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"Robert Hanna's twelfth book, The Fate of Analysis, is a comprehensive revisionist study of Analytic philosophy from the early 1880s to the present, with special attention paid to Wittgenstein's work and the parallels and overlaps between the Analytic and Phenomenological traditions."--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Introduction: Political Philosophy of Mind -- 1.1 The Philosophy of Mind -- 1.1.1 Situated Cognition and Affectivity -- 1.2 Emancipatory Political Theory -- References -- 2: Three Theses Unpacked: Mind-Shaping, Collective Sociopathy, and Collective Wisdom -- 2.1 The Mind-Shaping Thesis -- 2.1.1 Its Meaning -- 2.1.2 Enactivism, Affective Framing, and Habits -- 2.1.3 Affordances and Enculturated Expectations -- 2.1.4 Its Truth -- 2.2 The Collective Wisdom Thesis -- 2.2.1 Its Meaning -- 2.2.2 Its Truth -- 2.3 The Collective Sociopathy Thesis -- 2.3.1 Its Meaning -- 2.3.2 Its Truth -- 2.4 Mind-Shaping Inside Sociodynamic Systems -- References -- 3: What Is a Destructive, Deforming Institution? -- 3.1 True Needs, False Needs, False Freedom of Choice, and Collective Sociopathy -- 3.2 Eight Criteria, How to Make Them Vivid, and How to Explain Them -- 3.2.1 Commodification -- 3.2.2 Mechanization -- 3.2.3 Coercion -- 3.2.4 Divided Mind -- 3.2.5 Reversal of Affect -- 3.2.6 Loss of Autonomy -- 3.2.7 Incentivization of Desires -- 3.2.8 False Consciousness -- 3.3 How to Prove These Claims -- References -- 4: Case-Study I: Higher Education in Neoliberal Nation-States -- 4.1 Higher Education as the Higher Commodification -- 4.1.1 "Mind Invasion" and Collective Sociopathy -- 4.1.2 Neoliberal U -- 4.1.3 The Affective Pull of Neoliberal Ideology -- 4.2 Neoliberal U and the Eight Criteria of Collective Sociopathy -- 4.2.1 Commodification -- 4.2.2 Mechanization -- 4.2.3 Coercion -- 4.2.4 Divided Mind -- 4.2.5 Reversal of Affect -- 4.2.6 Loss of Autonomy -- 4.2.7 Incentivization of Desires -- 4.2.8 False Consciousness -- 4.3 Shared Expectations in Online Education -- References -- 5: Case-Study II: Mental Health Treatment in Neoliberal Nation-States.

AbstractAI Ethicsis a burgeoning and relatively new field that has emerged in response to growing concerns about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on human individuals and their social institutions. In turn, AI ethics is a part of the broader field of digital ethics, which addresses similar concerns generated by the development and deployment of new digital technologies. Here, we tackle the important worry that digital ethics in general, and AI ethics in particular, lack adequate philosophical foundations. In direct response to that worry, we formulate and rationally justify some basic concepts and principles for digital ethics/AI ethics, all drawn from a broadly Kantian theory of human dignity. Our argument, which is designed to be relatively compact and easily accessible, is presented in ten distinct steps: (1) what "digital ethics" and "AI ethics" mean, (2) refuting the dignity-skeptic, (3) the metaphysics of human dignity, (4) human happiness or flourishing, true human needs, and human dignity, (5) our moral obligations with respect to all human real persons, (6) what a natural automaton or natural machine is, (7) why human real persons are not natural automata/natural machines: because consciousness is a form of life, (8) our moral obligations with respect to the design and use of artificial automata or artificial machines, aka computers, and digital technology more generally, (9) what privacy is, why invasions of digital privacy are morally impermissible, whereas consensual entrances into digital privacy are either morally permissible or even obligatory, and finally (10) dignitarian morality versus legality, and digital ethics/AI ethics. We conclude by asserting our strongly-held belief that a well-founded and generally-accepted dignitarian digital ethics/AI ethics is of global existential importance for humanity.

This collection highlights the importance of Kant's shorter writings, which span the entire intellectual career of this seminal thinker. It contrasts with other philosophical studies of Kant's work, which typically focus on a specific period of his career, and on either his theoretical philosophy or his practical philosophy. These shorter works offer a framework for understanding several central questions of critical philosophy in the context of Kant's complete corpus of writings. As such, this volume provides a ground-breaking approach to contemporary Kant studies by offering a new interpretive perspective to enable Kant scholars to advance their research projects. At the same time, it allows a general overview of Kant's work for a broader non-scholarly audience interested in his critical philosophy and its context

The Singularity of Nature: A Convergence of Biology, Chemistry and Physics takes a systems-based approach to the origin and evolution of complex life. Readers will gain a novel understanding of physiologic evolution and the limits to our current understanding.

A reply to contemporary skepticism about intuitions and a priori knowledge, and a defense of neo-rationalism from a contemporary Kantian standpoint, focusing on the theory of rational intuitions and on solving the two core problems of justifying and explaining them

The Companion is organized into two sections, each one of which reflects the developments of the Anglo-American Analytic and the Continental European philosophical traditions respectively. An appendix presents the main accomplishments of non-Western philosophies in the same time frame. Each section discusses the main movements and fields of the discipline throughout the century. The authors have maintained a balance between the historian's commitment to breadth and accuracy with the commitment of the systematic philosopher to the engaged point of view and to critical reflection. The result is a distinctive reference book made up of a series of philosophical studies -an invaluable companion to anyone who is searching for a panoramic but also reliable and challenging presentation of the philosophical ideas which shaped the last century