Follow Against Professional Philosophy, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/against-professional-philosophy Wed, 29 Jun 2022 03:11:38 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt0CRmpng4n3fnNuMIJyU22 You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Turing, Strong AI, and The Fantasy of Transhumanist Spiritualism In 1933, under the heading of “[The] Nature of Spirit,” Alan Turing wrote: [A]s regards the actual connection between spirit and body I consider that the body by … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt0CRmpng4n3fnNuMIJyU22 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt0CRmpng4n3SRFMxTa8z4W 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]]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:50:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt0CRmpng4n3SRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnutqhbUbSop4eGkz6RCC25z You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Why Do Contemporary Philosophers Consistently Ignore The Problem of Guns and Gun Violence? The problem of guns and gun violence, as I am understanding it, is this: Owning, carrying, or using guns is rationally unjustified and immoral … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnutqhbUbSop4eGkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnutqhbUbSop4VhGNgNo2_0q You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The Weapons Effect and The Banksy Effect: The Social-Psychological Problem of Guns and Gun Violence, and A Proposed Solution Since at least 2015, I’ve been thinking and writing philosophically about guns and gun violence from a specifically … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnutqhbUbSop4VhGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnutqhbUbSop4QVLTsI7B9NX 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]]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2022 11:50:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnutqhbUbSop4QVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnso5NzEER6qfKJCIqJppjfU The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, nine years later, after more than 300, 000 views of the site, this new series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnso5NzEER6qfKJCIqJppjfU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnso5NzEER6qfMlTP0vptTFR You can also download and read or share a complete .pdf of the text of this essay, HERE. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 1. Panpsychism is the two-part metaphysical thesis which says (Pi) that mental properties are at least as basic in the natural world in its total spatiotemporal extent and all … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnso5NzEER6qfMlTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnso5NzEER6qfN6jHbRcHw3s 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]]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2022 12:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnso5NzEER6qfN6jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvlfHXQfRNIbBhSCv31NykC TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Babette Babich (Fordham University USA), “The Analytic-Continental Divide: ‘An Idea No Longer of Any Use … Superfluous … Let Us Abolish It!’,” 1-47: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp5-2022-babette-babich-the-analytic-continental-divide-let-us-abolish-it-1-47 2. Robert Hanna (Independent philosopher USA), “Six Studies in The Decline and Fall of Professional Academic Philosophy, And A Real and Relevant Alternative,” 48-130: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/bp-5-2022-robert-hanna-six-studies-in-the-decline-and-fall-of-professional-philosophy-48-130 3.  Andreas … [continue reading]]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2022 16:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvlfHXQfRNIbBhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvlfHXQfRNIbBeIF_fEM9tn TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Robert Hanna (Independent philosopher USA), “Wittgenstein’s Crypto-Kantianism and How It Subverts, Surpasses, and Supplants Analytic Philosophy,” 1-28:  https://www.cckp.space/single-post/cskp-7-2022-robert-hanna-wittgenstein-s-crypto-kantianism-1-28 2. Otto Paans (Independent philosopher NL), “Affinity and Expression: Kant, Nishida, and the Sensible Foundations of Expressivity,” 29-46: https://www.cckp.space/single-post/cskp-7-2022-otto-paans-kant-nishida-and-the-sensible-foundations-of-expressivity-29-46 3. Otto Paans (Independent philosopher NL), “Agency, Structuring, and Formation: Kantian Reflection and Its … [continue reading]]]> Sat, 04 Jun 2022 16:50:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvlfHXQfRNIbBeIF_fEM9tn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntognAk6SIGVCxhxzpi7FpJ The companion piece for this essay, “Guns Я Us: A Thought-Shaper,” is HERE. And you can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism I. Introduction As the latest horrific mass shooting in the USA—this one at an elementary … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 29 May 2022 11:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntognAk6SIGVCxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntognAk6SIGVCoxzwoq1nFt The companion piece for this image, “Gun Crazy: A Moral Argument For Gun Abolitionism,” is HERE. And you can also download and view or share a .pdf of this image HERE. Against Professional Philosophy is a sub-project of the online mega-project Philosophy Without Borders, which is home-based on Patreon here. Please consider becoming a patron!]]> Sun, 29 May 2022 11:35:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntognAk6SIGVCoxzwoq1nFt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntognAk6SIGVPdczOo_8W9B This is the second of two installments, the first of which is HERE. Philosophy in a Newer Key: Outside the Professional Academy and Inside the Real World, #2. II. Philosophy in the Adjectival Key Granting all this, then real philosophy outside the professional academy is bound to take on a radically different hue that its … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 29 May 2022 11:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntognAk6SIGVPdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvASshxuyVJ8OifqJurszLU This is the first of two installments. Philosophy in a Newer Key: Outside the Professional Academy and Inside the Real World, #1. 0. Introduction If one feels the need to philosophize, how should one finance it? This is the real question for many postgraduate and PhD students who leave the university without a paid job. … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 22 May 2022 12:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvASshxuyVJ8OifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvASshxuyVJ8AVLTsI7B9NX ’Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 22 May 2022 12:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvASshxuyVJ8AVLTsI7B9NX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvASshxuyVJ8OQEmsPXZ5C9 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]]]> Sun, 22 May 2022 12:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvASshxuyVJ8OQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGJAR9LMHIBHKSkciKEY1s You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, including the BIBLIOGRAPHY, HERE. The BIBLIOGRAPHY also appears in this second installment. Our age is the genuine age of criticism, to which everything must submit. Religion through its holiness, and legislation through its majesty commonly seek to exempt … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 15 May 2022 13:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGJAR9LMHIBHKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGJAR9LMHIBGhamfNIiY2W 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]]]> Sun, 15 May 2022 13:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGJAR9LMHIBGhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLe6r8Yk3utX-fx8LWuXng The descriptive sub-title of this blog—Against Professional Philosophy—originally created and rolled out in 2013, is “A Co-Authored Anarcho-Philosophical Diary.” Now, nine years later, after more than 300, 000 views of the site, this new series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 08 May 2022 12:50:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLe6r8Yk3utX-fx8LWuXng https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLe6r8Yk3utVLv-B9hV9S2 You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay, including the BIBLIOGRAPHY, HERE. The BIBLIOGRAPHY will also appear in the second installment. Our age is the genuine age of criticism, to which everything must submit. Religion through its holiness, and legislation through its majesty commonly seek to … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 08 May 2022 12:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLe6r8Yk3utVLv-B9hV9S2