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Reading Philosophy Today

Posted by Edward Willatt on Thursday, August 19, 2010, In : Transcendental Philosophy 

A very interesting debate has been taking place between different bloggers over the way we should read philosophy.  The issue is whether thinkers like Kant, Husserl or Derrida can be presented as realists in order to meet the challenges posed by speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy.  The notion that such philosophies are caught in the ‘correlationist circle’, as Quentin Meillassoux argues, has been challenged by those seeking to establish the realist credentials of these phi...


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Transcendental Philosophy Today

Posted by Edward Willatt on Monday, May 24, 2010, In : Transcendental Philosophy 

The challenge posed to transcendental philosophy by forms of naturalism has been a theme of philosophy since Kant.  However, the challenge today is particular strong and its arguments persuasive.  The emerging movements of speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy continue to gather momentum.  Transcendental philosophy is charged with being limited by the correlation between thought and being or consciousness and reality.  It suffers from a lack of ambition, a modesty that makes it a...


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Meillassoux, Kant and Absolute Contingency

Posted by Edward Willatt on Saturday, August 1, 2009, In : Transcendental Philosophy 
I would like to put forward some reflections in response to the Speculative Realism movement and its challenges to Transcendental Philosophy. In chapter 4 of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude we find a critique of arguments from probability. The basis for this is the rejection of the notion that we can totalise reality and then argue on the basis of probability or chance. This opens the way for making contingency ‘absolute’ because we don’t have to secure either a metaphysical abso...
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Showing category "Transcendental Philosophy" (Show all posts)

Reading Philosophy Today

Posted by Edward Willatt on Thursday, August 19, 2010, In : Transcendental Philosophy 

A very interesting debate has been taking place between different bloggers over the way we should read philosophy.  The issue is whether thinkers like Kant, Husserl or Derrida can be presented as realists in order to meet the challenges posed by speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy.  The notion that such philosophies are caught in the ‘correlationist circle’, as Quentin Meillassoux argues, has been challenged by those seeking to establish the realist credentials of these phi...


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Transcendental Philosophy Today

Posted by Edward Willatt on Monday, May 24, 2010, In : Transcendental Philosophy 

The challenge posed to transcendental philosophy by forms of naturalism has been a theme of philosophy since Kant.  However, the challenge today is particular strong and its arguments persuasive.  The emerging movements of speculative realism and object-oriented philosophy continue to gather momentum.  Transcendental philosophy is charged with being limited by the correlation between thought and being or consciousness and reality.  It suffers from a lack of ambition, a modesty that makes it a...


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Meillassoux, Kant and Absolute Contingency

Posted by Edward Willatt on Saturday, August 1, 2009, In : Transcendental Philosophy 
I would like to put forward some reflections in response to the Speculative Realism movement and its challenges to Transcendental Philosophy. In chapter 4 of Quentin Meillassoux’s After Finitude we find a critique of arguments from probability. The basis for this is the rejection of the notion that we can totalise reality and then argue on the basis of probability or chance. This opens the way for making contingency ‘absolute’ because we don’t have to secure either a metaphysical abso...
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