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 [...]

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 something not itself. All [...]

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 knowledge. Now [...]

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 scandal in [...]

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 [...]

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