Response to Noé Expósito Ropero

Abstract

This article is a response to Noé Expósito Ropero’s critique —which draws heavily on the views of Javier San Martín— of my interpretation of the philosophy of José Ortega y Gasset. The upshot of Expósito Ropero’s argument is that Ortega is more of a phenomenologist than I realize, that I am wrong to think there is any such thing as “real objects” beyond Edmund Husserl’s intentional objects, and that no inanimate object can be treated as an “I.” In response, I answer each of these charges