Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
This essay compares four ways of answering the question that Husserl called Wissenschaftslehre: what grounds the objectivity of the formal sciences, and what is philosophy’s task with respect to them? I read Husserl through the tradition that Per Martin-Löf has made contemporary—the semantics of evidence, judgement, and meaning explanation; Jean Cavaillès through Brice Halimi’s reconstruction…
Nothing happens without a reason. This is Leibniz’s principle of sufficient reason (PSR). According to this principle, every event in the universe is metaphysically bound to every other by some rational tie, generally understood as a cause. Causality acts as the unifying force of the universe. Now, “cause” means, in its broadest sense, reason and…