Figure 1: Courtyard of the St. Benedictusberg Abbey, designed by Dom. Hans van der Laan. Photograph by author. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Modernism and Minimalism: Reductionism as Paradigm 2. Monastic Minimalism: Six Defining Features 3. Against Mechanistic Materialism 4. Conclusion This essay will be published in four installments, one per section. You can also download … [continue reading]
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Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #26: Julia Kristeva.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
From Reductionism to Simplicity: Against Modernist Minimalism and Towards a New Monastic Minimalism, #1.
Figure 1: Courtyard of the St. Benedictusberg Abbey, designed by Dom. Hans van der Laan. Photograph by author. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Modernism and Minimalism: Reductionism as Paradigm 2. Monastic Minimalism: Six Defining Features 3. Against Mechanistic Materialism 4. Conclusion This essay will be published in four installments, one per section. You can also download … [continue reading]
Supertasks and the Consistency of the Real Numbers: Reply to Jéssica Milaré/Supertarefas e a consistência dos números reais: Resposta a Jéssica Milaré.
Men at work down under, performing supertasks, circa 1981 (Filmaffinity US, 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. Supertasks and the Consistency of the Real Numbers: Reply to Jéssica … [continue reading]
Could Every Statement Be True? Trivialism and The Bankruptcy of Analytic Philosophy of Logic.
(Carroll, 1871/1988: p. 61) 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. Could Every Statement Be True? Trivialism and The Bankruptcy of Analytic Philosophy of Logic 1. Introduction In this essay, … [continue reading]
Borderless Philosophy 7 (2024), Third 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]
The Psychocentric Predicament, The Impossibility of Any and Every Hard Science of Consciousness, and Soft Sciences of the Mind.
“The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness” (Tononi et al., 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 the post and clicking on the Download tab. The Psychocentric Predicament, The Impossibility of Any and Every Hard Science of Consciousness, … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #25: Gender Trouble.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #14–ChatGPT, High-Tech Plagiarism, and The Neoliberal University.
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, ten years later, after more than 350,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]
Toward a Critique of Psychedelic Reason, #5–Elaboration 3, & Conclusion.
(Vervaeke, 2022) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Magic Mushrooms and Drug Use in Modern Society 3. A Preliminary Phenomenology of Psychedelic Experience 4. Elaborations 1 &2 5. Elaboration 3, & Conclusion REFERENCES This essay will be published in five installments; this fifth and final installment contains the third part of section 4, the Conclusion, … [continue reading]