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On Decision-Making Considerations in Light of Meta-Data with Dubious...
(Note: With permission of the author, I have appended Roy Sorensen’s “The Practical Dogmatist,” and you may click here to view it.) There was an interesting paper (a couple of them, actually) presented...
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A Primer on Virtuality and Contingency
In one of Slavoj Žižek’s numerous talks, he discusses the notion of “virtuality” in a very insightful way, paraphrasing something Donald Rumsfeld said: “There are known knowns. These are things we...
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Autopoiesis and Kant’s Theory of Time
Kant had a pretty trippy and extremely fascinating view of time. (The Hstorical Dictionary of Kant and Kantianism says “innovative,” which I gladly grant.) For Kant, time is a “pure form of sensible...
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The False Dichotomy of Theism/Deism and Atheism in Meillassoux’s “Spectral...
One of the salient features of ideas I like to discuss is originality. That is an attribute that I see in much of Meillassoux’s work, the primary reason for my continued fascination with him. The...
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Reasons to Be Excited about Immanuel Kant, Or, Why Should I read Kant?
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”...
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Cognition as Negation
The cognitive version of the onto-epistemic stance paper can be acquired by clicking on: Cognition as Negation. Unfortunately, due to length restrictions, I had to summarize the original...
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Why Emergence Doesn’t Emerge and Secondary Qualities Are Not Secondary
This is the full, uncut version of the paper I sent to the Harvard-MIT graduate philosophy conference. It is entitled, “Why Emergence Doesn’t Emerge and Secondary Qualities Are Not Secondary.” I may...
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Meillassoux: On the Road to Absolutizing Phenomenology
At a conference I presented at, held at Duquesne University, notable scholar, Adrian Johnston, stopped me in the middle of something I was saying. ‘Whoa, whoa,’ he said (and I paraphrase), ‘but...
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Examining and Thinking Through “The Simplest Possible Universe”
This is the first in a series of blog posts about a work done by Dr. David Lee Cale, professor at West Virginia University. Cale, a polymath, is chiefly a philosopher, trained in physics, political...
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Examining and Thinking Through “The Simplest Possible Universe”: Part II
This is the second in a series of blog posts about a work done by Dr. David Lee Cale, professor at West Virginia University. Cale, a polymath, is chiefly a philosopher, trained in physics, political...
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Why .9999… (Repetend) Is Not Equal to 1
I recently bumped into a graduate student in the economics department at the University of Pittsburgh, Shawn McCoy, and he brought to my attention that there are some folks who wish to claim that...
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The Subject-Object Divide, Corey Anton, and on the Priority Debate between...
Prefatory remark: I will be breaking this blog into two parts, due to its length. Corey Anton (of Grand Valley State University) recently published a series of videos (“Ontology”, “Epistemology Is a...
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The Subject-Object Divide, Corey Anton, and on the Priority Debate between...
With the conceptual baggage drawn out more fully and clearly marked, it is clear that the heart of the matter is overcoming correlationism, whose tenet of the subject-object split is paramount. A...
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Thoughts on a Fractured Reality
There is some discussion going on in the blogosphere (and youtube) about whether the world we live in is pluralistic or monistic. Critical Animal’s blog (click here) contains a list of some of these...
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There May Be No Such Thing as Quantity in Nature, with an Example from...
Some time ago, I was discussing the qualitative-quantitative divide with a friend, a medical doctor, who happens to be very interested in the philosophy of science. The discussion became a debate,...
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Understanding the Role of Kant’s Antinomies in Refuting Transcendental Realism
In one of my first blog posts, I posted the notes for help in understanding the role Kant’s antinomies play in the refutation of transcendental realism. It was just a skeleton of references and bits...
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A Philosophical Thought on the Oasis of Life on Mt. Pisgah
If I am not careful, I am going to begin sounding like my friend, Matt Segall —not a bad thing, just this blog post’s content is more his forte than it is my typical fare. I was recently hiking Mt....
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The Time Problem in “Cosmology from Quantum Potential”
Ahmed Farag Ali and Saurya Das recently published a paper in Physics Letters B, “Cosmology from Quantum Potential,” in which they discuss the reasonableness of a liquid quantum potential contra big...
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22nd Annual (2015) Kent State Philosophy Graduate Student Conference In...
The paper I presented at Kent State University’s Graduate Philosophy Conference can be found by clicking here. The paper is a reworking of a paper I wrote during Jordi Cat’s philosophy of time seminar...
View ArticleQuo Vadis, Materialism? Nowhere, It Seems…
I mentor a few young philosophers; which basically means young readers of philosophy pester me for answers, and I annoy them with corrective questions. Occasionally, I do give them something like an...
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