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]
The Neo-Organicist Turn: Explanatory Inversion and Creative Control.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The Neo-Organicist Turn: Explanatory Inversion and Creative Control 1. Since 1900, the predominant worldview has been the mechanistic worldview, centered on the root metaphor of the machine (for example, a steam engine or a digital computer) which … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #2–Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism.
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT: #1 Introduction The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. II. Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism The postmodern commitment to rejecting any notion of “grand récits,” essentially robbed the western subjectivity from any clear anchoring points in the past. Simultaneously, it removed … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #29–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview IV: Solving The Free Will Problem.
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]
Borderless Philosophy 6 (2023), First Call For Submissions On This Special Topic: “Is Humankind Worth Saving From Whatever Might Threaten It? If Not, Then Why Not? But If So, Then Why and How?”
Borderless Philosophy’s Editorial Team, whose members currently are Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina Univ., USA) https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/philosophyandreligiousstudies/dennisearl/, Robert Hanna (Independent, USA) (Editorial Team Co-Leader) https://roberthanna.academia.edu/, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College, USA) http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/michelle-maiese.html, Otto Paans (Independent, Netherlands) https://tu-berlin.academia.edu/OttoPaans, and Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Co- Leader), is pleased to announce a First Call for Submissions for our sixth … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #1–Introduction.
This essay is being published in six installments. The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. I. Introduction I concluded an earlier essay (Paans, 2020) with an open-ended question: How can one, in a world so thoroughly shattered and torn by “the politics of fragmentation,” carve out a new subjective space? More specifically, is … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #28–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview III: Dynamic Systems Theory and The Dynamic World Picture.
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]
Turing, Strong AI, and The Fantasy of Transhumanist Spiritualism.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Turing, Strong AI, and The Fantasy of Transhumanist Spiritualism In 1933, under the heading of “[The] Nature of Spirit,” Alan Turing wrote: [A]s regards the actual connection between spirit and body I consider that the body by … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #27–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview II: Solving The Mind-Body Problem.
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]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #26–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview I: The Neo-Organicist Worldview.
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]