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 This is the second episode. Against Professional Philosophy is a sub-project … [continue reading]
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Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #1: Existentialism.
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. This is the first episode. Against Professional Philosophy is a sub-project of the online mega-project … [continue reading]
Are There Some Legible Texts That Even The World’s Most Sophisticated Robot Can’t Read?, #3–Legibility, Reading, and The Falsity and Impossibility of Strong AI.
For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word in the ordinary circumstances of … [continue reading]
Dignity, Not Identity.
You can also download and read or share a complete .pdf of this essay HERE. Dignity, Not Identity In a cogent and compelling opinion piece in the New York Times, “There Is No Dignity in This Kind of America,” Jamelle Bouie writes: Outside of certain select phrases (“the dignity of labor”), we don’t talk much … [continue reading]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #10–Neoliberalism, Higher Education, and Faculty Members as Mental Health “First Responders.”
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]
Are There Some Legible Texts That Even The World’s Most Sophisticated Robot Can’t Read?, #2–On the Nature of Legibility and Reading.
For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word in the ordinary circumstances of … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #55–How to Solve Kant’s Universalizability and Rigorism Problems.
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]
Are There Some Legible Texts That Even The World’s Most Sophisticated Robot Can’t Read?, #1–Introduction, & and The Logic of Legibility.
For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word in the ordinary circumstances of … [continue reading]
Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster Redux, #5–Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]
It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay at the bottom of this post, directly below the REFERENCES. It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible The strong thesis of artificial intelligence, aka strong AI, is the two-part thesis which says … [continue reading]