TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Gestures Towards the Subject of Design 3. Gestures as Agents of Change: Four Remarks 4. From Landscape to Handscape 5. Discussion: Mimetic Awareness and Meaning 6. Conclusion The essay that follows will be published in four installments; this installment, the third, contains section 4. But you can also download … [continue reading]

The main aim of Robert Hanna’s Kant, Science, and Human Nature is to show that Kant was essentially right about the unknowability and methodological eliminability of a microphysical noumenal world hiding behind the directly perceivable manifestly real macrophysical world, and also about the priority of practical reason over theoretical reason, and that the mainstream analytic … [continue reading]

This conversation between Robert Hanna and Joshua Yen was recorded during February 2025. You can also download and read or share a .pdf of Robert Hanna’s lectures on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, “Metaphysics With a Human Face,” by clicking on the Download tab directly below. Against Professional Philosophy is a sub-project of the online … [continue reading]

In Kant and the Foundations of Analytic Philosophy, Robert Hanna presents a fresh view of the Kantian and Analytic traditions that have dominated continental European and Anglo-American philosophy over the last two centuries, and of the relation between them. The rise of Analytic philosophy decisively marked the end of the hundred-year dominance of Kant’s philosophy … [continue reading]

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Gestures Towards the Subject of Design 3. Gestures as Agents of Change: Four Remarks 4. From Landscape to Handscape 5. Discussion: Mimetic Awareness and Meaning 6. Conclusion The essay that follows will be published in four installments; this installment, the second, contains sections 2 and 3. But you can … [continue reading]

You can also download and read or share a .pdf of this announcement by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Borderless Philosophy contributor George Saad and musician Peter Weatherall are philosophers rocking an album — an ancient philosophy album. Forget the silent stones of forgotten statues — … [continue reading]

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Gestures Towards the Subject of Design 3. Gestures as Agents of Change: Four Remarks 4. From Landscape to Handscape 5. Discussion: Mimetic Awareness and Meaning 6. Conclusion The essay that follows will be published in four installments; this installment, the first, contains section 1. But you can also download … [continue reading]

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. Philosophy Professionalized: How We Killed the Thing We Loved [T]he main benefit [of university philosophy] might be that many a young and capable … [continue reading]

Robert Hanna’s The Fate of Analysis (Mad Duck Coalition, 2021) is a comprehensive revisionist study of the history of Analytic philosophy from the early 1880s to the present, with special attention paid to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s work and the parallels and overlaps between the Analytic and Phenomenological traditions. It provides a synoptic introduction to European and … [continue reading]

Robert Hanna’s Rationality and Logic (MIT Press, 2006) is about human rationality, logic, and the connection between them. According to Hanna’s view, this connection is both constitutive and mutual. More precisely, he defends the broadly Kantian thesis that logic is the result of the constructive operations of an innate protological cognitive capacity that is necessarily … [continue reading]