“Peer Review? No Thanks.” By T. Ehrmann (Spicer and Roulet, 2014) About the Author: Joseph Wayne Smith is a dissenting and/or heretical philosopher, or post-philosopher, who soon after completing his first PhD in philosophy in 1987, was unemployed, and then re-trained in other disciplines, including environmentalism, medicine, and law, eventually obtaining PhD degrees in all … [continue reading]
Category: Not An Edgy Essay
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #14: Psychology.
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]
Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Authentic Human Creativity.
“Butlerian Jihad” (Dune Wiki, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, either by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab, or by going HERE. Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Authentic Human Creativity … [continue reading]
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Legal Critique.
(History Cafe, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Legal Critique 1. Introduction: The Classical Formulation of the Problem The prisoner’s dilemma in game theory was … [continue reading]
Announcing the Publication of Borderless Philosophy 6 (2023), Special Topic Issue: “Is Humankind Worth Saving From Whatever Might Threaten It? If Not, Then Why Not? But If So, Then Why and How?”
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Leon Conrad (Independent, UK), “Story Structure Solutions,” 1-31: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp6-2023-leon-conrad-story-structure-solutions-1-31 2. Arran Gare (Swinburne University of Technology, AU), “Was Günter Grass’s Rat Right? Should Terrestrial Life Welcome the End of Humans?,” 32-76: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp6-2023-arran-gare-was-g%C3%BCnter-grass-s-rat-right-32-76 3. Robert Hanna (Independent, USA), “In Defence of Dignity,” 77-98: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp6-2023-robert-hanna-in-defence-of-dignity-77-98 4. Robert Hanna (Independent, USA), “Dignitarian Post-Capitalism,” 99-129: … [continue reading]
Rational Anthropology: A Review of Sheila Newman’s “Land-Tenure & The Revolution in Democracy & Birth Control in France.”
About the Author: Joseph Wayne Smith is a dissenting and/or heretical philosopher, or post-philosopher, who soon after completing his first PhD in philosophy in 1987, was unemployed, and then re-trained in other disciplines, including environmentalism, medicine, and law, eventually obtaining PhD degrees in all three fields. At the end of his quasi-career, he’s working on … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #12.1–Philosophy and Flow States, Part 1: Real Philosophy and Professional Academic Philosophy.
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 300,000 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, #13: QAnon.
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]
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence and Why It Persists.
A still frame from “I, Robot” (2004, dir. Alex Proyas) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The Myth of Artificial Intelligence and Why It Persists No digital computing systems or digital technology, no matter how sophisticated or tricked-out with high-tech bells and whistles, … [continue reading]
Sterile Spaces, Synthetic Humans, and Disentanglement: High Modernism and Our Alienation From Nature, #3.
Figure 1: Shigeru Ban’s “The House Without Walls.” Image via: arquitecturaviva.com. Photograph by: Shinkenchiku Sha. [High modernism] is best conceived as a strong, one might even say muscle-bound, version of the self-confidence about scientific and technical progress, the expansion of production, the growing satisfaction of human needs, the mastery of nature (including human nature), and, … [continue reading]