CHOSES EN SOI Métaphysique et naturalisme (R. BRASSIER, A. LONGO, Q. MEILLASSOUX)

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• 00:00:06

  Voilà, donc je remercie tous les participants d'avoir accepté de participer à cette table ronde et je donne tout de suite la parole à Ray Brassier pour une intervention qui s'appelle Practices and Processes, Object Naturalism, Subject Naturalism and Process Naturalism. OK, thanks. First, I'm sorry, but I'm going…

• 00:24:55

  The complexity of the representing and the representing of complexity. So this is Seltzer's hypothesis. All the possible ways in which conceptual representings of empirical properties and relations can resemble and differ correspond to ways in which what he calls their immediate non-conceptual occasions, i.e…

• 00:39:39

  This means that pragmatic inference, the practice of pragmatic inference or the competence involved in pragmatic inference, is immunized against any kind of objectivation or any kind of scientific explanation or any kind of theoretical explanation that simply doesn't explicate the relationship between the competence…

• 00:56:34

  Et de plus, à la fin de la doctrine de la science Nova Methodos, c'est le dernier paragraphe, on lit, j'hésite, les philosophes devraient avoir un sens esthétique, c'est-à-dire de l'esprit. Il n'est pas pour autant nécessairement poète, écrivain ou orateur, mais l'esprit, par la formation duquel on s'élève au point…

• 01:09:44

  Le simple fait que nous reconstruisions généralement le XIXe siècle à la façon de Levitt suffit à démontrer l'oubli de ce matérialisme et, par conséquent, du nihilisme qui en a procédé fut sous une figure littéraire qui le popularisait. Le matérialisme et le nihilisme n'est devenu acceptable au XXe siècle qu'une fois…

• 01:24:09

  of the subject, because the subject for Sellers is still too Kantian. And I think what I'm interested in doing after, you know, this work on Sellers is understanding how a Hegelian... You know, the Hegelian thinking of subjectivity in a way allows one to... to actually... to fulfil what remains a promise in Sellers…

• 01:43:06

  That where they would, in other words, this would be a Spinozist move. You don't reduce, you know, you don't just have a single substance of which, you know, thinking and sensing then would be kind of dual attributes. No. Although, he can be read in this way, but that's the reading I would like to resist. Because…

• 01:57:14

  Thank you for your extraordinary work with Thomas Schopeler, who was always there in the backstage, in the back, to make this meeting recordable, archivable. So we all found ourselves already archived. And so, in that sense, maybe Édouard de Les Amazoniens was right. All of that might not have been entirely…