(Bramesco, 2021) In Robert Hanna’s view, Immanuel Kant’s transcendental idealism is most charitably and defensibly interpreted as a version of realistic idealism in two parts: first, manifest realism, and second, weak or counterfactual idealism. In “Kant, Manifest Realism, and The Refutation of Digital Idealism,” Hanna spells out manifest realism, demonstrates weak or counterfactual transcendental idealism, … [continue reading]

(Hanna, 2025) Digital ethics and AI ethics are of fundamental importance for humankind and its future. In his book, Digital Technology for Humans, Robert Hanna shows how specifically Kantian moral principles can be applied to the design, production, and implementation of digital technology, with a special focus on how these principles flow from the concept … [continue reading]

(Dick, 1968) Every animal sleeps, including non-rational, non-human animals; and during sleep, every animal dreams, although not constantly; but in any case, we rational human animals often fail to remember the contents of our  dreams upon waking. And even when we do remember the contents of our dreams, unless we immediately record them upon waking, … [continue reading]

Marvin the Paranoid Android (GSD, 2026) So you think that you’re both naturally determined and a free agent, and also that this philosophical position, which combines “compatibilism” (i.e., the consistency of free will and universal natural determinism) and “soft determinism” (i.e., the conjunction of free will and universal natural determinism) is conceptually coherent? Wrong, wrong, … [continue reading]

(MLK, 2014) In his essay, “MLK was a Nonviolent Dignitarian Post-Capitalist,” Robert Hanna does three things. First, he spells out a moral and sociopolitical doctrine he calls dignitarian post-capitalism. Second, he quotes the entire text of Martin Luther King Jr’s lecture, “Nonviolence and Social Change,” in which, Hanna believes, King (MLK) anticipated the basic tenets … [continue reading]

“The Sower” by Vincent Van Gogh (1888) In his essay, “Consciousness is a Form of Life,” Robert Hanna argues that in order to understand the nature of conscious mind in general and  rational human conscious mind in particular, we need radically to re-think what Alfred North Whitehead so aptly called our concept of nature itself, … [continue reading]

(Hanna, 2006) Robert Hanna’s essay, “Logic, Morality, and Politics,” is an elaboration of his earlier essay, “Trump, Truth, and Logic.” In “Logic, Morality, and Politics” Hanna explores the positive, self-conscious, and principled function of logic for rationally guiding thought and intentional action, especially in moral and political contexts. REFERENCE (Hanna, 2006). Hanna, R. Rationality and … [continue reading]

Logical Trumpism in action (Vinjamuri, 2026) A.J. Ayer wrote Language, Truth, and Logic in order to tell the world about Logical Empiricism (Ayer, 1935/1952). The purpose of Robert Hanna’s essay, “Trump, Truth, and Logic,” is to tell the world about what he calls Logical Trumpism. To the extent that the Logical Empiricists held that the … [continue reading]

(APP, 2013-2024) In his essay, “Against and Beyond Professional Academic Philosophy: A Synopsis,” Robert Hanna raises the question: what are the material conditions for the real-world implementation of what he calls “life-shaping philosophy”? Then he argues that three material conditions need to be jointly satisfied in order to implement life-shaping philosophy in the real world: … [continue reading]

(Smith, 2014) In his essay “Analytic Philosophy is Ending Not With a Bang But a Whimper,” Robert Hanna argues that first, Analytic philosophy as originally conceived, has been dead since the early 1950s, and actually has no future whatsoever, and second, Kant’s theoretical philosophy is actually significantly closer in content and methodology to classical Analytic … [continue reading]