I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death a….

I think Enlightenment as an epistemic ideal involves rejecting the appeal to a fundamental stratum of non-conceptual self-evidence..

Nietzsche saw that ultimately the problem of nihilism is the problem of what to do with time: Why keep investing in the future when there is no longe….

Sellars's "myth of Jones" is deployed against what Sellars calls "the myth of the categorial Given": the idea that to be aware of something is to be ….

Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefu….

If nothing matters, then even the thought that nothing matters doesn't matter. And if it doesn't matter whether anything matters or not, then there's….

Consciousness is not the ineluctable starting point for self-understanding because there is a difference between being conscious and understanding on….

Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but sup….

Philosophers should resist the temptation to be publicly virtuous. Given an unjust society, from the vantage of what counts as the public good, they ….

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straigh….

Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also re….

Psychoanalytic categories such as "neurosis", "psychosis", "mania", and "fixation" have become part of our everyday psychological vocabulary and we n….

Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity..

It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds, we just k….

I am a nihilist because I still believe in truth..