Category Archives: Logic
The Empirical and the Probable: Clarence Irving Lewis’ Response to Hume
I find Trin’s notion of causal minimalism quite interesting. At first brush, it has reminded me of Husserl, insofar as Husserl metaphysically “brackets” existence from phenomenology and “transcendentalizes” psychology, thereby leaving Husserl only with an epistemological investigation by which to … Continue reading
Philosophy as Universal Science
Is Philosophy as Science Really Possible? Few continental philosophers ever took up Husserl’s notion of philosophy as a rigorous science. And even fewer analytic philosophers, since it was William James that was responsible for Husserl’s work not being published until … Continue reading
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Philosophy as Universal Science
The Appearance of a Thing is the Existence of a Thing Now the idea Husserl had in mind was that we could have a systematic philosophy that was not scholastic metaphysics or Hegelian dialectical metaphysics or anything of the kind. … Continue reading
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Philosophy as Universal Science
Husserl’s Transcendental Philosophical Science: Rejecting the Metaphysics of Modern Philosophy From Descartes to Hegel, systematic philosophy was primarily an epistemological project determined to unify knowledge upon a theoretical foundation of first principles (empirical, rational, or critical) with the end purpose … Continue reading
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Philosophy as Universal Science
What Happened to Systematic Philosophy? The virtues of systematic philosophy have never been rehabilitated into contemporary research. In some part this has simply been a matter of intellectual divisions of philosophical labor, maturing and developing within a crescendo of emerging … Continue reading
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