P. M. S Hacker
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199245697
- eISBN:
- 9780191602245
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019924569X.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
The logical positivists’ critical attitude towards metaphysics is sketched. Strawson’s conception of descriptive and revisionary metaphysics is described. Revisionary metaphysics is argued to be ...
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The logical positivists’ critical attitude towards metaphysics is sketched. Strawson’s conception of descriptive and revisionary metaphysics is described. Revisionary metaphysics is argued to be chimerical, and descriptive metaphysics is argued not to be a form of metaphysics at all. Strawson’s failure to account for the status of propositions of descriptive metaphysics is held to be remediable by reference to Wittgenstein’s conception of grammatical propositions that express norms of representation.Less
The logical positivists’ critical attitude towards metaphysics is sketched. Strawson’s conception of descriptive and revisionary metaphysics is described. Revisionary metaphysics is argued to be chimerical, and descriptive metaphysics is argued not to be a form of metaphysics at all. Strawson’s failure to account for the status of propositions of descriptive metaphysics is held to be remediable by reference to Wittgenstein’s conception of grammatical propositions that express norms of representation.
Frédéric Neyrat
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277551
- eISBN:
- 9780823280605
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277551.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapter three examines the construction of philosophical concepts. The chapter offers a defense of the imagination in the formation of metaphysical propositions. Arguing for a return to metaphysics, ...
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Chapter three examines the construction of philosophical concepts. The chapter offers a defense of the imagination in the formation of metaphysical propositions. Arguing for a return to metaphysics, Neyrat distinguishes philosophy from other disciplines by bringing attention to the out-of-place that drives philosophical thinking. What separates philosophy is its definition as a reflexive practice of atopia. At the same time, the madness of philosophical atopia leads philosophy toward its others: Chapter three concludes by investigating philosophical atopia as it inflects the sciences, art, religion, and politics.
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Chapter three examines the construction of philosophical concepts. The chapter offers a defense of the imagination in the formation of metaphysical propositions. Arguing for a return to metaphysics, Neyrat distinguishes philosophy from other disciplines by bringing attention to the out-of-place that drives philosophical thinking. What separates philosophy is its definition as a reflexive practice of atopia. At the same time, the madness of philosophical atopia leads philosophy toward its others: Chapter three concludes by investigating philosophical atopia as it inflects the sciences, art, religion, and politics.
Frédéric Neyrat
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277551
- eISBN:
- 9780823280605
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277551.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Atopias argues for a transcendence that is a relation between thought and the world, rather than an object or a substance that escapes the world. In doing so, Atopies intervenes within the fields of ...
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Atopias argues for a transcendence that is a relation between thought and the world, rather than an object or a substance that escapes the world. In doing so, Atopies intervenes within the fields of object-oriented ontology and speculative realism, as well as classical philosophy, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, ecology, and global studies. The book posits that existence must be thought prior to being. Neyrat’s radical existentialism becomes the basis for a new theory of being, understood as the self-differentiation of the existent. Such self-differentiation, or spacing, is fundamentally different than the “Grand Divides” that postructuralist theories have critiqued. The first part of the book develops a critique of saturated immanence, or a world that attempts to immunize itself by rejecting forms of transcendence. From here the book turns to an internal divergence at the heart of philosophy, offering a new reading of Socrates. The second part of the book is a theory of the “trans-ject,” or an existing living being that is formed from the outside. The third section of the book examines the creation of metaphysical propositions through the transgression of the law of the excluded middle. Elaborating a politics of existence, Atopias calls us to defend the eccentricity of the living against that which prevents the living from existing.Less
Atopias argues for a transcendence that is a relation between thought and the world, rather than an object or a substance that escapes the world. In doing so, Atopies intervenes within the fields of object-oriented ontology and speculative realism, as well as classical philosophy, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, ecology, and global studies. The book posits that existence must be thought prior to being. Neyrat’s radical existentialism becomes the basis for a new theory of being, understood as the self-differentiation of the existent. Such self-differentiation, or spacing, is fundamentally different than the “Grand Divides” that postructuralist theories have critiqued. The first part of the book develops a critique of saturated immanence, or a world that attempts to immunize itself by rejecting forms of transcendence. From here the book turns to an internal divergence at the heart of philosophy, offering a new reading of Socrates. The second part of the book is a theory of the “trans-ject,” or an existing living being that is formed from the outside. The third section of the book examines the creation of metaphysical propositions through the transgression of the law of the excluded middle. Elaborating a politics of existence, Atopias calls us to defend the eccentricity of the living against that which prevents the living from existing.
