1st of 4 Philosophy Today articles now online

Many thanks to David Pellauer, editor of Philosophy Today (based at DePaul University) for allowing me to post my four Philosophy Today articles online. They will be hosted by the DAR System at the American University in Cairo. The first one is now available (see explanation further down in this post).

Philosophy Today, of course, is one of the mainstay continental philosophy journals in the Anglophone world. For now it remains paper-only, though David has always been extremely generous about copyright permissions (not to mention letters of certification to tenure committees and other such academic services), and the present case is another instance of that generosity.

The first item to be posted is my response to Tim Hyde’s 2004 review of Tool-Being, the first review of that book to appear of which I am aware.

In the spirit of friendly polemic inaugurated by Tim’s own (very skillful) piece, my response is entitled “Naive Idealism: A Response to Tim Hyde.” I didn’t have the word “correlationism” at my disposal yet (Meillassoux says he coined the term in around 2003, and it doesn’t appear even in the 2003 version of L’Inexistence divine), but would have used it as part of the argument.

Click HERE to read the article.

In fact, I believe this was the first article that I ever put in a journal. There was a long period when I thought I wouldn’t ever bother publishing journal articles, on the grounds that continental philosophy isn’t really a journal culture, but a book culture. I thought I would spend my time writing only books. Then I got drawn into journal articles via requests, one person on my tenure committee complained that I only wrote books, and suddenly I was writing journal articles quite a lot.