What follows is a French translation of sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 (partially) of Joseph Wayne Smith’s “Rational Anthropology: A Review of Sheila Newman’s ‘Land-Tenure & The Revolution in Democracy & Birth Control in France’,” Against Professional Philosophy (4 June 2023), available online at URL = <https://againstprofphil.org/2023/06/04/rational-anthropology-a-review-of-sheila-newmans-land-tenure-the-revolution-in-democracy-birth-control-in-france/>. Pourquoi la Revolution eut lieu en France, … [continue reading]
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The Sleeping Beauty Problem: How Analytic Philosophy Generates Unsolvable Puzzles.
(Wikipedia, 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. The Sleeping Beauty Problem: How Analytic Philosophy Generates Unsolvable Puzzles 1. Introduction: Sleeping Beauty and Probabilities The Sleeping Beauty problem was … [continue reading]
Toward a Critique of Psychedelic Reason, #1–Introduction.
(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 5. Conclusion This essay will be published in five installments; this installment contains section 1. But you can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #23: Theories of Revolution.
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]
Against the Philosophers of Mathematics–Either Supertasks, Or the Consistency of the Real Numbers: Choose!
Zeno’s “dichotomy” paradox of motion, (supposedly) solved by completing a supertask 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. Against the Philosophers of Mathematics–Either Supertasks, Or the Consistency of the Real … [continue reading]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #22: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
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, #13–Cosmos and Care: Reflections on Self-Cultivation.
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]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #21: Postmodernism.
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]
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #20: Critical Race Theory.
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]
On the Impossibility of Kantbots and Seeing What’s Staring Us Right in the Face.
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. On the Impossibility of Kantbots and Seeing What’s Staring Us Right in the Face The history of Kant’s life is difficult to describe. … [continue reading]