If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's no real difference between believing nothing matters and believing something matters. — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds,… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence. — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we now routinely interpret states of… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be.… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding oneself as a conscious being.… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life,… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic… — Ray Brassier Copy Share
