus on doing something, or make a decision to do it, does not mean you always focus or always make a decision (you don't "inte...
You're right; and that was churlish. I was going to delete it. My point is that philosophy imagines that consciousness is a thing in order to make our...
I'm not talking about you being sure that you exist (though being self-aware is a pretty low bar to say you're not a sheep, or a puppet, or a dupe, or...
I understand that we may assess when and whether or how well someone has done something, but it's just that we do not make anything explicit before we...
I never did get into that one. I hate to say I read a book about a book, but Stanley Cavell was a student of Austin's, and, in his second chapter of "...
I think I get this, and, yes, the idea of "reality" is also a quality attributed to the world to give it certainty--facts correlate to reality, words ...
quoting Bransom I agree that we may be assessed on our execution of, say, our apology. My only concern is imagining that everything happens before we ...
I can understand seeing it that way. Wittgenstein is better at keeping open the question of why skepticism continues to appear. And, yes, Austin can s...
I understand that we want to hold someone to what they say, to have them answer for it, make it intelligible to us. But what if one way they did that ...
It's actually Wittgenstein, but the claim is made on the evidence of the things we say when we discuss these things: knowledge, intention, meaning, ex...
I agree that responsibility (responsiveness) is the key to understanding this issue in a new sense. Instead of knowing ahead of time the, say, process...
@"Fooloso4"@"Nickolasgaspar"@"green flag"@"fdrake"@"RogueAI"@"Benj96" I will try to help with the philosophy though I am late to the game. In an attem...
I find Emerson inspiring, though it can be hard to make out how he is doing analytical philosophy (following Kant and Descartes and Socrates). Nietzsc...
When Socrates, in the Pheado, says philosophers "practice death", he meant that, as death releases the "soul" from the body, so do philosophers releas...
Not sure who you are responding to, but, for my part, the whole exercise of looking at mistakes is to see that we judge them based on what act was bei...
My point (well, Austin's) before was that we have to be clear about the circumstances and describe them accordingly; a mistake is different than an ac...
J.L. Austin has an essay called "A Plea for Excuses". It is actually about morality, looking at how a normal act gets screwed up, to see how we make a...
I think I was trying to say the same thing. What I meant was that, yes, we have singular experiences but there is nothing that ensures our individuali...
I'll try this one more time. Dismissing someone out of hand is doing you no favors in being able to learn anything new, and no one wants to respond to...
Sorry, I didn't make clear that the "special" I am arguing against is not being distinguished, more intelligent, unequal in social or economic positio...
Yes, the claim of the skeptic is about the entire human condition. Finding a logical inconsistency in what you take their claim to mean is not to dism...
Yes, we cannot be factually certain of others and the world (except math, though that only makes the desire worse) and that the results of solipsism c...
The way this would work is that you ask a question about which part or parts you don't understand, or, even better, you take a stab at echoing or para...
What I’m telling you is, yes, what leads to the conclusion of solipsism is true about our human condition. But having certainty that others exist, kno...
You’re just reading the wrong works. I appreciate the effort in reading the Cavell. Where did you stop understanding it? If you can work to formulate ...
In saying the skeptic and the other are not in the skeptic's world together, is to say that the skeptic does not know whether the other is them (the s...
The only way out is through. If you read that one and don't get anything meaningful from it, I'll eat my hat. Plus, you haven't commented on any of my...
Yes but that desire is what allows the skeptic to see the truth that we do not have foundational, unreproachable knowledge of others and the world—tha...
Not to drag @"Judaka" into this, but solipsism is not a better, more powerful position; it is seen as the the only available position, but a powerless...
They aren't. Lack of justification by knowledge; not being sure--having doubt. Now if we want to say "unless there is something to doubt..." it is not...
I can answer any questions about the posts I have made, but probably the most helpful might be reading the attached essay of Cavell's where he dissect...
These are two different senses of certain. I am convinced or sure that I can not have absolute irrefutable knowledge. More to the point though, it is ...
If we dictate the terms on which we accept anything, it's easy to dismiss everything. But at the basis of skepticism (leading to solipsism) is the tru...
Solipsism, born from skepticism, is not ridiculous, or just illogical, or wrong. Cavell (through Wittgenstein) shows that there is something that the ...
I can understand as someone whom philosophy changed dramatically. I was searching for what had or made meaning, and ran straight into Plato and Descar...
Gould spoke where I went to school at Willamette about rapid evolutionary changes. When someone asked about creationism, he started yelling at them (a...
I would go one further and say that we have knowledge when we meet the criteria for someone to say we have the knowledge (criteria as the term is used...
I agree. Though philosophy obviously has made contributions in: say, starting science, creating the model for psychotherapy, etc., I would argue that ...
I take philosophy as a process, more akin to psychotherapy than science or pragmatism or teleology--examining hidden implications, uncovering framewor...
When I say (perhaps too flippantly) that Kant "erased us", I was referring to his pre-requirement for logical necessity and predetermination which for...
I think philosophy is about texts, or discussions, and so not limited to a position or theory or topic, but I think I see what you are wondering about...
The fundamental example that philosophy provides is the betterment of the self. Socrates' questions were to learn about, say, the good, but the reason...
Without getting clear about any antithetical claim (or what criteria are being used to judge), let's take the definite position: meaning is a property...
. In reading the Phenomonolgy of Spirit, I understood his discussions of topical situations to be created as examples, to illustrate our tendency to w...
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