This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS: #1 Introduction #2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism #3 Detachment and Stillness The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. IV. On Nishitani’s Anti-Nihilism According to Nishitani, we must start with the distinction between an objectifying view of the world and a … [continue reading]
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #31–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview VI: How The Mechanical Comes To Be From The Organic.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #4–Respect For Choices vs. Respect For Persons.
The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, nine years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this new series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #3–Detachment and Stillness.
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS: #1 Introduction #2 Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. III. Detachment and Stillness What must a new subjective position accomplish in order to resist the cycle of commodification, especially including self-commodification, and the demands of … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #30–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview V: Dynamic Emergence, Life, Consciousness, and Free Agency.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
The Neo-Organicist Turn: Explanatory Inversion and Creative Control.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The Neo-Organicist Turn: Explanatory Inversion and Creative Control 1. Since 1900, the predominant worldview has been the mechanistic worldview, centered on the root metaphor of the machine (for example, a steam engine or a digital computer) which … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #2–Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism.
This essay is being published in six installments. PREVIOUS INSTALLMENT: #1 Introduction The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. II. Modernity and Postmodernity: Two Types of Nihilism The postmodern commitment to rejecting any notion of “grand récits,” essentially robbed the western subjectivity from any clear anchoring points in the past. Simultaneously, it removed … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #29–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview IV: Solving The Free Will Problem.
This book, THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE: Uniscience and the Modern World, by Robert Hanna, presents and defends a critical philosophy of science and digital technology, and a new and prescient philosophy of nature and human thinking. It is being made available here in serial format, but you can also download and read or share … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 6 (2023), First Call For Submissions On This Special Topic: “Is Humankind Worth Saving From Whatever Might Threaten It? If Not, Then Why Not? But If So, Then Why and How?”
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 Team Co-Leader) https://roberthanna.academia.edu/, 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, and Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Co- Leader), is pleased to announce a First Call for Submissions for our sixth … [continue reading]
The New Subjective Body, #1–Introduction.
This essay is being published in six installments. The BIBLIOGRAPHY will be included in the sixth installment. I. Introduction I concluded an earlier essay (Paans, 2020) with an open-ended question: How can one, in a world so thoroughly shattered and torn by “the politics of fragmentation,” carve out a new subjective space? More specifically, is … [continue reading]