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Lectures

  • Blog Statistics May 10 2025 May 10, 2025
  • The Mythology of the thousand masks of the hero April 30, 2025
  • Time is the a priori Form of internal intuition April 30, 2025
  • The Logos of Muthos April 8, 2025
  • On Taking Responsibility for a Life (Psuché) March 28, 2025
  • Spinoza and viewing existence sub specie aeternitatis March 23, 2025
  • Excerpt from my Forthcoming book on Shakespeare March 9, 2025
  • Philosophy and Shakespeare February 18, 2025
  • Feedspot award February 11, 2025
  • AI and the Teaching of History February 9, 2025
  • The Exeter Lectures Audiobook February 1, 2025
  • Brilliant Philosophical Analysis of why Tump won two elections. January 30, 2025
  • Freud-Book Poster January 30, 2025
  • Chatgpt versus Deepseek January 28, 2025
  • The Plight of the Poor: A Comparative Analysis from Socratic Athens, the Time of Christ, the Elizabethan Era, and the Kantian Enlightenment:–AN AI generated Essay Chat GPT January 26, 2025
  • AI generated image January 25, 2025
  • The World Explored the World Suffered January 17, 2025
  • Philosophical Modernism January 15, 2025
  • Moved up to number 48 of the best 90 academic Philosophy blogs. January 12, 2025
  • The World Explored, the World Suffered series 5. Audio book cover for the work “The Metaphysics and Logos of Psuché and Psychoanalysis: An Aristotelian and Kantian Critique” November 24, 2024
  • (no title) August 4, 2024
  • Finished the first chapter of Shakespeare: An Aristotelian and Kantian reevaluation August 1, 2024
  • Commentary on Platos’ “The Laws”: Book 4 July 22, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s “The Laws”: Book 3(Part Two) July 9, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s dialogue, “The Laws” Book Three(Part one) June 29, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s “The Laws” Book 2 June 25, 2024
  • Commentary on Plato’s Dialogue “The Laws” Book 1 June 18, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Critical reevaluation: Chapter 7: Concluding Remarks May 7, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Critical reevaluation:Chapter 6 Freud and Political Philosophy (Analysis of Woodrow Wilson) March 24, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian Critical Reevaluation: Chapter 5: Kant and Freud February 6, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian Critical Reevaluation: Chapter 4: Freud and Aristotle…”…health is the logos and knowledge in the soul (psuché) January 20, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: a Hylomorphic and Kantian critical reevaluation: Chapter 3 Platonic Themes January 14, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian Reevaluation: Chapter Two January 5, 2024
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian reevaluation: Chapter I October 31, 2023
  • Freud and Philosophy: A Hylomorphic and Kantian reevaluation: Introduction October 10, 2023
  • Artificial Intelligence and its Discontents”: A Philosophical Essay : Introduction. July 29, 2023
  • The Philosophy of Death: Socrates, Aristotle, Fingarette, Kant, Wittgenstein July 11, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part 7: Why cant a computer act or Hunt: O Shaughnessy. July 3, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI: Part 6: “Machina”, The “new men” and the Age of Totalitarian Discontent. July 1, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI: Review of Weizenbaums “Computer Power and Human Reason” Part 5: Kant, Science, and the fallacy of anthromorphization June 27, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part 4: Review of Weizenbaum’s “Computer Power and Human Reason”: Power and Language June 25, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part Three: Review of “Weizenbaum’s “Computer Power…”(On Tools) June 24, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI Part Two: Review of “Computer Power and Human Reason” by J Weizenbaum(1976) June 21, 2023
  • Philosophy and AI June 16, 2023
  • Review of Merleau-Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception” Part 3 May 16, 2023
  • Chat GBT Conversations on Psychology April 30, 2023
  • Review of Merleau-Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception”–Part 2 April 27, 2023
  • Review of Merleau Ponty’s “Phenomeology of Perception”. Part 1 April 26, 2023
  • Cosmopolitanism, Multi-Nationalism, Prohibitionism, Judgement and phronesis. April 9, 2023
  • Machine learning vs human learning according to chatbot gpt March 12, 2023
  • Chatbot GBT: Benefit or Burden March 11, 2023
  • Chomsky and universal grammar March 5, 2023
  • Jordan Peterson and Philosophy:Review of a Youtube Interview. December 11, 2022
  • Mathematical Investigations: Kant and Wittgenstein December 5, 2022
  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture: Unity of European Culture November 28, 2022
  • Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture” Education and Culture November 26, 2022
  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes toward a definition of Culture: Politics and Culture November 21, 2022
  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture” Cults and Sects November 17, 2022
