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The Emancipation of Imagination

Jeff Carreira December 15, 2013 Philosophy 1 Comment

In 1817 the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge described “the willing suspension of disbelief” as an act of “poetic faith” through which a reader’s accepts fanciful aspects of a fictional work. Without this willingness the …

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Dr. Timothy MortonRene DescartesSamuel Taylor Coleridge

Staying on the Inside – Unifying the Self with Reality

Jeff Carreira October 4, 2012 Philosophy 4 Comments

We live in fractured times. Our experience of reality and ourselves often seems to be dominated by a sense of isolation and separation. In the cannon of philosophy this sense of division is often spoken …

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Rene DescartesWilliam James

Why Does the World Exist?

Jeff Carreira August 30, 2012 Philosophy 6 Comments

We are here. That much seems clear. We can’t deny our own existence. Well actually great philosophers have denied our existence. What we can’t deny I suppose is that something exists. There is an experience …

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JIm HoltRene Descartes

The Ego Tunnel and the Nature of Reality

Jeff Carreira March 29, 2012 Philosophy 7 Comments

Thomas Metzinger’s new book The Ego Tunnel weaves research in out-of-body experiences, lucid dreaming, phantom limbs and other extraordinary human occurrences with leading edge neuroscience to create a convincing picture of how neural activity constantly …

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Rene DescartesThomas MetzingerWilliam James

The Assumption of Reality

Jeff Carreira March 10, 2011 Philosophy 11 Comments

When we think about reality or talk about reality the big assumption we almost always make is that there is a reality to think and talk about. When Rene Descartes drew an astonishingly original distinction …

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The Integral Assumption of American Philosophy

Jeff Carreira January 20, 2011 Philosophy 14 Comments

Mind cannot exist without matter; matter cannot exist without mind. This is what I have come to see as perhaps the most essential theme that runs through American philosophy. In the modern western world it …

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Immanuel KantPragmatismRalph Waldo EmersonRene DescartesTranscendentalism

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