TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Nihilism and Postmodernity III. If God is Dead, Then I am Entitled to Everything IV. Activist Motives: Guilt and Immortality V. Conclusion This installment contains sections I – III. Entitlement, Fear, and Change: The Nihilist Roots of Coercive Moralism, #1 I. Introduction One of the most basic insights of … [continue reading]
Buddhism and The End of Sex-&-Gender: From Denial to Freedom.
APP Editor’s Note Motoki Kudo is a graduate student in the Faculty of Information Sciences and Arts at Toyo University, Japan. By request of the author, the essay below has been edited for clarity, grammar, and style; the original text can be found HERE. Biological Determinism is a dangerous claim. This is because it can … [continue reading]
Voter Fraud, RussiaGate, and Cognitive Dissonance.
I know that it’s baffling to so many people that huge numbers of Republicans believe that there was massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, that Biden didn’t actually legitimately win the election, or even that Trump actually won the election. There’s no actual evidence for such beliefs, although information that might appear to … [continue reading]
Organicist Metaphysics: A Hybrid Interpretation.
I. Introduction It should come as no surprise to regular readers of APP that several of the contributors are currently thinking about organicism as a fundamental and indeed paradigm-shifting philosophical doctrine. We’ve been writing and posting material on this topic since 2016,[i] and two of us recently published a long essay that develops some of … [continue reading]
LONDON CALLING BACK, #7–Philosophy and Mental Health During The New Apocalypse.
LONDON CALLING BACK, by Emre Kazim, is a series about philosophy, society, and politics, from a British and non-North-American point of view, emphasizing a new critical-dignitarian, edgy, and thoroughly push-backarian philosophical, social, and political ferment on the rise in London, recalling the heady days of politicized punk and The Clash. During the COVID-19 pandemic, LONDON CALLING … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 4 (2021): Second Call For Submissions, Plus Links To All Previous Issues & Articles.
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]
LONDON CALLING BACK, #6–Is Philosophy Dead?
LONDON CALLING BACK, by Emre Kazim, is a series about philosophy, society, and politics, from a British and non-North-American point of view, emphasizing a new critical-dignitarian, edgy, and thoroughly push-backarian philosophical, social, and political ferment on the rise in London, recalling the heady days of politicized punk and The Clash. During the COVID-19 pandemic, LONDON CALLING … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 4 (2021): First 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 First Call for Submissions for … [continue reading]
Attacking A Person By Rejecting Their Beliefs: The Reverse Ad Hominem Fallacy.
RH: Last night between sleeps I was thinking about two of our recent posts—“Immanuel Kant—Racist and Colonialist?,”[i] and “Being Oppressed vs. Being Offended: Why A Real Dialogue About Racism is Still Far Away,”[ii]—in relation to each other. The Kant post criticizes ad hominem attacks on classical figures in the history of philosophy in the name … [continue reading]
Philosophy and Cognition in the Age of Mechanical-Digital Reproduction, #3—The Ground of the Aura.
Previous Installments in This Series #2: Modes of Perception, Modes of Existence #1: Introduction: The Disappearance of Authenticity, The Appearance of Estrangement III. The Ground of the Aura In his 1936 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Walter Benjamin introduces one of his most notorious concepts: the “aura” of a … [continue reading]