Why Meillassoux’s Speculative Materialism Struggles with Ancestrality

This paper shows that Quentin Meillassoux’s speculative materialism doesn’t offer us the means to account for the ancestral statements that the modern sciences produce, i.e. for the scientific statements about events preceding all forms of life. An analysis of the reasons why Meillassoux thinks that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ciprian Jeler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitatea "Stefan cel Mare" Suceava 2014-12-01
Series:Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines
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Online Access:http://www.apshus.usv.ro/arhiva/2014II/001.%20pp.%2011-32.pdf