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Cogito

In the good old days of really existing Philosophy, as something other than passive methodological reflection, with its repertoire of competing totalities and ambitious representations, it was generally held - Metaphysics lets you talk about everything under the sun.

So many centuries later, it appears now that Science, once held within Philosophy, has emerged independently as the dominant discourse. Questions once regarded as the pinnacle of metaphysical thought - "Does the universe have a boundary?", "Is there such a thing as essential human nature?" - are variously taken up in respective sciences.

However, it is evident that scientific discourse is rendered impotent when confronted with certain kinds of problems (consciousness, social antagonisms, aesthetics, semiology, to name a few in a systematic lineage) - at the heart of which is the very question of Cartesian Subjectivity. It is along these lines that we return to the disavowed modernist split, between Human & Nature, via an immanent critique of Science.

To what extent can the question of Subjectivity be conceived within the coordinates of (Natural) Science? What is meant by the qualifier - Natural? Will Science eventually mature as a total discourse?

Ultimately, Cogito is an effort to initiate meaningful dialogue across disparate fields of study, which in the diffuse environment of the day, tend to increasingly talk past each other, each with its own tapestry of infuriating jargon, directed to investigate what is simultaneously most transparent and nevertheless opaque to the human mind - itself.