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