(Al-Kahlili, 2002) 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. Against the Physicists #3: The Reality of Temporal Passage and the Falsity of Block Universe Eternalism 1. Introduction Contemporary eternalism, grounded … [continue reading]
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Russell’s Paradox and the Ontological Filter: Toward a Consistency-Based Collection Theory.
(Wikimedia Commons, 2021) 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. Russell’s Paradox and the Ontological Filter: Toward a Consistency-Based Collection Theory 1. Introduction In this essay, we propose “Collection Theory,” … [continue reading]
The Integration Illusion: Why Calculus’s Greatest Trick is a House of Cards.
(Saha, 2018) 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 icon. The Integration Illusion: Why Calculus’s Greatest Trick is a House of Cards 1. Introduction Calculus textbooks sell integration as the noble … [continue reading]
Radical Logical Skepticism: The Unprovability Paradox as Total Underminer of Professional Academic Analytic Philosophy.
(IEP, 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. Radical Logical Skepticism: The Unprovability Paradox as Total Underminer of Professional Academic Analytic Philosophy 1. Introduction Professional academic Analytic philosophy is … [continue reading]
Against the Physicists, #2: On the Energy–Time Uncertainty and the Impossibility of Sharp Realism.
(Dietterich Labs, 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. Against the Physicists, #2: On the Energy–Time Uncertainty and the Impossibility of Sharp Realism 1. The Dogma Stated The physicists … [continue reading]
Against the Physicists, #1: On the Non-Conservation of Energy in the Curved Einsteinian Dogma.
(Carreau, 2015) 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. Against the Physicists, #1: On the Non-Conservation of Energy in the Curved Einsteinian Dogma 1. Introduction In physics, it is commonly … [continue reading]
Feynman’s Light Path Integral Mirage: Why “All Possible Paths” for Photons is a Mathematical Illusion That Professional Academic Philosophy Lets Stand.
(Physics Explained, 2025) 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. Feynman’s Light Path Integral Mirage: Why “All Possible Paths” for Photons is a Mathematical Illusion That Academic Professional Philosophy Lets … [continue reading]
The Burnt Book and Black Hole Paradox: Why Susskind’s Information Paradox is Nonsense.
(Musser, 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. The Burnt Book and Black Hole Paradox: Why Susskind’s Information Paradox is Nonsense Leonard Susskind loves to tell a story about … [continue reading]
When Space and Time Dissolve: The Challenge to Mechanistic Thinking.
(Andersen, 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 icon. When Space and Time Dissolve: The Challenge to Mechanistic Thinking 1. Introduction Classical mechanism, based in Newton’s physics and developed during … [continue reading]
Anti-Reductionist Philosophy of Science Against Mechanism, #6.
(Murray, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Cronin-Walker Assembly Theory and the Anti-Reductionist Turn 3. Physics is Not Causally Closed: Nicolas Gisin’s Anti-Mechanism 4. Barbara Drossel’s Anti-Reductionism 5. Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality: There are No Brains 6. Colin McGinn’s Basic Structures of Reality: A Philosophical Analysis of Physics-Based Metaphysics and Structural Realism 7. … [continue reading]