November 2011
69 posts
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Is there anyone well-versed in mereology out there whose mind I might momentarily borrow? Upon receipt, I retain the privilege of bouncing ideas (or some thing which has parthood of an idea) off of it.
Hit me, I’ll see what I can do to help (probably not…
Okay, on a first reading it seems like Monaghan is maybe trying to do away with a view of substances as...
matryoshhka:
Is there anyone well-versed in mereology out there whose mind I might momentarily borrow? Upon receipt, I retain the privilege of bouncing ideas (or some thing which has parthood of an idea) off of it.
Hit me, I’ll see what I can do to help (probably not much).
NEW DRINKING GAME
Step 1: Drink every time you see a Blackswan costume on Facebook.
Step 2: Die of alcohol poisoning.
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“Old Enough” - The Raconteurs featuring Ricky Skaggs & Ashley Monroe
Does this mean bluegrass is becoming cool?!
October 2011
78 posts
New Addresses: Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and... →
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Yeah, but we let Diogenes play. And that guy just shits everywhere.
Seriously though, I’m headed to bed. Let’s take up this subject again at some point. I promise to be less snide next time.
As do I. Philosophy’s always better when both sides play nice, also better with drinks. My seminar is meeting at the bar tomorrow, in costume.
New Addresses: Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and... →
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Is it strange that to be dismissive of Derrida is not cool, but Searle is fair game?
I’m dismissive of Searle personally, because he’s a twat. He’s also an impressive philosopher for whom I have a great deal of respect. Being dismissive of Derrida for being a twat - which, I wont deny, he can be - is fine. Dismissing what he does as...
TIL
There’s no real way to converse with a ‘post-structuralist’ from a position outside their discourse. They get so frustrated trying to explain their unexplainable position, and any attempt to get them to explain themselves is met with the utmost contempt, as if you asked them to lay down their life so you could drink a cup of hot coffee. Since when is it unreasonable to ask a...
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Oddly enough, Michael Rosen - the author of the piece - is actually a Hegel scholar. Apparently that stuff is clear as can be to him, but Althusser and Derrida are too much.
Yeah, which is why…
“Yet there must – surely – come a point where the whole thing vanishes up its own…”
New Addresses: Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and... →
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kevinlepore:
Is it strange that to be dismissive of Derrida is not cool, but Searle is fair game?
I’m dismissive of Searle personally, because he’s a twat. He’s also an impressive philosopher for whom I have a great deal of respect. Being dismissive of Derrida for being a twat - which, I wont deny, he can be - is fine. Dismissing what he does as somehow out of communion with Real...
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Oddly enough, Michael Rosen - the author of the piece - is actually a Hegel scholar. Apparently that stuff is clear as can be to him, but Althusser and Derrida are too much.
Yeah, which is why I mentioned Hegel. Seemed a bit…
…In many ways the project of Continental philosophy is to show the problem of constructing an approach...
New Addresses: Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and... →
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Seriously though, Searle has been butthurt about this shit since the 70s.
A lot of philosophers won’t engage in direct debates with people they disagree with because people develop this kind of attitude. So nice. Thanks for adding nothing.
Oh come on, I was making a snarky remark about Searle, not ripping on you. I’m really not trying to be...
New Addresses: Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and... →
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Seriously though, Searle has been butthurt about this shit since the 70s.
A lot of philosophers won’t engage in direct debates with people they disagree with because people develop this kind of attitude. So nice. Thanks for adding nothing.
New Addresses: Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and... →
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Ephraim Kishon has a story called “Jewish Poker”. Jewish poker is played without cards so all you can do is bluff – and you have to bluff high. I think that this is the secret of Derridean post-modernism as currently practised in U.S. humanities departments: in…
Guys come on not all post-structuralism/Continental thought is like that....
New Addresses: Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and... →
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kevinlepore:
Ephraim Kishon has a story called “Jewish Poker”. Jewish poker is played without cards so all you can do is bluff – and you have to bluff high. I think that this is the secret of Derridean post-modernism as currently practised in U.S. humanities departments: in…
Guys come on not all post-structuralism/Continental thought is like that. Using “deconstruction” as...
“If you can’t say it clearly, you don’t understand it yourself.”
– John Searle
If your style is deliberately unclear, you excuse yourself from having to understand what your trying to say from the get go. Pretty clever.
Michael Rosen - Jewish Poker and Post-Modernism
Ephraim Kishon has a story called “Jewish Poker”. Jewish poker is played without cards so all you can do is bluff – and you have to bluff high. I think that this is the secret of Derridean post-modernism as currently practised in U.S. humanities departments: in the end, it’s all competitive hyperbole – who can be more radical?
Someone starts off with a huge unsupported generalization. For...
Philosophers Halloween Party
Winning costume ideas:
1. Fregenstein
2. Kripke Keeper
3. P-Zombies
4. ????
U of C Conference to Study Jersey Shore →
Intelligent people of tumblr, what say you to this?
“The Goat Rodeo Sessions came out yesterday. Anyone with halfabrain or at least a...”
Square circles
Against all odds, the 100 level philosophy of religion class I’m a TA for has spent the last 30 minutes trying to convince the most patient professor in the world that square circles exist.
Phenomenal Content of Language: A Conservative...
I’ve been mulling over this idea. It’s undeveloped at the moment, but maybe someone can help me figure out where to go with this.
I was struck by this passage from an article by Tim Bayne (forthcoming, philosophical quarterly):
“Consider the difference between what it is like to hear the sentence “Il fait froid” when one does not understand French and what it is...
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Not bad.
bbcity said: On the primary intension water is picked out by a certain description? “Is clear and tasteless?” By that criterion, air can be both carbon monoxide and oxygen. :/ This is why I hate this!
Ya you’re right, but the 2D framework has the primary and secondary intensions working together at all times. The primary intension picks out nothing without the secondary intension.
Our cat knows he can’t go behind the tv and chew wires. But he ALSO knows that if he does, we will be forced to play with him in order to distract him from going behind the tv to chew wires. So if he’s bored all he has to do is misbehave and voila- instant fun!
:/
Me: I think there's a little bit of ham left.
Krista: Okay, I might put it on some pancakes with cheese. That's my new favorite meal.
bbcity said: enh, not really. water is not a ‘natural kind’ over and above its chemical composition. conceivably, a substance we find on a planet similar to ours that resembles water might not be water BECAUSE its not H20 but rather XYZ. both are a posteriori…
On the secondary intension water just is H2O. On the primary intension water is picked out not by it’s underlying chemical...
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bbcity replied to your post: Arguments from Conceivability to Possibility
I still don’t get how pain is conceivably ≠ c-fibers firing. It’s not obvious to me at all.
The thinking seems to be that we can’t know the identity of pain and c-fibers firing a priori, even on idealized a priori reasoning, the identity, if true, will require some a posteriori evidence. Conceivability is about how...
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Arguments from Conceivability to Possibility
Are there cases where we can argue from conceivability to possibility? Yes and no.
(1) Something is conceivable if we cannot rule it out a priori.
(2) Something is possible if it doesn’t contradict a necessary truth.
(3) We can argue from conceivability to possibility if and only if a concept is semantically stable, i.e. has the same intension across a 2-dimensional semantic framework.
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kevinlepore said: frakken! i’m watching BSG for the first time right now. just started the 4th season. why did it take me so long?
I was a latecomer too… so amazingly good. I’m going to try to use BSG to segway my partner from Firefly, which she liked, to Star Trek, by which she was not impressed.
I think what i like about BSG, as opposed to Star Trek, is the more pronounced...
