You can download a .pdf version of this essay HERE. [F]or … non-Kantian philosophers, there are no persistent problems — save perhaps the existence of Kantians.[i] 1. Kant in the Twentieth Century More than a decade ago, I wrote this: Alfred North Whitehead … quotably wrote in 1929 that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical … [continue reading]
Thoughts on Postmodernity 2: The Tensions of the Past and the Fluidity of the Present.
The first essay in this series is “Thoughts on Postmodernity 1: An Impossible Presentation.” Andrew D. Chapman, in a recent APP essay,“Thoughts on the Relationship Between Postmodernism and Fascism,” makes a large number of philosophically illuminating points, spinning as it were a tightly woven spider’s web of arguments and connections. The great advantage of this … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 3 (2020): 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]
On Sebastian Rödl’s “Self-Consciousness and Objectivity,” Or,The Refutation of Absolute Idealism.
Author’s Note: The following essay has a little back-story. Eight months ago, I was invited by the journal Idealistic Studies to do a review of Sebastian Rödl’s 2018 book, Self-Consciousness and Objectivity, with a due date for submitting my review of 25 July 2019. As I worked my way through the book, I decided it … [continue reading]
Meditations & Mediations, #2—In An Instant.
Previous Installments #1: Introduction, and On Sources. Section II: In An Instant Even if mustering up the courage to decide something requires time, making the decision itself happens in an instant. Likewise, to become aware of something often happens in an instant. Instantaneousness and insight share a deep and unexplored connection. Heidegger called this connection … [continue reading]
On Leonard Nelson’s “The Socratic Method.”
You can also download a .pdf version of this essay, HERE. The Socratic method … is the art of teaching not philosophy but philosophizing, the art of teaching not about philosophers but of making philosophers of the students…. If there is such a thing at all as instruction in philosophy, it can only be instruction … [continue reading]
Fragments of Reality, Fragments of Solidarity.
In this essay, I’d like to respond Michelle Maiese’s thought-provoking recent critical piece on APP, “Smithereens: Reflections in a Black Mirror.” Maiese presents the following (reconstructed) argument: (1) Socialism—whether democratic socialism or social anarchism (aka anarcho-socialism, libertarian socialism, etc.)—is fundamentally concerned with respect for universal human dignity; with human freedom of thought, expression, choice, and action; with … [continue reading]
Regressive “Progressivism”: Andrew Yang and the Freedom Dividend.
Do not be fooled by Andrew Yang! I’ve seen otherwise well-meaning Liberals and Progressives falling for Yang’s “Freedom Dividend”-centered presidential candidacy. Yang’s plan seems simple and obviously beneficial to the very constituencies Liberals and Progressives tend to fight for. Nevertheless, Yang either does not understand very basic macroeconomics or he is a right-wing wolf in … [continue reading]
The Economic Philosopher.
APP Editors’ Note: Jeremy Tauzer is a PhD student in philosophy at Saint Louis University. The power of suggestion which is exerted through things and persons and which, instead of telling the child what he must do, tells him what he is, and thus leads him to become durably what he has to be, is … [continue reading]
Thoughts on Postmodernity 1: An Impossible Presentation.
Imagine being introduced to someone at a party. A friend of yours wants you to meet someone she knows and facilitates an encounter. Even before you have shaken hands with your new conversation partner, he exclaims: “I am not an alcoholic!”, before proceeding to tell you his name. Chances are that you will think your … [continue reading]