APP Editors’ Note: PoS is a philosopher of science and an associate professor in a non-US subsidiary of a top-ranked US philosophy department. PoS: Your website is down, I guess professionalism is good for something after all… Z: Re website functionality: Sorry! It seems to be working fine now. Re professionalism: You might find this … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Plato and Professional Philosophy.
1. A Prefatory Note, by Z. My first passionate loves in philosophy were Plato, life-changing metaphysics, early Wittgenstein, life-changing metaphysics, Whitehead, life-changing metaphysics, Kant, and life-changing metaphysics. In the late 70s, in my Plato phase, working ecstatically on my senior thesis on Plato, Kant, and the life-changing metaphysics of value (yes, 70s naif that I … [continue reading]
Professional Philosophy, Scientism, and Frankenscience.
The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn‘t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; the idea of great progress is a delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that … [continue reading]
G Talks Back! to Against Professional Philosophy; and Images of Some of Our Favorite Women Philosophers.
APP Editors’ note: G is a full-time adjunct lecturer in philosophy at a public university somewhere in North America. G: Here are some some biased and unreflective comments about APP because, as you know, most of us just don’t have much time. 1. The pages don’t load properly – long wait and had to reload … [continue reading]