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On Quentin Meillassoux and the Problem of Evil [PDF]

Open Theology, 2020
The problem of evil and the injustice it brings out has a long history in western philosophy and it has been one of the core arguments against the existence of God as an all-powerful and all-good Being.
Mangion Claude
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On Correlationism and the Philosophy of (Human) Access: Meillassoux and Harman [PDF]

Open Philosophy, 2020
Speculative Realism (SR) has often been characterised as a heterogeneous group of thinkers, united almost exclusively in their commitment to the critique of what Quentin Meillassoux terms ‘correlationism’ or what Graham Harman calls the ‘philosophy of ...
Young Niki
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Hume's Correlationism: On Meillassoux, Necessity and Belief

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2013
The article argues that Meillassoux's 'After Finitude' underestimates the nature and profundity of Hume's sceptical challenge; it neglects the fact that Hume's scepticism concerns final causes (and agrees fundamentally with Bacon and Descartes in this ...
Paul O'Mahoney
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Meillassoux attraverso lo specchio

Rivista di Estetica
In this article, we examine Quentin Meillassoux’s concept of speculation. Starting from a characterization provided by Graham Harman, which we consider to be misleading, we will first seek to clarify two key aspects of Meillassoux’s speculation, namely ...
Giovanni Temporin
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Where is the Great Outdoors of Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism?

Open Philosophy, 2020
Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism aims to define access to reality of the natural world apart from its giveness to sentient subjects. This world apart is designated by Meillassoux as the “Great Outdoors” which was marginalized as a topic of ...
Šatkauskas Ignas
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Meillassoux and Heidegger – How to Deal with Things-in-Themselves?

Open Philosophy
In his critique of post-Kantian philosophy, Meillassoux expresses considerable doubts as to how it is capable of describing a world independent of man. He places Heidegger among the ranks of thinkers who are caught in the same trap of the thought-world ...
Leidlmair Karl
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The Spectral Dilemma and the Instauration of the Divine: Latour contra Meillassoux

ThéoRèmes, 2014
Quentin Meillassoux has argued that lives irremediably ruined by injustice, suffering, and tragedy confront us with an irresolvable dilemma: either God exists to bring justice to the world (but such a God necessarily cannot be absolutely good), or God ...
Michael Norton
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Préparer la venue de Dieu ou la tâche du philosophe spéculatif selon Quentin Meillassoux

ThéoRèmes, 2014
Quentin Meillassoux's ontology continues the atheist last century philosophy. It rejects the current existence of God, but this ontology admits the virtual existence of God. Meillassoux calls it “in-existence”.
Frédéric Blondeau
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Neopragmatism and speculative realism [PDF]

Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020
The article deals with neopragmatist themes of contingency, irony and solidarity in the context of the contemporary movement in continental philosophy, speculative realism.
A. V. Morozov
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Claude Meillassoux (1925-2005) [PDF]

Cahiers d'études africaines, 2005
« Le fondateur de l’anthropologie economique francaise. » L’avis des commentateurs, historiens de l’anthropologie et collegues anthropologues est a peu pres unanime sur ce point au cours des annees 1970-1980, et encore tres recemment Francis Dupuy (2001 : 152) dans son manuel le qualifie ainsi.
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