"the formation of the earth in vivid color" by DALL-E The stars have no happenings: assessing Meillassoux's ancestrality challenge Meillassoux's challenge for "correlationism" At the outset of his book After Finitude, Quentin Meillassoux proposes a thought experiment which he believes poses a problem for all "correlationist" philosophies, namely, those philosophies which claim that "we only ever have access to the correlation between Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
Samsara Diagnostics is now on Ghost Welcome! If you're here, you're in a good place. I'm glad you could join us. I used to write Samsara Diagnostics over at Substack, and while Substack is an awesome tool for quickly and easily launching a newsletter, I recently decided to move my Matthew Stanley
Why Samsara Diagnostics? In Buddhism, Samsara is the name for the realm we inhabit — the cycle of birth and death. Samsara is therefore the domain marked above all by suffering. The Buddha diagnosed the source of this suffering as consciousness, and especially the way that the self which only has its existence through Matthew Stanley
