APP Editor’s Note Motoki Kudo is a graduate student in the Faculty of Information Sciences and Arts at Toyo University, Japan. By request of the author, the essay below has been edited for clarity, grammar, and style; the original text can be found HERE. Biological Determinism is a dangerous claim. This is because it can … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Voter Fraud, RussiaGate, and Cognitive Dissonance.
I know that it’s baffling to so many people that huge numbers of Republicans believe that there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, that Biden didn’t actually legitimately win the election, or even that Trump actually won the election. There’s no actual evidence for such beliefs, although information that might appear to … [continue reading]
Organicist Metaphysics: A Hybrid Interpretation.
I. Introduction It should come as no surprise to regular readers of APP that several of the contributors are currently thinking about organicism as a fundamental and indeed paradigm-shifting philosophical doctrine. We’ve been writing and posting material on this topic since 2016,[i] and two of us recently published a long essay that develops some of … [continue reading]
LONDON CALLING BACK, #7–Philosophy and Mental Health During The New Apocalypse.
LONDON CALLING BACK, by Emre Kazim, is a series about philosophy, society, and politics, from a British and non-North-American point of view, emphasizing a new critical-dignitarian, edgy, and thoroughly push-backarian philosophical, social, and political ferment on the rise in London, recalling the heady days of politicized punk and The Clash. During the COVID-19 pandemic, LONDON CALLING … [continue reading]