THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

Empirical realism is underpinned by a metaphysical dogma, which I shall call the epistemic fallacy, that statements about being can always...

My reading of Bhaskar's REALIST THEORY OF SCIENCE led me to advocate a bifurcated conception of fictive causality, characterized by ...

In CAUSAL CONUNDRUMS AGAIN PT. 2 I wrote: I'm now asserting that causality in a literary context-- which, contra Todorov, is not hom...

For this essay I'll just tie together the observations between the previous essay and my last general-theory essay on the NUM formula. ...

I've finished another book that I started back in December: Roy Bhaskar's A REALIST THEORY OF SCIENCE, first mentioned here .  I...

I don't have anything further to say about the assorted pluses and minuses of Edward Skidelsky's Cassirer book, but I should note th...

Liberalism may have triumphed in the political sphere, but it was the illiberal philosophy of Heidegger that won the day at [the Davos deba...