Hysteresis
The External World
Published on 8. January 2023
378 pages
978-1-4744-7850-2 (ISBN)
Description
Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the spell of Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy. In this book, Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant in a book of two parts, written 21 years apart. The first part of the book, ''Observation'', originally published in 2001, lays the foundations of Ferraris'' New Realism, foreshadowing the realist turn that has become characteristic of 21st century philosophy. The second part, ''Speculation'', written in 2021, outlines a complete metaphysical theory of realism. What ties both parts of the book together is the the notion of hysteresis, the ability of effects to survive even when their causes have ceased to exist.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- One. Meditation
- Two. Observation
- Introduction: Ontology and Ecology
- 1. The Problem Is Not the Platypus. It's Kant
- Naturalisation of Physics
- Aesthetics
- Space
- Time
- Phenomena
- Logic
- Deduction
- Schematism
- Principles
- Farewell to the Transcendental
- 2. What Is It Like to Be a Slipper?
- Epistemology/Ontology
- The Slipper Argument
- Ontological Constraints
- Unamendability
- First Distinction: Science/Experience
- Schemes
- Concepts
- Science
- Experience
- Second Distinction: Truth/Reality
- Third Distinction: Internal World/External World
- Autonomy of Aesthetics from Logic
- Antinomy between Aesthetics and Logic
- Autonomy of the World from Conceptual and Perceptual Schemes
- Three. Speculation
- 0. Where Do We Come From?
- 0.1 In the Beginning Was the Web
- 0.2 Coming to Light
- 0.3 Pleroma, Pentecost, Emergence
- 1. What Is Hysteresis?
- 1.1 Questions
- 1.2 Metaphysics
- 1.3 Matter and Memory
- 1.4 The Common Root
- 1.5 Difference
- 2. Recording
- 2.1 Ontology
- 2.2 Resistance
- 2.3 Resilience
- 2.4 Emergence
- 2.5 Reference
- 3. Iteration
- 3.1 Technology
- 3.2 Repetition
- 3.3 Remembrance
- 3.4 Re-elaboration
- 3.5 Verification
- 4. Alteration
- 4.1 Epistemology
- 4.2 Truth Bearers
- 4.3 Forms of Life
- 4.4 Logos
- 5. Interruption
- 5.1 Teleology
- 5.2 Direction
- 5.3 Meaning
- 5.4 Truth Users
- Four. Recollection
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
