(Sunfield Chambers, 2026) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Cecilia Brotzu (University of Milan, IT): “Why Artificial Intelligence Lacks Schematism: Kant on the Transcendental Conditions of Meaning,” 1-11— https://www.cckp.space/single-post/cskp-10-2026-brotzu-why-artificial-intelligence-lacks-schematism-kant-on-the-transcendental-con 2. Robert Hanna (Independent philosopher, CA): “Kant, Manifest Realism, Weak Transcendental Idealism, and The Refutation of Digital Idealism,” 12-23— https://www.cckp.space/single-post/cskp-10-2026-hanna-kant-manifest-realism-weak-transcendental-idealism-and-the-refutation-of-d 3. Linda Palmer (Independent philosopher, CA/USA) : “Kant’s ‘Common … [continue reading]
Monthly Archives: August 2026
The End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas: A Podcast.
(Spicer and Roulet, 2014a) In “The End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas,” Robert Hanna argues that peer review is not only (i) an effective straitjacket that massively stifles creativity and guarantees in-crowd orthodoxy, but also (ii) an effective bottleneck that massively slows down and chokes the dissemination and sharing of creative unorthodox … [continue reading]
The Upload: Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” 2.0.
(Anthony, 2013) 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 Upload: Kafka’s Metamorphosis 2.0 Joseph thought escaping his body meant freedom. Instead, he discovered that uploading his consciousness into ChatGPT … [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, #18: Noam Chomsky.
(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]
WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies–A Podcast.
In his essay, “WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies,” Robert Hanna tells us that “WTFU,” pronounced “what-foo,” means wake the fuck up: and that that’s what he’s urging us all to do in this manifesto. Kantians and others will have already recognized that WTFU is a pithy, pungent contemporary equivalent of Immanuel Kant’s famous or … [continue reading]
The Ontological Divide: Why General Relativity Negates Special Relativity.
(Hossenfelder, 2019) 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 Ontological Divide: Why General Relativity Negates Special Relativity 1. Introduction In his essay, “Special Relativity, Time, Probabilism and Ultimate Reality,” … [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, #17: Jean van Heijenoort.
(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]
Higher Education Without Commodification, Mechanization, or Moralization: A Podcast.
(Wong, 2016) In his essay, “Higher Education Without Commodification, Mechanization, or Moralization,” Robert Hanna asks the question: what is the ultimate end of higher education? Giambattista Vico, echoing Socrates’s Delphic oracle, claimed that the ultimate end of all education is self-knowledge. Hanna fully agrees with Vico’s claim, but also wants radically to extend his idea … [continue reading]
The Pyrrhonist’s Vacuum: Isostheneia in the Search for a Substrate for Einsteinian Relativity.
(Wikimedia Commons, 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 Pyrrhonist’s Vacuum: Isostheneia in the Search for a Substrate for Einsteinian Relativity 1. Introduction Professional physics has entered a … [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, #16–Analytic Philosophy and Angela Davis.
(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]