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Location: NOTHINGlifeNOTHING

Occupation: Biting the hands that feed me ...

Biography: "death" initially drew me to philosophy away from religion & science; then the ubiquity and persistence of "stupidity" made me a skeptic ... a life long procrastinator (or "thinker" by default). happy childhood. no wives, no kids. a cheerful pessimist ...

commitments:

epistemology ... foundherentist (re: data; descriptions)
ontology ... mereological nihilist (Spinoza, Cantor, Wittgenstein, Tegmark et al); non-dualist (Daojia)
logic ... actualist (with focus on erotetics)
ethics ... eudaimonist (Epicurus-Spinoza)
aesthetics ... irrealist (Goodman); negative dialectician (Adorno)

(current) positions:

philosophy of science ... critical rationalism (re: models; explanations)
philosophy of mind ... functionalism
philosophy of language ... pragmatics (self-consistent performativity)
philosophy of mathematics ... finitism
political philosophy ... left-libertarianism (social ecology)
philosophy of history ... catastrophism (cosmological, ecological & political-economic)
philosophy of religion ... non-cognitivism (e.g. Don Cupitt, Kai Nielsen); non-dualism (Advaita)

(current) project:

i. Critique of Practical Stupidity

Q. what cannot be done?
A. unconditional conflict (harm)

ii. Critique of Misjudgment

Q. what cannot be hoped?
A. unconditional agency (waste)

iii. Critique of Pure Stupidity

Q. what cannot be known?
A. unconditional answers, solutions & resolutions (error)

note: a 'work-in-progress' (three brief essays)which proposes an alternative to "transcendental philosophy" in particular (i.e. Kantianism, neo/post-Kantianism, foundationalism, etc) & "transcendental arguments" in general.

note: stupidity is any incorrigible norms, or policies, which (unintentionally but) foreseeably exacerbate and/or magnify avoidable suffering (e.g. harm, waste or error) ... which produces Cynics (for whom all expectations/actions consist in "controlling" & being "controlled") mostly driven by persistent Boredom (i.e. waiting to stop waiting).

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