“Live” but “not live”, that’s what The Dawdler’s Philosophy Podcast is. “Live” in that it is generally unscripted where we tend to not know exactly what the other host will say. And “not live” in that you can’t listen to it as it is unfolding for the first time. We’re Read more…
Parts of this post draw from David Chalmers’ paper “Verbal Disputes“* (a lecture on the same topic can be found here.) , I will move from this discussion to my original point. Quotations in this post all refer to this paper. Chalmers draws a distinction between ‘verbal’ and ‘substantive’ philosophical Read more…
The following remarks regard the text: Searle, John. R. (1980) “Minds, Brains, and Programs”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3: 417-457 All quotations in this post were extracted from this paper. Make sure to listen to The Dawdlers discuss this paper in depth in E1: John Searle Does not Understand – Read more…
From E10: The Argument Argument, this Snippet contains a sampling of some of the basic concepts included in Argumentation Theory, this discussion significantly influenced by Charles Arthur Willard’s book A Theory of Argumentation. Touched upon are: 1) Pro and Con 2) Actual Speech Acts v. Abstract Propositions 3) Enthymemes 4) Read more…
My wife, who is now a lawyer, was a national championship level parliamentary competitive debater in college. She tells me that her team had a saying for those moments when a debater slipped into some overzealous, perhaps even hysterical, argumentation: “There’s Dead Babies on the flow!” The ‘flow’ was the Read more…
The free world is kind of a mess right now. Seems we’ve lost something in a trade or hit a wall. We’re so team oriented sending and receiving messages is like exchanging alien signals. Naturally, if we are to decode these strange outbursts, it’s time to get innovative. We have Read more…