“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 74. Processualism, organicism, and the two waves of the organicist revolution. Recently I read an essay by John Dupré and Daniel J. Nicholson, “A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology,” in J. Dupré and D.J. Nicholson (eds.), Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology … [continue reading]
Philosophy For Barflies.
Maybe you talk to yourself in the mirror, or simply use visualization: “I’m going to walk right in there man…” Maybe you picture the Fonz or some Leo DiCaprio character or David Caruso in “Jade” – how would they act in this situation? It could be a job interview, a big move at a bar … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 2 (2019): First Call for Submissions.
The Editorial Team of Borderless Philosophy is pleased to announce a First Call for Submissions for our second issue (2019). Borderless Philosophy is a new and highly progressive philosophy journal, whose first issue, Borderless Philosophy 1 (2018), can be found HERE. Borderless Philosophy publishes works of philosophy without any in-principle restrictions whatsoever as to length, … [continue reading]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #11, July 2018: Resisting Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Authenticity, Reciprocity vs. Tolerance, Homelessness-&-Us, & Free Speech vs. Just Access.
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 Tyranny of the Minority: Why the Authoritarian Left Doesn’t Have a Right to Tell Us Who We Can Listen To.
Bryan W. Van Norden’s June 25 opinion piece in The New York Times, “The Ignorant Do Not Have a Right to an Audience,” is useful for one main reason: it is a symptom of the decline of two venerable institutions, academic philosophy (Van Norden’s profession) and print journalism. Van Norden’s basic thesis is that John … [continue reading]
Thinking For A Living: A Philosopher’s Notebook 3—Kant, universities, The Deep(er) State, and philosophy.
“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 48. Kant, universities, The Deep(er) State, and philosophy. In “What is Enlightenment?,” Kant says that I have put the main point of enlightenment, of people’s emergence from their self-incurred immaturity, chiefly in matters of religion because our rulers have no interest in playing guardian over their … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 1 (2018)
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]