Guns, Guns, and More Guns (Unknown online source) “Rage, the Flower Thrower/Love is in the Air,” by Banksy [Bethlehem, 2005] (PD, 2020) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Videre aude! The Weapons Effect and The Banksy Effect By thought-shapers, I mean any or … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: April 2023
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #11: Michel Foucault.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
Gettier v. Justified True Belief: A Brief Legal Refutation of The Gettier Problem.
Edmund L. Gettier III (1927-2021) About the Author: Joseph Wayne Smith is a dissenting and/or heretical philosopher, or post-philosopher, who soon after completing his first PhD in philosophy in 1987, was unemployed, and then re-trained in other disciplines, including environmentalism, medicine, and law, eventually obtaining PhD degrees in all three fields. At the end of … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #10: The Haitian Revolution.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
Hawking’s Final Theory and The Neo-Organicist Turn.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Hawking’s Final Theory and The Neo-Organicist Turn With [a] top-down [approach] we put humankind back in the center [of cosmological theory], he said. Interestingly, this is what gives us control. (Hawking, as quoted in Hertog, 2023: p. … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #9: Jacques Derrida.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
How and Why to Perform Uncomputable Functions.
Cantor’s Diagonal Argument for the Existence of Transfinite Numbers (Wikipedia, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. How and Why to Perform Uncomputable Functions When I look at Gödel’s proof of his undecidability theorem…. [, t]he proof is a soaring piece of architecture, … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #8: Major World Religions.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
When Professional Philosophers Become Junior Administrators.
(APA, 2022) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the “download” tab. When Professional Philosophers Become Junior Administrators When professional philosophers become junior administrators—as a perfect case-in-point, see the APA Blog article, “Why Philosophers Should Become Academic Leaders” … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #7: The History of Video Games.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]