I am currently reading Slavjo Zizek’s latest book Less Than Nothing. It is a profound and systematic work (though I must warn that if you don’t have a background in continental philosophy it is difficult). Anyway, the following reflections are directly inspired by his writing on Malebranche, Occasionalism and the Big Other found there. Descartes [...]

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I was sitting on a plane recently watching the film Ghost Town directed by David Koepp. What struck me at the time was the central insight of the main character. In the last third of the film he comes to realise that ghosts walk among us, not because they have unfinished business with us, but [...]

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