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David Chapman

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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Soham Chowdhury‏ @evertedsphere 1 Mar 2018
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      While this seems silly to philosophically-uninitiated me: is there a version of Grothendieck universes for this sort of thing, or even some kind of restricted quantification? 😂pic.twitter.com/tve1M2lxM1

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    2. Soham Chowdhury‏ @evertedsphere 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @Aelkus @reasonoli

      looping in @Meaningness

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    3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @evertedsphere @mrkgrnao and

      Thanks, interesting discussion… is there a particular aspect you’d like me to say something about?

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    4. Soham Chowdhury‏ @evertedsphere 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @Meaningness @Aelkus @reasonoli

      Soham Chowdhury Retweeted

      Well, someone else seems to have benefited from your writing :) https://twitter.com/reasonoli/status/969257432311648257?s=19 …

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    5. Soham Chowdhury‏ @evertedsphere 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @evertedsphere @Meaningness and

      What do you think of Adam's suggestion re "French theory for rationalists"? Does the Meaningness book subsume that?

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    6. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @evertedsphere @mrkgrnao and

      I don’t plan to discuss “Theory” directly. More generally, I try to explain key philosophical ideas, from whatever tradition, as simply and practically as possible.

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    7. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @Meaningness @mrkgrnao and

      The Eggplant book implicitly incorporates some insights from the French stuff, but it’s presented within a STEM framework.https://meaningness.com/eggplant 

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    8. Soham Chowdhury‏ @evertedsphere 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @Meaningness @Aelkus @reasonoli

      Good to know! Just to be clear, I'm interested in interpretations of 20th-c. philosophy more generally (e.g. I've noticed you making approving references to Being and Time), not just the "French stuff".

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    9. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @evertedsphere @mrkgrnao and

      Right… So, historically, the French stuff mostly comes from working out implications of Nietzsche and Heidegger.

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    10. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @Meaningness @mrkgrnao and

      The other major thread of meta-rational thinking starts from the failure of logical positivism, and Wittgenstein’s analysis of that in his _Philosophical Investigations_.

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Mar 2018
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      Replying to @Meaningness @mrkgrnao and

      From a STEM pov it’s easier to follow the Wittgenstein thread, because logical positivism was trying to use cutting-edge methods to prove Science Is True, and subsequent work is more informed about STEM than the French thread.

      9:33 AM - 1 Mar 2018
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        1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 1 Mar 2018
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          Replying to @Meaningness @mrkgrnao and

          However, some of Wittgenstein’s analysis was wrong, and also got distorted to simplify it later, so that tradition petered out in the 1980s. Whereas the French thread, increasingly unconstrained by any motivation to connect with reality, came to dominate.

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