When I first read the opening from Hobbes’ Leviathan as an undergraduate, I laughed. I laughed heartily. There was something clearly, and quaintly, absurd about his simple (though perhaps vaguely Rube-Goldberg-esque) chain of mechanistic causal events which for him became the workings of the universe. From Hobbes, Leviathan, Chapter 1: Of Sense: The cause […]
Having now crossed the introductory threshold into Rorty’s work, a few general notions have struck me. The first is that it seems to me that Rorty, despite having a varied set of philosophical positions as a youth (assuming his autobiography is correct) and during his early philosophical career, held a remarkably stable philosophical position from […]
In my attempt to learn a bit more from some “post”-analyitic philosophers, I’ve decided to begin by revisiting Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature ([amazonify]0691020167::text::::sold here[/amazonify]). I rather regret going back to this text before having had direct experience with the work of Heidegger in particular, but I am also displeased that I […]
(If you came from facebook, click on the “view original post” link to see animations and formatting, the article’s much prettier that way. If you were invited, it’s because I thought you might enjoy a little joyful reminder of the pragmatism you once studied. peace.) No doubt that one of the most salient sources of […]
So much for getting back into the habit of “blogging”. So much, also, for the promises of new reviews, thoughts, comments, and readings. I have not, of late, had quite the slew of time for which I had hoped, and that which I have been afforded was spent in ways previously unanticipated. What I have […]