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]
Monthly Archives: June 2023
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers, Or, The Easy Solution to the Problem of Chatbots in Higher Education.
(Wikipedia, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, either by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab, or by going HERE. Invasion of the Mind Snatchers, Or, The Easy Solution to the Problem of Chatbots in Higher … [continue reading]
Against the Academics: Peering at the Problem of Peer Review.
“Peer Review? No Thanks.” By T. Ehrmann (Spicer and Roulet, 2014) 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 … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #14: Psychology.
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]
Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Authentic Human Creativity.
“Butlerian Jihad” (Dune Wiki, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, either by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab, or by going HERE. Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Authentic Human Creativity … [continue reading]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Legal Critique.
(History Cafe, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Legal Critique 1. Introduction: The Classical Formulation of the Problem The prisoner’s dilemma in game theory was … [continue reading]
Announcing the Publication of Borderless Philosophy 6 (2023), Special Topic Issue: “Is Humankind Worth Saving From Whatever Might Threaten It? If Not, Then Why Not? But If So, Then Why and How?”
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Leon Conrad (Independent, UK), “Story Structure Solutions,” 1-31: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp6-2023-leon-conrad-story-structure-solutions-1-31 2. Arran Gare (Swinburne University of Technology, AU), “Was Günter Grass’s Rat Right? Should Terrestrial Life Welcome the End of Humans?,” 32-76: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp6-2023-arran-gare-was-g%C3%BCnter-grass-s-rat-right-32-76 3. Robert Hanna (Independent, USA), “In Defence of Dignity,” 77-98: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp6-2023-robert-hanna-in-defence-of-dignity-77-98 4. Robert Hanna (Independent, USA), “Dignitarian Post-Capitalism,” 99-129: … [continue reading]
Rational Anthropology: A Review of Sheila Newman’s “Land-Tenure & The Revolution in Democracy & Birth Control in France.”
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 his quasi-career, he’s working on … [continue reading]