Only the rise of science allowed us to identify scriptural ontologies as fantastic conceits, as a. Using this distinction, it offers an account of why all our received forms of meaning, theoretical and practical, are very likely doomed. It then outlines a genuinely naturalistic account of semantic phenomena, one that allows us to parse traditional theories of meaning from actual applications of meaning talk-theoretical meaning from practical meaning. It demonstrates how the standard critiques of meaning skepticism beg the question, how the apparent contradiction of ‘using meaning to eliminate meaning’ turns on obvious sophistry. It argues that massive, systematic deception regarding the nature of meaning is every bit as inevitable as massive, systematic deception regarding nature of the world more generally. Rather than presuming the best, it considers the worst case scenario, the possibility traditional accounts of meaning turn on various, covert forms of supernaturalism. The present article interrogates the basis of this optimism, and the possibility that these discourses offer no proof against disenchantment. Every essay in this collection is betting that this revolution will somehow bypass or redeem some traditional conception of the human, presuming some prescientific notion of meaning will either be confirmed by the science, or left largely unscathed. The world has been thoroughly ‘disenchanted,’ and now, at long last, science has begun revolutionizing the domains of the human. more For centuries now, science has been revolutionizing traditional domains of knowledge. Those interested in contacting me are welcome to sound off on my blog, Three Pound Brain.įor centuries now, science has been revolutionizing traditional domains of knowledge. I also periodically write for The Globe and Mail. I have also written a psychothriller, Neuropath, a noir, Disciple of the Dog, and most recently, a CanLit piece entitled, Light, Time, and Gravity. I am best known for my epic fantasy series, The Second Apocalypse, which is a kind of metaphysical 'whodunnit,' exploring the ways anthropomorphic, scriptural worlds reflect the conundrums of the human psyche. My novels use various commercial genres of fiction as a means of reaching dissenting audiences. I am far more interested in writing to the so-called 'consumer masses' than about them. I am also a staunch critic of literary fiction and literary culture. Science is about to rennovate the 'inner world' as drastically as it did the outer.
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Now that the black-box of the brain has been cracked open, the intellectual ecosystem that allowed the humanities to flourish in relative ignorance of the sciences is about to collapse. I'm a novelist, cultural critic, and blogger, who believes that academic culture requires wholesale reform as much as popular culture.
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