Enough of Epistemology
I have worked on and developed several epistemological and methodological views and theses during the last few years. Not all of them are prima facie compatible, however. Here, I want to show that, in fact, they are, and thus complete some parts of the picture. (Readers who are new to the picture, I may add,...
Neo-Kantianism: Old and New and New and Old
Yesterday, I borrowed a book[1] from a friend (who is a cognitive neuroscientist-cum-philosopher and enamoured with Ernst Cassirer) about the original neo-Kantian movement that took place in Germany (and beyond) roughly a century ago. And here I just want to report the frustration that I feel upon realizing that there appears to be a gap...
Can You Count on the Implausible Pointlessness of Counting Plausibility Points?
A fairly common – although far from the only – argumentative strategy in metaethics is to round up the various positions there are on some topic, argue that they fail on one point or another, and then defend one’s own preferred view in virtue of others’ failures.[1] Perhaps one or two positive arguments for one’s...
Beyond Continental and Analytic: Prelude to (Yet) Another Philosophy of the Future
Everyone who has more than a passing interest in philosophy has heard of, and probably taken sides in, the debate that the Nietzsche-inspired title to this text refers to. It is the kind of debate[1] that requires taking a stand, given that it is so methodologically – and, perhaps, sociologically even more so – fundamental...