When we think about reality or talk about reality the big assumption we almost always make is that there is a reality to think and talk about. When Rene Descartes drew an astonishingly original distinction between the subject and the object he began a stream of thought that solidified a certain relationship to the concept [...]
All posts tagged Immanuel Kant
The Assumption of Reality
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 10, 2011
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2011/03/10/the-assumption-of-reality/
The Integral Assumption of American Philosophy
Mind cannot exist without matter; matter cannot exist without mind. This is what I have come to see as perhaps the most essential theme that runs through American philosophy. In the modern western world it is the French genius Rene Descartes that is cited as having definitively cleaved mind from matter res cogitans and res [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on January 20, 2011
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2011/01/20/the-integral-assumption-of-american-philosophy/
The Evolutionary Design of Charles Sanders Peirce
On January 17, 1884 Charles Sanders Peirce presented a paper called “Design and Chance,” to the members of the Metaphysical Club, an organization that he had founded during the brief time that he taught at Johns Hopkins University. The brief essay is strikingly original and deeply compelling because it gives us a snapshot of the [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on October 7, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/10/07/the-evolutionary-design-of-charles-sanders-peirce/
Kant, Coleridge and the Power of Intuition
My current presentation of the evolutionary ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a good place for a discussion about epistemology to fall in. How do we know what we know? is the question that epistemology asks. Sure we might know something is true, but how do we know it is true? What I am amazes me [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on June 24, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/06/24/kant-coleridge-and-the-power-of-intuition/
From the Enlightenment to the Romantic Revolution
For a time the rationality of the Enlightenment seemed to hail the final triumph of human reason. Soon the laws that operated behind the universe would all be known and humakind would be able to create the future it wanted. At least that is how it seemed for a while. If Copernicus is the most [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 7, 2010
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2010/03/07/from-the-enlightenment-to-the-romantic-revolution/
The Individual and Society
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770 –1831) was a leading figure in the movement of German Idealism initiated by Immanuel Kant and Hegel’s philosophy expanded on Kant’s theory of knowledge by adding a social and historical element. Kant had recognized that human beings create knowledge by using laws of reason to incorporate new sensual information cohesively [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 12, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/12/the-individual-and-society/
Commitment and Reality: From Kant to Peirce
There was more implied in Kant’s theory of knowledge than the fact that what we see is not an objective world in itself, but rather a picture that is created by us based on sense experience. (As if that wasn’t enough.) Besides stating that we are in an essential way the creators of the world [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 6, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/06/commitment-and-reality-from-kant-to-peirce/
Kant and the Creation of Reality
The American Philosophers from the Transcendentalists to the Pragmatists were all following in the footsteps of the great German Idealist Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804). This isn’t too surprising because all of Western Philosophy follows in the footsteps of Kant. In 1781 Kant published The Critique of Pure Reason and rocked the world of philosophy. [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on November 1, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/11/01/kant-and-the-creation-of-reality/
