(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: July 2026
Philosophy and “A Complete Appreciation of The Usual”: A Podcast.
“Whitehall From Charing Cross” (ca. 1899) by Herbert Menzies Marshall (Leithauser, 2021) In his essay “Philosophy and ‘A Complete Appreciation of the Usual’,” Robert Hanna begins with Henry James’s insightful remark that Anthony Trollope’s “great … [and] inestimable merit” as a novelist was “a complete appreciation of the usual.” By “the usual,” in this context, … [continue reading]
The Epistemological Circularity of the “No Information Transfer” Defense: How Shannon Came to the Rescue of Special Relativity.
Claude Shannon 1916-2001 (Tse, 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. The Epistemological Circularity of the “No Information Transfer” Defense: How Shannon Came to the Rescue of Special Relativity … [continue reading]
A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts on Christoph Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy,” Or, An Epigone Crashes the Party, #11–Susan Stebbing.
(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
Space and Place: A Podcast.
Figure 1: The Cosmic Rubber Sheet Torus (Wikimedia, 2012) Figure 2: (Coughlin et al., 2018) In “Space and Place” Robert Hanna asks the question “what is the nature of space?,” and answers it in terms of (i) Kant’s theory of the transcendental ideality of space, (ii) our representation of egocentrically-centered place, which grounds our representation … [continue reading]
Bang Goes the Big Bang: Orbital Mechanics, Structural Failures, and Degenerative Cosmology.
(Wikipedia, 2026) 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. Bang Goes the Big Bang: Orbital Mechanics, Structural Failures, and Degenerative Cosmology 1. Introduction The Big Bang model dominates contemporary cosmology, … [continue reading]
A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts on Christoph Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy,” Or, An Epigone Crashes the Party, #10–Rose Rand.
(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
Why Read Science for Humans? 2: The Importance and Justification of The Explanatory Inversion Thesis. A Podcast.
(Hanna, 2024) In his book Science for Humans (Hanna, 2024) Robert Hanna presents and defends what he calls “the explanatory inversion thesis.” According to this thesis, all formal and natural mechanical systems are metaphysically dependent on and derivable from uncomputable, negentropic, irreversible, processual, purposive, self-organizing, and time-unidirectional or time-asymmetric organic systems, and not the other … [continue reading]
If Light Does Not Travel: A Skeptical Argument Against Classical Velocity in Special Relativity Theory.
(SPL, 2026) 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. If Light Does Not Travel: A Skeptical Argument Against Classical Velocity in Special Relativity Theory 1. The Provocation Richard Feynman once … [continue reading]