This video kicks off a short series on speculative realist Quentin Meillassoux’s philosophy as he outlines it in his first book, After Finitude. In it, I go through the core principle that motivates much of Meillassoux’s thought: correlationism.
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00:00 Introduction
00:08 Opening comments
05:18 CORRELATIONISM: THE BASICS
05:26 Definition
06:31 Five postulates of correlationism
10:47 Ancestrality
13:46 Key definitions
18:42 CORRELATIONISM: WEAK AND STRONG
18:57 Weak correlationism
22:31 Strong correlationism
24:29 THE RELIGIONISING OF REASON
27.51 Summary