  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture” :”Regionalisation” and Satellite Cultures November 13, 2022
  • Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture” –Class and the Elite: The Aristocrat and Cosmopolitan man November 12, 2022
  • Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes Toward a Definition of Culture”: Part Two Culture and its Meaning November 10, 2022
  • Book Review of T S Eliot’s “Notes towards the definition of Culture” Part 1 November 8, 2022
  • A review of Thomas Howards Youtube lecture on T S Eliots “Four Quartets”: Part 4– A Wittgensteinian commentary November 4, 2022
  • If music be the food of poetry, play on. November 2, 2022
  • A Review of the youtube lecture on Eliot’s “Four Quartets by Thomas Howard: Part Three –A Freudian Commentary November 1, 2022
  • Youtube review of Thomas Howards “Reader’s Guide to the Four Quartets”: Part Two: A Kantian commentary. October 30, 2022
  • A review of the Youtube lecture : “Readers Guide to Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: 1. Aristotelian interpretation of Eliot October 26, 2022
  • Du Chatelet and Kant: abstract for conference “Dynamics and Reason”, in honour of the work of Du Chatelet. October 19, 2022
  • Absent minded Philosophy October 16, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and narrative” Vol 3: Conclusion Essay 21 October 2, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 20 Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness. September 29, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3 : Essay 19 The Spirit of the Times and World History September 25, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 18 History and Fiction September 23, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 17 The Author, the Reader, and the Text. September 20, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 16 Historiography and the reality of the past. September 18, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay 15–Fictional Time September 15, 2022
  • A Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative Vol 3: Essay 14 Historical Time September 11, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol 3: Essay no 13–Aristotle, Kant, and Heidegger. August 28, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”:Vol 3: Essay no 12 Husserl and Kant. August 19, 2022
  • Essay 11: Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol3: Time of the Soul vs Time of the World. August 9, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Volume 2: Tales about Time–Essay no 10 August 6, 2022
  • Review of Ricouer’s Volume 2 “Time and Narrative”: Essay 9 Games with Time. August 2, 2022
  • Essay 8 Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: Linguistics and analytical structuralism July 28, 2022
  • Review of Vol 2 of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: The fate of narrative. July 26, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Essay 6 Historical intentionality July 22, 2022
  • Essay 5 Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” :Narrative and Causality July 17, 2022
  • Essay 4: Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: Explanations and Misunderstandings July 13, 2022
  • Essay 3: Review of Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative”: Metaphorical action and Metaphorical Time. July 10, 2022
  • Essay 2 on Ricoeur’s “Time and Narrative” Vol.1: Aristotle’s Poetics and Muthos June 29, 2022
  • Essay 1 on Ricoeur’s “Three volume series on “Time and Narrative” June 26, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth”: Part 8 Anguish and Primary Affirmation June 22, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth”: Part 7 The Problem of Universal Civilisation. June 11, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth”: Part 6–The Political Paradox. May 24, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth”: Part 5 “Work and the Word” May 22, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeurs “History and Truth, Part 4 The Truth, De civitate dei and De civitate terrana. May 19, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth”: Part Three Society and Imago Dei May 14, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “History and Truth:Part Two May 13, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s History and Truth: Part 1 Introduction and Prefaces. April 25, 2022
  • A Book Review of Ricoeur’s “Memory, History and Forgetting”: Part 10 Epilogue–Difficulty of Forgiveness. April 4, 2022
  • A Book Review of Ricouer’s “Memory, History, and Forgetting: Part 9 Forgetting April 2, 2022
  • A Review of Ricoeur’s “Memory , History and Forgetfulness”: Part 8 History and Time. March 30, 2022
  • A Review of Ricoeur’s “Memory, History, and Forgetfulness”: Part 7 The Historical Condition. March 23, 2022
  • Review of Ricouer’s “Memory, History, and Forgetfulness”:Part 6 Representation and History. March 17, 2022
  • War Report: International news summaries(Bloomberg, CNN, BBC, SVT) March 2, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Memory, History, and Forgetfulness”. Part 5 Explanation/Understanding. March 2, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Memory, History, Forgetfulness”: Part 4 History, Documentation and Testimony February 22, 2022
