For further months: J. P. Sartre - Existentialism is a Humanism Michel Foucault - What Is Enlightenment? Daniel Dennett - Intentional Systems Theory H...
Taking off my Brassier hat for the moment (and putting on my Deleuzian one), I'd say the best way to go about addressing this is to note that those sc...
Hey @"Pierre-Normand", I'm thinking about putting the Haugeland reading on there, but does it require familiarity with Dennett in order to read? Might...
Here's an argument: if Quine does in fact want to limit ontology to the 'semantical plane', then he makes language in some manner otherwordly: no long...
I'm not entirely concerned about what you do or don't think. The question remains: is there anything in Quine that in principle limits the question of...
I don't think it's a one way street, either from representation to material conditions or vice versa. The point is more that each feeds back - or rath...
In what sense wouldn't it be doing so? Call it a value judgement if you like: this would just to be say that our ontologies are based on value judgeme...
Thanks Pierre! Yeah, I did fumble over that a little, and in hindsight I would probably phrase that differently. Anyway, some initial commentary: amon...
That time of month again! Some suggestions: Gottlob Frege - On Sense and Reference Christine Korsgaard - Skepticism about Practical Reason Judith Butl...
I'm late to the party, but here's my attempt at a summary of what's going on here: The paper is basically broken into two parts. The first is an attac...
I think this is an important observation, but I see this more as a challenge for Brassier to address, not a problem for his conception of things in an...
Jeffrey Bell - The Problem of Difference: Phenomenology and Poststructuralism Jeffrey Bell - Philosophy at the Edge of Chaos: Gilles Deleuze and the P...
That part seems to be making the simple point that it is problematic to use contradictoriness as a criteria for meaninglessness because there are no c...
But Brassier's realism isn't cashed out in term of phenomenality but in terms of epistemology: it's not a question of appearance, but a question of kn...
I think this is fair point to make, but I suspect that the source of the slippage goes beyond Brassier's own inattention but to the inattention of tho...
Just finished reading what'll probably be my last book of 2015, so here's the years list :D : Agamben or books on Agamben: Giorgio Agamben - Homo Sace...
I'm not sure about this: given that the essay is meant to address an objection (to realism), it ought to stand on it's own. It's an argument against a...
Interesting passage to have picked out! Taking a stab at it, my guess would be that the readymades render explicit the distance or rather passage betw...
Giorgio Agamben has a beautiful essay on genius, in which he aims to show how genius designates not something we possess, but rather something that po...
Hello! Suggestions for next month anybody? Mine: Iris Marion Young - Throwing Like a Girl: A Phenomenology of Feminine Body Comportment, Motility, and...
Philosophy puts man in touch with the more-than-human within him: Nietzsche's inextirpable lesson, threatened with eclipse every time philosophy is pl...
Sure it does, but one mustn't confuse philosophy's being able to be used as a crutch for philosophy being nothing other than a crutch. This sort of in...
Again, these sorts of claims leave me indifferent. The so called 'distorted natural disposition' you speak of seems like nothing more than an idiosync...
Good thread. The trick when thinking about teleology is to avoid the double sided trap of taking teleology as an all or nothing deal: either teleology...
I don't really have much to say about Camus - I've only read Sisyphus and The Stranger - and it's been a long time since I read either. I think I once...
Frankly, there's few things that I feel are 'play' more than the abstraction of suffering that is purveyed by many who talk about it here. Maybe it's ...
Can't help but agree with John here: these sorts of discussions tend to reek of personal psycology disguised as philosophy. I don't doubt that there a...
You're right, knowing the position you're critiquing is an incredibly elitist expectation. Give me a moment while I come down to earth in order to mak...
'Interiority' and 'subjectivity' have nothing to do with conceptuality, at least not in the way that Sellars employs it. May I suggest farmiliarizing ...
@"schopenhauer1": It's a mistake to confuse concepts with "ideas" in the classical sense. For Brassier - and Sellars from whom he draws these ideas fr...
If the idea of essentialism lives on in DNA, it's because these outmoded ideas are so incredibly hard to shake that even scientists are quick to annex...
If everyone were a assigned a unique number at birth, this would no more speak to their essence than the use of DNA for the purposes of identification...
Right, the assumption of there being no difference needs to be defended, which means that the 'neutral' positon just is to assume a distinction betwee...
DNA most certainly does not function like an essence. Unlike what most people think, there is no one-to-one correspondence between a DNA sequence and ...
Sure, but as I said, the idea is that if such privileged access cannot be assumed, then the only alternative is to begin by making the assumption of s...
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