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Martin Heidegger and The LEGO Movie: An Existentialist Interpretation

Jeff Carreira August 15, 2014 Philosophy 6 Comments

The LEGO Movie is an animated film that brings the plastic construction toy to life. Like so many others, I found the film to be a delight. I also found it to be a delightful …

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Excellence Is Fueled By Philosophy

Jeff Carreira August 23, 2012 Philosophy 8 Comments

Why does philosophy matter? It is a question I think about all the time. I know that some people think it doesn’t really matter that much, if at all. It might be because people think …

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Did Modernism Isolate Us from the World?

Jeff Carreira May 10, 2012 Philosophy 14 Comments

The world doesn’t just exist, it shows up for us. It appears as the pure experience of the present moment. And one of the most amazing things about the world is that it changes – …

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Martin Heidegger and The Worlds of Sense and Purpose

Jeff Carreira September 8, 2011 Philosophy 3 Comments

I am still thinking about Heidegger’s three ways of being. The first two of these he called ‘presence-to-hand’ and ‘ready-to-hand.’ Both of these are defined in what could be seen as human terms and I …

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To be or not to be: What is Ontology?

Jeff Carreira September 2, 2011 Philosophy 9 Comments

What does it mean ‘to be’? When I say “I am…” or “It is…” what am I saying? What does it mean to exist – or to not exist, to be or not to be? …

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Substance, Utility, Existence: Heidegger’s Modes of Being

Jeff Carreira August 25, 2011 Philosophy 8 Comments

Martin Heidegger, the 20th century German philosopher, believed that for thousands of years human beings had misidentified the nature of what it means ‘to be.” From the time of the great Greek thinkers the fundamental …

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The Bible, Poetry and Mental Sensations

Jeff Carreira May 19, 2011 Philosophy 8 Comments

By the early part of the nineteenth century the Age of Reason  had made it increasingly difficult for progressive religious thinkers to accept a literal interpretation of the Bible. It was clear that many passages of …

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Why is Barack Obama the President of the United States?

Jeff Carreira November 11, 2010 Philosophy 7 Comments

I want to continue the discussion of how the social world is created by posing the question, “Why is Barack Obama the President of the United States?” The most popular answer to that question would …

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Reality or Social Reality

Jeff Carreira November 4, 2010 Philosophy 8 Comments

I am currently beginning to study the work of the philosopher John R. Searle especially his work on how social reality is created. He starts from the fact that there are many things that are …

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How do we know what we know?

Jeff Carreira May 27, 2010 Philosophy 24 Comments

I was very interested in the discussion that occurred around my post about belief and fact and I agree with Chuck that it is our interpretation of our experience that must be questioned. I have …

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Ideas and Education

Jeff Carreira January 21, 2010 Philosophy 11 Comments

Now back to John Dewey who felt that his instrumental view of reality did away with the philosophical problem of mind and matter.  Prior to communication reality is an unending stream of events that are …

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Communication and the Mind

Jeff Carreira January 7, 2010 Philosophy 11 Comments

I still have a few more thoughts about John Dewey’s profound book “Experience and Nature” to develop in this post and the next before I get to explain what hit me while I was reading …

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What World Are We Talking About?

Jeff Carreira December 19, 2009 Philosophy 15 Comments

I have taken in a great deal of information over the past month or so and seemed time to step back and take yet another stab at my own current best-guess assimilation of this investigation. …

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The Emergence of the Universe

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2009 Philosophy 13 Comments

In my last two posts I introduced Peirce’s phenomenology of thirdness. The American Pragmatists were exploring a perspective of unified emergence that was taking the implications of Darwin’s evolutionary theory into the realm of metaphysics. …

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The Thirdness of Peirce, the Worlds of Heidegger and Conscious Evolution

Jeff Carreira December 12, 2009 Philosophy 1 Comment

I want to go in a little deeper into Peirce’s conception of the three modes of being, Firstness, Secondness and Thirdness. By Firstness Peirce is referring to pure being. Firstness is the unseen, imperceptible essence …

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