Wow Facebook turned into complete jerks ( Read more... )

I should to put that somewhere so I don’t lose it.

. . . Man I don’t even want to count the comic books and philosophy stuff.

Hunter S. Thompson: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

Chuck Palahaniuk: Pygmy

Aleister Crowley: The Goetica

Norman Mailer: An American Dream

Zamyatin: We (unfinished)

Frank Herbert: The Green Brain

Last and First Man: Olaf Stapleton.

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I dunno man. There’s just something wrong with the whole gym scene. It’s one of those things something like maybe 2% of the population has picked up on. It’s like back in high school when they made us all do line dancing, me and you knew there was something wrong with it, but the rest of the school population thought it was fine.

I’ve been down ( Read more... )

Adams, Fred. "Embodied Cognition." Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 9, no. 4 (2010): Pp 619-628

Andy Clark, David J. Chalmers. "The Extended Mind." In The Extended Mind, edited by Richard Menary, 27 - 41. Massachusetts: The M.I.T. Press, 2010.

Aquila, Richard E. "Two Problems of Being and Nonbeing in Sartre's Being and Nothingness." ( Read more... )

 Here, this is interesting. These are from ‘Philosophy and the Scientific Image of Man’ by Wilfrid Sellars. They’re the root of a ‘faculty-dualism’ in a Fodorian sense, that turns up in Western Philosophy in a lot of different, sometimes obscured forms. By ‘faculty dualism’ I don’t mean a dualism between mind and matter or mind and the world, I ( Read more... )

Fragments on Sartre, Heidegger and Continental Philosophy

See, what happened in Continental philosophy - the thumb nail sketch - is Kant developed a sort of proto-phenomenology in the critique with the transcendental aesthetic - try and imagine a shape without any space either around it or making up it's body. Those sorts of arguments, and he ( Read more... )

This is the first stanza out of an abstract poem I’m working on around editing. It’s part of a series I’m working on composed entirely of punctuation.

It’s called “ . . . ,

The bit I’m having problems with goes

, . . . , “,”. .

? . . . , “”, ?

…, ‘ ‘ :  -  . .

., . . . ,

but I can’t think of anything that rhymes with “”, ? for the last line.

Sartre in under a page

Heidegger thinks we can still find meaning in life, that is, Heidegger thinks once Dasein is confronted with his own biological death he can undertake to achieve an authentic project of existence. Death is the cultivation of this project the final resounding note in Dasein’s symphony.

Sartre thinks life’s more pointless than ( Read more... )

Yeah, I don’t like these new E-journals.

Boxes of old academic journals are one of the rare treasures of the earth. They’re limited, hard to get, some of them you needed letters after your name to apply for back when they were in print, others have limited circulation and application processes you have to go through to even be eligible for a ( Read more... )

part that's interesting is why Bennett thinks the Ramsey test doesn't apply to counterfactuals, the subjunctive conditional structure of possible world's talk, you'd think, would contain counterfactual cases of world quantified over by a comparative similarity and

Grice's position. Imagine language as a sort of skeleton of logic, that's enclosed in ( Read more... )