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What are your philosophical positions?

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Posted 06/30/09 - 09:21 AM: Subject: What are your philosophical positions?	#1
Here are mine: Ethics: Kantian (Neo-Kantian) Deontologist Edit: I'll include Cognitivist also so that it doesn't escape in it all (Thanks, kNoctis!) Philosophy of Language: Artificial Language Philosopher Epistemology: Coherentist Philosophy of Science: Scientific Realist Metaphysics: Interactionist and Quietist (there's a problem relating to the status of reality. I believe in God, being a deist, status of the mind effecting matter, the brain, taking part in the kingdom of ideas, and so on. I'd really like to put Realism in here, but I find it impossible because it's likely to cut me short.) Philosophy of Mind: Reductionist/Substance Dualist (It depends on the development of Standard Model in Physics) I also know some Logics. Logician? Cheers! Edited by Aetixintro on 09/20/09 - 12:02 PM
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Posted 06/30/09 - 11:11 AM:	#2
I'm largely an odd combination of pragmatist/stoic. Largely a legal positivist when it comes to philosophy of law. I also like the word "largely", it seems, should that indicate anything regarding my philosophical positions.
"Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts."--C.S. Peirce "There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."--Marcus Tullius Cicero "Philosophy recovers itself when it ceases to be a device for dealing with the problems of philosophers and becomes a method, cultivated by philosophers, for dealing with the problems of men."--John Dewey

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Posted 06/30/09 - 11:22 AM:	#3
Epistemology: coherentist Metaphysics: roughly Kantian Mind: neutral monist Ethics: pluralist/relativist Wouldn't like to state a firm position on other stuff, though I lean towards Quine on language.

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Posted 06/30/09 - 07:03 PM:	#4
Epistemology: coherentist Metaphysics: physicalist, critical realist ethics: cognitivist, naturalist, critical realist, virtue ethicist philosophy of religion: critical realist, Hickian pluralist philosophy of science: scientific realist

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Posted 07/01/09 - 12:16 AM:	#5
Epistemology ... foundherentist (re: data; descriptions) Ontology ... mereological nihilist (Spinoza, Cantor, Wittgenstein, Tegmark et al); non-dualist (Daojia) Logic ... actualist (with focus on erotetics) Ethics ... eudaimonist (Epicurus-Spinoza) Aesthetics ... irrealist (Goodman); negative dialectician (Adorno) * * * * * Philosophy of Science ... critical rationalism (re: models; explanations) Philosophy of Mind ... functionalism Philosophy of Language ... pragmatics (self-consistent performativity) Philosophy of Mathematics ... finitism Political Philosophy ... left libertarianism (social ecology) Philosophy of History ... catastrophism (cosmological, ecological & political-economic) Philosophy of Religion ... non-cognitivism (e.g. Don Cupitt, Kai Nielsen); non-dualism (Advaita) Edited by 180 Proof on 10/06/09 - 04:17 AM. Reason: Clarifying my confabulations ...
The question isn't "Which explanations do I believe?" but rather "Which explanations do I least disbelieve?" Absence of evidence THAT MUST BE THERE (i.e. implied by any claim, concept, or (its) predicates, that affects changes in/to the world) entails evidence of absence. [What cannot be done?[What cannot be hoped?[What cannot be known?]]]

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Posted 07/01/09 - 12:16 AM:	#6
In Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Wittgenstein asserted "For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed." By this he doesn't mean that anything that looks like a question has an answer -- what he's trying to point out is that unanswerable problems come from confused questions. "How does the mind interact with the brain?" for example is unanswerable (the interaction problem) because the question is confused -- the question treats the mind and brain like two seperate entities floating next to each other, which they are not. If your question is solid and doesn't fall apart on analysis, then Wittgenstein says that there is an answer for it.

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Posted 07/01/09 - 11:50 AM:	#7
This is why I am in this forum. I really don't know exactly. The catagories seem a bit to narrow for me. Let's see... Generalist (or, non-specialist, perhaps anti-specialist) Relativist With regard to religion, a "comparitive mythologist" Here is where it breaks down for me and I cannot find a catagory. Determinism v. Free Will? Why bother? For me, both are the same coin viewed from differing perspectives. Take your pick. Everything Objective, Universal and Dennotative can only be expressed with a language of Subjective, Local and Connotative assertions. Good so...otherwise we'd have no real poetry or beauty. Perfection is boring and unattractive! A "Paradoxoligist"? What is that? A nonsense word? Phenomenologist? Existential phenomenologist? Kierkegaard? Hegel? Heidegger? Wittgestein? Possibilities interest me more than supposed "facts" or "laws", but possiblities within the Objective are of interest as well. Ludi W said something that I can get behind: "Physics differs from phenomenology in that it is concerned to establish laws. Phenomenology only establishes possibilities. Thus, phenomenology would be the grammar of the description of those facts on which physics builds its theories". I would extend this to ethics and morals, but this get sticky. My dyslexia prevents me from reading much. Any suggestions? Meow! GREG
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Posted 07/01/09 - 02:26 PM:	#8
"Do not ask me who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order." -Michel Foucault

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Posted 07/01/09 - 04:30 PM:

Dualist, absolutist, metaphysical libertarian, objectivist, strict constructionist, contemporary federalist, old school, unapologetic, flag waving suburbanite.

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Posted 07/01/09 - 04:50 PM:	#10
Relativistic Neutral Monist.
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