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]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #6: Foundational Concepts in Science.
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]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #11—There’s Nothing…And Everything.
The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, ten years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #5: The Theory of Evolution.
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. LGPTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems This is … [continue reading]