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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The brain may be the condition for experience. It does not follow that it is the content of experience.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Asking what life means presupposes life is a sentence, one homo oeconomicus wrote.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Also wo Hölderlin recht hat... „Ach! wie ein Knabe, seh ich zu Boden oft, Such in der Höhle Rettung von dir, und möcht, Ich Blöder, eine Stelle finden, Alleserschüttrer! wo du nicht wärest.“ - aus: Der Zeitgeist

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Does democracy contain a contradiction? Democracy legitimizes power by making it collective. But this requires bureaucracy, replacing popular control with procedure. Self-governance turns inside out: institutions we built to rule ourselves confront us as an alien force rather than our own agency.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Kunst wird zum Fitnessgerät fürs Ego: ein Instrument, das nur eine Übung kennt – bestätigen, beipflichten. Bloß nicht mehrdeutig, widersprüchlich, unbequem.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I see; it’ll be interesting to see how you develop this dissonance. As I understood your earlier point, the reciprocal angle (analytic thinness creating a void the right can fill) is particularly engaging.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

If the liberal-analytic stance indirectly motivates authoritarian backlash, is that a weakness of liberalism itself, or a misappropriation by bad-faith actors?

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It is itself not grounded empirically but precisely that which it is held against sometimes: conceptual or philosophical reasoning.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

And the test, which is often upheld against philosophy for being the measure for „real“ science, shows itself to be reliant on the very philosophical reflection it often contrasts itself with:

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Which means the empirical project rests on a theoretical assumption. And in that sense, even the act of testing is an expression of thought (or theory), not something purely empirical. Thus, it seems to me, the foundation of empirical sciences is thought and not the empirical realm.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It shows that empirical science depends on a philosophical presupposition about what scientifically sound knowledge is. Put differently: If the necessity of testing cannot itself be tested, then the principle grounding empirical science is not empirical but theoretical.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

What I worked out thus far: Though empirical testing is not part of the truth-conditions of a theory but part of its justification: the (justificatory) framework is itself not empirical tested. The principle that only empirically testable claims count as scientific is an act of thought.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Since the empirical demonstration that confirms a scientific theory is itself a theoretical assumption, which says that we need such an empirical demonstration, what confirms this assumption that we need an empirical demonstration?

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I am a bit late to the party, but what a wonderful book „A Little Life“ by Hanya Yanagihara is.

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Steffen Bonhoff @steffensgeist.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Enjoying some time off (and food) at the beautiful Côte d'Azur

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