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Grant - Prospects for Post-Copernican Dogmatism (Collapse V) (2009)
A major Grant essay that reopens dogmatism, Copernicanism, and nature as live speculative problems rather than philosophical embarrassments.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they show Grant building a genuinely different afterlife from Brassier's. Nature and world are not treated as naïve given things to be critiqued away, but as speculative processes through which philosophy has to reconstruct its own conditions.
The mechanism is cosmological and transcendental at once. Copernican displacement, Schelling, primal productivity, and world-process all become ways of widening philosophy beyond the human-centered image of critique.
That matters because Grant gives the site its strongest route into nature philosophy as an afterlife of the archive. Without this cluster, later philosophical reception would collapse too easily into realism versus anti-realism alone.
How to read this text
Read first for how the page defines nature or world before following the denser speculative argument around it.
Track where Grant turns a historical philosophical reference into a live account of productive world-process. That shift is where the page becomes most distinctive.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 2
COLLAPSE V 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Iain Hamilton Grant Prospects for Post-Copernican Dogmatism: The Antinomies of Transcendental Naturalism For it is not because there is thinking that there is being, but rather because there is being that there is thinking. Schelling1 [T]he fundamental error of dogmatism [...][is to] search outside the I in order to discover the ultimate ground of all that is in and for the I.
Definition · paragraph 2
COLLAPSE V 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Iain Hamilton Grant Prospects for Post-Copernican Dogmatism: The Antinomies of Transcendental Naturalism For it is not because there is thinking that there is being, but rather because there is being that there is thinking.
Definition · paragraph 16
COLLAPSE V 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Grant – Post-Copernican Dogmatism 29 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 categories can therefore be extended to objects as such, but only to actuality, by positing. If being has no ‘objective’ side, in what then does nature consist?
Definition · paragraph 3
COLLAPSE V 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Grant – Post-Copernican Dogmatism 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Schelling’s claim above: it is a transcendental argument in that it stipulates what conditions the possibility of thinking without reducing these conditions to any given or particular domain of objects.
History · paragraph 1
Grant, I. H. and N/A (2009) Prospects for a post-Copernican dog- matism: On the antinomies of transcendental naturalism. Collapse, 5. pp.
Appears in sections
Brassier, Grant, and Speculative Realism Primary section
Analytic and speculative receptions of Land and the CCRU through Brassier, Grant, and adjacent philosophical lines.