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Introduction
This book comprises four essays, excluding the current introduction and the short conclusion at the end. With respect to style and thematic content, all essays both share a common ground and have their own ind...
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Conclusion
We ended chapter four with a discussion on what I called the impasse of reason, in which I suggested that reason cannot affirm itself as reason. There is no meta-reason, no meta-rationality, just as there is no m...
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The Excess of Descartes’ First Principle of Philosophy
This chapter comprises a rewriting of Descartes’ first principle of philosophy, Cogito, ergo sum. It follows the Meditations on First Philosophy along the path of the excess informing the method of the Meditation...
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The Weight of Desire
The focal point of this chapter is the question of the entanglements between meaning and desire. The essay is guided by readings of Lacan’s theory of the (subject of the) signifier and of Wittgenstein’s reflec...
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The Other Side of ‘the Hard Problem of Consciousness’
This chapter concerns the famous point of mystery in naturalist philosophy of mind, namely the question of how to account for the qualitative character of consciousness in a fundamentally material universe. In...
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The Truth of Desire Is Spoken Between Naked Souls: Reading Plato’s Gorgias
This chapter presents an, arguably, unconventional reading of Plato’s famous dialogue Gorgias. The claim is that the dialogue illustrates, or animates, how questions of truth and meaning are tied to ethics by ...
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Introduction
This introductory chapter argues that the great excitement around the discourse of mind is not generated by legitimate scientific expectations but by an obscure notion that uncovering the truth about the mind ...
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So Much Fuss About Nothing: The Moral Dynamics of the Mind-Body Problem
By way of critical engagement with naturalist philosophy of mind and Jacques Lacan’s theory of subjectivity, this chapter argues that the mind-body problem, or rather the inner-outer split, is rooted in moral-...
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To Think for Oneself—Philosophy as the Unravelling of Moral Responsibility
The main aim of the paper is to try to show how I see Wittgenstein’s (“later”) philosophy and its focus on clarity of thought to be essentially pointing towards the notion of personal responsibility. Two inter...
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Machines and the face of ethics
In this article I try to show in what sense Emmanuel Levinas’ ‘ethics as first philosophy’ moves our ethical thinking away from what has been called ‘centrist ethics’. Proceeding via depictions of the structur...
