Philosophy Now Forum

It is also my appreciation that we humans mis-use our intellect to a degree where it completely fucks-up most people's lives. This idea is quite prevalent in modern psychotherapy, where there is talk of ’the dictator within’ and the ’problem-solving mind’ which prevents us from simply enjoying what...

Hello again, I’m very sorry. I am completely ignorant in philosophy and I was under the impression that contextualism pertained to the philosophy of mind, but on second thought I now suspect it might actually be considered a philosophy of knowledge (or science?). I’m really not sure. So this post ma...

Hello, I’ve been training in a type of psychotherapy called ACT (acceptance and commitment therapy), which is based on a type of philosophy of mind called functional contextualism. I have heard about functionalism before, but not functional contextualism. And when I go through university course curr...