(Lally, 2013)[ii] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS EDITOR’S NOTE: Links to installments ##1-9 can be found in installment #10. #10. Total Functions, Innovation, and Cultural Bandwidth You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. … [continue reading]
The Revival of Philosophical Anthropology in the Age of Extinction: Learning to Find Our Place Again, #6.
Holobiontic Encounters (AI-generated image curated by author) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1 Structure of the Essay 1.2 The Core of Philosophical Anthropology Listed as Four Basic Points 2. Theorizing the Tension of Being 3. Responsivity as an Anthropological Concept 4. Philosophical Anthropology for Shifting Times 4.1 Centralizing Relations (Point I) 4.2 Anthropology and Chronicling … [continue reading]
A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts on Christoph Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy,” Or, An Epigone Crashes the Party, #7–Hans Hahn.
(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
Why Read “Digital Technology for Humans”? A Podcast.
(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]
The Fracturing of Certainty: Mochizuki and the Crisis of Mathematical Universalism.
(DD, 2016) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Fracturing of Certainty: Mochizuki and the Crisis of Mathematical Universalism 1. The End of the Universal Language For centuries, mathematics … [continue reading]
The Revival of Philosophical Anthropology in the Age of Extinction: Learning to Find Our Place Again, #5.
Holobiontic Encounters (AI-generated image curated by author) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 1.1 Structure of the Essay 1.2 The Core of Philosophical Anthropology Listed as Four Basic Points 2. Theorizing the Tension of Being 3. Responsivity as an Anthropological Concept 4. Philosophical Anthropology for Shifting Times 4.1 Centralizing Relations (Point I) 4.2 Anthropology and Chronicling … [continue reading]
A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts on Christoph Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy,” Or, An Epigone Crashes the Party, #6–Rudolf Carnap.
(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
Why Androids Don’t Dream of Electric Sheep—Or Anything Else: A Podcast.
(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]
The Dark Matter Accounting Trick: How Professional Academic Cosmology Became a Zombie Science.
(NASA Science, 2026) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Dark Matter Accounting Trick: How Professional Academic Cosmology Became a Zombie Science 1. Introduction: The Epicycle of the 21st … [continue reading]
Announcing the Publication of Borderless Philosophy 9 (2026), Special Topic Issue: “We Were Supposed to Be Self-Guided: The Fate of Autonomy in The Present Era.”
Borderless Philosophy 9 (2026) SPECIAL TOPIC ISSUE: “We Were Supposed to Be Self-Guided: The Fate of Autonomy in The Present Era.” In “The Aufklaerung Song,” the philosophically-minded rock band Johannes Faustus sang: “We were supposed to be self-guided. But where did our reason go?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er56ksTGRxU What’s happened to our autonomy in the present era—sometimes called an “Age … [continue reading]