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]
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #3–My Aim In This Book.
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]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #22–Treating People Merely as a Means.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #2–How Uncritical And Unreformed Science Is Literally Killing The Modern World.
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]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #21–Kindness to All Living Beings: Associate Membership in The Realm of Ends.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #1–Preface & Acknowledgments.
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]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #20–Kindness to Animals Revisited: Harming without Torture or Cruelty.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
Ultimate Nocebos.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Ultimate Nocebos In what follows, I’m going to argue that the modern State in general—by which I mean the Hobbesian classical liberal or neoliberal capitalist nation-State from the 17th century until 6am this morning—and the USA in … [continue reading]
Nagel & Me: Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview.
You can download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Nagel & Me: Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview Nine Years After Nine years after, I think it’s safe to say that Thomas Nagel’s 2012 book, Mind and Cosmos[i] was extremely controversial, both inside the intellectual hothouse of professional academic … [continue reading]
Analytic Metaphysics as a Copernican Devolution in Philosophy.
Analytic Metaphysics as a Copernican Devolution in Philosophy Human reason has this peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity … [continue reading]