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, 22 Sep 2021 07:53:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt_eUa8SzF4WcfGo0LrnZNO 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) (Editorial Team Co-Leader) https://roberthanna.academia.edu/, 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 Co- Leader), is pleased to announce a Second … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:20:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt_eUa8SzF4WcfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt_eUa8SzF4WXKSkciKEY1s TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction                                                                                                 II. Refuting the Dignity-Skeptic and Debunking a Dignity-Debunking Argument                                                                   III. The Metaphysics of Human Dignity III.1 What Human Dignity Is III.2 Real Persons and Minded Animals III.3 A Metaphysical Definition of Real Personhood IV. Nonideal Dignitarian Moral Theory IV.0 How Nonideal Can a World Be? IV.1 The Skinny … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt_eUa8SzF4WXKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt_eUa8SzF4WWhamfNIiY2W 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 Guilt and Exculpation 25. Guilt and destabilization. The staging of a conflict that the State will always win reinforces feelings of guilt and … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 19:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt_eUa8SzF4WWhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsOojHQ4kUnZEGT5aWO9DEx Philosophy Talks, With Bob And Scott is a series of conversations about fundamental philosophical ideas, problems, and topics, from A to Z. The aim of these conversations is to move us beyond the false dichotomy between Analytic philosophy and so-called “Continental” philosophy–as if there were no other relevant alternatives: but in fact, there is at … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:00:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsOojHQ4kUnZEGT5aWO9DEx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnv2H_ziE2Wkc3Mq2h3ehXEp You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. The Point Is To Shape The World: A Worldview In Eleven Theses Early Marx’s famous philosophical apothegm, “[t]he philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it,”[i] is half-right and half-wrong. … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnv2H_ziE2Wkc3Mq2h3ehXEp https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnv2H_ziE2Wkc7kdRKkm2PJP 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 State Power 12. How State power works. First, give people some goodies (say, money, property, social status, adult toys, etc.) and let them … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnv2H_ziE2Wkc7kdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntrWvuSczpASn-fx8LWuXng You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. 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 … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:25:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntrWvuSczpASn-fx8LWuXng https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntrWvuSczpASgp41t9tiERU 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 Social Dictatorship 1. Ideology. By allowing our intellectuals only to quote others who—no doubt—a are also intellectuals, we create an echo-culture, a circular … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 05 Sep 2021 19:20:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntrWvuSczpASgp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGexmxHYbCf0TXPGaG87AR Philosophy Talks, With Bob And Scott is a series of conversations about fundamental philosophical ideas, problems, and topics, from A to Z. The aim of these conversations is to move us beyond the false dichotomy between Analytic philosophy and so-called “Continental” philosophy–as if there were no other relevant alternatives: but in fact, there is at … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuGexmxHYbCf0TXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnu0hc8DDtr7TwSngkwrdsok TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Why Singulars? III. The Singular and the Particular IV. Singularization and Architectural Science V. Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY This is the fourth and final installment, and contains sections IV, V, and the BIBLIOGRAPHY. IV. Singularization and Architectural Science If my reasoning in the previous sections is correct, we should revise our … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:25:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnu0hc8DDtr7TwSngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvC3nzolLeJlslTP0vptTFR [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]]]> Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:15:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvC3nzolLeJlslTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvC3nzolLeJlt5ZnUTwRGH7 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Why Singulars? III. The Singular and the Particular IV. Singularization and Architectural Science V. Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY This is the third of four installments, and contains section III. III. The Singular and the Particular The notion of the spatial singular sits uneasily with our preconceived categories of thinking. Terms like … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvC3nzolLeJlt5ZnUTwRGH7 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns7U6Atk1ZWZXCrAHWlao0B Philosophy Talks, With Bob And Scott is a series of conversations about fundamental philosophical ideas, problems, and topics, from A to Z. The aim of these conversations is to move us beyond the false dichotomy between Analytic philosophy and so-called “Continental” philosophy–as if there were no other relevant alternatives: but in fact, there is at … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns7U6Atk1ZWZXCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns7U6Atk1ZWZbmyhX6zo8SW TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Why Singulars? III. The Singular and the Particular IV. Singularization and Architectural Science V. Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY This is the second of four installments, and contains section II. II. Why Singulars? I define a singular event in the world as an event that by necessity can only occur once. Its … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgns7U6Atk1ZWZbmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnu3fpUUZsovdC1Ly282xAAw This is a revised-&-updated version of an essay that was originally published on Against Professional Philosophy in July 2021, hence it’s “redux.“ You can download and read or share a .pdf of the complete revised-&-updated version HERE. How to Avoid The End of The World Recently, I read an interesting and indeed important essay by … [continue reading]]]> Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:25:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnu3fpUUZsovdC1Ly282xAAw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvpjqJAbEFTcFw3HFUzDTIP You can download and read or share a complete .pdf of this essay HERE. Why You Should Never Sleep On The Public Sidewalks Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a man was sleeping on a public sidewalk because he was homeless, and it was hot, and he was very tired. POLICE: Hey you, … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2021 18:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvpjqJAbEFTcFw3HFUzDTIP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvpjqJAbEFTcASngkwrdsok TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Why Singulars? III. The Singular and the Particular IV. Singularization and Architectural Science V. Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY This is the first of four installments, and contains section I. I. Introduction What kind of science could an architectural science (Architekturwissenschaft) be? This question may already be complex, but even before proceeding … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 08 Aug 2021 18:50:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvpjqJAbEFTcASngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvK_IoPwwGIagp41t9tiERU Philosophy Talks, With Bob And Scott is a series of conversations about fundamental philosophical ideas, problems, and topics, from A to Z. The aim of these conversations is to move us beyond the false dichotomy between Analytic philosophy and so-called “Continental” philosophy–as if there were no other relevant alternatives: but in fact, there is at … [continue reading]]]> Mon, 02 Aug 2021 07:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvK_IoPwwGIagp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvKfBLJaSWtzmw5Ur-z5Bww You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. How to Avoid The End of The World Recently, I read an interesting and indeed important essay by Slavoj Žižek on the impending ecological apocalypse that’s caused by climate change and by humanly-created natural environmental damage and … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvKfBLJaSWtzmw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvKfBLJaSWtzkGT5aWO9DEx TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Definitions III. Why Rethink Affinity? IV. Nishida and the Unity of Experience V. Affinity, Sensibility and Expression VI. Conclusion This is the fifth and final installment of this series, and contains sections V and VI. V. Affinity, Sensibility and Expression If “reflecting itself in itself” is the universal formula … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvKfBLJaSWtzkGT5aWO9DEx