Zizek, Sexuation, Hegel: The Materialist Object of Desire
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One of the most provocative theses in Alain Badiou's philosophy is that love comes to supplement the non-rapport of the sexes. Love escapes the primordial narcissism of desire by initiating a...
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OBJECT-a AND OBJECT-u- Towards a Materialism of Desire and Love - _____________________________________________________________________ One of the most provocative theses in Alain Badiou's philosophy...
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View ArticleCorrespondence With Ray Brassier: On Sellars, Sensation and Conception
CORRESPONDENCE WITH RAY BRASSIER - On Sellars, Sensation and Conception - __________________________________________________Here I attach a series of correspondences between...
View ArticleDogmatismo y Crítica: En Diálogo con Vacío
Dogmatismo y Crítica:- En Diálogo con Vacío -________________________________________________En Vacío, Daniel Luna castiga lo naif en el antagonismo 'anti-academicista' propio de aquellos rebeldes...
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SELLARS, MCDOWELL, BURGE:- Perception as Non-Inferential Knowledge -__________________________________________I have been following my reading of Sellars in tandem with some pertinent secondary...
View ArticleHegel and Heidegger on Representation: Objectivity, Truth, Science
- HEGEL AND HEIDEGGER ON REPRESENTATION -Objectivity, Truth, Science __________________________________________________IntroductionIn his seminal essay The Origin of the Work...
View ArticleGabriel Catren and the Correlationist Circle
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View ArticleOntic Structural Realism and Scientific Realism: On Ladyman and Ross, Sellars...
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View ArticleBlackbox Realism: On Quine and the Indeterminacy of Translation
- BLACKBOX REALISM -On Quine and the Indeterminacy of Translation________________________________________________________Introduction In this paper I seek to develop some considerations...
View ArticleTwo Routes to Idealism? Sellars, Inferentialism and Mathematical Ontology
TWO ROUTES TO IDEALISM?- Sellars, Inferentialism and Mathematical Ontology -_____________________________________________I have been exchanging ideas for quite some time with Peter Wolfendale, on a...
View ArticleIn Defense of Semantic Holism
- In Defense of Semantic Holism - Brandom vs. Fodor/Lepore___________________________________Introduction In this paper I propose to assess Jerry Fodor's and Ernest Lepore's (Fodor 2000; Fodor and...
View ArticleOn Sellars and the Inconsistent Triad: Brassier and Brandom
On Sellars and the Inconsistent Triad:- Brassier and Brandom -________________________________ I have been continuing my study of Sellars' Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, and I think a few...
View ArticleOn the Analytic/Continental Divide: Philosophy and the State of Academia
- On the Analytic/Continental Divide - Philosophy and the State of Academia______________________________________________ Levi and others have been debating a bit about certain features of the...
View ArticleOn Badiou: Truth, Revolution, Decision
- ON BADIOU -Truth, Revolution, Decision ____________________________________ Beautiful post by Levi, and of course I agree. Even though I have finally parted ways with Badiou on philosophical...
View ArticleThe Desire for Desire: Can Psychoanalysis Speak About?
THE DESIRE FOR DESIRE- Can Psychoanalysis Speak About? -_______________________________________________Abstract/Introduction In this paper I seek to raise some questions concerning the status...
View ArticleThe Animal Beyond Being: Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben
- The Animal Beyond Being - Heidegger, Derrida, Agamben_________________________________________Introduction This paper examines some of the ramifications which follow from Heidegger’s...
View ArticleThe Non-Politics of "The Politics Of": Politics and Economy
THE NON-POLITICS OF "THE POLITICS OF":Politics and Economy / The Manifest Image and the Scientific Image__________________________________________Levi has been making some interesting comments about...
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