Archive for the ‘ontology’ Category
A long erratic path has led me back to looking at biology and bio-philosophy as part of a book project on the relationship between German Romanticism/Naturphilosophie and French Structuralism and Materialism. Having read both analytic Philosophy of Biology (especially Grene and Depew) and various Bio-Philosophies (Bergson’s Creative Evolution, Canguilhem’s Knowledge of Life, various Deleuzian takes […]
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Tags: biology, biophilosophy, darwin, evolution, philosophy of biology
The final chapter of Kimhi’s text (the quietism of the stranger) turns back to the general concerns regarding the Parmendies and the two way split of thought. After the Aristotelian marathon of the previous chapter Kimhi looks at how Plato addresses the figure of Parmenides and critiques him without committing parricide. As Kimhi has it, […]
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Tags: irad kimhi, Paramenides, plato, Sophist
The first chapter of Kimhi’s book (The Life of P) begins to outline why Kimhi thinks there is a form of thinking logic that is neither purely logical nor purely psychological nor operating between a hard divide between those aspects. He begins to do this by analyzing how the law or principle of contradiction has […]
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Tags: analytic continental divide, begriffschrift, contradiction, Frege, irad kimhi, Meillassoux, noncontradiction, WIttgenstein
This will be a first in a series of posts as we read through Kimhi’s book. I am going to write up some notes while reading through Kimhi’s Thinking and Being. I have written about it generally before here and here. Building off of Paramenides famous philosophical fragment Kimhi wants to (potentially) realign the entire enterprise of […]
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Tags: analytic continental divide, greek thought, irad kimhi, logic, Paramenides, predication
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Tags: carnap, fictionalism, idealism, kant, pete wolfendale, quine, yablo
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
Naught Thought 