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. Philosophy as Anarchism Originally, philosophy is not a purely theoretical discipline consisting of a set of abstract doctrines and systems detached from human … [continue reading]

“The Death of Socrates by Means of the APA,” by Q, after “The Death of Socrates,” by Jacques-Louis David, 1787 (APP, 2013) By a brilliant philosophical idea, Robert Hanna means a philosophical idea that manifests great intellectual creativity, insight, and originality, opens up a new way of looking at a large domain of concepts, facts, … [continue reading]

(Medical Xpress, 2024) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Part A: Exposition 2.1 From Passive Reception to Active Inference 2.2 Mathematical Foundations: Bayesian Inference and the Brain 2.3 Core Principles of Predictive Processing: The Brain as a Prediction Machine 2.4 Empirical Evidence for Bayesian and Predictive Processing 2.5 Applications to Cognitive Phenomena 2.6 Applications to … [continue reading]

(Philosophics, 2022) In “The Philosophy of Limits and Life-Shaping Philosophy,” Robert Hanna argues that, bracketting the issue of transcendental idealism, Kant’s 18th century philosophy of limits can be smoothly exported to our contemporary 21st century philosophical situation. Considered superficially, one might think that this exploration is essentially negative and skeptical. But on the contrary, upon … [continue reading]

(Al-Kahlili, 2002) 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 Physicists #3: The Reality of Temporal Passage and the Falsity of Block Universe Eternalism 1. Introduction Contemporary eternalism, grounded … [continue reading]

(Wikimedia Commons, 2021) 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. Russell’s Paradox and the Ontological Filter: Toward a Consistency-Based Collection Theory 1. Introduction In this essay, we propose “Collection Theory,” … [continue reading]

(GPC, 2019) In Voltaire’s Candide, the scathing critique of abstract, world-alienated, self-alienating, sanctimonious theoretical philosophy in general, and of professional academic philosophy in particular—specifically exemplified by 18th century Leibnizian/Wolffian rationalism and theodicy, or “theo-idiocy,” satirically represented by that iconic moralistic idiot of professional academic philosophy, Dr Pangloss—equally evocatively and provocatively concludes with the phrase “il … [continue reading]

(Saha, 2018) 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 icon. The Integration Illusion: Why Calculus’s Greatest Trick is a House of Cards 1. Introduction Calculus textbooks sell integration as the noble … [continue reading]

(IEP, 2026)  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. Radical Logical Skepticism: The Unprovability Paradox as Total Underminer of Professional Academic Analytic Philosophy 1. Introduction Professional academic Analytic philosophy is … [continue reading]

(Murphy, 2021) In “The Analytic-Continental Divide, and How to Transcend it,” Robert Hanna argues that The Great Divide between Analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy is essentially an artifact of the social-institutional structure of the professional academy in the latter half of the 20th century and the first three decades of the 21st century, and if … [continue reading]