Proseminar notes

Notes

Event, Moment, Death – H. I cannot only never experience a death, but I can never experience a
moment without retrospection. Events so defined, then, are non-existent vis-à-vis experience
because experience requires a sense of succession to be rendered intelligibly. Perhaps it is the
case that experience should not be so defined because to do so sets events outside of cognition,
establishing repetitively the position of a Ding an sich.

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

Consequent not Utility – Pragmatism a la James, Peirce, Dewey

Rorty – Metaphilosophy
What should philosophy be doing? What is philosophy? What is the question we
should be asking?

Three Variants on the Same Theme

No Correspondence theory
A World without Essence or Substance
Ethics without Ethics
Causal not representative relation between truth claims and what-is;

A quest for truth is still A quest

Peirce’s axiom or proof of truth = symbolic expression of hope