Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
Gettier v. Justified True Belief: A Brief Legal Refutation of The Gettier Problem.
Edmund L. Gettier III (1927-2021) About the Author: Joseph Wayne Smith is a dissenting and/or heretical philosopher, or post-philosopher, who soon after completing his first PhD in philosophy in 1987, was unemployed, and then re-trained in other disciplines, including environmentalism, medicine, and law, eventually obtaining PhD degrees in all three fields. At the end of … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #10: The Haitian Revolution.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
Hawking’s Final Theory and The Neo-Organicist Turn.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Hawking’s Final Theory and The Neo-Organicist Turn With [a] top-down [approach] we put humankind back in the center [of cosmological theory], he said. Interestingly, this is what gives us control. (Hawking, as quoted in Hertog, 2023: p. … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #9: Jacques Derrida.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
How and Why to Perform Uncomputable Functions.
Cantor’s Diagonal Argument for the Existence of Transfinite Numbers (Wikipedia, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. How and Why to Perform Uncomputable Functions When I look at Gödel’s proof of his undecidability theorem…. [, t]he proof is a soaring piece of architecture, … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #8: Major World Religions.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
When Professional Philosophers Become Junior Administrators.
(APA, 2022) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the “download” tab. When Professional Philosophers Become Junior Administrators When professional philosophers become junior administrators—as a perfect case-in-point, see the APA Blog article, “Why Philosophers Should Become Academic Leaders” … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #7: The History of Video Games.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
Organoid Intelligence? Just Say No.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Organoid Intelligence? Just Say No. Although the artificial intelligence movement, aka AI, has been around for more than 70 years (see, e.g., Turing, 1950), the recent and contemporary furor about AI has been primarily generated by the … [continue reading]