The Pessimistic Idealist
Pessimistic IdealismThe ruminations and ponderings of a man in search of a further determination of the Absolute.
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Reflections on Elements of F.H. Bradley’s “Body–Nature” Antinomy
“The word Nature has of course more meanings than one. I am going to use it here in the sense of the bare physical world, that region which forms the object of purely physical science, and appears to fall outside of all mind. Abstract from...
Materialism and the “First Breath” of Mentality (A Revised Version with Objections (to the Original Argument) and Replies)
According to Materialism, there was, at some point in time, an instant, M, whose “content” was the first-ever mental state; and this instant, M, was preceded in time by a compact series of non-mental instants (i.e., a compact series wherein...
Inconsistencies in Keith Frankish’s Case Against Panpsychism (Part I)
I’m not a Panpsychist, or, rather, I’m not a Panpsychist in any contemporary sense of the term. Nevertheless, Panpsychism has a rich and rigorous history. It deserves to be taken very seriously. With that being said, I stumbled across an ar...
A Question Concerning Bernard Lonergan’s “Questions for Intelligence” and “Questions for Reflection”
According to Bernard Lonergan, “questions fall into two main classes. There are “questions for reflection,” and they may be met by answering ‘Yes’ or ‘No’. There are “questions for intelligence,” and they may not be met by answering ‘Yes’ o...
The Structure of Experience: A Hegelian Reading of Leibniz’s Mill
In §17 of The Monadology, there is an elegant, notorious, and, to my dismay, all too often misunderstood, gedankenexperiment—Leibniz’s Mill:
“It must be confessed, however, that Perception, and that which depends upon it, are inexplicabl...
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