(IEP, 2026)  You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Radical Logical Skepticism: The Unprovability Paradox as Total Underminer of Professional Academic Analytic Philosophy 1. Introduction Professional academic Analytic philosophy is … [continue reading]

(Murphy, 2021) In “The Analytic-Continental Divide, and How to Transcend it,” Robert Hanna argues that The Great Divide between Analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy is essentially an artifact of the social-institutional structure of the professional academy in the latter half of the 20th century and the first three decades of the 21st century, and if … [continue reading]

(Dietterich Labs, 2019) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Against the Physicists, #2: On the Energy–Time Uncertainty and the Impossibility of Sharp Realism 1. The Dogma Stated The physicists … [continue reading]

(Russell, 1912/2009) In “The Eleven Fundamental Problems of Philosophy and How to Solve The Hyper-Fundamental Problem,” Robert Hanna formulates a list of the eleven fundamental problems of philosophy, then identifies one of them–the problem of rational anthropology: what is the nature, meaning or purpose, and value of individual and collective rational human existence in a … [continue reading]

(Carreau, 2015) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Against the Physicists, #1: On the Non-Conservation of Energy in the Curved Einsteinian  Dogma 1. Introduction In physics, it is commonly … [continue reading]

(Williams, 2021) In “Can Philosophers Change Their Minds” Robert Hanna argues that as many as 99% of all contemporary professional academic philosophers, after they’ve completed their PhD dissertations, as much as 99% of the time don’t read anything outside their AOS, as much as 99% of the time don’t work on anything outside their AOS, … [continue reading]

(Physics Explained, 2025) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Feynman’s Light Path Integral Mirage: Why “All Possible Paths” for Photons is a Mathematical Illusion That Academic Professional Philosophy Lets … [continue reading]

“The Death of Socrates by Means of the APA,” by Q (APP, 2013a), after “The Death of Socrates,” by Jacques-Louis David (1787) In “Philosophia Longa, Vita Brevis,” Robert Hanna correspondingly argues that philosophia longa, vita brevis. That neologized Latin aphorism means: “philosophy is long, life is short.” Of course, Hanna riffing on the classical aphorism … [continue reading]

(Musser, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Burnt Book and  Black Hole Paradox: Why Susskind’s Information Paradox is Nonsense Leonard Susskind loves to tell a story about … [continue reading]

(Mabel, 2007)[ii] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #1: Introduction #2: From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence” #3: Patterns and Algorithms #4: Extending Algorithms #5: Enumeration and Incompleteness #6: Changing the Vantage Point #7: The Creativity Hypothesis #8: Data and Gödel Numbers You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by … [continue reading]