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. The difference is between being in a certain state and knowing oneself to be in a… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence. — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.” — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
