For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word in the ordinary circumstances of … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux, #5–Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]
It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay at the bottom of this post, directly below the REFERENCES. It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible The strong thesis of artificial intelligence, aka strong AI, is the two-part thesis which says … [continue reading]
How and Why ChatGPT Failed The Turing Test.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. How and Why ChatGPT Failed The Turing Test As everyone who’s interested in higher education knows, there’s been a recent brouhaha about ChatGPT (see, e.g., Boethius, 2022). But here I’m concerned with important issues in the philosophy … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux, #4–One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #3.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #54–The Thin Logic and the Thick Semantics of Moral Principles in Broadly Kantian Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies.
You can also download and read or share a complete .pdf of this essay HERE. WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies “WTFU,” pronounced “what-foo,” means wake the fuck up:[i] and that’s what I’m urging us all to do. Kantians and others will have already recognized that WTFU is a pithy, pungent contemporary equivalent of Immanuel … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #53–Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux: The Essential Embodiment Theory Now, #2.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]