“The Human Condition,” by Thomas Whitaker Morality is the attempt to guide human conduct by rationally formulating and following principles or rules that reflect our basic personal and social commitments and our leading ideals and values. But this presupposes that our “human, all-too-human” lives actually do have some meaning that, in turn, captures our basic … [continue reading]

Building on contemporary research in embodied cognition, enactivism, and theextended mind, this book explores how social institutions in contemporary neoliberal democratic states systematically affect our thoughts, feelings, and agency, Human beings are, necessarily, social animals who create and belong to social institutions. But social institutions take on a life of their own, and literally shape … [continue reading]

Robert Hanna’s Kant, Agnosticism, and Anarchism is about the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, political philosophy, and real-world politics. More specifically, Hanna uses Kant’s 18th century philosophical ideas in order to develop a radically agnostic doctrine in the philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, and also an existential Kantian … [continue reading]

The version of Kantian ethics that Robert Hanna develops in Kantian Ethics and Human Existence is “existential” in four senses of that term. First, it’s a specifically anthropocentric, humane version of Kantian ethics, that takes philosophical anthropology fully seriously for the purposes of ethical theory, and not as an inessential add-on or mere elaboration. Second, … [continue reading]

What is free will? What is practical agency? What is human personhood? And how are human free will, practical agency, and human personhood really possible in the natural world as it is correctly characterized by the modern natural sciences, especially physics, chemistry, biology, and cognitive neuroscience? Or more compactly put: given the truth of modern … [continue reading]

In Cognition, Content, and the A Priori, Robert Hanna works out and defend a five-stage contemporary Kantian theory of (i) intentionality and its contents, including nonconceptual content and conceptual content, (ii) sense perception and perceptual knowledge, including perceptual self-knowledge, (iii) the analytic-synthetic distinction,(iv) the nature of logic, and (v) a priori truth and knowledge in … [continue reading]

Most contemporary philosophers (71.1%, according to a recent survey) believe that a priori knowledge is really possible. Indeed, since the late 1980s there has been a renewed and steadily growing interest in rationalism and the a priori; and gradually what George Bealer has dubbed a rationalist renaissance has emerged onto the contemporary philosophical scene. At … [continue reading]

In Embodied Minds in Action, Robert Hanna and Michelle Maiese work out a unified treatment of three fundamental philosophical problems: the mind-body problem, the problem of mental causation, and the problem of action. This unified treatment rests on two basic claims. The first is that conscious, intentional minds like ours are essentially embodied. This entails … [continue reading]

The main aim of Robert Hanna’s Kant, Science, and Human Nature is to show that Kant was essentially right about the unknowability and methodological eliminability of a microphysical noumenal world hiding behind the directly perceivable manifestly real macrophysical world, and also about the priority of practical reason over theoretical reason, and that the mainstream analytic … [continue reading]

In Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy, Robert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and Analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them. The rise of Analytic philosophy decisively marked the end of the hundred-year dominance of Kant’s philosophy … [continue reading]