This title is available everywhere, including the following popular online booksellers: Amazon: US; UK; CA; DE; IT; FR; AU; ES Barnes & Noble: paperback, Nook About the book: Thinking Life is a narrative exploration of such themes as the decline of the contemporary university, man’s alienation from nature, modern melancholia, Dionysian intoxication, the relative value of … [continue reading]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #6, February 2018: Poverty in the USA, Marx Redux, & the Scope of Mindedness.
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]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #5, January 2018: Bakers, Buddhists, Plant Minds, & Total Work.
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]
Ho! Ho! Ho!
Sick and Tired of Being Alienated and Oppressed by Corporate Capitalist Greed, Neoconservatism, and Neoliberalism? And Do You Use Play and Leisure to Escape from Work? Then Just Look at What Santa Karl Left Under the Tree! THE ABCs OF SOCIALISM THE FIRST RED CENTURY “MARX’S THEORY OF PLAY, LEISURE, AND UNALIENATED PRAXIS” DARE TO … [continue reading]
Why All The Truly Cosmopolitan Philosophers in the World Today Are Only 3.5 Inches Tall.
Do you remember how Mr Kant and Mr Nietzsche met in The Eerie, Uncanny House of Cinema, HERE? Well now they’re out in the world, on a philosophical field trip to Mexico City, HERE. Philosoflicks and Against Professional Philosophy are sub-projects of the online mega-project Philosophy Without Borders, which is home-based on Patreon here. … [continue reading]
Multi-Culti Is Anti-Kanti.
For … non-Kantian philosophers, there are no persistent problems — save perhaps the existence of Kantians. — R. Rorty[i] What do you think of the following argument? ARGUMENT 1 (i) E.T. is a fictional philosopher. (ii) E.T. is an alien of indeterminate gender who is personally biased against women, non-white races, non-Europeans, and blind people. (iii) Therefore, E.T.’s … [continue reading]
The Two Greatest Living Philosophers Are Only 3.5 Inches Tall.
Welcome to the cosmic wormhole that will take you directly to The Eerie, Uncanny House of Cinema, where Mr K and Mr N are already waiting for you, HERE. Philosoflicks and Against Professional Philosophy are sub-projects of the online mega-project Philosophy Without Borders, which is home-based on Patreon here. Please consider becoming a patron! … [continue reading]
DARE TO THINK FOR YOURSELF! (Preface and Complete, Downloadable Text)
PREFACE “Mr Nemo” is a pseudonym adopted by an angry, unemployed philosopher: me. “Trump” names a President of the United States of America, elected on 8 November 2016. “The WTFU Party” names an alternative political party created by me on 22 November 2016, in reaction and response to Trump’s election. This lightly-edited compilation of short … [continue reading]
Canon Wars, Round 2: The Multi-Culti Critique of Western Philosophy.
Mainstream contemporary professional academic philosophy is seriously under attack, and not just by APP. In a recent edgy essay, “Taking Down Descartes: The Canon Wars,” I critically analyzed and historically contextualized Christia Mercer’s very interesting New York Times article from 25 September 2017, “Descartes Is Not Our Father,” and drew two main conclusions: It’s … … [continue reading]
Computability and Physics.
APP Editors’ Note: Andreas Keller is an independent philosopher living in Hannover, Germany, and currently working as a computer programmer. *** In Part 3, Section 2.2 (“Natural Mechanism, Computability, and Anti-Mechanism”) of “The Rational Human Condition”[i], Robert Hanna proposes a definition of what he calls “natural mechanism,” in terms of mechanistic laws of physics. He … [continue reading]