Against Professional Philosophy

A PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON FOR CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, #7: Three Concepts of Democracy, Three ...

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:35:00 GMT

APP Editor’s Note: You can download or read a complete .pdf of the basic working draft of this philosophical lexicon HERE. But since it is a work-in-progress, this does not preclude ongoing elaborations or revisions of the working draft, that appear only in the online installments. After the series is finished, then a complete revised-and-updated … [continue reading]

Borderless Philosophy 4 (2021): Second Call For Submissions, Plus Links To All Previous Issues ...

Mon, 19 Oct 2020 08:20:00 GMT

Borderless Philosophy‘s Editorial Team, whose members currently are Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina Univ., USA) https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/philosophyandreligiousstudies/dennisearl/, Robert Hanna (Independent, USA) https://colorado.academia.edu/RobertHanna, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College, USA) http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/michelle-maiese.html, Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College, USA) https://www.emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/pablo-muchnik, Otto Paans (Independent, Netherlands) https://tu-berlin.academia.edu/OttoPaans, and Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Leader), is pleased to announce a Second Call for Submissions for … [continue reading]

GÖDEL-INCOMPLETENESS AND FORMAL PIETY: A Lecture in Aphoristic Style For Philosophers Who ...

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 07:20:00 GMT

APP EDITOR’S NOTE You can also download or read a complete .pdf version of this essay HERE. Primary reference: Gödel, K. “On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems,” in J. Van Heijenoort (ed.), From Frege to Gödel (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1967, pp. 596-617, also available online HERE. I. Introduction What … [continue reading]

How Not To Live A Double Life? The Ballad of Donald Kalish and Angela Davis.

Mon, 05 Oct 2020 07:50:00 GMT

APP EDITOR’S NOTE You can download or read a complete .pdf version of this essay HERE. How Not To Live A Double Life? Donald Kalish, Angela Davis, and Professional Academic Philosophy I. Introduction What I regard as a very positive trend in recent metaphilosophy is a steady flow of critical-historical studies of 20th century professional … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #25–Three Basic Worries About the Tractatus.

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 08:20:00 GMT

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Classical Analytic Philosophy II.1 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Is: Two Basic Theses II.2 What Classical Analytic Philosophy Officially Isn’t: Its Conflicted Anti-Kantianism II.3 Classical Analytic Philosophy Characterized in Simple, Subtler, and Subtlest Ways II.4 Three Kinds of Analysis: Decompositional, Transformative, and Conceptual II.5 Frege, The First … [continue reading]

PHILOSOPHY AGAINST THE MACHINE, #3–Paranoia, Brain-Science, and BS.

Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:00:00 GMT

PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS IN THIS SERIES #2: L. Ron Dennett and The New Scientology #1: Series Introduction, & Four Ways To (Begin To) Re-Humanize Humanity. I’ve been thinking lots recently about pernicious bullshit that’s being published and disseminated by high-status science-legitimated authorities, whether in philosophy or in the sciences themselves. See, e.g., the essay that elaborates … [continue reading]

LONDON CALLING BACK, #6–Is Philosophy Dead?

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:05:00 GMT

LONDON CALLING BACK, by Emre Kazim, is a series about philosophy, society, and politics, from a British and non-North-American point of view, emphasizing a new critical-dignitarian, edgy, and thoroughly push-backarian philosophical, social, and political ferment on the rise in London, recalling the heady days of politicized punk and The Clash. During the COVID-19 pandemic, LONDON CALLING … [continue reading]

A PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON FOR CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, #6: "Animal.”

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 07:35:00 GMT

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #24–Wittgenstein on The Meaning of Life.

Wed, 23 Sep 2020 08:30:00 GMT

PHILOSOPHY AGAINST THE MACHINE, #2–L. Ron Dennett and The New Scientology.

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 04:00:00 GMT

PREVIOUS INSTALLMENTS IN THIS SERIES #1: Series Introduction, & Four Ways To (Begin To) Re-Humanize Humanity. L. Ron Dennett and The New Scientology Scientology[i] was (and still is) a pseudo-scientific pseudo-religion. What do I mean by saying that? Real natural science constructs logically consistent and mathematically well-grounded theories for the explanation of a certain well-specified … [continue reading]

MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #29 (Final Installment)–The Impossibility of Human ...

Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:20:00 GMT

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. The Standard Conception of Morality II.1 The Moral Question and The Meaning Question II.2 How Ethics Relates to Morality II.3 How Morality Relates to Rationality II.4 Six Famously Hard Cases III. Three Classical Challenges to the Standard Conception of Morality III.1 Moral Relativism III.2 Eight Logical Principles of Human … [continue reading]

PHILOSOPHY AGAINST THE MACHINE, #1–Series Introduction, & Four Ways To (Begin To) ...

Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:25:00 GMT

SERIES INTRODUCTION On 22 November 2016, immediately following the equally disastrous and scandalous election of Donald Trump as POTUS, I created an alternative political party, The WTFU Party, aka The WAKE THE FUCK UP! Party. At its zenith, The WTFU Party had 12 members and 23 fellow travelers/sympathizers, including 8 sympathetic non-human animals (7 cats … [continue reading]

A PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON FOR CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, #5: "Anarchism” (A Philosophical and ...

Mon, 14 Sep 2020 07:15:00 GMT

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #23–Is the Tractatus’s Point an Ethical One?

Fri, 11 Sep 2020 08:35:00 GMT

Borderless Philosophy 4 (2021): First Call For Submissions.

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:17:00 GMT

Borderless Philosophy‘s Editorial Team, whose members currently are Dennis Earl (Coastal Carolina Univ., USA) https://www.coastal.edu/academics/facultyprofiles/humanities/philosophyandreligiousstudies/dennisearl/, Robert Hanna (Independent, USA) https://colorado.academia.edu/RobertHanna, Michelle Maiese (Emmanuel College, USA) http://www.emmanuel.edu/academics/our-faculty/michelle-maiese.html, Pablo Muchnik (Emerson College, USA) https://www.emerson.edu/faculty-staff-directory/pablo-muchnik, Otto Paans (Independent, Netherlands) https://tu-berlin.academia.edu/OttoPaans, and Hugh Reginald (Independent, Canada) (Editorial Team Leader), is pleased to announce a First Call for Submissions for … [continue reading]

A PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON FOR CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, #4: "Analysis.”

Wed, 09 Sep 2020 09:15:00 GMT

MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #28–Could Human Immortality Be A Good Thing?

Mon, 07 Sep 2020 08:25:00 GMT

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #22–Tractarian Realism.

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 08:40:00 GMT

A PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON FOR CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, #3: "Acts.”

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 08:55:00 GMT

MORALITY AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, #27–Is Human Immortality Possible? Williams on Its ...

Mon, 31 Aug 2020 09:50:00 GMT