You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. G.E. Moore’s Open Question Argument Against The Naturalistic Fallacy Revised, Updated, and Redefended I’ll begin by defining the naturalistic fallacy, dictionary-style, as follows: 1. The failed attempt to reduce what is morally obligatory to what is merely … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: March 2022
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #16–This is the Way the World Ends.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
The Axiocentric Predicament, And What To Do About It.
You can also download and read or share the complete .pdf text of this essay HERE. The Axiocentric Predicament, And What To Do About It According to the classical hard problem in philosophical logic known as the logocentric predicament, as formulated in 1926 by Harry Sheffer, [i]n order to give an account of logic, we … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #15–Frankenscience, the Future of Humanity, and the Future of Science.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Later Gödel on the Formalization of Mathematics: A Comment on Hanna’s “Rational Human Mindedness and The Hierarchy of Increasingly Rich Formal Systems.”
Dear Robert, I have noticed that in your paper “Rational Human Mindedness…”[i] you do not consider [later] Gödel’s argument that, while by his first incompleteness theorem it is “impossible to formalize all of mathematics in a single formal system,” nevertheless “everything mathematical is formalizable” (Gödel 1986–2002, I, 389). It is formalizable not in a single … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #14–Sensible Science 3: Natural Science Without Scientism.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Rational Human Mindedness and The Hierarchy of Increasingly Rich Formal Systems.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Rational Human Mindedness and The Hierarchy of Increasingly Rich Formal Systems Ever since I wrote a brace of books during the 00s called Kant, Science, and Human Nature (Hanna, 2006a) and Rationality and Logic (Hanna, 2006b), I’ve … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #13–Sensible Science 2: Natural Science Without Materialism/Physicalism.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]