Abstract: As many philosophers have noted, we have two takes on the world: the view from nowhere and the view from here. In the latter the cognitive agent occupies a privileged position; in the former they do not. But the two views are contradictory. Reality has two sides, as it were, like a ring made of paper, each side contradicting the other. In fact the two views are more intimately related to each other than this, since each presupposes the other. Reality is, then, more like what happens when you put a twist in the ring, producing a Möbius strip. There is just one side which is self-contradictory. This paper explains all this, and looks briefly at some metaphysical consequences of the view.
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Jowett Society Organising Committee: Joshua Loo, Zachary Lang, Xavier Morales Zayas and Sepehr Razavi | Jowett Society Website
