In Robert Hanna’s “Preface and General Introduction to The Rational Human Condition,” which forms the principal part of The Rational Human Condition, Vol. 1 (Hanna, 2018), Hanna outlines his synoptic five-volume philosophical project of rational anthropology. Hanna argues that all philosophical inquiry ultimately centers on the question, “What is the human being?,” suggesting that metaphysics, morals, and religion are … [continue reading]

(Falk, 2020) As Jerrold Katz correctly noted, the philosophy of mathematics is central and indeed essential to philosophy as a whole, even despite its abstractness, formal character, and technicality. The reason for this is that an adequate philosophy of mathematics would explain the nature of truth, necessity, apriority, and categorical (i.e., unconditional, principled) normativity, and … [continue reading]

(Zwarenstein, 2024) What has the conscious, intentional human mind to do with the nature and status of logic and mathematics? Are irreducible facts about the human mind essential to logic and mathematics, or are logic and mathematics essentially mindless even if accidentallyconnected to human minds by means of contingent episodes of thinking? The rejection of … [continue reading]

(Zwarenstein, 2024) Benacerraf’s Dilemma (BD), as formulated by Paul Benacerraf in “Mathematical Truth,” is about the apparent impossibility of reconciling a “standard” (i.e., classical Platonic) semantics of mathematics with a “reasonable” (i.e., causal, spatiotemporal) epistemology of cognizing true statements. In “Mathematical Truth Regained” Robert Hanna offers a new solution to BD. He calls this new … [continue reading]

(Zwarenstein, 2024) In “Mathematics for Humans: Kant’s Philosophy of Arithmetic Revisited,” Robert Hanna revisits Immanuel Kant’s much-criticized views on mathematics in general and arithmetic in particular. In so doing, he makes a case for the claim that Kant’s theory of arithmetic is not subject to the most familiar and forceful objection against it, namely, that … [continue reading]

In his short essay, “Why The Better Angels of Our Nature Must Hate The State,” a reply to Anne Margaret Baxley’s comments on his earlier essay, “Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature,” Robert Hanna responds to her two critical worries about Hanna’s thesis that there is an unbridgeable gap between Kant’s political … [continue reading]

Contrary to the belief of most Kantians and Kant scholars, Kant is in fact an anarchist. In “Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature” Robert Hanna distinguishes sharply between two concepts of enlightenment, (i) enlightenment lite and (ii) heavy duty or radical enlightement; shows how there is an unbridgeable gap between Kant’s official … [continue reading]

In ” Radical Enlightenment: Existential Kantian Cosmopolitan Anarchism, With a Concluding Quasi-Federalist Postscript,” Robert Hanna argues that that a highly original, politically radical, and if not revolutionary, then at least robustly State-resistant, State-subversive, and even outright civilly-disobedient cosmopolitan, existentialist version of anarchism that Hanna calls existential Kantian cosmopolitan anarchism, very naturally flows from Kant’s moral … [continue reading]

Marvin the Paranoid Android (Wikipedia, 2025) In “The Refutation of Compatibilism and Soft Determinism, Together With A New Proof That Incompatibilistic Real Free Agency Really Exists and That You Really Have It,” Robert Hanna argues against the thesis that you’re both naturally determined and a free agent, and also the thesis that this philosophical position, … [continue reading]

In “Will-Power: Essentially Embodied Agentive Phenomenology, By Way of O’Shaughnessy,” Robert Hanna focuses on three issues. First, he briefly describes the causally efficacious power of the minded animal will (or what Kant calls Willkür, aka “the power of choice”) in basic intentional actions, that is, intentional body movements, against the metaphysical backdrops of his essential … [continue reading]