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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Philosophical Analysis' and 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

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Since Kant we think we can only access 'correlations' between thinking and being [Meillassoux]

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The Copernican Revolution decentres the Earth, but also decentres thinking from reality [Meillassoux]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 6. Twentieth Century Thought

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In Kant the thing-in-itself is unknowable, but for us it has become unthinkable [Meillassoux]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is (supposedly) first the ontology, then in general what things are like [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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'Fundamentality' is either a superficial idea, or much too obscure [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

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Analysis aims at the structure of facts, which are needed to give a rationale to analysis [Urmson, by Schaffer,J]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

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Since Kant, philosophers have claimed to understand science better than scientists do [Meillassoux]