By Andrew D. Chapman *** 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

By Otto Paans *** 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 Andrew D. Chapman *** 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

By Robert Hanna *** 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, when their…

By Andrew D. Chapman *** 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

By Andreas Keller *** 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 could take over, resulting in the…

By Andrew D. Chapman *** 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

By Robert Hanna

By Andrew D. Chapman *** 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.