Giving Quote by Ray Brassier

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

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

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

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence.

— Ray Brassier

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

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

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

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

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

“Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.”

— Ray Brassier

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

I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth.

— Ray Brassier