(Falk, 2020) As Jerrold Katz correctly noted, the philosophy of mathematics is central and indeed essential to philosophy as a whole, even despite its abstractness, formal character, and technicality. The reason for this is that an adequate philosophy of mathematics would explain the nature of truth, necessity, apriority, and categorical (i.e., unconditional, principled) normativity, and … [continue reading]

“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]

(Zwarenstein, 2024) What has the conscious, intentional human mind to do with the nature and status of logic and mathematics? Are irreducible facts about the human mind essential to logic and mathematics, or are logic and mathematics essentially mindless even if accidentallyconnected to human minds by means of contingent episodes of thinking? The rejection of … [continue reading]

(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the third, contains section … [continue reading]

(Zwarenstein, 2024) Benacerraf’s Dilemma (BD), as formulated by Paul Benacerraf in “Mathematical Truth,” is about the apparent impossibility of reconciling a “standard” (i.e., classical Platonic) semantics of mathematics with a “reasonable” (i.e., causal, spatiotemporal) epistemology of cognizing true statements. In “Mathematical Truth Regained” Robert Hanna offers a new solution to BD. He calls this new … [continue reading]

(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the second, contains section … [continue reading]

(Gatilao, 2015)[i] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #1: Introduction #2: From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence” #3: Patterns and Algorithms 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 poast and clicking on the Download tab. Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, … [continue reading]

(Zwarenstein, 2024) In “Mathematics for Humans: Kant’s Philosophy of Arithmetic Revisited,” Robert Hanna revisits Immanuel Kant’s much-criticized views on mathematics in general and arithmetic in particular. In so doing, he makes a case for the claim that Kant’s theory of arithmetic is not subject to the most familiar and forceful objection against it, namely, that … [continue reading]

(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the first, contains sections … [continue reading]

In his short essay, “Why The Better Angels of Our Nature Must Hate The State,” a reply to Anne Margaret Baxley’s comments on his earlier essay, “Exiting the State and Debunking the State of Nature,” Robert Hanna responds to her two critical worries about Hanna’s thesis that there is an unbridgeable gap between Kant’s political … [continue reading]