This article offers a radical phenomenological reinterpretation of Schelling’s philosophy by examining the relation between consciousness, appearance, and the Absolute through the concepts of spiritual intuition, subjectivity, and self-manifestation. It argues that Schelling’s transcendental idealism, despite its attempt to overcome the dualism of subject and object, ultimately remains...
What is the fundamental nature of the physical universe? This paper generates new insights into this question through examining how brute fact metaphysics intersects with our best cosmological theories of the universe’s origin. To do this, I first make the case that fundamental physical things are – by necessity – ontologically brute. Ontological bruteness, I maintain, provides a rationale for...