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Epistemology
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 Aesthetics,
Method, and Epistemology (Essential Works of Foucault,
1954-1984, Vol 2) by Michel
Foucault, James D. Faubion (Editor), Robert Hurley
(Translator), Paul Rabinow (Editor).
The second volume in the definitive collection
of Foucault's shorter writings, a Voice Literary Supplement
bestseller. Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology explores one of
the lesser known aspects of Foucault's oeuvre. This volume
surveys the philosopher's diverse but sustained address of the
historical forms and interplay of passion, experience, and
truth. These selections, most of which have not previously
appeared in English translation, are a testament to the
extraordinary range of Foucault's insight. They include
commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Freud,
Roussel, and Boulez. They also include some of Foucault's most
trenchant reflections on the historical constitution and the
historical diagnostics of both the aesthetic and the critical
imagination, providing unique insight into the development of
Foucault's original and exemplary philosophical program.
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The essays at this site range from the fully annotated and
technical to more informal and discursive discussions, often written for undergraduate
classes. Many items therefore should be intelligible to those not familiar with all the
arcana of academic philosophy. Such a range of submissions is acceptable and desired,
since the trend, by which academic philosophy has obscured and esotericized itself, and
mostly dropped out of popular and literate culture, should be resisted. Site Includes:
Contributed Works
Editorial Essays
 | Non-Intuitive Immediate Knowledge, Ratio,
Vol. XXIX, No. 2, December 1987 [51.7K] |
| Foundationalism and Hermeneutics [19.9K]
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| In Defense of Bramantip [15.6K]
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| The Foundations of Value, Part I, Logical
Issues: Justification (quid facti), First Principles, and Socratic Method (after
Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Fries, & Nelson) [12.6K]
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| The Foundations of Value, Part II,
Epistemological Issues: Justification (quid juris) and Non-Intuitive Immediate
Knowledge (Kant, Fries, & Nelson) [18.1K] |
| Socratic Ignorance in Democracy, the Free
Market, and Science [26.1K] |
| Two Philosophical Mistakes in Poincaré
[13.4K] |
| The Arch of Aristotelian Logic [2.8K]
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| Aristotelian Syllogisms [6.3K]
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| Hume Shifts the Burden of Proof [14.1K]
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| Forms of the Genetic Fallacy [6.6K]
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Book Reviews
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Socrates' friendly personal theory of perception, concepts,
metaphysics, politics, the universe, life, linking Eastern and Western philosophy in an original, true to life, democracy,
diversity and nature championing system by Peter Kinane.
Excerpt:
Two thousand, four hundred years ago philosophy rejected Socrates' opinion, best encapsulated as "I know nothing
[categorically]", favoring instead the notion of categorical "truth" and "forms", and that we could universally identify with each other about these nice, neat, unchanging packages. Well, that notion
still cannot be made to fit together very well, and so philosophers keep adding to a now huge, and ever more refined and
specialized mountain of rumination on the concept. (Wittgenstein talked of the need to
"shew the fly the way out of the bottle"). I call
such work the study of Categoricalism. Eastern philosophy, too, has categoricalist features.
My system, which I call "Effectuationism", features 'what is', in effect perception, effecting through, indeed as the tension, of a
somewhat demarcatory interactivity 'phenomenon'. Such a world is necessarily dynamic, and effects as an indefinite first person
singular tension of diversity; I - Other. The dynamism of such a 'phenomenon' effects somewhat recurrence of tension or
perception and therein effects conceptualisation, and therein phenomena. In effect, through perception phenomena effect, and
vica versa. Effectuationism accords more with the Socratic principle "I know nothing [categorically]" than with the
Categoricalism for which the Greek world opted, 2,400 years
ago.
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This site by philosopher Graham Little is devoted to
epistemology and the philosophy of science. It is the end result of some
15 years reflection on questions such as What is knowledge ? If there
exists a general theory of psychology what would be its nature and
structure? If there exists a general theory of sociology what would be its
structure? What is cause? What is the relationship between the above
questions?
Building on the general epistemology of Karl Popper, and integrating and
extending the systems theory of W.Ross Ashby, there is at the site a new
and vigorous approach to many of philosophy's oldest questions. It is an
approach that implicitly transforms epistemology from philosophy to a
science. The techniques developed from this epistemological base are then
applied to creating a general theory of psychology.
Site Includes:
Paper 1: A Theory of Perception
Paper 2: Perception and a General Theory of Knowledge
Paper 3: A Model of Knowledge and Tools for Theory Creation
Paper 4: The Drive to Explain - A discussion of the background issues of a
general theory of psychology
Note on time and the interpretation of quantum electro dynamics
Note on the easy and hard problems of consciousness
Note on the emergence and role of language
Note clarifying why a photon for example, is understood as being at the
limit of knowledge
Paper 5: Why We Do What We Do - The outline of a general theory of
psychology
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