By way of clarification, is it your view (based on the literature) that when we embrace a philosophical position, say physicalism - we tend to embrace...
I'm been immersed in his stuff too. I can't say if he is correct but he is compelling. His on line learning videos are a model of clarity and public e...
None of that resonates with me. I think humans are essentially clever animals who use words as tools to try to manage or control the environment. Ther...
Nicely put. I suspect this inadvertently summarises my position of not needing to disagree with those grand skeptics of grand narratives in philosophy...
I often wonder just how much of what we believe is arrived at through such personal processes - some ideas seem to neatly complement our existing aest...
I think I am dealing more in reason than history. Is it not the case that the focus of current discussions about the viability of physicalism is focus...
Like most people here, I am not a historian, scientist or philosopher. I was simply reflecting on the key issues which today separate the physicalist ...
Yep. I was only drawing attention to Rorty because he is often known as a decadent relativist and a symptom of academic abstraction. These matters of ...
Interestingly Richard Rorty said a similar thing to you back in 2000 (or thereabouts) the Left has lost its way and needs to reunite diverse marginali...
"Get some pork on your fork." Crass Australian advertising campaign designed to sell more dead pig... Or less pejorative, but equally coarse - "So, di...
Yes, I understand this too. And I have certainly watched this process with people going to jail who bring out a particular person to survive in there ...
Nice. Thank you. That blog post reminds me of how much I was aware of this kind of thing -"natural attitude" - as a child and how this was not necessa...
I'm not sure what we're looking inside of or why... it's curious how this matter seems to divide the members here down party lines. I'm still trying t...
Thanks. When I used to term 'transformative' I really just meant how potentially might a person's life changed in more quotidian terms, but your answe...
I'm not sure I recognize the problem. Do you think this experience of having several or multiple identities can also be experienced as coherent and pe...
It's often argued that the definition game is circular but I don't know if what you say is accurate. Things are not always recognizable or understanda...
How does this change, if at all, how we live our lives? As far back as the 1980's I recall my science teacher was saying that all of reality is inform...
Perhaps. Again, thank you. I'm aware of the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Dan Zahavi and the alleged split in traditions. Good thing is, ...
Thank you for the considered response. It does strike me that all this is being done by - as you put it - swapping words. I'm not sure those words are...
Your points remains opaque - the sentences are incomplete, seem to be constructed around some unstated presuppositions and do not argue a case with ev...
It demonstrates nothing. Looks more like a desperate move to find anything that can be used as evidence against the proposition that transgender is ju...
Not sure this unusual case from almost 50 years ago is much relevant to the current discussion. We can all cherry pick examples of shit going wrong. D...
Sounds like you are running some kind of back story with those cryptic references of pride. Why pride? Do you have some citations, or is this just som...
These are distractions and smears. If you are so obsessed with social justice, A4H, why not work at a homeless shelter or financially support a women'...
Phenomenology affirms that idealism is accurate? So phenomenology is a monist view which dissolves the dualistic fallacy of mind and body? How does ph...
Phenomenal consciousness and metacognition constitute the hard problem. There is something it is like to be you (or me) what is this? (And no, I'm not...
Isn't being aware of our ignorance the beginnings of wisdom (Socrates) and isn't ignorance quite different to being 'so, so dumb'? That latter seems a...
Nice example of transphobia. Interesting that you focus on a trip to the moon when the issue is entirely of terrestrial significance. The fact that Je...
If we are so stupid, how do you know this? With what mechanism can you establish the clever things we do not know but should? Does this imply you are ...
I think this covers off on the key points rather well. The trans people I know have had their lives transformed for the better - freedom, happiness, c...
It's an interesting one, isn't it? I think at this point in history there are a few key issues left to people who wish to find support for higher cons...
Person is just a word we use to describe a range of presentations. I call my cat a person. Stupid, I know, but it's merely a word - I don't live in th...
It's how they speak with each other. I doubt that they would say this in church or as an official position. I was referring to their dislike of Ratzin...
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