APP EDITOR’S NOTE: Siddiq Khan was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1990. He currently pursues his vocation as a nurseryman, mycologist, complex systems designer, poet, essayist, soil microbiologist, and project co-ordinator, on a large rural estate in the south of Spain. Fundamentally hostile to all established ideologies, he might describe himself as a … [continue reading]

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]

APP Editor’s Note The following essay, Vadim Chaly’s “Immanuel Kant–Racist and Colonialist?,” was originally published in the Kantian Journal 39 (2020): 94-98. You can also download or read a complete .pdf of this essay, in both English and Russian, HERE. Vadim Chaly is Professor of Philosophy at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in Kaliningrad, Russia. … [continue reading]

APP Editors’ Note: An earlier version of the essay below was presented by Emre Kazim as part of An Alternative Map of the Universe, London–conceived by artists and curators, Niccolò Moronato, Jessica Taylor, Abbas Zahedi–a series of events at the Guest Projects gallery/exhibition space (Monday 28 October – Friday 1 November 2019).  The synopsis of … [continue reading]

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]

In a recent essay,[i] Andrew D. Chapman throws both Postmodernism and Surrealism into the “Fascism” pot. I won’t say anything here about whether Postmodernism belongs there or not, although I think this should be examined on a case-by-case basis.[ii] I doubt that such a blanket classification would stand up to scrutiny for all works and … [continue reading]

Opening Moves Some sociologists of science carry Kuhn’s claim that theories (or theoretically grounded “paradigms”) are prior to observation much further. In particular, they recast the vocabulary of “prior beliefs” into the language of sociology: every scientific belief or commitment should be explained as the satisfaction of earlier sociological “interests.” Such interests may range from … [continue reading]

In ancient Athens, shopkeepers, philosophers and politicians met at the foot of the Acropolis in the agora, the public square of the city. There they debated everything from the nature of justice to the wisdom of war against Sparta. There Socrates practised the dialectical method, asking the Athenian elite embarrassing questions that exposed their ignorance … [continue reading]

In Robert Hanna’s recent essay, “How to Escape Irrelevance: Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy, and Borderless Philosophy”–itself building on Carlo Cellucci’s recent essay, “Philosophy at a Crossroads: Escaping From Irrelevance”–Hanna describes and critically analyzes two contra-professional-academic-philosophy movements, namely public philosophy and performance philosophy. Both kinds of philosophy respond to the increasing irrelevance of professional academic philosophy, … [continue reading]

All theory, my friend, is grey But green life’s golden tree.(Faust I) If there were a verb meaning ‘to believe falsely,’ it would not have a meaningful first person present indicative. (L. Wittgenstein) I was thinking, which is something a man should not do. (Dean Jagger as Colonel Stovall, in “Twelve O’Clock High,” Twentieth Century … [continue reading]