Category Archives: Hume

coining concepts

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

Eric Schliesser has a nice post up at the New Apps blog about the importance of creating concepts. What came as a surprise to me in this post was the relevance of creating concepts to the analytic tradition. As Schliesser … Continue reading →

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Parrots and Concepts

Posted on December 17, 2010 by

In one of his favorite examples, Robert Brandom points out that while a parrot may very well respond differentially to colors, and even say “red” when presented with a red swatch, the parrot is nonetheless responding much as a thermometer … Continue reading →

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Hume and Sex

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

There are many Humes out there. There is Hume the epistemologist, or more exactly the epistemologist, according to many in the analytic tradition, whose project failed because he lacked the philosophical resources of the twentieth century—namely, either a Fregean or … Continue reading →

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Deleuzian Supervenience

Posted on July 22, 2010 by

In his account of necessity David Lewis proposes that given two worlds that are exactly alike at time1, W and W*, and in which the same natural laws apply, then at any later time these two worlds will continue to … Continue reading →

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What is it like to be an object?

Posted on July 11, 2010 by

Early in his Treatise Hume proposes a simple challenge to anyone who would deal his system a fatal blow: come up with an idea that cannot be traced to a corresponding impression. Hume then offers a possible example, namely the … Continue reading →

Posted in Deleuze, Hume, Maimon, Speculative Realism | 6 Comments