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]
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Turing, Strong AI, and The Fantasy of Transhumanist Spiritualism.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Turing, Strong AI, and The Fantasy of Transhumanist Spiritualism In 1933, under the heading of “[The] Nature of Spirit,” Alan Turing wrote: [A]s regards the actual connection between spirit and body I consider that the body by … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #27–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview II: Solving The Mind-Body Problem.
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]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #26–Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview I: The Neo-Organicist Worldview.
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]
A Philosopher’s Diary, #3—Against Perfectionism.
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, nine years later, after more than 300, 000 views of the site, this new series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members … [continue reading]
One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, HERE. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 1. Panpsychism is the two-part metaphysical thesis which says (Pi) that mental properties are at least as basic in the natural world in its total spatiotemporal extent and all … [continue reading]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #25–Seven Arguments Against The Mechanistic Worldview.
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]
Announcing the Publication of Borderless Philosophy 5 (2022), Special Topic Issue: “The End of Analytic Philosophy and/or Continental Philosophy, Yes or No? And If Yes, Then What’s Beyond?”
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Babette Babich (Fordham University USA), “The Analytic-Continental Divide: ‘An Idea No Longer of Any Use … Superfluous … Let Us Abolish It!’,” 1-47: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp5-2022-babette-babich-the-analytic-continental-divide-let-us-abolish-it-1-47 2. Robert Hanna (Independent philosopher USA), “Six Studies in The Decline and Fall of Professional Academic Philosophy, And A Real and Relevant Alternative,” 48-130: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp-5-2022-robert-hanna-six-studies-in-the-decline-and-fall-of-professional-philosophy-48-130 3. Andreas … [continue reading]
Announcing the Publication of Contemporary Studies in Kantian Philosophy 7 (2022), With Articles on Kant & Reflection, Kant & Nishida, and Wittgenstein’s Crypto-Kantianism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Robert Hanna (Independent philosopher USA), “Wittgenstein’s Crypto-Kantianism and How It Subverts, Surpasses, and Supplants Analytic Philosophy,” 1-28: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/cskp-7-2022-robert-hanna-wittgenstein-s-crypto-kantianism-1-28 2. Otto Paans (Independent philosopher NL), “Affinity and Expression: Kant, Nishida, and the Sensible Foundations of Expressivity,” 29-46: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/cskp-7-2022-otto-paans-kant-nishida-and-the-sensible-foundations-of-expressivity-29-46 3. Otto Paans (Independent philosopher NL), “Agency, Structuring, and Formation: Kantian Reflection and Its … [continue reading]
Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism.
The imagistic companion piece for this essay, “Guns Я Us: A Thought-Shaper,” is HERE. And you can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism I. Introduction As the latest horrific mass shooting in the USA—this one at an … [continue reading]