(Murphy, 2021) 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 Analytic-Continental Divide, and How to Transcend It The online Philosophical Papers survey of mainstream professional academic philosophers conducted by David … [continue reading]
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Everyday Forms of Resistance to Everyday Oppression.
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. Everyday Forms of Resistance to Everyday Oppression A great many people, indeed most people, are targets and victims of everyday oppression. What do … [continue reading]
American Exceptionalism as Collective Anosognosia.
(ACA, 2024) 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. American Exceptionalism as Collective Anosognosia In my opinion, one of the biggest problems in the world today is the collective refusal … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 8 (2025), Second Call For Submissions.
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, CA) (Editorial Team Co-Leader) https://roberthanna.academia.edu/, Andreas Keller (Independent, DE) Soukous@web.de, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College, USA) http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/michelle-maiese.html, Otto Paans (Independent, Netherlands) https://tu-berlin.academia.edu/OttoPaans, Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Co- Leader), and George Saad (Triton College, USA) gsaad@mun.ca, is … [continue reading]
Trump, Truth, and Logic.
Figure 1: Logical Trumpism in action (NYT, 2024) Trump, Truth, and Logic A.J. Ayer wrote Language, Truth, and Logic in order to tell the world about Logical Empiricism (Ayer, 1935/1952). The purpose of this essay is to tell the world about what I call Logical Trumpism. To the extent that the Logical Empiricists held that … [continue reading]
Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Mystery, #4.
(Montessori Schools, 2018) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: From Mind to Mathematics 2. The Nature of Mathematical Entities: Nothing Works 3. Set Theory: Should One Believe? 4. Metaphysics and Ontology 5. Mathematical Fictionalism 6. Mathematical Realism 7. Hanna’s Neo-Intuitionism as a Way Out of the Impasse? 8. Conclusion: From Mathematics to Mind This essay will … [continue reading]
Cosmopolitanism and Borderless Philosophy.
(Lausanne Movement, 2018) 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. Cosmopolitanism and Borderless Philosophy What should the philosophy of the future[i] look like? My view is that whatever the philosophy … [continue reading]
The “Messy” Reality of the Doctor Shortage.
(Med School Insiders, 2022) Wei Yee Chong is currently working at the University of Adelaide, AU; she graduated from the University of Malaya (Malaysia), and previously lectured at various institutions of higher education in Malaysia for fifteen years before immigrating to Australia. You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete … [continue reading]
Mathematics, Metaphysics, and Mystery, #3.
(Montessori Schools, 2018) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction: From Mind to Mathematics 2. The Nature of Mathematical Entities: Nothing Works 3. Set Theory: Should One Believe? 4. Metaphysics and Ontology 5. Mathematical Fictionalism 6. Mathematical Realism 7. Hanna’s Neo-Intuitionism as a Way Out of the Impasse? 8. Conclusion: From Mathematics to Mind This essay will … [continue reading]
What is Democracy?
(Dahl and Shapiro, 2024) 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. What is Democracy? The Fall 2024 US Presidential Election is rapidly approaching, not like Carl Sandburg’s fog, on little … [continue reading]