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Kyle
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Impressive how much Rorty commits to the far-flung concept of the Antipodeans and their mindless monitoring of neuronic bundles rather the thoughts and feels Terrans would more readily understand. Not just an illustrative paragraph or two but extended throughout the whole section, making this famous critique of reality’s representationism an arts-based specifically science-fiction-based work of postmodern philosophy.
— Apr 14, 2018 09:27AM
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Kyle
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Rorty’s defense of professional philosophers in the midst of an indifferent American society is self-effacing yet serves a purpose of inviting others into the long conversation between Plato, number of his readers and the whole academic system that Rorty was a part of along with his Drs. Dimble and Waffle. A view from outside the field and beyond the grave has fellow academic Bromwich eulogize the all-American Rorty.
— Jun 19, 2018 10:56PM
Kyle
is on page 394 of 480
The book concludes with the suggestion that hermeneutics could be a revolutionary way to move philosophy forward into the twentieth century beyond the Nature-Mirror Descartes and followers set up. It certainly has had its impact on educational research even though I still have a fuzzy idea of what it all means. At least now I can, like Romans who “smil’d at one another, and shook their heads” kind of get it.
— Jun 15, 2018 09:42PM
Kyle
is on page 356 of 480
Hermeneuticss are a tricky enough concept to grasp (even spelling the word without the help of autocorrect takes a couple tries) yet they appear to be method for unmirroring philosophy from a human-only representation of nature. If they are an opposite of epistemology (perhaps a more interpretive way of knowing), does our Whiggishness make them good or bad or simply beyond any purpose for classifying them as reality?
— Jun 04, 2018 10:58PM
Kyle
is on page 311 of 480
One final hurdle to clear before Rorty launches into his unmirrored philosophy and this chapter has to do with language. More specifically how any thinker can make a claim, in any language, to describe how things really are, even the intangible concepts. Just because Aristotle and Archimedes didn’t have access to telescopes or particle accelerators, their claims are just as valid as our pre-Galactic hypnotized views.
— May 28, 2018 06:23PM
Kyle
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Taking the side of philosophers who have a more authentic view of the way a human mind works, as opposed to epistemological and psychological views, may seem like a step back from previous statements about the mental mirror. While not necessarily deriding all psychology, it is the breed of behaviorists who are analyzed for their reductionist image on mind. Surprising to see Rorty discussing computers in a pre-PC age.
— May 13, 2018 11:19PM
Kyle
is on page 212 of 480
A few more cracks at this precious mirror Rorty is determined to destroy, with no definitive breakthrough yet. The analytic psychologists and behaviourists are perhaps the most privileged views on how the mind supposedly works as they have peddled their easy solutions to troublesome reality of lived experience. Rorty stands up for pre-linguistic babies and others existing off the Cartesian grid by un-‘idea’ing ideas?
— May 06, 2018 10:34PM
Kyle
is on page 164 of 480
The love of knowledge that etymologically gives us philosophy must be one of those love-hate relationships for Rorty, pointing to a collection of the usual suspects (Plato, Descartes, Locke and Kant) who all frame the Mirror of Nature in order to see, and show, their world as each would like to believe in. Rorty has yet to declare boldly what his vision of reality is, but one senses it is without such mental mirrors.
— Apr 21, 2018 04:03PM
Kyle
is on page 69 of 480
The argument Rorty builds towards an understanding of mind as something other than immaterial or phenomenal takes some mental stretching to wrap my own mind around, given that most of what he has to say is disproving other philosophers’ stances. It became more clear, naturally, when linked to a short passage from Measure for Measure and how “Glassy” our notions of self reflected through mind actual might be.
— Apr 03, 2018 09:44PM
