Tom Storm

Some people might seem to play games but I suspect this is often our inability to understand their approach, or their inability to be clear. Humans ar...

I really like chicken liver with onion, a little cracked pepper, cream and some Marsala served on tagliatelle pasta. Fuckin' delicious.

I doubt anyone deliberately aims for their points to be misunderstood. But this doesn’t really approach philosophy until you explore how it is we can ...

Nice try.

Exactly. The serpent actually tells the truth in the story. As stories go, it's pretty flimsy one and from it I see no reason why humans should follow...

Welcome back @"T Clark"

Only do what you can manage, but I for one really value your contributions. You do a stellar job as an advocate for, and synthesizer of, the more inte...

Nice. I like the 'change in gestalt' frame here.

Never said he wasn't. My point is that times have changed, along with the stories we tell each other, and this causes many anxiety. I do not subscribe...

I've watched a number vids by Vervaeke and been aware of his work for a long time. I find him dull as dishwater. Whether he is adding anything useful ...

Some here seem to think of materialism, (better known now as physicalism or naturalism) as superficial and untenable nonsense. I don't hold a particul...

Your reading would certainly fit with the notion of apophatic silence. I wonder how @"joshs" would see this point in relation to a postmodern or pheno...

I tend to agree. Of course there is some interpretation involved in what counts as 'serious study' of a subject. It seems to me that most members here...

In theory a philosopher could be reinterpreted almost endlessly. Whether this be considered 'saved' by an appeal to misunderstanding may depend on one...

Yes, I made pretty much the same point.

And for soft-core pessimist like me, it inherently assumes we'll never know if the philosopher is right or wrong because we can't demonstrate that we'...

This point is interesting. Might it not be argued that until one has a robust reading of any writer it is not really possible to refute or acclaim the...

:up:

That's a good point.

I have no idea what this comment means in relation to what I wrote. I am not a fan of psychologizing the work of anyone, whether it is a philosopher o...

Just the tendency of some people (even biographers) to think they can explain a thinker's work based on their imagining of a writer's psychological st...

Barbara Eden (I Dream of Jeannie) is 92. I remember watching her reruns 50 years ago. They seemed old then.

I confess to not knowing or caring much about Wittgenstein's work. It's too arcane for me. I read the Monk biography when it came out and assumed W wa...

I would never assume we are in a position to know who the philosopher is as a person. All we have is a text and the text is a fecund vehicle for alter...

I think your view is amusing and it is hard to imagine that you are offering it as a serious solution. Sharing is not exactly popular. It is antitheti...

Do you have any land or do you live at home with your parents?

Unrealistic. Who is going to support that? Who is going to give up their land?

Sounds naive. What is sharing? Give me an example of how 'sharing' will be implemented and by whom and what problem it will address specifically?

No.

Too broad a question. One should consider too that all people do not see the same world, the same problems or anticipate the same solutions. Probably ...

I would have thought virtually anything can provide us with answers. We have too many of those. Humans will always find a way to derive answers from s...

It could be argued, based on their putative biographies, that the initial impulse towards their school of thought was entirely personal. Buddha's life...

Two different things - the former IMO being hard to achieve. I don't think so. I have encountered too many philosophical pessimists who don't care muc...

I wonder if it's worth separating empathy from sympathy or from compassion. A lot of people have sympathy for others but they don't quite arrive at em...

There are multiple reasons. One might be to have an encounter with the unfamiliar - to see what's out there and find out what others think. Another mi...

Hmm, the bigger question right now is why won’t my cat eat his usual brand? The metaphysics involved won’t reach help us here. ‘Reality’ is what most ...

Actually, I’m pretty sure that’s what my confrères would have argued. The quotidian is metaphysics. I would have thought metaphysics is unavoidable ev...

:pray:

But is that really the case? I spent much of my young life associated with the New Age movement as it was called back in the 1980's. Most of my friend...

Cool, thanks for the references. I was wondering what Sokolowski's status might be. I've dipped my toe into some Evan Thompson and Francisco Varela.

Fair enough. I like asking questions, they are not necessarily an indication of what I am thinking, or what I might know - more a desire to cover off ...

For me this quesion goes to the heart of philosophy - what ought we do? I personally see no connection between asking this and any desire to depart fr...

Fair enough. Don't some expression of phenomenology try to break down the mind/body problem with embodied cognition? I have a superficial understandin...

Yes, I keep overlooking this. Yes, I thought this might be the answer. I'm as fond of the ineffable as the next person. But is the benefit of using th...

Yes, that's what I have always assumed. I guess they are making a case that our understanding of the world is, in some sense, transcendental too - how...

It's an interesting frame. Outside the world? As you know, there are various understandings of transcendental. In Kant it seems to be those factors th...

I see how you are framing this. Interesting. But I'm not sure what the significance of this is, or where it gets us. No doubt it all depends upon how ...

je hebt mijn sympathie.

Fair enough. Sounds like philosophy. Do you have a definition or a simple, descriptive account of the 'transcendent'?

Correction. Many atheists actually don't deny the existence of gods. I am an atheist. I don't make a positive claim like that. Many contemporary athei...