I’m glad to share my new book on organisms, biology and Kant:
When Metaphysics meets Biology. Kantian approaches to Concept of Organism. (Routledge)
The book is open access so you can download the pdf, read, share
#philsci #evobio #philbio #histbio #kant
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
I’m not surprised, the Catalogue of Ships is just really hard to digest
Daniel Dennett’s Real Patterns in Science and Nature— new collected volume is now out. All chapters open access, including my paper with Acyuth Parola on what emergence can possibly mean.
direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
A few screenshots from the Logic that I see direct links to in MP’s works.
A picture of a Furby. Or perhaps a devil. Hard to say
RETVRN
I wish I had known earlier how interesting Hegel’s ‘Logic‘ is. Very good work to compliment Merleau-Ponty.
Name change reminder: my book “Philosophical Fragments” is now titled “Karoline von Günderrode: Philosophical Writings.” Translations of #Günderrode's most philosophical works with accessible introductions. Out now! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)
The Muppets (1955 to present)
that you can simply pull out your phone at any time and place a bet is unacceptably low friction for such a dangerous activity
I got LA Olympics tickets! 🎟️ Preliminary men’s handball baby! Didn’t think there would be affordable tickets left but there were! 🎉
Congratulations to the people of Hungary!!🇭🇺 and all of us!
Thanks so much, Chris!
Thanks so much!
*Northcott Stonehenge fabrics
I made my own spin on the Misted Pines quilt! Such a beautiful pattern. Getting a variety pack of Stonehenge fabrics really made the blending work. #quiltsky
9/ “One is to deny it… [And] the inverse error [is] to treat this order of involvement as a transcendental, intemporal order, as a system of a priori conditions.”
8/ “Our life has… [an ensemble of past and present, words and bodies] the cohesion of which cannot be denied them since they are all differences, divergences of one same something. Before this inextricable involvement, there are two types of error:
7/ “Is not the dialectic, in every case the reversal of relationships, their solidarity… the intelligible movement which is not a sum of positions or of statements such as *being is*, *nothingness is not* but which distributes them over several planes, integrates them into a being in depth?”
6/ “[T]o say that [nothingness] *is not*, that it is pure negation: that is to fix it in its negativity, to treat it as a sort of essence… A philosophy of the negative cannot start from “pure” negation”
5/ “If we succeed in describing the access to the things themselves, it will only be through this opacity and this depth, which never cease: there is no thing fully observable, no inspection of the thing that would be without gaps and that would be total.”
4/ “The negations, the perspective deformations, the possibilities… I must now reintegrate into Being… which is staggered out in depth, conceals itself at the same time that it discloses itself, is abyss and not plenitude.”
3/ “The negativism, if it is rigorous, absolute, is a sort of positivism.”
“Everything is… clear when one has thought out [the negative] as negative. For then what is called negation and what is called position appear as accomplices and even in a sort of equivalence”
2/ “…will not simply cast it out of the world, but on the contrary will show me its place, its relative legitimacy, its truth… All that is partial is to be reintegrated, every negation is in reality a determination.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible
1/ “[W]hat he feels, what he lives, what the others feel and live… are not islets, isolated fragments of being: all this… is of being, has consistence, order, meaning, and there is a way to comprehend it. Even if what I live at present should reveal itself to be illusory, the critique of my illusion
1000 people started spontaneously chanting U-S-A in the San Diego air and space museum at splashdown And you know what? FUND AMERICAN SCIENCE. Imagine who we could be.
I am finding joy anywhere it can be found these days and the idea that Integrity has returned to earth is just... I really like it
“Monads” wins 👏🏻
Turns out getting affordable Olympics tickets is indeed difficulty, statistically, even if you get a place in the first half of the first ticket drop. No shocker there but still a bit of a bummer.
It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.