How can philosophy gain any significant traction in a post-modern world? It all depends on what we mean by ‘philosophy’. Many philosophers nowadays argue that the problems of philosophy have no solution. In which case they are better classified as ‘pseudo problems’ —conceptual muddles which look at first like genuine […]

Renewal through Philosophy No. 31 – The Coming Post-Mathematic Age Dramatic recent developments in actimatics were summarised in Blog. No. 30 and they call, by their presence, for a commentary on what it all means.   Simultaneously my fifth essay in the online New English Review (May 2022) will serve to […]

A catch-up on recent progress in Actimatics Since the concept of ACTIMATICS was introduced into these philosophy-renewal blogs two years ago, there has been some quiet progress in developing the new 100% abstract discipline. This instalment offers an outline account of the current situation. In many ways Actimatics might just […]

The attenuated state of today’s philosophy It is a strange fact that today homo sapiens is passing through a very difficult, dangerous multi-sided existential crisis, while, at the same time, philosophy —homo sapiens’ historic way of probing deeply into conceptual territory to get a broad handle on things— is in […]