Written by Joseph Samper Finberg Abstract ”Quid est enim tempus? Quis hoc facile breviterque explicaverit? ” Augustine of Hippo 1623 years ago wrote, to this day it speaks to the enigmatic and elusive nature of time, a concept that has puzzled philosophers and physicists for centuries. In this article, we … More Dasein und Unsinn: A Critique of Heidegger’s Non-Materialist Temporal Epistemology
Dasein und Unsinn: A Critique of Heidegger’s Non-Materialist Temporal Epistemology
Error 404 Digital-Dasein not found: a modern investigation into Heidegger’s Being-towards-death
Written by Caleb Knight In 1976, 49 years after the publication of Being and Time,1 Martin Heidegger came to his own demise in the hills of the Black Forest. In the same year on the opposite side of the globe Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs released the Apple I, Bill … More Error 404 Digital-Dasein not found: a modern investigation into Heidegger’s Being-towards-death
Engagement with the Environment: Our Surest Recourse in the Age of Environmental Crises
Written by Junhyung Han Abstract In this paper, I contemplate ways to make people voluntarily care about the environment and endeavor to ameliorate environmental problems. I aim at justifying the conclusion that if people engage with the environment, they care about and voluntarily becomes responsible for preserving its integrity. To … More Engagement with the Environment: Our Surest Recourse in the Age of Environmental Crises
Three Poems
By Nathan Cook Meditation Accordion shades are drawn, but the sun still dances delicately into my room, illuminating the void created from the lack of artificial light. The sun’s footwork shines and pivots off the alloy of the back of my computer. The laptop presents a black screen but calming, … More Three Poems
Behold! A Mind!: A Defense of Emergentism Against Reductionism
By Sophia Gottfried “Behold! A mind!” The reductionist broke down the door to my academy with a bang. He struts in triumphant and throws down a wet, blobfish-like, object onto the floor with a splat sound. However, something smells fishy to me about this mind, as it does not appear … More Behold! A Mind!: A Defense of Emergentism Against Reductionism
Plato’s Beard and Bilbo’s Hairy Feet: Defending Meinongian Fictional Discourse
by Ethan Kovnat Austrian philosopher Alexius Meinong’s view of ontology is rather problematic. This is by no means a unique observation; Meinong’s response to the Riddle of Nonbeing is very effectively refuted by W. V. O. Quine’s Man in the Doorway argument.¹ However, it seems to me that when we … More Plato’s Beard and Bilbo’s Hairy Feet: Defending Meinongian Fictional Discourse
A Computationalist Reply to Constitutive Panpsychism
Introduction For thinkers who want to avoid dualist models of consciousness, panpsychism is an increasingly attractive notion that claims phenomenal consciousness is a property that originates in microscopic physical constituents such as electrons and protons. While these particles are not held to possess the same phenomenal experience as humans do, … More A Computationalist Reply to Constitutive Panpsychism
A Skeptic in Search of Belief
I sit here typing this from a desk in a Manhattan hotel room. After months of burnout and an all-around lack of inspiration, I suddenly feel compelled to write a new article. Conveniently, my own experience of burnout and, more specifically, disillusionment with philosophy, can readily be framed as a … More A Skeptic in Search of Belief
Ritual and Art: Part 1
This is a two-part essay where I look at the characteristics of art through the lens of ritual. Part 1 gives an outline of what I’ll call the Precipitate Metaphor of art. Part 2 will look at the effects of ritual in inducing powerful trance states, which I argue is … More Ritual and Art: Part 1
Berkeley and Nature
In his A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (PHK), Berkeley proposes a purely mind-based universe in which only mental things—perceptions, volitions, and their cogitative substrates, i.e. minds—exist. He argues that our knowledge of Nature, what is conventionally believed to be “external reality”, is actually not based on the … More Berkeley and Nature