Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

My first impression about Jorjani was that he sounded like Heidegger. I'm happy to report that my instincts did not betray me: he cites Heidegger as in influence in this strange article: https://www.righton.net/2016/11/05/world-religion-of-the-future/ As you can see if you follow that link, the article appears on a website called  "RightOn" which proudly calls itself reactionary, promising to put the "action" in "reactionary." Let's use this to look at Jorjani a bit. The article is called "The World Religion of the Future." It kicks off with Heidegger, and a story about a Japanese student of his, who in 1919 introduced Heidegger to aspects of Zen Buddhism. Then there's a long bit in which Jorjani is just quoting and sometimes paraphrasing Leo Strauss on Heidegger, without giving us any clue whether he thinks Strauss was right. Then we're really just trying to hold on tight as a train of thought zigs and zags through the...

Brian Leiter, in his blog, has posted an abstract of the doctoral dissertation of one Jason Reza Jorjani, a lecturer in humanities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. The fellow with his fist in the air is Jorjani. Technological science has shattered the worldviews of all traditional cultures subjected to it, at times provoking reactionary religious responses that only underscore the traumatic force of this worldwide development. Yet, as I argue, this world-colonizing force is not neutral. The anticipatory projection and world-building characteristic of scientific theorization are grounded in a practical comportment, so that the essence of technology or Craft is ontologically prior to theoretical science. In other words, science is always already Technoscience. Moreover the theoretical concepts and methodologies involved in predictive calculation and in crafting frameworks that model and mold the world are derived from pre-conceptual ideas of an aesthetic character, namely ...