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Borderless Philosophy 9 (2026), Second Call for Submissions on the Special Topic: “We Were Supposed to Be Self-Guided: The Fate of Autonomy in The Present Era.”

by BP Editorial TeamOctober 26, 2025

*** Borderless Philosophy’s Editorial Team is pleased to announce a Second Call for Submissions for our ninth issue (2026), on the special topic: “We Were Supposed to Be Self-Guided: The Fate of Autonomy in The Present Era.” TOPIC DESCRIPTION: In “The Aufklaerung Song,” the philosophically-minded rock band Johannes Faustus sang: “We were supposed to be … [continue reading]

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Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #2.

by Joseph Wayne Smith, Saxon J. Smith, and N. StocksOctober 26, 2025

“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]

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Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #5—Enumeration and Incompleteness.

by Andreas KellerOctober 19, 2025

(Novák, 2005)[i] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #1: Introduction #2: From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence” #3: Patterns and Algorithms #4: Extending Algorithms 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. Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the … [continue reading]

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Mathematics and Human Existence: A Podcast.

by Robert Hanna and Scott HeftlerOctober 19, 2025

(Falk, 2020) As Jerrold Katz correctly noted, the philosophy of mathematics is central and indeed essential to philosophy as a whole, even despite its abstractness, formal character, and technicality. The reason for this is that an adequate philosophy of mathematics would explain the nature of truth, necessity, apriority, and categorical (i.e., unconditional, principled) normativity, and … [continue reading]

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Mind, Mechanism, and Materialism: The Case Against the Computational Theory of Mind and Artificial General Intelligence, #1.

by Joseph Wayne Smith, Saxon J. Smith, and N. StocksOctober 19, 2025

“Homo Machina (Machine Man),” by Fritz Kahn (Redbubble, 2025) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Present Limits of AI: Empirical Considerations 3. Philosophical Arguments Against Artificial General Intelligence 4. Robert Hanna’s Systematic Challenge to Computational Mechanism 5. Neuroscientific Evidence Against Digital Computationism 6. Leading Theories of Consciousness: A Critical Analysis of Their Limitations 7. … [continue reading]

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Logic, Mathematics, and the Mind: A Podcast.

by Robert Hanna and Scott HeftlerOctober 12, 2025

(Zwarenstein, 2024) What has the conscious, intentional human mind to do with the nature and status of logic and mathematics? Are irreducible facts about the human mind essential to logic and mathematics, or are logic and mathematics essentially mindless even if accidentallyconnected to human minds by means of contingent episodes of thinking? The rejection of … [continue reading]

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Do Not Adjust Your Mind, There’s a Fault in Reality Philosophy: The Cosmic Glitch Hypothesis as a Satirical Response to The Simulation Hypothesis, #3.

by Joseph Wayne Smith, Saxon J. Smith, and N. StocksOctober 12, 2025

(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the third, contains section … [continue reading]

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Mathematical Truth Regained: A Podcast.

by Robert Hanna and Scott HeftlerOctober 5, 2025

(Zwarenstein, 2024) Benacerraf’s Dilemma (BD), as formulated by Paul Benacerraf in “Mathematical Truth,” is about the apparent impossibility of reconciling a “standard” (i.e., classical Platonic) semantics of mathematics with a “reasonable” (i.e., causal, spatiotemporal) epistemology of cognizing true statements. In “Mathematical Truth Regained” Robert Hanna offers a new solution to BD. He calls this new … [continue reading]

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Do Not Adjust Your Mind, There’s a Fault in Reality Philosophy: The Cosmic Glitch Hypothesis as a Satirical Response to The Simulation Hypothesis, #2.

by Joseph Wayne Smith, Saxon J. Smith, and N. StocksOctober 5, 2025

(Neill, 2019) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. A Critique of the Bostrom Simulation Argument 3. Other Work on The Simulation Hypothesis 4. Part A: The Glitch Hypothesis 5. Part B: The Absurdity of Section 4 and Professional Academic Philosophy The essay below will be published in four installments: this one, the second, contains section … [continue reading]

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Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, #4–Extending Algorithms.

by Andreas KellerSeptember 28, 2025

(Gatilao, 2015)[i] PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS #1: Introduction #2: From Astrology to “Artificial Intelligence” #3: Patterns and Algorithms 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 poast and clicking on the Download tab. Creativistic Philosophy: Exploring the Limits of Formalization, … [continue reading]

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