(Gatilao, 2015)[i] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #1: Introduction #2: From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence” #3: Patterns and Algorithms 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 poast and clicking on the Download tab. Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: September 2025
Mathematics for Humans: Kant’s Philosophy of Arithmetic Revisited–A Podcast.
(Zwarenstein, 2024) In “Mathematics for Humans: Kant’s Philosophy of Arithmetic Revisited,” Robert Hanna revisits Immanuel Kant’s much-criticized views on mathematics in general and arithmetic in particular. In so doing, he makes a case for the claim that Kant’s theory of arithmetic is not subject to the most familiar and forceful objection against it, namely, that … [continue reading]
Do Not Adjust Your Mind, There’s a Fault in Reality Philosophy: The Cosmic Glitch Hypothesis as a Satirical Response to The Simulation Hypothesis, #1.
(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the first, contains sections … [continue reading]
Why The Better Angels of Our Nature Must Hate The State: A Podcast.
In his short essay, “Why The Better Angels of Our Nature Must Hate The State,” a reply to Anne Margaret Baxley’s comments on his earlier essay, “Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature,” Robert Hanna responds to her two critical worries about Hanna’s thesis that there is an unbridgeable gap between Kant’s political … [continue reading]
The Pythagorean Crisis Revisited: A Challenge to the Infinite Decimal Representation of the Reals, #3.
(Unihedron, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Geometric-Arithmetic Divide 3. The Metaphysical Paradox 4. Historical Resonances: The Zenoesque Structure 5. Implications for Real Analysis 6. Toward a Critical Examination 7. Conclusion The essay below will be published on three installments; this, the third and final one, contains sections 6-7. But you can also … [continue reading]
Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature: A Podcast.
Contrary to the belief of most Kantians and Kant scholars, Kant is in fact an anarchist. In “Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature” Robert Hanna distinguishes sharply between two concepts of enlightenment, (i) enlightenment lite and (ii) heavy duty or radical enlightement; shows how there is an unbridgeable gap between Kant’s official … [continue reading]
The Pythagorean Crisis Revisited: A Challenge to the Infinite Decimal Representation of the Reals, #2.
(Unihedron, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Geometric-Arithmetic Divide 3. The Metaphysical Paradox 4. Historical Resonances: The Zenoesque Structure 5. Implications for Real Analysis 6. Toward a Critical Examination 7. Conclusion The essay below will be published on three installments; this one, the second, contains sections 4-5. But you can also download and … [continue reading]
Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #3–Patterns and Algorithms.
(Wikimedia, 2006)[i] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #1: Introduction #2: From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence” 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. Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #3–Patterns and Algorithms[ii] 1. … [continue reading]
Radical Enlightenment: Existential Kantian Cosmopolitan Anarchism, With a Concluding Quasi-Federalist Postscript–A Podcast.
In ” Radical Enlightenment: Existential Kantian Cosmopolitan Anarchism, With a Concluding Quasi-Federalist Postscript,” Robert Hanna argues that that a highly original, politically radical, and if not revolutionary, then at least robustly State-resistant, State-subversive, and even outright civilly-disobedient cosmopolitan, existentialist version of anarchism that Hanna calls existential Kantian cosmopolitan anarchism, very naturally flows from Kant’s moral … [continue reading]
The Pythagorean Crisis Revisited: A Challenge to the Infinite Decimal Representation of the Reals, #1.
(Unihedron, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Geometric-Arithmetic Divide 3. The Metaphysical Paradox 4. Historical Resonances: The Zenoesque Structure 5. Implications for Real Analysis 6. Toward a Critical Examination 7. Conclusion The essay below will be published on three installments; this one, the first, contains sections 1-3. But you can also download and … [continue reading]