[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: June 2020
The Pragmatics of Saying “All Lives Matter”: A Critique.
By “lives,” I mean the total collection of event-sequences running all the way from the birth of consciousness in any individual human organism to its organic and/or psychological destruction or death, as it applies to human persons, i.e., self-conscious, rational, spontaneously self-legislating, and also caring, desiring, feeling, imagining, perceiving, and remembering (or in general: sensible) … [continue reading]
THE NEW YORK SPACETIMES, #4–Thinking in End Times: Axial Consciousness Now.
THE NEW YORK SPACETIMES, by Michael Cifone, is a series about philosophy, society, politics, and everything else, starting from New York City and radiating outwards, borderlessly and unboundedly. He has worked on the philosophy and metaphysics of natural science, with a special focus on relativity and quantum theories, and on the philosophy of science more … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #20–Nagel and The Absurd.
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]
THE NEW YORK SPACETIMES, #3–Thinking in End Times: Axial Consciousness and Post-Modernity.
THE NEW YORK SPACETIMES, by Michael Cifone, is a series about philosophy, society, politics, and everything else, starting from New York City and radiating outwards, borderlessly and unboundedly. He has worked on the philosophy and metaphysics of natural science, with a special focus on relativity and quantum theories, and on the philosophy of science more … [continue reading]
MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #19–Two Kinds of Existentialism.
Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]
Memory, “Alternative Facts,” and the Political Philosophy of Cognition, #4–The Political Philosophy of Memory, & Conclusion.
APP EDITORS’ NOTE: The essay re-published below was originally published in Borderless Philosophy 1 (2018). This final installment contains sections 4 and 5. But you can also read or download a .pdf version of the complete text HERE. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Varieties of Memory 3. Strong Non-Conceptualism and Radically Naïve Realism about … [continue reading]
THE NEW YORK SPACETIMES, #2–Thinking in End Times: Axial Consciousness Then.
THE NEW YORK SPACETIMES, by Michael Cifone, is a series about philosophy, society, politics, and everything else, starting from New York City and radiating outwards, borderlessly and unboundedly. He has worked on the philosophy and metaphysics of natural science, with a special focus on relativity and quantum theories, and on the philosophy of science more … [continue reading]
The Police Won’t Save You From Themselves.
The Police Won’t Save You From Themselves Fuck the police comin’ straight from the underground A young n—— got it bad cause I’m brown And not the other color so police think They have the authority to kill a minority Fuck that shit, cause I ain’t the one For a punk motherfucker with a badge … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 3 (2020), Featuring Works by Babette Babich and Others, on The Philosophy of Poetry, Approximation, Radical Metaphilosophy, Fictional Alien Observers, The Ethics of Simulated Brains, Non-Conceptuality, Apprehensive Aesthetics, & Postmodernist Politics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Babette Babich, “Wallace Stevens, Heidegger, and the ‘Virile Hölderlin’: Poetry and Philosophy and The Travelogue of the Mind,” 1-31. 2. Ronald Green, “Approximation Works,” 32-38. 3. Robert Hanna, “Consequences of Consequences: Against Professional Philosophy, Anarcho- or Borderless Philosophy, and Rorty’s Role,” 39-84. 4. Robert Hanna, “How to Philosophize with a Hammer … [continue reading]