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What is the difference between Derridas Deconstruction and Heideggers Destruktion?
Derridas deconstruction, as far as I understand it is to critically examine values as embodied in binary situations like signifier and signified where there is an implicit hierarchy of value - one ...
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What is the difference between Dasein and consciousness?
In Heideggers Being and Time he probes the question of Being, and not of beings; he probes it by querying that being for which Being is a problem. This being he names Dasein=Das Sein=Being there. How ...
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Whn Badiou asserts that mathematics is Ontology what does he mean by Ontology?
Badious oeuvre can be succintly phrased in his slogan: mathematic is ontology.
Mathematics I understand. So the question really is the other part of his slogan. I take his 'is' to be normal and ...
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Do I need to implicitly or explicitly have a value to rationally claim that I 'ought to do something'?
I use Humes idea about the 'is..ought to gap' (or my spin on it) mainly to make sure I have good reasons for what I do -and what I advise others to do- and to make sure actions are not based purely on ...
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Any recommendation of books on Fichte's later period thoughts
It seems extremely difficult to find a book that elaborates on Fichte's later period (after Jena period) thoughts. Can anyone recommend me a book?
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view of analytic-philosophy from aesthetics
Always I see resources about view of continental-philosophy about aesthetics, is there any resource about view of analytic-philosophy about aesthetics? which philosopher of analytic-philosophy talks ...
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Foucault's views on biopower
Concepts of biopower is how Foucault analyzes events. So is Foucalt just analyzing events or does he give opinions regarding biopower - for example, whether good establishment of biopower is good or ...
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What is the Event according to Badiou?
What is the Event according to Alain Badiou? Might he give examples of such "events" in real life? I am having trouble understanding the explanations I have found.
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What is multiplicity for Deleuze?
The SEP explains in its introduction to Deleuze that
"Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he characterized himself as a “pure metaphysician.” In his magnum opus ...
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“Continental” philosophers who have worked on the Philosophy of Mathematics?
Who are some philosophers that are generally placed in the continental tradition but who have done some work in the philosophy of mathematics.
I know that Husserl has some great work in philosophy of ...
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What are some good resources for Analytically trained philosophers to get into more “continental” figures?
My question is similar to this one and this one, but with a slightly different spin.
I am interested in knowing who are some analytically trained philosophers who write on historically "continental" ...
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Introduction to critical theory for analytic philosophers
As far as I understand, there are two broad branches of critical theory: one is based on social theory, and the other on literary criticism and hermeneutics. I am more interested in the latter, of the ...
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What is the origin of the Continental vs. Analytic divide?
There's been much ado about the divisiveness between Heidegger and Husserl fans on the one side, with Frege and Russell stalwarts on the other. I'm mostly amused by accounts of name-calling between ...
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Derrida-Searle debate - any information?
I would like to know how Derrida-Searle debate went on (Wikipedia is lacking, and Searle's response is somehow difficult to find.).
Can anyone provide me some summary and some crucial details?
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Agamben and grammatical shifters
While this collapse of metaphysics into ethics is increasingly evident as nihilism, contemporary thought has yet to escape from this condition. Agamben seeks to understand and ultimately escape ...
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What would be the difference between Fichte and Hegel?
I am quite confused how Fichte's ideas (and Schelling's ideas) and Hegel's ideas differ. There seem to be some common elements, but I am unsure how to pinpoint the difference between Hegel's and ...
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Why did Heidegger (postmodernism) ignore Schelling's later thought?
F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) seems to be a seriously overlooked figure of modern philosophy: is there a good reason (beyond the merely historical) for his diminished relative importance compared, for ...
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Is there any philosophical significance to the arithmatisation of infinity?
There are two arithmatics of infinity, ordinal & cardinal. I'm going to focus on the cardinal arithmatic as it requires less structure, that is they need less (ie ordinals require the idea of ...
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How does Lacan's notion of the Mirror Stage apply to children that are congenitally blind?
Lacan's notion of the mirror stage seems to rely directly on the ability of the child to see. Some are born blind, so they do not have the opportunity to "see" their self-image in a mirror.
A ...
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Where does 'continental' philosophy fit in the subcategories of modern philosophy?
If one considers a abstract systematization of what constitutes modern philosophy, it is very natural to come up with something like wikipedia's outline: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, ...
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Which philosophers have done most to bridge the analytic/continental divide?
I am interested to find out work done in this direction by prominent philosophers in each tradition.
My paradigm cases would be Richard Rorty on the analytic side and Alain Badiou on the continental ...
