Archive for the ‘Kant’ Category
Time Melted Toy Brain
I cannot hope to provide a complete or even thorough review of Reza’s Intelligence and Spirit. S.C. Hickman has provided some reflections here but it would be a tall order for anyone to do a proper review (though I imagine one is forthcoming). This introduction by Robin Mackay is very helpful. Here I simply want to address […]
Filed under: cognitive science, Deleuze, Hegel, Kant, ontology | 1 Comment
Tags: Boltzmann, f.h. bradley, Hegel, McTaggart, philosophy of mind, reza negarestani, time, time consciousness
Returns, Divides, and Bridges
I am going to start writing on this blog again since I no longer have an immediate philosophy community and it’s at least one way to not go completely insane. What is occupying my time these days is trying to work through the analytic/continental divide (instead of merely talking about it as a problem to […]
Filed under: Hegel, history, Kant, Meillassoux, ontology, Speculative Realism | 1 Comment
Tags: analytic continental divide, bosanquet, ci lewis, cs peirce, Hegel, josiah royce, kimhi, logic, Meillassoux
For almost two years I have been working on a short book on the philosophy of F.H. Bradley. One of the most interesting aspects of Bradley is the role that he gives to experience and feeling. Though his foundation is a combination of Kant and Hegel (the emphasis of the self’s unity in the former […]
Filed under: Hegel, Kant, ontology, Schelling, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: experience, f.h. bradley, feeling, idealism, mass terms, plural logic
Metaphysical Bridges
There’s a very interesting (and extensive) interview with Pete Wolfendale over at Figure/Ground. One of the most exciting parts for me is the discussion of the analytic continental relationship which is something I have been working on more and more in the last 6 months (largely with Matt Hare at PAF). Pete says: The current […]
Filed under: Deleuze, history, Kant, Meillassoux, ontology, politics, Speculative Realism, Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Tags: carnap, fictionalism, idealism, kant, pete wolfendale, quine, yablo
Translations
A few brief notes on upcoming works in other languages. First, the Russian translation of Slime Dynamics (painstakingly done by Diana Khamis) will be coming out soon from Hyle Press. My recent review of Ferraris’ Positive Realism has been translated by Carlos Lema into Galician. It is available here. Lastly Anna Longo has translated my interview with Badiou from […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Schelling, Speculative Realism, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Tags: gabriel catren, German Idealism, idealism, Maurizo Ferraris, Michela Massimi, new realism, philosophy translations, ray brassier, Slime Dynamics
What Idealism Is and isn’t
“Shorn of its rational constraint, the banner of ‘realism’ by itself becomes strictly meaningless. In fact, the relations between ‘realism,’ ‘materialism,’ and ‘idealism,’ are of considerable dialectical complexity so I think it’s a mistake to brandish any one of them in isolation from the others. They derive whatever philosophical sense they posses from their contrastive […]
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Tags: Bradley, German Idealism, idealism, James Jeans, kant, Schelling
Maurizo Ferraris’ recent short text Positive Realism (Zer0, Dec 2015) attempts to define what his form of New Realism is against, and what it builds off of, engaging a wide range of philosophical positions (metaphysical realism, internal realism, scientific realism, Markus Gabriel’s New Realism, Harman’s ontology and others) while making a general claim to a philosophy […]
Filed under: art, Brassier, cognitive science, Harman, Hegel, Kant, ontology, Speculative Realism | 1 Comment
Tags: Markus Gabriel, Maurizo Ferraris, new realism, Philosophy, ray brassier, Speculative Realism, Tristan Garcia
Updates and Announcements
Having defended my dissertation Schelling’s Naturalism: Space, Motion, and the Volition of Thought I’m now in the strange position of looking for an academic job. But, in the meantime, I thought I would give a general update. 1 – Starting the end of this month I’ll be team teaching a course on German Idealism and […]
Filed under: art, Brassier, cognitive science, Deleuze, Hegel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, nature, ontology, Schelling, Speculative Realism, transcendental materialism | Leave a Comment
The initial chatter around Pete Wolfendale’s book generally seemed to fall into two camps. The first being that the text was merely a massive pile of vitriol directed towards OOOers with the second being the question ‘Why would Pete devote so much of his time to a provocation that may well go unanswered?’ Wolfendale addresses […]
Filed under: Badiou, Brassier, Deleuze, Harman, Hegel, Heidegger, history, Iain Hamilton Grant, Kant, Meillassoux, ontology, Speculative Realism | 8 Comments
Tags: Iain Grant, Markus Gabriel, ooo, oop, pete wolfendale, ray brassier
Naught Thought 