What does this term mean? It has been thrown around alot lately as a criticism of the likes of Derrida and Feminism etc, but I think it’s become a buzzword. Where ever possible I use the terms ‘Post-Structural’ or ‘Post-Humanist’ in its place. To me, it is an artist statement of post-world war II society, […]
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Looking for a foundation Descartes wanted to find a method that would allow him to be certain about things. He wanted to know if it was possible to sort out what was true and what was false. He lived in a time where science was actually testing what was true and so Medieval dogma was […]
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-a-transgender-woman-could-get-pregnant/ This is actually a really lazy link post and discussion. Kind of stream of consciousness. Feel free to move this to off topic or something else if you want to. Would I want to do something like this if it was possible to do to myself? Yes. Why? Because I think that the dysphoria of transgenderism (or […]
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Philosophy begins with how we can, through reason and rationality, explain most truthfully what there is and how to explain what there is. We know pre-philosophically that there is guilt and shame for example, so how do we reason this phenomena? I thought psychology would be the place to go, but it’s mostly informed by […]
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I created a video this afternoon from my two Derrida posts, will probably create a video regarding Foucault too.
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I was just thinking about Derrida’s Theory of Writing and his fascination with a philosophers’ hands, instead of the usual focus on sight from the eyes. The expression, “Everybody has a book inside of them” springs to mind. Derrida seems to be more concerned with what goes out of ourselves, rather than what is inside. […]
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This would ordinarily be in the lounge, but I thought it could make a fun sticky thread for this section as a work out for creativity! How to play The Surrealist Word Game is a word for word pass and play game, so to play, you have to reply with one word per post according […]
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After Paul alerted me to the great news about Tristram Hunt resigning from his MP position, I was let down when I saw where he was going afterwards – to be the director of the Victoria and Albert museum in London. He had already mentioned charging £5 to enter museums and galleries due to cuts, […]
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Upon request by Princess, I have added this new section as a sub-section for the Philosophy and Science section. Please fee lfree to share book reviews, drawings, your thoughts on music, history of music, art, literature, how it relates to philosophy etc here. We could also have a ‘what book arewe reading thread or something […]
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Foucault rejects the notion of truth as a matching of correspondence of ideas to things. He also rejects traditional beliefs that western science has been advancing towards this kind of truth. He does not take for granted that it has been advancing in some other sort of way, so rejects the traditional belief in scientific […]