Philosophy of Mind and of Consciousness

[Jamal]

Note to participants: I’ve moved the posts from the last few days to a separate topic:

Spinoza, Ilyenkov, and the Ground of Intelligibility

You’re conflating two senses of “starting point” here. When I say rational agency is a starting point, I mean it’s the philosophical starting point for any account of normativity — including yours. I do not mean it has no history, no preconditions, no developmental story. So this objection that you keep raising is engaging with a position I’m not holding. The point is simple: you can’t get behind the normative operations of inquiry because “going behind” them just is performing them. You want …