Time and Harman
As I mentioned I’ve not had time to respond to Levi’s post on OOP and pragmatism beyond a few brief comments. I hope to finish that up tonight. I’ve just been really busy again. I did want to respond to Graham’s latest post though. He wrote: On the other hand there are people who claim [...]
OOP
So I finished a second read of Graham Harman’s Prince of Networks. It cleared up a few issues in my head. That said I think my initial thoughts and criticisms were dead on. That is I don’t think there is a heavy engagement with the issue of time. It’s just taken as a clear and [...]
Objects as a Point of View
OK, I know I’ve been posting a lot of responses to various of Levi’s posts. However they’ve been quite helpful for drawing out various things I’ve been thinking about the past few years. This will probably be among the last for a little bit as I want to return to a few more religious topics. [...]
Being Ethical
There was a pretty interesting Bloggingheads TV this week featuring Joshua Knobe and one of my favorite bloggers Eric Schwitzgebel. Eric of course runs The Splintered Mind. The dialog between the two largely goes over what Eric has been posting on the past few years regarding whether reasoning about ethics makes one more ethical. Most [...]
One Last One on Realism
One last post on realism. Graham has up a post on how everyone wants to be a realist. I think this really brushes under the rug what is the real bone of contention. (No pun intended) What kind of realism? I think some are shocked that people defend Derrida as a realist while never asking [...]
Fate vs. Free Will
From Bill Watterson: It’s amazing how much my son is like Calvin. The only difference is no imaginary friends or stuffed animals. Other than that he’s a dead ringer…
Peirce & OOP
OK, last post on OOP. I promise. It’s just not fair to discuss it until I know it better otherwise I’ll just end up critiquing a strawman. That said something obvious struct me while thinking about Peirce (who talks about objects a lot given their place in his semiotics) and OOP. The main focus of [...]
“Substances all the Way Down”
Levi and Graham made some comments about OOP today which were quite helpful for clarifying things. As Michael noted yesterday, Derrida has signs all the way down in terms of a basic ontology. Levi has a nice post related to Aristotle and determinism in this context. In response to one of my questions about tying [...]
Derrida and Basic Ontology
There’s been a whole lot of discussion at the various OOP related blogs the past few days on Derrida. Most of it appears to be tied to some discussions over at Levi’s blog. Graham talks about it here and then some additional comments here. Levi then chimes in as well. There’s two interesting aspects to [...]
Functionalism and AI
Chris and Gary’s disagreement in the comments of my brief post on functionalism got me thinking. Now I’m pretty skeptical about functionalism because I just can’t see anyway to make 3rd person into 1st person logically. (Peirce sees his three categories as irreducible and provides some interesting arguments for that which I won’t go into) [...]
Can We Explain Metaphors?
Can we explain what metaphors mean? “…it looks like it really is pretty impossible to explain what a metaphor means. But that is not because of anything special about metaphors. It is merely a reflection of the fact that we can’t explain what any sentence means.”
Gary and Peirce on Mind and Functionalism
Gary, over at Minds and Brains has a discussion of functionalism and mind. The actual topic is a debate over Metzinger’s theory of consciousness which Gary is having with various OOP critics. Now I’ve never read Metzinger and have barely dipped into OOP so I’ll wisely remain silent on those topics. However Gary wrote something [...]
Trumpery, Heidegger and Derrida
Graham Harman has had up a few posts on what he calls trumpery. The latest includes some bits about Heidegger and Derrida. First let me quote the Derridean bit. Orthodox Derridean: “…as in the shallow and naive charge that Derrida ‘reduces the world to a text.’” Comment: But Derrida does reduce the world to a [...]
Heidegger and Epistemology II
Quick quote from that thesis, “The Status of Epistemology in the Thought of Martin Heidegger,” I mentioned earlier today. Here Bartels is speaking of knowing as bringing out of concealment – an important notion in Heidegger. The idea is that knowledge isn’t merely propositional knowledge or awareness but a kind of know-how for revealing something. [...]
Heidegger on Present-at-Hand Relations
I put up some comments on the sidebar earlier today on present-at-hand relations in Heidegger prompted by Enowning’s repost of an interview with Graham Harman. I wanted to put up a relevant quote. (Note I’ve not yet read Harman’s Tool-Being although I enjoyed his Prince of Networks even though I disagree in some key areas) [...]
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