(February 13, 2017 at 7:23 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 13, 2017 at 5:24 pm)emjay Wrote: Can you give an example of what you mean by your first sentence? I roughly get what you mean about the third person objectivity stuff. I would say though that personally I try to understand both beings and being-as-such, but I do think I understand what you mean about the basically indirect, interpretational approach. But I think I'm too far down that particular rabbit hole to ever come out and see consciousness in truly 'naive' terms again; yes neuroscience is indirect knowledge but nonetheless, I can't forget what it has taught me about how I think, and how 'flawed' thinking can be (eg bias... from a neuroscience perspective, an inherent part of how the brain works... for pattern completion etc... that sacrifices accuracy for speed) so going Descartes and trying to go back to first principles... what is knowledge, what is truth, what can I trust... is not as simple as that for me... I can't just turn it off because it directly conflicts with the sorts of conclusions I might come to without it. That said, I do want to do that with my course... go back to first principles as much as possible... after all it is philosophy and a different type of thinking to psychology... but just saying that it is hard because of this neuroscience perspective that is woven into the way I think. But anyway, thanks for the tip... I'll look up Frege to see what foundational philosophy is all about
Well again, I'm not an expert on the entire anglo-american tradition so my attempt to summarize something so vast is bound to be a bit rough. An example of the first sentence is a stereotypical question like "What does meaning mean?"
I'll right more later....
Oh, right... so that's what you meant before about my philosophy course being Analytic Philosophy?... not exactly what does meaning mean, but the whole first section being Epistemology... what is knowledge etc. I gotta say, I love those sorts of questions... I'm no more in my element than when I'm trying to define something or drill down into its inner workings, looking for the essence (not your sort of essence
). Anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to sound pushy... it's just you've brought it up a few times, so I wanted to be sure what you were talking about... but (obviously) you don't have to write more if you don't want to... I think I've got the gist... thank you 
