Starting in August 2018, Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! is being delivered in weekly installments. Every installment contains (1) a recent article, (2) some follow-thoughts for further reflection or discussion, and (3) a link for supplementary reading. “The Quantified Heart” By Polina Aronson and Judith Duportail Aeon, 12 JULY 2018 URL =  https://aeon.co/essays/can-emotion-regulating-tech-translate-across-cultures In September … [continue reading]

We fall in love. We huddle together for comfort. We sway to the beat of our favorite songs. Over the course of a single day, we can feel joyful, anxious, sad, angry, and hopeful. These simple observations reveal the extent to which our mental lives are bound up with emotion and bodily feeling.  Indeed, lived … [continue reading]

“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 74. Processualism, organicism, and the two waves of the organicist revolution. Recently I read an essay by John Dupré and Daniel J. Nicholson, “A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology,” in J. Dupré and D.J. Nicholson (eds.), Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology … [continue reading]

The Editorial Team of Borderless Philosophy is pleased to announce a First Call for Submissions for our second issue (2019). Borderless Philosophy is a new and highly progressive philosophy journal, whose first issue, Borderless Philosophy 1 (2018), can be found HERE. Borderless Philosophy publishes works of philosophy without any in-principle restrictions whatsoever as to length, … [continue reading]

“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 48.  Kant, universities, The Deep(er) State, and philosophy. In “What is Enlightenment?,” Kant says that I have put the main point of enlightenment, of people’s emergence from their self-incurred immaturity, chiefly in matters of religion because our rulers have no interest in playing guardian over their … [continue reading]

Borderless Philosophy, aka BP, is a new and absolutely unique philosophy journal. BP publishes works of philosophy without any in-principle restrictions whatsoever as to length, philosophical content or topic, presentational format, or language. BP’s only criterion of selection is that the work be of genuine interest to philosophers or any other philosophically-minded person. BP publishes … [continue reading]

Dear Philosopher or Philosophically-Minded Person, Do you ever think about the larger philosophical implications of contemporary events and issues, especially when reading newspapers, journals, or blogs? —Of course you do: but then what? What if you were able to convert your thinking DIRECTLY into something you were able to use for TEACHING PHILOSOPHY, for PHILOSOPHY … [continue reading]

“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse 30.  When Merleau-Ponty Met The Whiteheadian Kripke Monster. Someone, somewhere, once wrote that a super-short but accurate synopsis of Embodied Minds in Action,[1] aka EMA is Merleau-Ponty Meets The Kripke Monster I rather like that. Indeed, there’s definitely something to this micro-synopsis, methodologically speaking, in that … [continue reading]

“Diogenes Sheltering in His Barrel,” by John William Waterhouse  1.  Introductory. A few weeks ago, in early April 2018, I finally finished and self-published a five-part, four book series, The Rational Human Condition, aka RHC, that I’ve been working on more or less steadily since 2005 or 2006—so, for 12 or 13 years. RHC is … [continue reading]

Dear Philosopher or Philosophically-Minded Person, Do you ever think about the larger philosophical implications of contemporary events and issues, especially when reading newspapers, journals, or blogs? —Of course you do: but then what? What if you were able to convert your thinking DIRECTLY into something you were able to use for TEACHING PHILOSOPHY, for PHILOSOPHY … [continue reading]