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 Mar 2023 06:13:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsjef59aCpQDwSngkwrdsok You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Organoid Intelligence? Just Say No. Although the artificial intelligence movement, aka AI, has been around for more than 70 years (see, e.g., Turing, 1950), the recent and contemporary furor about AI has been primarily generated by the … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:18:15 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsjef59aCpQDwSngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsjef59aCpQDzHgrmwRGUK6 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]]]> Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:17:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsjef59aCpQDzHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuL6Le2lbI76EQqW5gBv7mX 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, ten years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:43:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuL6Le2lbI76EQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuL6Le2lbI76Ju9CxXrVx4c 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. LGPTQ+ Rights 4. Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems This is … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:42:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuL6Le2lbI76Ju9CxXrVx4c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuwbC21M4MUZwaB2UxGNFpJ You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Dignitarian Neo-Luddism With Respect to Digital Technology For clarity’s sake, I’ll start with some definitions. According to The Oxford Encyclopedic Dictionary, the term “Luddite” means this: 1. hist. a member of the bands of English craftsmen who, … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:10:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuwbC21M4MUZwaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuwbC21M4MUZ4fjc6hd5eWF 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 This is the fourth episode. Against … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Mar 2023 15:01:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuwbC21M4MUZ4fjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsefviPOhkEHgaB2UxGNFpJ Artificial, But Not Intelligent: A Critical Analysis of AI and AGI Recently, a lot of attention and hype has been given to discussions about the alleged dangers of artificial general intelligence. These fears have been fueled further by the release of the ChatGPT in November 2022. The fear is that an artificial general intelligence system … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:35:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsefviPOhkEHgaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsefviPOhkEHofjc6hd5eWF 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 This is the third episode. Against Professional Philosophy is … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnsefviPOhkEHofjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt1xZ_rQYvImbkdRKkm2PJP You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. Frederick Douglass, Kant, and Human Dignity Recently I wrote and shared an essay, “Dignity, Not Identity” (Hanna, 2023a), in response to an opinion piece in the New York Times by Jamelle Bouie (Bouie, 2023), in which some … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2023 13:35:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt1xZ_rQYvImbkdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt1xZ_rQYvImQBC78OgjhDM 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 This is the second episode. Against Professional Philosophy is a sub-project … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 26 Feb 2023 13:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt1xZ_rQYvImQBC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt98ln10hbAMGw5Ur-z5Bww 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. This is the first episode. Against Professional Philosophy is a sub-project of the online mega-project … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt98ln10hbAMGw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt98ln10hbAMCuZukmJ4mr4 For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word in the ordinary circumstances of … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 19 Feb 2023 13:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnt98ln10hbAMCuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLxN8jMM_zVOGrEXdXG_66 You can also download and read or share a complete .pdf of this essay HERE. Dignity, Not Identity In a cogent and compelling opinion piece in the New York Times, “There Is No Dignity in This Kind of America,” Jamelle Bouie writes: Outside of certain select phrases (“the dignity of labor”), we don’t talk much … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLxN8jMM_zVOGrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLxN8jMM_zVHCrAHWlao0B 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, ten years later, after more than 300,000 views of the site, this series, A Philosopher’s Diary, finally literally instantiates that description by featuring short monthly entries by one or another of the members of the … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 12 Feb 2023 13:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnvLxN8jMM_zVHCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntq0vNzFvgJwc4HQhe4ZUzd For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying in such a case that he understands, that he knows how to go on….This will become clearer if we interpolate the consideration of another word, namely “reading.”… The use of this word in the ordinary circumstances of … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 05 Feb 2023 13:05:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntq0vNzFvgJwc4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntq0vNzFvgJweifqJurszLU 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, 05 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntq0vNzFvgJweifqJurszLU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuoXlXZycQiCTHgrmwRGUK6 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. The Logic of Legibility 3. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Legibility and Reading 4. Legibility, Reading, and The Falsity and Impossibility of Strong AI This essay will be published in three installments; this first installment contains sections 1 and 2. You can also download and read or share a … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:45:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuoXlXZycQiCTHgrmwRGUK6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuoXlXZycQiCYfjc6hd5eWF TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2.  Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript This essay … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:40:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgnuoXlXZycQiCYfjc6hd5eWF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntTtp57WfnOuwSngkwrdsok You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay at the bottom of this post, directly below the REFERENCES. It’s All Done With Mirrors: A New Argument That Strong AI is Impossible The strong thesis of artificial intelligence, aka strong AI, is the two-part thesis which says … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2023 13:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntTtp57WfnOuwSngkwrdsok https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntTtp57WfnOuzHgrmwRGUK6 In response to my recent edgy essay, “2022: The Polycrisis So Far,”[i] we received an interesting question from a reader, Nathan Fifield, asking us whether or not we thought that this complex of crises had the potential to develop into a new Cold War? However, this new Cold War would not only be between China … [continue reading]]]> Sun, 22 Jan 2023 13:25:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/rgCiLYQhgntTtp57WfnOuzHgrmwRGUK6