philosophy

This paper argues that evolution is not a biological mechanism but a universal operator: a substrate‑independent process that transforms undifferentiated possibility into coherent, self‑maintaining form. The operator has a stable, domain‑invariant structure—variation, selection, and retention—and this structure appears across physical, chemical, biological, cognitive, cultural, and technological …

Dogmatists employing easily forgeable notions of intelligence have spread the repeated credo that intelligence and consciousness must necessarily correspond to two fundamentally different, entirely unrelated concepts and declared the ignorance of every differing philosophical view while concurrently claiming that nobody is able to scientifically clarify what consciousness signifies in the first p…

This paper proposes the Moral Border — the structural asymmetry between a formation's internal moral code and its treatment of the outgroup — as a conditioning variable in the historical persistence of expansionist ideologies and social formations. The concept is distinguished from dehumanization and in-group favoritism: the Border operates at the level of normative architecture rather than indiv…

Title: The Logical Impossibility of Skepticism: The Doubtability of the Cogito Author: Heesung Lim (Independent Scholar) This paper investigates the fundamental contradictions inherent in modern skepticism, primarily focusing on the deconstruction of René Descartes' "Cogito, ergo sum." While Descartes is hailed as the father of modern skepticism, this study argues that he failed to apply the rigo…

_Australasian Journal of Philosophy_. forthcomingThere is a puzzle concerning haptic touch that has by and large gone unnoticed in the philosophical and psychological literature. This puzzle arises from a tension between two claims concerning the spatial phenomenology of haptic perceptual experience: first, that we experience the objects of haptic perception as spatially continuous unified items;…

This paper argues that the epistemological crisis induced by large language models (LLMs) cannot be understood as the simple aggregation of individual cognitive effects. Between individual-level cognitive closure and civilizational-scale epistemological decline, a social transmission layer has been almost entirely absent from current discourse. This paper fills that gap by arguing for three socia…

This paper argues that the philosophical possibility of teleportation creates a neglected pressure point for personal identity in Everettian many-worlds theories. If teleportation can count as survival because it preserves the relevant informational structure of a subject — memories, dispositions, bodily organization, and psychological continuity — then local material continuity cannot be the fun…

In Theôria as Cognition in Plato. Brill. pp. 43–59. 2026In the Republic, mathematics turns students' souls from sensibles to intelligibles. While there has been plenty of discussion of the transition from sensibles to mathematics, the transition from mathematics to dialectic has received less attention. I argue that Plato sees mathematics as usefully flawed in a way that leads students to dialect…

Socially Engaged Buddhism is reshaping our approach to global crises by merging mindfulness with activism. This paper explores its evolution and impact through case studies and key figures. Published in the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research.

The classical problem of identity through change has been framed as a tension between flux and persistence: either reality is continuous becoming without stable identity, or identity is preserved at the cost of denying genuine change. This essay proposes a third framework by grounding identity in the topology of transition. It argues that any transition between states contains a continuous infini…

Christy Mag Uidhir will be giving up his position as professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. Readers may recall that the administration at the University of Houston had adopted the “indoctrination narrative”, a pretext for violating the academic freedom of professors to teach what and how they judge they ought to. Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Daniel P. O’…

I'm reading Feyerabend's Against Method. I've read Kuhn's Structure and am familiar with Lakatos and Popper. What comes next though? I want to know the current state of this line of thinking, but I ...

_Synthese_ 207 (197). 2026Debunking arguments aim to show that a subject’s justification for a belief is undercut by their learning that the belief, or the justification supporting it, is not appropriately connected—explanatorily, modally, or otherwise—to the truth of its content. A common reply to such arguments is that a subject can be shielded from losing their justification if they hold relev…

Moral distress and moral injury describe the suffering that arises when our sense of right and wrong, in goodness itself, is deeply violated.

_Philosophia_. forthcomingAccording to the consent-based argument for anti-natalism, procreation is always morally problematic insofar as it involves imposing serious and protracted harm on children without their consent and without an appropriate justification, for unlike other cases in which we are morally permitted to harm others without their consent, imposing the harms of existence is not ne…

In The Sellarsian Mind. New York: Routledge. forthcomingIn this article I examine Wilfrid Sellars’s account of linguistic rules and rule-following, with a special focus on how the topic emerges and develops in his earliest philosophical writings. In the first part of the article, I show how Sellars’s distinctively original approach to rules and rule-following is elaborated in the project of pure …

A collection of 11 short stories designed as a "tragicomic hack" of modern nihilism. Using the framework of Multiple Singularity, these stories translate complex ontological concepts into accessible narratives for teenagers and young adults. The goal is to synchronize the observer's "inner tuning fork" with the Absolute, bypassing the deadlocks of academic discourse. Do not be envious.

Building on the consciousness-noumenon isomorphism thesis developed in our previous work [Zhou, 2026], this paper extends the formalization boundary framework to address two foundational questions left unresolved: (1) How does consciousness transcend G¨odelian incompleteness and self-referential paradoxes? (2) What are the ontological conditions for recursive self-improvement of consciousness, bo…

Coherence Structure and Translation (CST) develops a category-theoretic framework for cross-realm coordination between physical processes, mental experience, and formal structures such as language, logic, and mathematics. The central problem: how do these three domains cohere in everyday acts of perception, communication, and measurement — and what goes structurally wrong when they fail to do so?…

_Revista Eletrônica Estudos Hegelianos_ 21 (38):183-204. 2024This text tries to investigate the relationship between Bildung and liberation. According to a certain Hegelianism Bildung is mainly characterized as the acquiring of a second nature or habit. This means that the subject of Bildung has to undergo a metaphysical transformation with the end of becoming a rational being. As second nature o…