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“By centering in on "the obscure and esoteric" aspect of Heidegger's preference for "poïesis" you missed its most important aspect. You ended up talking about his "elitist colors" and his "eccentric choice of appearing [...] in the traditional German outfit you oft...

“The philosophy of Deleuze/Guattari is highly neurological, based on the structures of the brain, among others, a widely accepted point of view, nowadays, in neuroscience. Deleuze is philosophical, scientific and psychological, also in respect to ethical and other "applications" or effects...

“Another way of putting this point is to say, with Davidson, that “the irrational” is essential to intellectual progress. In a paper on Freud, Davidson notes that “mental causes which are not reasons” –that is, beliefs and desires which play a role in our behavior but which do not fit into the schem...

So in the hopes of sounding like I’m writing a real philosophical exposition, my intention here is to zero in and expand on a previous quote from Rorty’s essay “Philosophy as Science, Metaphor, Politics” in Essays on Heidegger and Others and hopefully push further into the nuances of metaphor in phi...

I want to meander and fumble around on my last point a little more. But I would start with another quote from Rorty’s essay “Philosophy as Metaphor, Science, Politics” in Essays on Heidegger and Others: “The latter are better metaphors for metaphor, because they suggest that cognition is not always ...

Stakeout 6: “The answer lies in the disavowal the ironic figures of the individual in favor of an individuation. This is defined as a closed structure of singularities, where this relation is determined by a problematic structure and by an actual expression according to a dual and two-fold static ge...

“ D Edward Tarkington, I have trouble following your writings because you use open parenthesis ( but never close any of them. So your writing goes from one point with an aside remark and never returns to the first point but continues on the aside and then makes another aside remark and continues on ...

The thing that works for me is to think of language in terms of an evolutionary adaption: one that evolved in parallel with our evolution as a conscious species. In this way, we can look at some of the basic functions it has played in our history and consider the role they may be playing in our high...

Stakeout 3: “It is the characteristic of events to be expressed or expressible, uttered or utterable, in propositions which are at least possible. There are many relations inside a proposition. Which is the best suited to surface effects or events?” –LOS, pg. 13 Surface effects? Events? As compared ...

Notes from an Investigation (Gilles Deleuze’s Logic of Sense: Stakeout 1: The bastard’s guilty! This is my sense of him. Not sure how or of what. But the fucking Frenchman is into something. I’ve seen pictures of him: dressed all casual and unassuming like a crime lord trying to hide his wealth. And...

What I want to do here is wind through some quotes from Rorty’s Philosophy and Social Hope (Pgs. 72 thru 75 from the chapter “Ethics without Principles”) and apply them to previous points I have made concerning philosophy as a facilitation of our evolution as a species –an issue I think will apply t...

This is it, guy's! This is the way it goes in. I need tomorrow to respond to an old friend.

Dear Editor: Arnold Zuboff's article, Theories that Refute Themselves (issue 106), holds to the classicist tradition of acting as if it is the only approach that could possibly be in touch with reality while twisting that reality to its own ends. For instance: his assertion that pragmatism seeks to ...

Thank's Wyman. I will try to get to your points. But I have to focus on the project at hand.

Rhizome 3/9/15: “Now the issue of the skeptic goes towards the primary problem with the skeptic’s paradox: its failure to get outside of the semantic method of philosophical inquiry and actually look at the existential context in which the skeptic works. It confuses the language it uses to dispute t...