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Kant and the Art of BMW Maintenance: From German Idealism to German Engineering.

Introduction

Jun 8, 2021

Kant and the Art of BMW Maintenance: From German Idealism to German Engineering.

Jun 8, 2021

Metaphysical Logic and The Interpretation of Dreams

In his On Dreams (1901), Sigmund Freud puts forward the fascinating theory that we do not sleep in order to dream but that we dream in…

May 1, 2021

Metaphysical Logic and The Interpretation of Dreams

May 1, 2021

Pointing Towards Christ: Prefigurations of Christian Teleology in the Early Greek Thinkers

Introduction

May 1, 2021

Pointing Towards Christ: Prefigurations of Christian Teleology in the Early Greek Thinkers

May 1, 2021

The Hard Problem of Conscientiousness

Recently, a few of the online course makers I follow have been writing and vlogging about their experiences pursuing a viable and…

Apr 16, 2021

The Hard Problem of Conscientiousness

Apr 16, 2021

Kant’s Project in the Critique of Pure Reason and its Implications for Scientific Theories

My own understanding of Kant’s project is that he was trying to determine how it is possible that we can reason about phenomena about…

Mar 29, 2021

Mar 29, 2021

Zarathustra’s Ape: How He Became What He Was

That morning, Peter* woke up feeling down again. Yet he dragged himself out of bed and headed to the marketplace to see the tightrope…

Jan 7, 2021

Zarathustra’s Ape: How He Became What He Was

Jan 7, 2021

Necro-Ethics Part 10. Skin in the Game: Drones & War without Warfare

Having now explored several key themes of Gregoire Chamayou’s critique of drone warfare in the previous sections of this digest, it is…

Dec 1, 2020

Necro-Ethics Part 10. Skin in the Game: Drones & War without Warfare

Dec 1, 2020

Necro-Ethics Part 9. Mechanised Atrocity and the Death of the Subject

‘A robot commits a war crime. Who is responsible?’ (Chamayou, 2015, p.210)

Nov 30, 2020

Necro-Ethics Part 9. Mechanised Atrocity and the Death of the Subject

Nov 30, 2020

Necro-Ethics Part 8. Drones and the Divine Right of Kings: Rousseau vs. Hobbes

A central theme of the previous posts in this exploration of Gregoire Chamayou’s Drone Theory (2015) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) has been the…

Nov 20, 2020

Necro-Ethics Part 8. Drones and the Divine Right of Kings: Rousseau vs. Hobbes

Nov 20, 2020

IndieThinkers Annual Progress Review

In November last year I signed up for Justin Murphy’s IndieThinkers. My main reason for doing this was to give the final stretch of my…

Nov 14, 2020

IndieThinkers Annual Progress Review

Nov 14, 2020

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