I pretty much agree with all of this, so perhaps I shouldn't have poisoned the well by dragging in the word 'pragmatic', which, when it comes to N, is...
I'm not sure Nietzsche really holds to any unequivocal notion of truth - (cf. the famous: "What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies...
The only atheism worthy of the name: "Many contemporaries are in one important sense neither theists nor atheists—it isn’t so much that they think tha...
Haha, I've been intrigued by that book ever since I read this: https://griffithreview.com/articles/andrew-bolts-disappointment/ - a reflection on peop...
In both much worse and much better than this in Nietzsche: "Once you know that there are no purposes, you also know that there is no accident; for it ...
As I understand it, the connection between the two here in Nietzsche is not just incidental or rhetorical but essential: it is because Nietzsche is wi...
The wedding vow was already one of Austin's paradigmatic examples of a performative speech act, which Massumi is simply recapitulating in his own way:...
I most definitely do not mean the scientific model. My outlook is informed more by a Deleuzian approach than anything, where things like 'unity' and '...
What about a more dynamic conception in which things that are 'metaphysically separate' become 'unified', and things that are unified become separate?...
Just to be clear, I didn't call anyone here a monster. I don't for a second believe that most people, including those here, would, when confronted wit...
Put it this way: paradoxes indicate a failure of thought, and say nothing - literally nothing - about their object. To the degree that Frankfurt's arg...
No. Ethics is among the most pedestrian of all things. We practice it with our every breath, and we talk about it with friends, colleagues, and lovers...
I doubt you - or most people - go about intellectualizing ethics in your day to day life. Only when you talk about it on philosophical forums. Only wh...
All I'm saying is, it takes a special kind of (philosophical) idiot to think: "'how should one live: now there's a question that is 'systematically in...
I didn't address it because I told you point blank that's not what I said. But sure, if you think ethical issues are best dealt with at the level of t...
As if 'how should one live' is an intellectual issue. As if it's a question posed at the level of propositions. This coming from a man who wrote 'on b...
*yawn*. Objectivity is just repeatability under invariant conditions. Ain't nothing to write home about. Also worth noting that in the medieval termin...
On the face of it, it's true that "I speak" doesn't generally function as a performative because it doesn't really commit one to anything. But, one ca...
I recently reread Giorgio Agamben's The Sacrament of Language, and something 'clicked' in me about the role that language plays in his work, so I've g...
Yes, yes, you've read a book and now you're a all about reading Descartes sensitively. But Descartes largely muddled his way through his own understan...
It always pains me a little bit when the popular press - or the non-philosophically inclined - take Descartes' maxim to be a self-evident statement, a...
Thinking about this a little more, another way to put all this is to remember that the PSR is simply a principle, and that principles can be made good...
The problem with answering this question in any straightforward way is that what kind of thing counts as a sufficient reason can be cashed out in a fe...
While it's true that the PSR has traditionally been pressed into the service of theistic arguments, that it necessarily entails a 'causally efficaciou...
I'm not, at this point, trying to justify the PSR at all. I'm just trying to give a flavour of what it might involve. It may well be the case that the...
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