A Philosopher’s Diary, #9–How Much Does The Chatbot Brouhaha Affect Anarcho-Philosophical Teaching and Learning?

The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, ten years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]

Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #2.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2.  Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]

THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #52–The Metaphysical Ground of Human Dignity: Human Real Personhood.

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]

Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #1.

TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2.  Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]

A Philosophical Case For Holding That The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is Only a Special Law of Nature, and Not a Universal Law.

You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. A Philosophical Case For Holding That The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is Only a Special Law of Nature, and Not a Universal Law [L]iving matter, while not eluding the “laws of physics” as established up to date, … [continue reading]