What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists?
In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
(Woody Allen, Without Feathers, 1975, 10)
That’s basically all that needs to be said re all kinds of ›Realisms‹ that popped up in the history of philosophy―from ›ontological‹/Platonist realism via the medieval Universalienstreit to the so-called ›Structural Realisms‹ which are so en vogue today, but only push the ontological bump in the rug around.
Who I am
- Thomas Kupka
- Lawyer by education
- Philosopher of Law/Legal Theorist (since 1990)
- Philosopher of Science of a sort (since 2012)
- Proprietary Equities & Derivatives Trader (since 2017)
What I do
- Work on Epistemological Formalism; continuing my ›Philosophie der Wissenschaftskunst‹ of 2013.
- Work on The Cognitive Limits of Political Conservatism; continuing my ›Verfassungsnominalismus/Constitutional Nominalism‹ of 2011.
- Well, and occasionally trade equities & derivatives.
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