Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and theextended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal democratic states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency, Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: April 2025
Is Professional Academic Philosophy in Crisis? A Conversation.
This conversation between Robert Hanna, Aaron Simmons, and Joshua Yen was recorded during March 2025. You can also download and read or share a .pdf of Robert Hanna’s essay, “Six Studies in The Decline and Fall of Professional Academic Philosophy, And A Real and Relevant Alternative,” by clicking on the Download tab directly below. Against … [continue reading]
Kant, Agnosticism, and Anarchism: A Podcast.
Robert Hanna’s Kant, Agnosticism, and Anarchism is about the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, political philosophy, and real-world politics. More specifically, Hanna uses Kant’s 18th century philosophical ideas in order to develop a radically agnostic doctrine in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, and also an existential Kantian … [continue reading]
What is Human Knowledge? Categorical Normativity and Categorical Epistemology, #2.
Grand Central Station, New York City (circa 1930) The essay below will be published in two installments; this is the second. You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, including the list of REFERENCES, by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on … [continue reading]
Kantian Ethics and Human Existence: A Podcast.
The version of Kantian ethics that Robert Hanna develops in Kantian Ethics and Human Existence is “existential” in four senses of that term. First, it’s a specifically anthropocentric, humane version of Kantian ethics, that takes philosophical anthropology fully seriously for the purposes of ethical theory, and not as an inessential add-on or mere elaboration. Second, … [continue reading]
What is Human Knowledge? Categorical Normativity and Categorical Epistemology, #1.
Grand Central Station, New York City (circa 1930) The essay below will be published in two installments; this is the first. You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, including the list of REFERENCES, by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on … [continue reading]
Deep Freedom and Real Persons: A Podcast.
What is free will? What is practical agency? What is human personhood? And how are human free will, practical agency, and human personhood really possible in the natural world as it is correctly characterized by the modern natural sciences, especially physics, chemistry, biology, and cognitive neuroscience? Or more compactly put: given the truth of modern … [continue reading]
Not All Animals are Equal.
(Bulb, 2024) 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. Not All Animals are Equal If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering … [continue reading]