  • Review of Ricoeur’s “Memory, History, Forgetfulness”: Part 3 of Chapter Three “Personal Memory, Collective Memory” February 19, 2022
  • Review of Paul Ricoeur’s “Memory, History, and Forgetting”: Part 2 “The Exercise of Memory” February 16, 2022
  • Volume four February 10, 2022
  • Volume four of A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action February 5, 2022
  • Review of Paul Ricoeur’s “Memory, History, Forgetting”: Part one Memory and Imagination January 25, 2022
  • Introduction to A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4. December 4, 2021
  • “The End of All Things”: Religion, Secularisation, Psychoanalysis, and Philosophical Psychology: (Part of the Conclusion to Volume 4 of “A Philosophical History of Psychology….”) November 23, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action–Vol 4 (The Legacy of the Kantian First Critique) November 12, 2021
  • Violence, Extremism and the Swedish Golden Mean November 1, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action. Volume 4 : The modern legacy of Kant’s Third Critique. November 1, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4 The legacy of Aristotle today: Ethics, Politics, Theology, Aesthetics. October 24, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Vol 4: (Aristotle’s Legacy– Metaphysics, (Politis, Shields, Heidegger)) October 2, 2021
  • Herodotus: The Father of History September 23, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Vol 4– O Shaughnessy Part two(The Physical metaphysics of Consciousness) July 4, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness and Action:Vol 4 –O Shaughnessy The Will– A dual aspect theory. June 13, 2021
  • Longer Review of Manfred Kuehn’s “Kant: A Biography”(To be included in Volume 4 of “A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action.” May 9, 2021
  • Short Goodreads Review of Kuehn’s Biography of Kant May 2, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4(P M S Hacker: Human Nature: The Categorical Framework) April 25, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4(P.M.S. Hacker –Wittgenstein, Consciousness, and Metaphysics April 9, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4(P.M.S. Hacker The Boundaries of Sense, Human Nature and Neuroscience.) April 3, 2021
  • French Translation of Volume two of A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 2 March 30, 2021
  • Join Goodreads–the best non physical vaccination against the pandemic blues March 26, 2021
  • Promotional Material for Volume three of “A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action” March 25, 2021
  • Three volumes of “A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action”. First two volumes translated into 8 languages. March 22, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4(Anscombe–The Cambridge Platonist: Aletheia and Areté) March 22, 2021
  • Goodreads Review of Aristotle’s Metaphysics March 21, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4:- Anscombe’s Philosophical Psychology. March 10, 2021
  • Blurb from back cover of forthcoming volume three of “A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action” February 6, 2021
  • Architecture is the mother of all Art February 5, 2021
  • Sir Isaac Newton–The God intoxicated Natural Philosopher January 25, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4 Elisabeth Anscombe Part one. January 22, 2021
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 4 Anscombe(One of “the new women”) January 19, 2021
  • Alternative cover suggestion from Publisher for volume three December 30, 2020
  • Volume three Cover suggestion by Publisher December 27, 2020
  • Introduction to Volume three of “A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action.” To be Published in January 2021 November 19, 2020
  • The World Explored, the World Suffered: A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness and Action(Volume one–Dutch Translation November 1, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action Vol 3: Critique of Cavell ‘s Hegelian transactionalism October 30, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action, Vol 3 Critique of Cavell’s Claim of Reason October 18, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Volume 3(Jonathan Lear—Self Reflection, Morality, Religion and Politics–Aristotelian and Kantian Critique) October 2, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Vol 3(Lear–Metaphysics and the Open Mind) September 26, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action (Volume 0ne)–Polish Translation September 22, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action:Volume Three Jonathan Lear and Aristotle(A Kantian Critique) September 11, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action: Vol 3(Jaynes, Aristotle, Kant, Freud: Cultural Morphology, Cultural Evolution, Consciousness, Language, and the Bicameral Mind) August 30, 2020
  • A Philosophical History of Psychology, Cognition, Emotion, Consciousness, and Action( Vol 3) Language, Modernism, Consciousness and the Metaphorisation process.(Jaynes and Ricoeur) August 13, 2020

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