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“Yes, the Whole Approach is Questionable, Yes, False:" Phenomenology and the New Realism”

Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2018

The recent turn to realism in Continental philosophy leaves phenomenology in a precarious position, for it appears that we commit ourselves to a sort of idealism whenever we employ the phenomenological method. I will argue in this article, however, that this appearance is deceptive and that, instead, phenomenology provides support, not just for realism, but for a position I will call the “new realism,” which not only affirms the reality of conditioned, spatio-temporal beings, but denies the existence of any type of eternal or unchanging being in which they would ostensibly find their unconditioned condition or source.

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The digital police state: Fichte’s revenge on Hegel/ Slavoj Žižek ............................. Personal or impersonal knowledge? / Susan Haack …………………………...……. Heidegger never got beyond facticity/ Thomas Sheehan ……………...…….……… Our confrontation with tragedy/ Simon Critchley …….…..…………...…......…..… On the permissible use of force in a Kantian dignitarian moral and political setting, or, Seven Kantian Samurai/ Robert Hanna, Otto Paans………...…………… Self-, social-, or neural-determination/ Lawrence Cahoone……....................……… Important aspects of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy that could not be known through Husserl’s own publications during his lifetime/ Iso Kern………………………………………………………..………… Heidegger’s Socrates: “pure thinking” on method, truth, and learning/ James M. Magrini ………………………………………………...………………………..…….. Intuition as a capacity for a priori knowledge/ Henry W. Pickford…………….….. The absence of self: an existential phenomenological view of the Anatman experience/Rudolph Bauer…………………………………………………….…...…. Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and natural man: an existential inquiry into being and rights/ Anthony Asekhauno …………………………....…… Heidegger in Iran: a historical experience report/Bijan Abdolkarimi ………….…. The priority of literature to philosophy in Richard Rorty/Muhammad Asghari..… An argument in defense of voluntary euthanasia/Hossein Atrak………………...… Existential anxiety and time perception: an empirical examination of Heideggerian philosophical concepts towards clinical practice/ Alireza Farnam, Samira Zeynali, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Prinaz Vahid Vahdat, Masumeh Zamanlu ……………………………………………………………………….………………… Plantinga on divine foreknowledge and free will/Abdurrazzaq Hesamifar……..….. Language and philosophy: an analysis of the turn to "subject" in modern philosophy with historical linguistic approach/Ahmad Hosseini ….……….……… Divine foreknowledge and human moral responsibility (in defense of muslim philosophers’ approach)/Tavakkol Kuhi Giglou, Seyed Ebrahim Aghazadeh………………………………………………...…………………..……….. "Autrui" selon Lévinas et Blanchot/ Maryam Mesbahi, Mohammad Hossein Djavari, Allahshokr Assadollahi Tejaragh ………………………………...…….…… Language, gender and subjectivity from Judith Butler’s perspective/ Massoud Yaghoubi-Notash, Vahid Nejad Mohammad, Mahmoud Soufiani……….………...…

Phenomenology of the Inapparent: a methodological approach to the New Realism

Phänomenologie und spekulativer Realismus. Phenomenology and Speculative Realism. Phénoménologie et réalisme spéculatif. Ferrer, Guillermo; Gourdain, Syvaine; Garrera Tolbert, Nicolás; Schnell, Alexander (Eds.), 2022

Speculative realism has grown strong in philosophy, challenging what its supporters call philosophies of correlation. Aiming at a renewal of previous ideas, this train of thought relies on mechanisms to indicate its originality and report the previous tradition as a wrong path towards the proper opinion. In this procedure, the election of opponents is deliberated and is anchored in both the history of philosophy and contemporary trends, such as phenomenology. A colourful gigantomachia occurs, one that in many ways goes back to the struggle between materialists and the friends of Ideas that Plato recounted in Sophist. 1 This iteration, as has also happened many times, hides the concepts that are actually at stake, since phenomenology is seen in a partial and restricted way that completely distorts its scope. A quick survey of the works of authors who in recent times have addressed this issue reveals a tendency to rely on the static and genetic stages of phenomenology as if they were a synthesis of Husserl's thought. Thus, any development that lacks these traits is considered alien, including some ideas of Husserl himself. The development of French phenomenology illustrates this point well, pointing out some issues that exceed common phenomena and overtake the limits of intentional correlation. The so-called theological turn shows this tension, as does speculative realism, which incorporates some similar elements. Meillassoux's challenge to "think a world without thought, a world without the givenness of the world" to "understand how thought is able to access the uncorrelated, which is to say, a world capable of subsisting without being given", 2 or Harman's proposal about the irreducibility and inexhaustibility of objects are examples of this point. Indeed, the new realisms often object to many philosophies because they are not be able to account for a non-metaphysical absolute. In the case of phenomenology, this is a very impoverished view of its scope and a revision of this idea could lessen the collision. Texts like Tom Sparrow's The End of Phenomenology, which cuts ties between realism and phenomenology, do not help to solve the issue. 3 In this work, we shall take as our source the phenomenological horizon in order to show its deep compatibility with many developments associated with new realisms. Firstly, we shall review some aspects of what we call the 'phe …

Phenomenology and Metaphysical Realism 1

This article examines the relationship between totalitarianism and the metaphysical illusions on which it rests. Phenomenological investigation is claimed to loosen the grip of totalitarian ideology by exposing its origins in the " resurrective " illusions that seek to overcome the impact of collective trauma. Phenomenology is thus shown to have emancipatory power.

The Impending Demise of Scientific Realism

The problem of consciousness cannot consistently be approached from the third person's perspective – less well known is that neither can any other scientific problem. Even if partly successful the classical realistic (or Newtonian) approach to science is bound to fail because of this restricted perspective. The knowledge feedback paths of human brain is one reason and the ”inside” features of qualia another. Here the claim is advanced that when we abandon the realist’s doctrine we are able to remove many imperfections. When instead using a subject-oriented approach to knowledge we will in one strike remove the bewildering Cartesian dualism, the troublesome chasm between the natural sciences and humanities and open the door for a science of consciousness. This paper is concerned mainly with giving the background to a general outline to human knowledge and thinking - the subject-oriented (subjectivist’s) approach - which neither divides mind from matter, the observer from the observed nor the subject from the object. What is described here is, however, only the beginning of or the path to the subject-oriented way of thinking, which, it is hoped, can be further presented later. The aim here is rather to pave the way for such a reorientation of our scientific thinking by pointing out some severe shortcomings of the classical object-oriented (objectivist’s) approach to knowledge that has been the prevailing scientific approach since the days of Galileo and Newton. It is probably better known under the name of scientific realism – or the Newtonian paradigm.