Finitude Redux

Realism, Antirealism, and Speculative Materialism

Lucas Samaras, “Mirrored Room”, 1966 (https://twistedsifter.com/2015/08/lucas-samaras-mirrored-room-installation/)

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In his masterwork Mind and World, John McDowell came up with a pithy metaphor for the predicament of Modern Philosophy and the problems that flow from the Subject/Object dichotomy: the idea of a sideways-on perspective on reality. In the words of Tim Thornton in his monograph on McDowell:

There is no prospect of adopting a…