WHAP! Lecture Series Ray Brassier - The Metaphysics of Sensation

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• 00:00:00

  Thank you for coming out tonight. I'm going to have a lot of talk. I'm not feeling the sensation before we get into this. I want to do a thank you to John DeVito who has graciously provided this spot for us. Amanda Carlson who has a brilliant appearance, put everything together. Amanda Beach, the Dean of Critical…

• 00:15:59

  These inner episodes are theoretical entities postulated as structurally analogous to linguistic utterances, yet devoid of the physical characteristics of these utterances. They are silent, invisible, intangible, etc. In this regard, then, thoughts are akin to theoretical unobservables. This is the famous analogy…

• 00:29:29

  Everything is, in a way, conceptually mediated. All the ontological furniture of reality is apprehended conceptually. So, thoughts and sensations would be no different in this regard. But if the issue is one of realism, the more fitting reproach to psychological normalism and to the transcendental stance from which…

• 00:43:26

  Or of awareness with awareness as. Sellers is too Kantian to accept Whitehead's revisionary recategorization of a current physical content as an instance of feeling. Um, he endorses the traditional characterization of the metaphysical task as the identification of ultimate categories understood as summa genera…

• 00:59:18

  specific finger process would be physical the ultimate claim would be a kind of physics actually developed physics that is capable of integrating the sensory states of organisms you have dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions dimensions…

• 01:14:54

  or not thinkable, although it's non-linguistic, it can identify, well, look, it can identify, but when an artist says, it's not possible to do this in this way, in the sense that there's a way of doing things, a way of playing, a way of painting, a way of performing, that is, that seems to be the kind of exoteric…

• 01:33:13

  in a certain number of but nothing that problem, so that was the thing that we were able to that was the thing that we were able to do. So, my first question for you is what is the concept in terms of the same question we have the people in the national we have the we have the we have the Okay. So, except the concepts…

• 01:57:43

  Next Friday we're going to have something called the Stakes of Parametricism, Architecture and Politics with Matthew Kuhl and Roush Forsberg. So if you're interested in architecture and politics in terms of parametricism, . So join me in . . Great. .