William James' "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings" remains an untimely text in its call for human beings to relinquish the anthropocentric standpoint of phenomenology and adopt, rather, a speculative phenomenological approach to non-human forms of consciousness. Thus, not only was James ahead of his time, he is, today, ahead of ours.
If ontology, the science of being, catalogs the "
Friday, December 1, 2017
A Speculative Phenomenology of Non-human Consciousness (Why Crabs and Lobsters Deserve Protection from Being Cooked Alive)
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