Borderless Philosophy, aka BP, is a new and absolutely unique philosophy journal. BP publishes works of philosophy without any in-principle restrictions whatsoever as to length, philosophical content or topic, presentational format, or language. BP’s only criterion of selection is that the work be of genuine interest to philosophers or any other philosophically-minded person. BP publishes … [continue reading]
“Free Speech Is Wonderful–Unless You Offend Us and Then You Must Face the Consequences.”
1. Introduction Something I’ve been hearing and seeing a lot recently in journal/news media and social media, on blogs, and in everyday conversations, both in philosophical contexts and non-philosophical contexts, is the claim that “free speech is wonderful, it’s the First Amendment, it’s mom-and-apple-pie, I so totally love it–unless you offend us, and then you … [continue reading]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #10, June 2018: Jobs-&-Happiness, UBI in Finland, The Social Value of Envy, The Educated Elite’s Strange Failure, & Are We Just Our Brains?
Dear Philosopher or Philosophically-Minded Person, Do you ever think about the larger philosophical implications of contemporary events and issues, especially when reading newspapers, journals, or blogs? —Of course you do: but then what? What if you were able to convert your thinking DIRECTLY into something you were able to use for TEACHING PHILOSOPHY, for PHILOSOPHY … [continue reading]
Thinking For A Living: A Philosopher’s Notebook 2—When Merleau-Ponty Met The Whiteheadian Kripke Monster.
“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 30. When Merleau-Ponty Met The Whiteheadian Kripke Monster. Someone, somewhere, once wrote that a super-short but accurate synopsis of Embodied Minds in Action,[1] aka EMA is Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster I rather like that. Indeed, there’s definitely something to this micro-synopsis, methodologically speaking, in that … [continue reading]
Thinking For A Living: A Philosopher’s Notebook 1—Introductory; The rise and fall of Analytic philosophy; Cosmopolitanism and the real philosophy of the future; How to socialize the philosophy of mind.
“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 1. Introductory. A few weeks ago, in early April 2018, I finally finished and self-published a five-part, four book series, The Rational Human Condition, aka RHC, that I’ve been working on more or less steadily since 2005 or 2006—so, for 12 or 13 years. RHC is … [continue reading]
Is Professional Philosophy a Bullshit Job? Yes. And What You Can Do About It.
Is professional academic philosophy a bullshit job? Yes. This means that, as a professional academic philosopher, even though you began by loving real philosophy for its own sake, you’ve unintentionally turned your working life into the very opposite of what you hoped it would be. And that’s genuinely tragic, even if depressingly widespread. Can you … [continue reading]
German Philosophy is in a Sorry State. Why?
APP Editors’ Note: Wolfram Eilenberger is a philosopher, journalist, and writer. His passion is the application of philosophical ideas to our life today, whether it be in politics, culture or sport. He is the editor of Philosophie Magazin, and in high demand as a German intellectual, often appearing on talk shows. He has published eight … [continue reading]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #9, May 2018: Defending Lecturing, Citizens of the World, Hyper-Liberalism, Neo-Romanticism, & Physics-Without- Time?
Dear Philosopher or Philosophically-Minded Person, Do you ever think about the larger philosophical implications of contemporary events and issues, especially when reading newspapers, journals, or blogs? —Of course you do: but then what? What if you were able to convert your thinking DIRECTLY into something you were able to use for TEACHING PHILOSOPHY, for PHILOSOPHY … [continue reading]
The Philosophy of Kanye West.
APP Editors’ Note: Kanye West is an American rapper. Recently he started writing a philosophy book in real-time on social media. The following analytical commentary on West’s philosophical views is by H. Peter Steeves, who teaches philosophy at De Paul University. You can find out more about Steeves’s work HERE. Steeves’s remarks have been excerpted … [continue reading]
The Ecology of Mind.
“Evening Organicism,” by Kelly McConnell/MECA Portfolio 1. Aims In his The View from Nowhere, Thomas Nagel wants to see the world from Nowhere by way of presenting a model of knowledge and the mind that encompasses both the objective and subjective poles of human awareness. His goal is to harmonize the insights of scientific reductionism … [continue reading]