Frederick Douglass (1817/1818-1895) Paulo Freire (1921-1997) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Free Reading, Civil Reading, and The Right to Literacy It’s a truth self-evidently known, that you, the … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: November 2023
Borderless Philosophy 7 (2024), Fourth and Final Call For Submissions On This Special Topic: “The Critical Philosophy of Digital Technology.”
*** You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this Call For Submissions by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. *** Borderless Philosophy’s Editorial Team, whose members currently are: Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina Univ., USA) https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/philosophyandreligiousstudies/dennisearl/, Robert Hanna (Independent, USA) (Editorial … [continue reading]
Weird Science, Odd Elasticity, and Why Science Needs Philosophy.
(Padavic-Callaghan, 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. Weird Science, Odd Elasticity, and Why Science Needs Philosophy 1. Introduction Analytic philosophy of science, as practiced in the so-called “Anglosphere”—English-speaking countries … [continue reading]
Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading.
“A Philosopher Reading a Book,” Dutch School (Artnet, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading You, the reader of this … [continue reading]
“This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility.
“Relativity,” by M.C. Escher (1953) (Valentino, 2020) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. “This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility This very sentence is … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #27: Slavoj Žižek.
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]
The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy.
“Girl with a Book,” by Alexander Deineka (1934) 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 Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy You, the reader of this very sentence, are consciously … [continue reading]
From Reductionism to Simplicity: Against Modernist Minimalism and Towards a New Monastic Minimalism, #4.
Figure 1: Courtyard of the St. Benedictusberg Abbey, designed by Dom. Hans van der Laan. Photograph by author. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Modernism and Minimalism: Reductionism as Paradigm 2. Monastic Minimalism: Six Defining Features 3. Against Mechanistic Materialism 4. Conclusion This essay has been published in four installments, one per section. You can also download … [continue reading]