One Last One on Realism

One last post on realism. Graham has up a post on how everyone wants to be a realist. I think this really brushes under the rug what is the real bone of contention. (No pun intended) What kind of realism? I think some are shocked that people defend Derrida as a realist while never asking [...]

Peirce & OOP

OK, last post on OOP. I promise. It’s just not fair to discuss it until I know it better otherwise I’ll just end up critiquing a strawman. That said something obvious struct me while thinking about Peirce (who talks about objects a lot given their place in his semiotics) and OOP. The main focus of [...]

Derrida and Basic Ontology

There’s been a whole lot of discussion at the various OOP related blogs the past few days on Derrida. Most of it appears to be tied to some discussions over at Levi’s blog. Graham talks about it here and then some additional comments here. Levi then chimes in as well. There’s two interesting aspects to [...]

Trumpery, Heidegger and Derrida

Graham Harman has had up a few posts on what he calls trumpery. The latest includes some bits about Heidegger and Derrida. First let me quote the Derridean bit. Orthodox Derridean: “…as in the shallow and naive charge that Derrida ‘reduces the world to a text.’” Comment: But Derrida does reduce the world to a [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology

One thing I’ve long wondered about is how to think about epistemology. On the one hand some of the approaches to epistemology common in the analytic tradition seem a bit off to me. I’ve not gone through the details of how this affects the practical reasoning, but clearly some of the critiques that Heidegger leveled [...]

Thoughts on Derrida and Realism

I thought I was a bit alone in how I read Derrida. I always took him as a bit of a realist – although not a realist of the correspondence sort. That is he opposes the traditional story since Descartes of a clear inside and outside. In this story realism is an account of how [...]

Beyond Realism and Idealism

I’ve been reading, off and on, various blogs by speculative realists. Since I’m still recovering my health I’ve not delved into any of their formal works yet. (Plus I still have some Badiou and Davidson to finish before starting any new projects) Still, some of the blog posts, especially by Harman, really make me think. [...]

Musings on Matter

Vallicella’s post on matter and Working Note’s post on Derrida and matter have had me thinking today. (When not working) Of course both materialism and naturalism have long been problematic terms — often more clearly defined in terms of what the author using them opposes. Merely tying the term “matter” to physics seems insufficient even [...]

God, Dasein and Omniscience

It’s interesting to ask, in a Heideggarian context, what God’s knowledge consists of. That is when we ask about God’s knowledge we are asking in the traditional philosophical context of a way of knowing best called theoretic knowledge. (That is representational) I think Heidegger argues persuasively that this sort of knowledge is only possible against [...]

Davidson and Derrida

From Ludwig’s Donald Davidson comes this pithy footnote on the relationship of Derrida and Davidson by Samuel Wheeler III.

Peirce on Universals

A few Peircean thoughts related to that quote about Derrida from yesterday.

Derrida and Universals

This is a great quote I came upon. It deals with Derrida but applies equally to Pierce’s conception of universals. (I’ll see if I can’t find a Peirce quote tomorrow) I think Derrida was actually somewhat influenced by Peirce here. (Looking at this section on Peirce in On Grammatology) Although I think his primary influence [...]

Davidson & Rational Animals

Getting back to my Davidson readings in Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective, I found the paper “Rational Animals” rather interesting. This is the old idea that what separates man from the animals is reason. Now some, especially animal rights activists, don’t like this idea. While I agree that it’s likely there is a matter of degree in [...]

Intentionality and Potentiality

Maverick Philosopher on Intentionality and Potentiality. “Reference to an object is thus an intrinsic feature of mental states and not a feature they have in virtue of a relation to an existing object. This is why Brentano speaks of the ‘intentional in-existence of an object.’ It is also why Husserl can ‘bracket’ the existence of [...]

Rorty on Derrida on Heidegger

Enowning links to a blog that has a paper of Rorty on Derrida on Heidegger. It’s worth reading not because Rorty gets Derrida right (although I think he often does). Rather reading through the paper it reminds me of an anecdote about Derrida and Rorty that someone related in the comments at Leiter Reports. It’s [...]

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