(Murray, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Cronin-Walker Assembly Theory and the Anti-Reductionist Turn 3. Physics is Not Causally Closed: Nicolas Gisin’s Anti-Mechanism 4. Barbara Drossel’s Anti-Reductionism 5. Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality: There are No Brains 6. Colin McGinn’s Basic Structures of Reality: A Philosophical Analysis of Physics-Based Metaphysics and Structural Realism 7. … [continue reading]
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Silent Night of the Grave: Climate Non-Linearity, The Glass Bead Game, and The Failure of Professional Academic Philosophy.
(Stanley-Jones, 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. Silent Night of the Grave: Climate Non-Linearity, The Glass Bead Game, and The Failure of Professional Academic Philosophy 1. The Glass … [continue reading]
The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy: A Podcast.
“Girl with a Book,” by Alexander Deineka (1934) In “The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy,” Robert Hanna argues as follows: You, the reader of this very sentence, are consciously reading this very sentence from left to right here and now. Dear Reader, please now read the first sentence of this essay again, this time … [continue reading]
Anti-Reductionist Philosophy of Science Against Mechanism, #4.
(Murray, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Cronin-Walker Assembly Theory and the Anti-Reductionist Turn 3. Physics is Not Causally Closed: Nicolas Gisin’s Anti-Mechanism 4. Barbara Drossel’s Anti-Reductionism 5. Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality: There are No Brains 6. Colin McGinn’s Basic Structures of Reality: A Philosophical Analysis of Physics-Based Metaphysics and Structural Realism 7. … [continue reading]
Thought-Shaping, Reflection and the Refractive Element, #4.
Still from Gesaffelstein’s video clip for their song “Hard Dreams.” Dir. J. Hemingway/Division, J. de Chateleux, 2024 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Three Central Questions 3. Reflection and its Limits: A Historical Sketch 4. The Refractive Element 5. Conclusion: Refraction and Thinking as a Field of Action The essay below has been published in … [continue reading]
On Fundamental Philosophical Disagreements and How to Resolve Them: A Podcast.
(Lewandowsky et al., 2012: p. 122) On the whole, philosophical correspondence and philosophical conversation alike are often interesting and productive, and sometimes profoundly significant. Indeed, sometimes philosophical correspondence and philosophical conversation are mind-changing or life-changing, and even—in accordance with Marx’s famous dictum that thus far philosophers have only ever interpreted the world in different ways, … [continue reading]
Anti-Reductionist Philosophy of Science Against Mechanism, #3.
(Murray, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Cronin-Walker Assembly Theory and the Anti-Reductionist Turn 3. Physics is Not Causally Closed: Nicolas Gisin’s Anti-Mechanism 4. Barbara Drossel’s Anti-Reductionism 5. Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality: There are No Brains 6. Colin McGinn’s Basic Structures of Reality: A Philosophical Analysis of Physics-Based Metaphysics and Structural Realism 7. … [continue reading]
Thought-Shaping, Reflection and the Refractive Element, #3.
Still from Gesaffelstein’s video clip for their song “Hard Dreams.” Dir. J. Hemingway/Division, J. de Chateleux, 2024 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Three Central Questions 3. Reflection and its Limits: A Historical Sketch 4. The Refractive Element 5. Conclusion: Refraction and Thinking as a Field of Action The essay below will be published in … [continue reading]
What Can Kantian Philosophy Do for Humanity? From Leonard Nelson to Phildialogues: A Podcast.
According to Robert Hanna in his essay “What Can Kantian Philosophy Do for Humanity? From Leonard Nelson to Phildialogues,” broadly Kantian philosophy—by which Hanna means philosophy inspired by Kant’s work, but neither dogmatically restricted to Kant’s own texts nor in any way committed to Kant’s own philosophical errors or personal prejudices—is profoundly relevant to the … [continue reading]
Anti-Reductionist Philosophy of Science Against Mechanism, #2.
(Murray, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Cronin-Walker Assembly Theory and the Anti-Reductionist Turn 3. Physics is Not Causally Closed: Nicolas Gisin’s Anti-Mechanism 4. Barbara Drossel’s Anti-Reductionism 5. Donald Hoffman’s Case Against Reality: There are No Brains 6. Colin McGinn’s Basic Structures of Reality: A Philosophical Analysis of Physics-Based Metaphysics and Structural Realism 7. … [continue reading]