In his essay, “WTFU: The Manifesto of The Nobodies,” Robert Hanna tells us that “WTFU,” pronounced “what-foo,” means wake the fuck up: and that that’s what he’s urging us all to do in this manifesto. Kantians and others will have already recognized that WTFU is a pithy, pungent contemporary equivalent of Immanuel Kant’s famous or … [continue reading]
Category: Not An Edgy Essay
The Ontological Divide: Why General Relativity Negates Special Relativity.
(Hossenfelder, 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. The Ontological Divide: Why General Relativity Negates Special Relativity 1. Introduction In his essay, “Special Relativity, Time, Probabilism and Ultimate Reality,” … [continue reading]
A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts on Christoph Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy,” Or, An Epigone Crashes the Party, #17: Jean van Heijenoort.
(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
Higher Education Without Commodification, Mechanization, or Moralization: A Podcast.
(Wong, 2016) In his essay, “Higher Education Without Commodification, Mechanization, or Moralization,” Robert Hanna asks the question: what is the ultimate end of higher education? Giambattista Vico, echoing Socrates’s Delphic oracle, claimed that the ultimate end of all education is self-knowledge. Hanna fully agrees with Vico’s claim, but also wants radically to extend his idea … [continue reading]
The Pyrrhonist’s Vacuum: Isostheneia in the Search for a Substrate for Einsteinian Relativity.
(Wikimedia Commons, 2020) 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 Pyrrhonist’s Vacuum: Isostheneia in the Search for a Substrate for Einsteinian Relativity 1. Introduction Professional physics has entered a … [continue reading]
A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts on Christoph Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy,” Or, An Epigone Crashes the Party, #16–Analytic Philosophy and Angela Davis.
(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
The Myth of AI: A Movie.
This video, which was created–ironically, using AI–by Muhammed Asghari, is based on the following article: (Hanna, 2024). Hanna, R. “The Myth of AI, Existential Threat, Why The Myth Persists, and What is to be Done About It.” Borderless Philosophy 7: 35-61. Available online at URL = <https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp-7-2024-robert-hanna-the-myth-of-ai-existential-threat-why-the-myth-persists-and-what-is-to>. You can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
The Block Universe and the Epistemic Collapse of Relativity Theory.
(Thomas, 2016) 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 Block Universe and the Epistemic Collapse of Relativity Theory 1. Introduction The block universe interpretation of relativity theory is typically … [continue reading]
A Turd in the Punchbowl: Initial Thoughts on Christoph Shuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy,” Or, An Epigone Crashes the Party, #15–Analytic Philosophy in the Cold War Deep Freezer.
(Schuringa, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Myth of Socially Disconnected Analytic Philosophy 3. The Death of Moritz Schlick 4. The Vienna Circle Takes On the German Philosophical Society 5. Otto Neurath 6. Rudoph Carnap 7. Hans Hahn 8. Philipp Frank 9. Edgar Zilsel 10. Rose Rand 11. Susan Stebbing 12. Russell and … [continue reading]
Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #12—Formalizable Systems and Proteons.[i]
(Both images © Andreas Keller 2026)[ii] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS EDITOR’S NOTE: Links to installments ##1-9 can be found in installment #10. #10. Total Functions, Innovation, and Cultural Bandwidth #11 The “Halting Problem” You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of … [continue reading]