for a long time, philosophers have considered contemplative knowledge and thinking to be the specific perfection of the human species. from this point of view, philosophers such as aristotle and avicenna thought that the act of thinking was the highest activity leading to man's happiness. on the contrary, illuminative philosophers and gnostics in the islamic world only considered speculati...

Abstract Husserl’s most systematic phenomenological work, Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy. First Book: General Introduction to (Ideas I) (Husserl, 2014), differentiates pure transcendental phenomenology, as an eidetic science, from the science of mathematics. In line with tradition philosophy arguably—ante rem—stretching back Plato, Husserl contrasts phenomenology...

Abstract This article offers a reading of the “transcendental” character Alain Badiou’s and Giorgio Agamben’s ontologies. While neither Badiou nor Agamben are philosophers in Kantian sense, this argues that their respective projects ontology both recover aspects “classical” conception transcendentals. Not unlike how pre-modern conceived oneness, truth goodness as transcendental properties all t...

Abstract Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781–1832) left for posterity an impressive and astonishingly contemporary corpus of philosophical creativity. Not only does it cover numerous topics theoretical practical philosophy, from a panentheistic-cosmopolitan point view, but, in terms the history may be seen as one first works European pen which also appreciates Indian roots thinking their syst...

In this paper, we will be examining the question of personal identity in context Immanuel Kant?s philosophy, as well among contemporary Kantian thinkers such Christine Korsgaard. Our investigation focus primarily on those aspects issue that are relevant to moral philosophy. While some may believe is not a primary concern or it does merit extensive discussion, argue indeed significant philosophi...

In After Finitude, Meillassoux asks an epoch-defining question: how can we criticize both ideological dogmatism and skeptical fanaticism if the rise of is effect Kantian critical philosophy one must employ against dogmatism? Meillassoux's answer to argue in favor thought's ability access absolute necessity contingency. Agamben Laruelle give alternative answer. Although very different style argu...

Abstract This commentary attempts to contribute a further elucidation of Dominic Smith’s call for rehabilitation the transcendental in philosophy technology. On one hand, it focuses on why such is deemed necessary, particularly light diagnosis contemporary tendency towards reification and presentism . Postphenomenology discussed as challenge invitation clarify stakes. other this inquires into h...

In my article 'The impossibility of finitism: from SSK to ESK?' (Tyfield 2008), I argued that the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is an important, indeed necessary, precursor of an economics of scientific knowledge (ESK), opening the way for the empirical exploration of the impact of economic factors on the production of scientific knowledge. Without SSK's arguments for the irreducible ...

Abstract In this paper, I will reconstruct Kant’s theory of illusion from the perspective his transcendental philosophy. argue that it is dialectic as “logic illusion” grounds both theoretical and practical error traces them back to a common root: operation rationalizing by reason. analyze different kinds errors show how they are grounded in reason’s general propensity rationalize. The paper ex...