Armen Avanessian & Enemies #51 Ray Brassier & Iain Grant Myth or History, Nature or Reason

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• 00:00:08

  It's a great pleasure. I'm very excited having these two colleagues and friends here whom I invited several times in the past in Berlin and abroad, but never the two of them together and therefore not in a conversation. I'm really excited about this. They will, as you read in the announcement, they will just talk…

• 00:07:35

  But connects them with the absolute and so suspends them. And I think that line, that last line, connects them with the absolute and so suspends them, gives us a direct insight into, let's say, the directionality with which Hegel thinks the absolute. Suspension auf Hebel is basically suspended to, let's say, a heaven…

• 00:18:42

  of questions about let's say the central drives that make philosophy possible or make it actual or make it or drive it into existence it's ontogenetic legacy if you will the the need from which it arises all of these things simply seem to dissipate all semblance of traction on a reality the second we transform it into…

• 00:36:01

  that it's worth discussing in the forums in the terms that they did the theology of reason that is that disavows its or that avows its own autochthony at the expense of its disavowed inheritance let's say you know its historicity or its emergence um and i i wonder whether there is scope for discussing that that…

• 00:57:29

  but then but then there is a kind of there's already kind of a there's a an expert discourse another there's no philosophy of science doesn't really exist now you've got philosophy of physics philosophy of biology philosophy of chemistry philosophy of cognitive science there are these experts philosophical discourses…

• 01:13:29

  And I think I used to have a very naive conception of the relationship between philosophy and science, and now I've realized it's much more complicated. Yeah. Yeah, I too would discount the prospect of a philosophy based on a single science. It just doesn't seem to me to answer a philosophical question, and it doesn't…

• 01:29:20

  is also salient here but that's that's another story uh and we have three more questions the last question and answer was like 15 minutes so we got to be brief uh unfortunately short so thank you for this incredible conversation my question kind of builds on arman's question and arman named particular sciences…

• 01:44:02

  answer to um there are many more questions now as usual or as expected i remember the idea for this evening was after i invited you in last time we went for for dinner and uh after giving you some some drinks i convinced you or forced you to agree to come again and uh but only if ray would join so immediately i texted…