“First Amendment,” by C.D. Arthur, 2023 (McCordick, 2023: p. 35) 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. “My Education is a Threat”: Free Reading in Prison You, the reader of … [continue reading]
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Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility.
(Baker, 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. Empirical Science With Uncertainty But Without Reproducibility In their important essay, “From Scientific Reproducibility To Epistemic Humility,” Joseph Wayne Smith and … [continue reading]
Moral Literacy: A Primer.
McGuffey’s Primer, 1836 (Wikimedia Commons, 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. Moral Literacy: A Primer In an essay called “Higher Education, Higher-Order Illiteracy, and Moral Illiteracy,” I argued … [continue reading]
From Scientific Reproducibility To Epistemic Humility.
(Baker, 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. From Scientific Reproducibility To Epistemic Humility 1. Introduction: The Reproducibility Crisis The reproducibility crisis (aka “the replication crisis,” aka “the replicability crisis”) is … [continue reading]
Higher Education, Higher-Order Illiteracy, and Moral Illiteracy.
(NYT, 2023, photograph by K. Szymczak ) 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. Higher Education, Higher-Order Illiteracy, and Moral Illiteracy As of 28 November 2023, 15,000 Palestinians had been … [continue reading]
Free Reading, Civil Reading, and The Right to Literacy.
Frederick Douglass (1817/1818-1895) Paulo Freire (1921-1997) 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. Free Reading, Civil Reading, and The Right to Literacy It’s a truth self-evidently known, that you, the … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 7 (2024), Fourth and Final Call For Submissions On This Special Topic: “The Critical Philosophy of Digital Technology.”
*** You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this Call For Submissions by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. *** Borderless Philosophy’s Editorial Team, whose members currently are: Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina Univ., USA) https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/philosophyandreligiousstudies/dennisearl/, Robert Hanna (Independent, USA) (Editorial … [continue reading]
Weird Science, Odd Elasticity, and Why Science Needs Philosophy.
(Padavic-Callaghan, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Weird Science, Odd Elasticity, and Why Science Needs Philosophy 1. Introduction Analytic philosophy of science, as practiced in the so-called “Anglosphere”—English-speaking countries … [continue reading]
Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading.
“A Philosopher Reading a Book,” Dutch School (Artnet, 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. Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading You, the reader of this … [continue reading]
“This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility.
“Relativity,” by M.C. Escher (1953) (Valentino, 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. “This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility This very sentence is … [continue reading]