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Jul 6, 2024

What are the limits of reason and experience?

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Jul 6, 2024

A list on finitude in the sense of the limits and capacities of humanity and the boundedness of our reason and experience.

Other works related to finitude that fall under the following different philosopher's ideas:

  • Kieran Egan: the exploration of the scale of reality, the exotic features of the human experience and natural world, our greatest achievements and failures/disasters.

  • Jean-Luc Marion's Negative Certainty: that we can know about our finitude.

  • William C. Wimsatt's advice to philosophers (very similar conclusions to D&G's concepts of "Nomad Science"): metaphilosophical focus on heuristics/problem solving, creativity, applied sciences/engineering.

  • More to list in time (to-do: Kant/Heidegger on topology/space, philosophical anthropologists, phenomenologists, existentialists, German romantics, history of finitude in human thought, more literary works, etc)

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4 months ago

You ever read Light by M John Harrison? It's a SciFi book, but the whole theme is our inability to grasp reality. Strong recommend.

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4 months ago

I have not, but thank you for the recommendation.

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4 months ago

Interesting...