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Beyond Human Perspectives

Jeff Carreira February 9, 2014Philosophy

This short book can be seen as, and in fact in many ways is, my personal introduction to the philosophy called speculative realism. This new philosophy has only been defined and developed during the course …

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Belief and Fact

Jeff Carreira May 20, 2010Philosophy

The worst speculative Skeptic ever I knew, was a much better Man than the best superstitious Devotee & Bigot.  —David Hume (Letter to Gilbert Elliot of Minto, March 10, 1751) Before I go on to …

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My Initial Encounter with the Radical Inquiry of Charles Sanders Peirce (Part II)

Jeff Carreira April 27, 2010Philosophy

What I was confronted with in myfirst encounter with Peirce was not the skepticism of Descartes that assumes everything is untrue and then builds from there. It was a more evolutionary skepticism that assumes that …

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The Radical Inquiry of Charles Sanders Peirce

Jeff Carreira April 10, 2010Philosophy

I first encountered the radical inquiry of Charles Sanders Peirce while reading his essay entitled, “Design and Chance,” a paper Peirce used as the basis for a lecture he gave on January 17, 1884 to …

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