Ray Brassier – Nominalism, Naturalism and Materialism
Ray Brassier (b.1965) is a member of the philosophy faculty at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, known for his work in philosophical realism. He was formerly Research Fellow at […]
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Art Is A Memory
Siri Hustvedt is one of our leading essayists here in the US on art appreciation and here she shares her reflections on paying attention, experiencing, and memorializing, does her take […]
Reason, Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiM7IwZWW5g Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault) present the revenge of naturalism on rationalism. Hegel teaches…
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)
It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two decades, practice theory […]
Only An Expert
The song “Only an Expert” was released as a 12″ vinyl single on May 18, 2010 by Laurie Anderson, an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YM8t29gD8J8 Initially trained […]
Heidegger and the Ecology of Knowing
Levi Bryant has a interesting post up on Heidegger (here), wherein he moves from a damn fine summary of ‘equipmentality’ to a discussion of cognitive blindness (although without reference to […]
Ontological Commitments
The new issue of Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism is out and it looks fantastic. The question this issue seems to be asking is ‘what is speculative realism, if it is […]
Trevor Pinch – Cooking up Science: Tacit Knowledge, Science Experiments and Food Recipes
Trevor Pinch is a professor of sociology and STS at Cornell U. His main research centers on three areas (1) the sociology of technology and how users engage with technology, […]
Lost arts of finding our way
while I’m always leery of Romantic notions of going native, going back to the Garden, there is much to be re-membered in the worlds of crafting: AUDIO: Lost arts of finding […]
Aristotelian Science versus Pythagorean Science
Originally posted on Researchers Gone Wild:
In this post I will be exploring and elucidating the claim that in the 16th Century the underpinning philosophy of science turned from being…
Is it Possible to Get Our Materialism Back? An Inquiry into the Various Idealisms of Matter
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjPeWxvVjQ Georg Forster Lecture 2011
Noam Chomsky & Michel Foucault 1971 debate: On Human Nature
In 1971 two giants of intellectual activity debated philosophy and politics on Dutch television. Noam Chomsky (1928) is a linguist, historian, philosopher, critic and political activist. Often regarded as the […]
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