Evolution and Theology

Yes, I’m really behind on blog posts here. Sorry, I’ve been quite busy. Larval Subjects had an interesting post on theology and evolution. It’s primarily brief comments on Nagel, Fodor and Plantinga responding to Darwinism. However Levi raises a good critique I’ve heard both from more fundamentalist critics of evolution as [...]

Philosophical Focus

I notice one other interesting thing at the materialism post at Larval Subjects. Levi says the following:
And moreover, as Graham likes to say, if you only ever find yourself talking about the human-world relation then you’re a correlationist. If your philosophy has nothing significant to say about the relation between a rock and soil, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Heidegger and Realism

Heidegger’s realism (or lack thereof) has been a topic of many blogs the past few weeks. Sadly it’s come right at what for me has been the second most busy time of the year. So other than the occasional comment at other blogs I’ve not said much. I still don’t really have [...]

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 [...]

Dreyfus and Heidegger

Interesting post over at Minds and Brains. It makes a claim about Dreyfus that is intriguing. (Dreyfus of course has a well received commentary on Being and Time as well as a highly influential class at Berkeley on the same that many subscribe to via iTunes U)
…it is this feature of Heideggerian thought [...]

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 [...]

Levinas, Heidegger & Objects

Enowning linked to a post by dis|closure on “enjoying your objects.” It’s interesting as it raises one place where I think Levinas simply gets Heidegger wrong.
Levinas refutes the Heideggerian notion that the existents in our lives, whether they be bread, hammers, pens, etc. are simply tools, or “means of life.” Levinas [...]

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 [...]

Back from the Beyond

Well I’m back to blogging. I was in the hospital for two weeks and then spent three weeks at home on oxygen. I’m now able to be out a bit without oxygen so long as I don’t do too much physical and so long as there isn’t an inversion here in the valley. [...]

Ethics and the Death of God

I was reading a post at Secular Right that was bringing up the old canard about needing the idea of God to ground moral order. This is the idea that atheism intrinsically leads to immorality. Now of course this is demonstrably false. I don’t see any evidence that atheists or agnostics in [...]

Sartre’s Existentialism and the Meaning of Life

Maverick Philosophy has a post up on Sartre’s Existentialism and the Meaning of Life. It seems to me some of the critique applies to Mormons. Mormon thinkers have often tended to adopt a Nietzschean or Satrean approach to the meaning of life – but one in which there is a kind of overcoming [...]

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