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]
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Thinking For A Living: A Philosopher’s Notebook 3—Kant, universities, The Deep(er) State, and philosophy.
“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 1 (2018)
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]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #10, June 2018: Jobs-&-Happiness, UBI in Finland, The Social Value of Envy, The Educated Elite’s Strange Failure, & Are We Just Our Brains?
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]
Thinking For A Living: A Philosopher’s Notebook 2—When Merleau-Ponty Met The Whiteheadian Kripke Monster.
“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]
Thinking For A Living: A Philosopher’s Notebook 1—Introductory; The rise and fall of Analytic philosophy; Cosmopolitanism and the real philosophy of the future; How to socialize the philosophy of mind.
“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]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #9, May 2018: Defending Lecturing, Citizens of the World, Hyper-Liberalism, Neo-Romanticism, & Physics-Without- Time?
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]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #8, April 2018: Consciousness-Denial, Minds-&-Smartphones, The Morality of Addiction, & Radical Gun Reform.
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]
Philosophy Ripped From The Headlines! Issue #7, March 2018: The Meaning of Life & the Morality of Death.
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]
How Exquisitely the Individual Mind to the External World Is Fitted: — And How Exquisitely, too, the External World is Fitted to the Mind.
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