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Two conceptions of absolute generality
What is absolutely unrestricted quantification? We distinguish two theoretical roles and identify two conceptions of absolute generality: maximally...
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Meillassoux: Hermeneutics of the Absolute
The Conclusion offers a brief overview of Quentin Meillassoux’s neo-realism, which asserts that it is possible to bypass the interference of human...
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The negative theology of absolute infinity: Cantor, mathematics, and humility
Cantor argued that absolute infinity is beyond mathematical comprehension. His arguments imply that the domain of mathematics cannot be grasped by...
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Graham Harman: Politics of the Absolute
Within the last fifteen years, there has been somewhat of a mini-renaissance of the philosophical concept of the absolute found not only in Quentin...
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The Three Moments and Absolute Justice
A conclusion in the form of a tapestry is no conclusion for granularity is not about tying up the loose ends. It is rather about not being able to...
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The Moral Argument Against Monarchy (Absolute or Constitutional)
I argue that monarchies, in any possible form (absolute or constitutional), should be abolished once and for all. This is because of the deeply...
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Gödel’s Absolute Proofs and Girard’s Ludics: Mutual Insights
Is it possible to characterize the notion of proof in terms of acts, without focusing on a specific domain of application and a specific linguistic...
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A Step Towards Absolute Versions of Metamathematical Results
There is a well-known gap between metamathematical theorems and their philosophical interpretations. Take Tarski’s Theorem. According to its...
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The Unmeasurability of Absolute Velocities from the Point of View of Epistemological Internalism
Absolute velocities in Newtonian mechanics are commonly regarded as unmeasurable. Roberts (Br J Philos Sci 59(2):143–168, 2008) provides a...
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Negative, Positive, and Complementarity: Remarks on Schelling’s Absolute Idealism
Schelling’s late philosophy consists of two philosophical representations, i.e., his negative and his positive philosophy. Whereas his negative...
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Grace Andrus de Laguna’s 1909 critique of pragmatism and absolute idealism: a contextualist response to Katzav
In a move characteristic of appropriationist approaches to the history of philosophy, Katzav (Asian Journal of Philosophy 2(47):1–26, Katzav,
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Du Châtelet on Absolute and Relative Motion
In this chapter, we argue that Du Châtelet’s account of motion is an important contribution to the history of the absolute versus relative motion...
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God’s absolute immutability vis-a-vis his real relation with the world
The absolute immutability of God, as it was expounded by many ancient and medieval thinkers such as Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, contends that...
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Iterations of the Absolute: Hegel, Meillassoux and Object-Oriented Ontology
This essay continues and develops my interest in the differences between various formulations of ‘the Absolute’ in German Idealism and its...
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Exiles in the Twenty-First Century: The New “Population Law” of Absolute Capitalism
Addressing the dramatic situation of migrants and refugees in the Euro-Mediterranean and Euro-British space, Étienne Balibar mobilizes and questions...
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Levels of the absolute in Husserl
Edmund Husserl’s ultimate aim was to give an overall philosophical explanation of the totality of Being. In this endeavour, the term “absolute” was...
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Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations
The rise of violence across the world raises a number of questions pertaining to human relations in our societies. There seem to be concerns...
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The Emptiness of Being: Schelling and Nishitani on the Problem of Absolute Negation
Schelling and Nishitani both confront the problem of absolute negation in post-Kantian philosophy and drive it beyond its eventual development into...
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Fleeing the Absolute: Derrida and the Problem of Anti-Hegelianism
Derrida defines différance as the “interruption of Hegelian dialectics.” Although scholars have noted that Derrida pursues his critique of Hegel by...