Against Professional Philosophy

Supporting MLK’s Actual Legacy.

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 21:50:00 GMT

Supporting MLK’s Actual Legacy Martin Luther King, Jr. was a socialist, which is why he advocated for racial equality. It was Dr. King’s socialism, and not merely his advocacy for racial equality, that drew the ire of the murderous forces that eventually assassinated him. The powers that maintain the status quo were happy to support … [continue reading]

Entitlement, Fear, and Change: The Nihilist Roots of Coercive Moralism, #1.

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:35:00 GMT

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Nihilism and Postmodernity III. If God is Dead, Then I am Entitled to Everything IV. Activist Motives: Guilt and Immortality V. Conclusion This installment contains sections I – III. Entitlement, Fear, and Change: The Nihilist Roots of Coercive Moralism, #1 I. Introduction One of the most basic insights of … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #35–Wittgenstein on Understanding & Rule-Following.

Mon, 18 Jan 2021 11:30:00 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]

Consciousness is a Form of Life, #4–Dynamic Emergence, Life, and Consciousness.

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:15:00 GMT

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 1: Solving The Mind-Body Problem III. Dynamic Systems Theory and The Dynamic World Picture IV. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 2: Solving The Free Will Problem V. Dynamic Emergence, Life, and Consciousness VI. Conclusion This final installment contains sections V and VI. But you can also download or read a .pdf of … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #34–The Picture Theory of Meaning, & Wittgenstein’s Argument ...

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 11:10:00 GMT

Consciousness is a Form of Life, #3–Solving The Free Will Problem.

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:25:00 GMT

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 1: Solving The Mind-Body Problem III. Dynamic Systems Theory and The Dynamic World Picture IV. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 2: Solving The Free Will Problem V. Dynamic Emergence, Life, and Consciousness VI. Conclusion This installment contains section IV. But you can also download or read a .pdf of the complete version … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #33–The Critique of Pure Reference: What Wittgenstein’s Builders Did.

Mon, 04 Jan 2021 11:20:00 GMT

Consciousness is a Form of Life, #2–Dynamic Systems Theory and The Dynamic World Picture.

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:50:00 GMT

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 1: Solving The Mind-Body Problem III. Dynamic Systems Theory and The Dynamic World Picture IV. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 2: Solving The Free Will Problem V. Dynamic Emergence, Life, and Consciousness VI. Conclusion This installment contains section III. But you can also download or read a .pdf of the complete version … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #32–A Map of Wittgenstein’s "Philosophical Investigations.”

Mon, 28 Dec 2020 10:45:00 GMT

Consciousness is a Form of Life, #1.

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:30:10 GMT

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 1: Solving The Mind-Body Problem III. Dynamic Systems Theory and The Dynamic World Picture IV. Conscious-Mind-is-a-Form-of-Life 2: Solving The Free Will Problem V. Dynamic Emergence, Life, and Consciousness VI. Conclusion This installment contains sections I and II. But you can also download or read a .pdf of the … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #31–Wittgenstein’s Thesis That Meaning is Use.

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:25:16 GMT

The Moral Equivalent of Spirituality.

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:05:10 GMT

You can also download or read a complete .pdf of this essay HERE. 1. Introduction In his famous 1910 essay, “The Moral Equivalent of War,” William James argued that the transition from a deadly, disastrous, and morally scandalous local and global human condition of perpetual nationalistic militarism and war, to a diametrically opposed and inherently … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #30–Wittgenstein, Early & Later: From the Tractatus to the ...

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 13:00:03 GMT

What is Human Knowledge? Categorical Normativity and Categorical Epistemology.

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:55:00 GMT

You can also download or read a complete .pdf version of this essay HERE. What is Human Knowledge? Categorical Normativity and Categorical Epistemology I. Categorical Normativity I believe that the primitive fact of what I call categorical normativity inheres in all rational human intentionality whatsoever—including all rational human consciousness, mental content, belief, and knowledge. What … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #29–The Davos Conference and The Great Divide Between Analytic ...

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:50:00 GMT

A PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON FOR CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS, #8: Two Concepts of Emergence–One Genuine ...

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:20:00 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]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #28: Carnap-&-The-Vienna-Circle, The Elimination of Metaphysics, ...

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:15:23 GMT

Buddhism and The End of Sex-&-Gender: From Denial to Freedom.

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:20:00 GMT

APP Editor’s Note Motoki Kudo is a graduate student in the Faculty of Information Sciences and Arts at Toyo University, Japan. By request of the author, the essay below has been edited for clarity, grammar, and style; the original text can be found HERE. Biological Determinism is a dangerous claim. This is because it can … [continue reading]

THE FATE OF ANALYSIS, #27–Carnap Before and After the Tractatus.

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:20:00 GMT

Organicist Metaphysics: A Hybrid Interpretation.

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:40:00 GMT

I. Introduction It should come as no surprise to regular readers of APP that several of the contributors are currently thinking about organicism as a fundamental and indeed paradigm-shifting philosophical doctrine. We’ve been writing and posting material on this topic since 2016,[i] and two of us recently published a long essay that develops some of … [continue reading]