Category: Meillassoux

Meillassoux, Multispecies Studies

Of Paraconsistent Times in a/the Nonmodern World

(excerpt from paper presentation in forthcoming conference) When Quentin Meillassoux (2008) proposed the theory of 'radical contingency' in contrast to the ontological spectrum of the 'necessity of being' whose 'telling symptom,' as Brassier (2007) notes, 'is the preoccupation with difference' prevalent in continental philosophy, he may not be aware that his unique treatment of contingency, … Continue reading Of Paraconsistent Times in a/the Nonmodern World

Anthropocene, Aquinas, Aristotle, Einstein, F.W.J Schelling, G.W.F. Hegel, Kant, Meillassoux, Newton, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity Theory, Schrodinger, Space Colonization

NATURE AS A POSTULATE

Advanced text for Webinar on Philosophy of Nature Introduction For the first part of my discussion, I would like to begin with Aristotle, one of the most influential pagans of the ancient world, who once said that humans are ‘adapted by nature to receive virtues.’   Hundreds of centuries later, Thomas Aquinas, the  angelic doctor, expanded on … Continue reading NATURE AS A POSTULATE