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I suppose one of the main attractions for me (perhaps out of Ego (to Zuboff’s article is that about two thirds of it breaks down to the Skeptic’s Paradox: a popular argument against any expression of the nihilistic perspective as I have described it above. And I’m actually impressed at the many vari...

“A Possible Origin of Relativism: Let’s briefly consider what I regard as one of the main inspirations for relativism. An object like a hand can be viewed and described in many ways, some true and some false. It can be true at once both that this is a single hand, and that it consists of a multiplic...

Having read Zuboff’s article (unfortunately, you guys can't read it unless you subscribe to Philosophy Now: https://philosophynow.org/, but I will give you quotes (I find myself of 2 minds: On one hand, I want to respect the man's achievement. He is, after all, a retired lecturer from the philosophy...

Rhizome 2/28/15: “Whereas Hegel represents becoming, , Kierkegaard and Nietzsche bring to philosophy a new means of expression which produces becoming in the reader. In reading Nietzsche, one should experience the movement of thought. The writer no longer tries to represent the movement of thought, ...

“What you share with them, when you are aware of such moral obligations, is not, I argued in Contingency, ‘rationality’ or ‘human nature’ or ‘or the fatherhood of God’ or a ‘knowledge of the Moral Law’, or anything other than the ability to sympathize with the pain of others. There is no particular ...

Rhizome 1/22/15: When one has a routine (an Einstein’s wardrobe (every day is a repetition. You can almost feel the loop: felt it today as I walked into the Tobacco Hut to buy my 40 ounce and shooter. But such repetitions, by their very nature (the fact (and may the wrath of Professor Strunk rest in...

Rhizome 12/19/14: In Philosophy Now (issue 105: https://philosophynow.org/issues/105/That_Mystery_of_Mysteries :which many of you (the non-subscribers (won’t be able to access (and, yes, I am pimping the magazine (Toni Vogel Carey, in the article “That Mystery of Mysteries” presents some disturbing ...

Rhizome 12/17/14: Anyway, as requested by Erik, I think it is time to explain the rhizomes. And I would note here that from the beginning, I always thought it best to bury this explanation in the process of rhizomes in that had I of explained it right from the start, that would have suggested that I...

Rhizome 12/12/2014 I had, in a previous rhizome: http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=181968&start=175 :noted (in a kind of epiphany (a connection between Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism (closely connected to the plane of immanence (and his admiration for the stoic sensibil...

Previously in Postcards: “As Deleuze and Guattari point out in What is Philosophy: philosophy abhors debate. Walks away from it if it can. As they point out: it has better things to do. This is because philosophy is more like poetry than popular doxa gives it credit for. It is a personal vision (a p...

“I always liked Rorty's description of 'knowledge' as a widening on a horizontal plane rather than a vertical (hierarchical) plane. Always stuck with me as a great image. “ A jam, I think, is the ultimate expression of Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition in that in order for it to work we have to bo...

That said, Bill, I apologize for not responding to your earlier inquiry. I have a small window everyday while straddling more than several boards. That leaves me with no choice to go where the discourse takes me. It was not, by any means, an insult to you or indication of your import to the discourse.

I've held my tongue out of respect for this guy for some time. But since he doesn't respond to this forum, but seems to narcissistically post ramblings across many boards, I have to say this. I have read Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature three of four times and there is nothing in these p...

“….and I would hope if he were alive today, would applaud today's co-mingling of the Humanities and the 'hard' and 'soft' Sciences today, and would agree with me on that it can only be a synergy of intellectual activity.” For me, Anthony, you’re kind of hitting the nail on the head with the term syn...

“Why do I find Susan Haack's critique of Rorty and his views so...weak? It seems that every accusation (~'Rorty wishes to see philosophy and reason end'~) that she makes, Rorty welcomes in a way? Personally I find little to no force in her work in this area. Any thoughts? Agree or disagree? Curious ...