An enantiomorph of sentence 1 (Author’s photograph, 2023) 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. The Refutation of Digital Idealism: A Micro-Study in Kantian Futurism 1. Introduction As any Kantian … [continue reading]
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Much-Too-Quick Overviews, #17: Roland Barthes.
Much-Too-Quick Overviews, written, produced, and presented by Andrew D. Chapman, is a series of easily accessible, concise presentations of otherwise not-so-easily-accessible, not-so-concise philosophy, intended as starting-points for further independent inquiry and critical thinking, whether inside or outside the professional academy. PREVIOUS EPISODES: 1. Existentialism 2. Feminism 3. LGBTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems 5. The … [continue reading]
Crisis? What Crisis? The Case For Neo-Intuitionism in Formal Science, Natural Science, and Philosophy, #3–Putting Neo-Intuitionism To Work, & Conclusion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. What is Neo-Intuitionism? III. Putting Neo-Intuitionism To Work IV. Conclusion REFERENCES This, the third and final installment of this essay, contains sections III and IV. You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay–including the REFERENCES–HERE. III. Putting Neo-Intuitionism To Work … [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]
Aphorisms Toward A Cultural Philosophy For The Present Time, #6–Mechanisms of the State Apparatus.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Aphorisms 1-11: Social Dictatorship 2. Aphorisms 12-24: State Power 3. Aphorisms 25-38: Guilt and Exculpation 4. Aphorisms 39-52: Confusion and Control 5. Aphorisms 53-61: The Myth of Order 6. Aphorisms 62-83: Mechanisms of the State Apparatus This is the sixth installment in the series. Mechanisms of the State Apparatus 62. Rituals … [continue reading]
Nagel & Me: Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview.
You can download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Nagel & Me: Beyond The Mechanistic Worldview Nine Years After Nine years after, I think it’s safe to say that Thomas Nagel’s 2012 book, Mind and Cosmos[i] was extremely controversial, both inside the intellectual hothouse of professional academic … [continue reading]
A Theory of Human Dignity, #15–Post-Persons.
This long essay, “A Theory of Human Dignity,” presents and defends a general theory of human dignity, with special attention paid to spelling out its background metaphysics, formulating and justifying a basic set of dignitarian moral principles, and critically addressing hard cases for the theory. “A Theory of Human Dignity” is being made available here … [continue reading]
The Paradox of Distributive Social Justice.
The Paradox of Distributive Social Justice Distributive social justice is the set of moral, social-institutional, and/or political principles, processes, and structures that determine the distribution of benefits and burdens in capitalist, liberal, democratic nation-States. In their Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on “Distributive Justice,” Julian Lamont and Christi Favor quite correctly although somewhat tautologously note … [continue reading]
THE LIMITS OF SENSE AND REASON: A Line-By-Line Critical Commentary on Kant’s “Critique of Pure Reason,” #13–What is “the Secure Path of a Science”?
[I] was then making plans for a work that might perhaps have the title, “The Limits of Sense and Reason.” I planned to have it consist of two parts, a theoretical and a practical. The first part would have two sections, (1) general phenomenology and (2) metaphysics, but this only with regard to its method. … [continue reading]
Criticizing the Criticism: Some Reflections on Professional Academic Thought and Real Philosophy.
The essay “Echoes of the Future” has a publishing history that I would like to share here. As things stand currently, it will be published in its final version in the journal Borderless Philosophy, although an early version was published in installments here on APP. Part I can be found HERE, part II HERE, part … [continue reading]