(Palazzi, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Cognitive Limits of Rationality 3. Cognitive Blindspots 4. The Myth of the All-Seeing Eye: The Limits of Perception 5. The Epistemological Crises 6. Conclusion The essay that follows is being published in six installments, one per section; this is the third installment. But you can … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #15–Rules For Thinking.
“The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters” by Francisco Goya (Los Caprichos, #43, 1799) 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 350,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by … [continue reading]
The Limits of Reason: Cognitive Psychology, The Epistemological Crisis, and Epistemic Humility, #2.
(Palazzi, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Cognitive Limits of Rationality 3. Cognitive Blindspots 4. The Myth of the All-Seeing Eye: The Limits of Perception 5. The Epistemological Crises 6. Conclusion The essay that follows is being published in six installments, one per section; this is the second installment. But you can … [continue reading]
The Limits of Reason: Cognitive Psychology, The Epistemological Crisis, and Epistemic Humility, #1.
(Palazzi, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Background: The Cognitive Limits of Rationality 3. Cognitive Blindspots 4. The Myth of the All-Seeing Eye: The Limits of Perception 5. The Epistemological Crises 6. Conclusion The essay that follows will be published in six installments, one per section; this is the first installment. But you can … [continue reading]
What Good is Philosophy? My Answer.
(Kyiv Mohyla Academy, 2023) 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. What Good is Philosophy? My Answer. As an independent philosopher, resolute generalist, and a card-carrying nemo, no-name, or nobody … [continue reading]
Why Do Professional Academic Philosophers Ignore the Worldwide Problem of Guns and Gun Violence?
(NYT, 2023) 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. Why Do Professional Academic Philosophers Ignore the Worldwide Problem of Guns and Gun Violence? By the problem of guns and gun … [continue reading]
Beyond The Spirituality-Industrial Complex.
(Motski, 2023) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Religion and Morality 3. The New Apocalypse, The Spirituality-Industrial Complex, The Highest Good, and Morality 4. There’s Always a Constructive, Enabling Alternative To Every Social-Institutional Structure That’s Destructive and Deforming, Even If That Social Institution Seems To Be Eternal or Written-in-Stone 5. Realistically Optimist Dignitarian Humanism as … [continue reading]
The End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas.
(Spicer and Roulet, 2014a) You can 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 End of Peer Review and The Matrix of Ideas What is the professional academic system of peer review? Here’s … [continue reading]
“My Education is a Threat”: Free Reading in Prison.
“First Amendment,” by C.D. Arthur, 2023 (McCordick, 2023: p. 35) 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. “My Education is a Threat”: Free Reading in Prison You, the reader of … [continue reading]
Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility.
(Baker, 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. Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility In their important essay, “From Scientific Reproducibility To Epistemic Humility,” Joseph Wayne Smith and … [continue reading]