[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and a Blue Guitar, #2–Seven Varieties of Philosophical Quietism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. What I Mean By “Philosophy,” “Politics,” and “Rational” 3. Philosophical Quietism and Philosophical Activism 4. Seven Varieties of Philosophical Quietism 5. How and Why All Seven Varieties of Philosophical Quietism are Rationally Unjustified and Morally Unacceptable 6. Eight Varieties of Philosophical Activism 7. How and Why the First Eight … [continue reading]
THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #3–Aiii/Biii/GW93-97 The Dedication.
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
How to Philosophize with a Hammer and a Blue Guitar: Quietism, Activism, and the Mind-Body Politic, #1.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. What I Mean By “Philosophy,” “Politics,” and “Rational” 3. Philosophical Quietism and Philosophical Activism 4. Seven Varieties of Philosophical Quietism 5. How and Why All Seven Varieties of Philosophical Quietism are Rationally Unjustified and Morally Unacceptable 6. Eight Varieties of Philosophical Activism 7. How and Why the First Eight … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 3 (2020): Second Call For Submissions.
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) https://colorado.academia.edu/RobertHanna, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College, USA) http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/michelle-maiese.html, Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College, USA) https://www.emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/pablo-muchnik, Otto Paans (Independent, Netherlands) https://tu-berlin.academia.edu/OttoPaans, and Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Leader), is pleased to announce a Second Call for Submissions for … [continue reading]
THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #2.
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
Meditations & Mediations, #5—Recurrence.
Previous Installments #4: Movement. #3: Context. #2: In an Instant. #1: Introduction, and On Sources. Section V: Recurrence To recur is to become present again: the representation of a theme or idea is its re-presentation in consciousness. Similarly, to recur is to occur again. This term signifies the phenomenon whereby an event is repeated. To … [continue reading]
Would Trump Fail The Turing Test?, Or, The Psychopath in The White House.
In order to fail The Turing Test, something that’s a machine in one or another of the legitimate senses of that term has to manifest verbal behavior that’s literally mindless in an important sense. Let’s grant for the purposes of argument that Trump is a human animal, and that his basic biological processes can be … [continue reading]
Wake Up! from The Sleep of Reason: Johannes Faustus and “The Aufklärung Song.”
“Aufklärung” means “enlightenment,” as in The Enlightenment. But what is enlightenment? Here’s the core of what Immanuel Kant had to say about this fundamental cognitive, moral, and sociopolitical concept in his seminal 1784 essay, “What is Enlightenment?”: Enlightenment is the human being’s emergence from his own self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to make use … [continue reading]
Meditations & Mediations, #4—Movement.
Previous Installments #3: Context. #2: In an Instant. #1: Introduction, and On Sources. Section IV: Movement To think is to move.[i] Sometimes, this means moving around a given work or topic; sometimes it amounts to following a thread of thought in a sequence of steps, however staggering or hesitant they might be. Moving mentally involves … [continue reading]