(ILDC, 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. Il Faut Cultiver Notre Jardin The history of [Candide’s] world-famous phrase, which serves as the book’s conclusion—il faut cultiver notre jardin—is … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
Philosophy Professionalized: How We Killed the Thing We Loved.
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. Philosophy Professionalized: How We Killed the Thing We Loved [T]he main benefit [of university philosophy] might be that many a young and capable … [continue reading]
To Sleep; Perchance to Dream: Three Questions About Dreaming.
“Sleeping Gypsy,” by Henri Rousseau, 1897 (Artsy.net, 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. To Sleep; Perchance to Dream: Three Questions About Dreaming To sleep; perchance to dream. (Shakespeare, … [continue reading]
Pretending and Wrongdoing.
“Pretend: Definition and Meaning” (CED, 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 page and clicking on the Download tab. Pretending and Wrongdoing In another essay, “Dreams and Human Agency,” I asked the following question: Is it … [continue reading]
Beyond Democracy, Or, Why Shooting The CEOs of Venal Healthcare Corporations Won’t Solve The Healthcare Hell Problem, #3.
(Marcetic, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Core Argument for Dignitarian Anarchism 3. Anti-Oppression, Quasi-Federalism, and How to Construct “The World As It Could Be Made.” 4. Post-Democratic Social Dynamics: DDAO, Concordar, and Carnival 5. Healthcare Hell and Universal Free Healthcare 6. Conclusion The essay that follows has been published in three installments; … [continue reading]
Beyond Democracy, Or, Why Shooting The CEOs of Venal Healthcare Corporations Won’t Solve The Healthcare Hell Problem, #2.
(Marcetic, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Core Argument for Dignitarian Anarchism 3. Anti-Oppression, Quasi-Federalism, and How to Construct “The World As It Could Be Made.” 4. Post-Democratic Social Dynamics: DDAO, Concordar, and Carnival 5. Healthcare Hell and Universal Free Healthcare 6. Conclusion The essay that follows will be published in three installments; … [continue reading]
Beyond Democracy, Or, Why Shooting The CEOs of Venal Healthcare Corporations Won’t Solve The Healthcare Hell Problem, #1.
(Marcetic, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Core Argument for Dignitarian Anarchism 3. Anti-Oppression, Quasi-Federalism, and How to Construct “The World As It Could Be Made.” 4. Post-Democratic Social Dynamics: DDAO, Concordar, and Carnival 5. Healthcare Hell and Universal Free Healthcare 6. Conclusion The essay that follows will be published in three installments; … [continue reading]
How To Make Two Neglected Brilliant Ideas into Important or Even Revolutionary Ideas.
(Hanna and Paans, 2020: p. 35; diagram created by Otto Paans) 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. How To Make Two Neglected Brilliant Ideas into Important or Even Revolutionary … [continue reading]
My Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association 2025 Eastern Division Meeting.
“How Professional Academic Philosophy Assassinated Real Philosophy,” by Q 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. My Presidential Address to the American Philosophical Association 2025 Eastern Division Meeting Members of … [continue reading]
Analytic Philosophy is Ending Not With a Bang But a Whimper.
(Smith, 2014) 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. Analytic Philosophy is Ending Not With a Bang But a Whimper This is the way Analytic philosophy ends This is the … [continue reading]