3 days agoA Radical Solution For Haack’s “Perverse Incentives” Problem: Liberating Real Philosophy From The Professional Academy.By Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of the post. *** A Radical Solution For Haack’s “Perverse Incentives” Problem: Liberating Real Philosophy From The Professional Academy In a recent essay, Susan Haack has argued — in her characteristically crisp, elegant, and incisive way — that the system of intellectual activity…Philosophy12 min read
3 days agoTHE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #41–We Must Cultivate Our Global Garden.By Robert Hanna *** 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…Philosophy6 min read
Sep 26A Plea For The Philosophy of Reading.By Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share the complete longer essay from which the short essay directly below has been extracted, “Caveat Lector: Six Investigations in The Philosophy of Reading,” HERE. *** My six recent investigations in what I’m calling the philosophy of reading–available online HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE…Philosophy9 min read
Sep 26THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #40–How Can We Acknowledge Organic Systems and Organic, Generative Thought-Shapers?By Robert Hanna *** 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…Philosophy16 min read
Sep 19A Philosopher’s Diary, #6–Enlightenment, Education, and Inspiration.By Boethius *** 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…Philosophy10 min read
Sep 19Proposed Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Legibility and Reading.By Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share the complete longer essay from which the short essay directly below has been extracted, “Caveat Lector: Six Investigations in The Philosophy of Reading,” HERE. *** ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, …Philosophy13 min read
Sep 19Borderless Philosophy 6 (2023), Third Call For Submissions On This Special Topic: “Is Humankind Worth Saving From Whatever Might Threaten It? If Not, Then Why Not? But If So, Then Why and How?”By Hugh Reginald *** 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,Philosophy3 min read
Sep 19THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE FUTURE, #39– Adverse Cognitive Effects of Mechanical, Constrictive Thought-Shapers.By Robert Hanna *** 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…Philosophy13 min read
Sep 12The Death of The Humanities and What Should Be Done About It.By Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay HERE. *** The Death of The Humanities and What Should Be Done About It From the longstanding professional academic battle between “the two cultures,” namely, [l]iterary intellectuals at one pole — at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists (Snow, 1959/2012: p…Philosophy12 min read
Sep 12Science and The Logic of Legibility.By Robert Hanna *** You can also download and read or share the complete longer essay from which the short essay directly below has been extracted, “Caveat Lector: Six Investigations in The Philosophy of Reading,” HERE. *** For us it is the circumstances under which he had such an experience that justify him in saying…Philosophy9 min read
