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 [...]

Gary and Peirce on Mind and Functionalism

Gary, over at Minds and Brains has a discussion of functionalism and mind. The actual topic is a debate over Metzinger’s theory of consciousness which Gary is having with various OOP critics. Now I’ve never read Metzinger and have barely dipped into OOP so I’ll wisely remain silent on those topics. However Gary wrote something [...]

Heidegger and Epistemology II

Quick quote from that thesis, “The Status of Epistemology in the Thought of Martin Heidegger,” I mentioned earlier today. Here Bartels is speaking of knowing as bringing out of concealment – an important notion in Heidegger. The idea is that knowledge isn’t merely propositional knowledge or awareness but a kind of know-how for revealing something. [...]

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 [...]

Quick thoughts on OOP

I’ve been reading Graham Harman’s Prince of Networks this week. It’s been on my “to read” list for well over a year now . I’m pretty glad I read it. I need to reread it before making any firm comments. First readings are always dangerous things and typical one misreads in key areas. My sense [...]

Pragmatism and Nihilism

Peter Lawler had an interesting post on the Civil War up at Postmodern Conservative. I’m never sure how to deal with these counterfactual investigations of major past events. So speculating on the ramifications of the South winning are hard for me. That said, clearly some low probability events happen that significantly shape history. And just [...]

More on the Prefix Paradox

I’ve been thinking a bit more about the Prefix Paradox from the other day, as I don’t think I really put into words well my objections. First, I think when considering it one ought distinguish between belief, assertion, and judgment. The most interesting aspects of the “paradox” are in my mind the epistemological ones. And [...]

Cosmology and Realism

I was rereading an old post from Deontologistics on Heidegger and realism. Part of his discussion is what he perceives to be the change in Heidegger’s thought from the middle to late period. One of the big changes he sees is that concealments becomes not just a feature of Dasein but the outside world itself. [...]

Peirce & Being

My wife just had our daughter today (our third child) so posting will be light. I’m somewhat incoherent from lack of sleep, as you might expect. I long ago learned that writing while sleep deprived is never a good idea. That said I’ve been reading a bit here as my wife and baby sleep and [...]

Virtual Peirce

Since the early 90′s at least the word “virtual” has become a buzz word. Since The Matrix it’s entered into common venacular and been applied to virtual worlds (video games like Halo or more social sites like Second Life) However it’s also had a fair use within philosophy as well. The idea goes back at [...]

Heidegger, Humans and Language

I think it safe to say that one of the more interesting parts of the latter Heidegger is where he talks about language. One of the more famous quotes is that man doesn’t have language but rather language has man. This has always reminded me of Peirce’s quote that man is a symbol, even though [...]

Ereignis and Peirce

Enowning has up a great little quote from Jussi Backman’s “The Singularity of Being and the Fourfold in the Later Heidegger” which gets at Ereignis. Upon reading it I immediately thought of Peirce. I think this is a good place to examine some of the differences between Peirce and Heidegger instead of their overlap. Some [...]

Best OOO Papers and Books?

So after I finish my Hegel and Badiou I wanted to get deeper into Object Oriented Ontology. Now I read quite a few blogs that engage with OOO such as Object Oriented Philosophy , Hyper tiling, Deontologistics, Larval Subjects and so forth. (Sorry, too lazy too look them all up) What I really want is [...]

Materialism and Idealism

Sorry – haven’t had time to finish my other post. I did want to briefly common on a recent post of Levi’s on materialism and correleationalism. Levi notes that both are forms of reductionism. “The variations of anti-realism all seek to reduce objects to some human related phenomenon, while the variants of materialism always seek [...]

Mormonism, Externalism and OOO

I’d brought up at LDS-Herm my recent comments on Heidegger, Peirce and externalism. While this is one of those topics where there appears no over LDS connection I did find it interesting that this discussion was so close to topics I’ve been studying off and on for many years. In fact this blog got started [...]

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