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 [...]

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 [...]

More Against Correlationism

Just a quick followup on yesterday’s post on Kant, Heidegger, Peirce and externalism. This is from Gary Fuhrman’s paper I’d linked to in the sideblog earlier.

Avoiding Correlationism

Enowning linked today to Graham Harman explaining Meillassoux’s correlationism critique in Philosophy Today. I thought this would be a great place to engage Peirce and Heidegger with each other.
The critique is roughly a Kantian critique. To think things in themselves fails since to think of it immediately turns itself into [...]

Religious Belief & Reformed Epistemology

One thing that many religious thinkers have appealed to in religious epistemology is the idea of reformed epistemology. This is roughly the idea that you can be justified in a belief without having the conditions of your justification before you. That is you can know without being able to give reasons for your [...]

Heidegger on Dewey

Despite having a lot of parallels with the pragmatism movement Heidegger had a very dim view of American philosophy and Dewey in particular.
Pragmatism in general but Dewey in particular thoughts that philosophy had to include all the other kinds of experiences we have beyond what philosophy had traditionally considered. This was a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Morris vs. Peirce

Most people who learn about Peirce end up learning about him indirectly. Even a lot of people who study semiotics or related disciplines never really get to read Peirce beyond perhaps a few major papers (typically from his pre-1890 period). The problem is that Peirce, as presented, tends to come more from Charles [...]

Peirce, Heidegger and Ready at Hand

Graham Harman has up a post about his theory of tool-use in Heidegger. (HT: Enowning) It’s an interesting post about ready-at-handedness in Heidegger.
Heidegger has a famous passage where he analyzes hammers to make a larger point. He suggests that while hammering we don’t notice the hammer. When it is [...]

Doubt, Reasons and Imitating Mathematics

Here’s your Peirce quote of the day. This is from the early Peirce but it is a killer quote I like to go back to a lot.
…the whole history of thought shows that men cannot doubt at pleasure or merely because they find they have no positive reason for the belief they already hold. [...]

Constraining Metaphysics

What constrains metaphysical thinking? I obviously don’t mean of necessity. Clearly we can imagine that we’re all brains in a vat, for instance, even if we don’t take it terribly seriously. But what ought constrain what we think about and give credence to?
Obviously on one hand all metaphysical thinking is fairly [...]

Consciousness Goes Away?

Elsewhere Blake made the following comment that really brought into focus a few things I’ve been thinking of the past couple of years.
The problem is that our “intelligence” goes away every time we sleep or get hit on the head. Our consciousness is clearly dependent on a functioning brain-nervous system in some sense.

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 [...]

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