Anyone familiar with the post-Wittgensteinian discussion of objectivity in anglophone philosophy (from Quine, Kuhn, and Nagel to Davidson, McDowell, Brandom, and Burge) will likely regard After Finitude (2006) as taking up a problem that had long since been set aside. That tradition largely abandoned the representational dualism that opposes mind to world, whereas Meillassoux accepts it as his point of departure and seeks to break through it with his “speculative materialism.” The same wi...
