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]

In his essay “Philosophy Professionalized: How We Killed the Thing We Loved,” Robert Hanna defines “real philosophy” as follows: By real philosophy, [I] mean authentic, serious, synoptic, systematic reflection on the individual and collective human condition, and on the natural and social world in which human and other conscious animals live, move, and have their … [continue reading]

(Hanna and Paans, 2020: p. 35; diagram created by Otto Paans) In a companion-piece essay to his essay “Running On Empty: Why Hasn’t Professional Academic Philosophy Produced Any Important Ideas in the Last 50 Years?,” namely, “How To Make Two Neglected Brilliant Ideas into Important or Even Revolutionary Ideas,” Robert Hanna identifies two of those … [continue reading]

“The Death of Socrates by Means of the APA,” by Q, after “The Death of Socrates,” by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 (APP, 2013) By a brilliant philosophical idea, Robert Hanna means a philosophical idea that manifests great intellectual creativity, insight, and originality, opens up a new way of looking at a large domain of concepts, facts, … [continue reading]