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Alienation, Marx and the Logic of Estrangement - Ray Brassier

For philosophers of a realist stamp, psychological nominalism, understood as the claim that all awareness is a linguistic affair ( EPM 160), is of a piece with philosophical behaviorism, which allegedly denies the reality of consciousness. If psychological nominalism is complicit with this denial-which strikes many philosophers as absurd-some would say it deserves to be relegated to the dustbin...

Ray Brassier - Mad Black Deleuzianism: On Nick Land (Accelerationism)

Practices and Processes: Object Naturalism, Subject Naturalism, Process Naturalism - Ray Brassier

Nominalism denies the existence of abstract entities (universals, forms, species, propositions, etc.). Traditional nominalism proceeded from an empiricist epistemology that challenges the very possibility of metaphysics, whether idealist or materialist. The critique of empiricism is taken to entail the refutation of nominalism. But nominalism contains a valuable insight for naturalists: reality...

Ray Brassier - Concrete Rules And Abstract Machines

Donald Davidson and John McDowell On Subjectivity

Central to Wilfrid Sellars’ account of human cognition from the 1950’s onwards was a clear distinction, expressed in varying terminology in his different works, “between conceptual and nonconceptual representations” (as he put it in his 1968 book, Science and Metaphysics: Variations on Kantian Themes). His account of nonconceptual sensory representation, however, was one of those things that sh...

Much recent discussion of Sellars’ philosophy has fruitfully focused on his famous rejection of the myth of the given and his conception of knowledge as a normative standing within the logical space of reasons. What I want to focus on here is Sellars’ account of conceptual change, and in particular its bearing on familiar topics in Sellars’ philosophy beyond its most clear application to the ca...

When there is finally no unilateral triumph for Mephistopheles nor Faustus bleeding in despair. When Faustus finally cherishes his own damnation and the Mephistophelian satanic grandeur redeemed. Hannibal and Will- NBC Dolce ALPA

Midnight Mass

Prisons and Prison Abolitionism (Noam Chomsky & Robert Brandom)

Explicating Explication : Carnap, Strawson and Ordinary Discourse

The Cossacks (Leo Tolstoy) - Unabridged Audiobook

The Tyranny of Property: Thomas Piketty`s Capital and Ideology

Holy Wars : Secularism and the Invention of Religion

Neoliberalism : The Ideology At The Root of All Our Problems

The Minds of Plants and the Cognitive Capacities of our Vegetal Cousins

The Politics of Logic : Nationalism and Logical Analysis

Why Jürgen Habermas disappeared

Marxism and Buddhism

The Volatile Nature of the Stock Market

Wittgenstein, Language Games and the Violence of Words

Emotional Inflammation

Visceral Politics and The Rational Animal

Philosophy Tool Kit & Philosophical Heuristics

The Future Encyclopedia of Luddism

A Belief in Meritocracy is not only False it’s Bad for you

13 Sellars : “Being and Being Known” 1960 part 1