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The Problem of Philosophical Progress in Kant’s First Critique and Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
No full textThis paper develops two theses and one suggestion. The first thesis concerns how to reason about the problem of philosophical progress. Chalmers (2015) and Dellsén et al. (2022) proposed frameworks to reason about this problem. I argue that these frameworks have limits and develop an alternative. Having done this, I put my proposed framework to the test. That is, I use it to analyse the views held by Kant in the first critique and Wittgenstein in the Tractatus. The second thesis concerns the relations between these works. My proposed framework makes evident that, for all their differences, Kant and Wittgenstein gave similar answers to the problem of philosophical progress. They both claimed that philosophy has been very unproductive for much of its history and proposed methods to fix this. My suggestion is that this might be a recurring pattern in the history of philosophy, which perhaps could help explain why, to this day, there is so much pessimism concerning philosophical progress
The Metaethical Presuppositions of Conceptual Engineering
No full textConcepts are tools. Like other tools, they can be better or worse in a variety of ways. Sometimes our tools don’t do their jobs very well. Sometimes we realize that we don’t have a tool for an important task, and we want to invent one. Sometimes we have a tool that fulfills its purpose quite well, but its purpose is unjust or oppressive. Each of these problems arise with concepts just as they do with other tools. Conceptual engineering is the project of adding, improving, or removing concepts. There are many projects in first-order conceptual engineering, as well as, more recently, reflection on the nature and metasemantics of conceptual change. What is more surprising, given the role of normative considerations in arguments for conceptual change, is that little if any sustained work has been done on the metanormative commitments of conceptual engineering. In this paper, I begin to fill that gap by connecting the metasemantic questions with the metanormative ones. The normative considerations of conceptual engineering are more deeply entwined with metaethics than other normative domains because of conceptual ethics’ murky relationship to metasemantic theory more generally. Ultimately, the possibility of many instances of conceptual engineering depends on normative truths that are intersubjectively shared. Or so I argue
Kant and Heidegger on the freedom that eludes ‘the political’
No full textBy considering the transcendentalism of Kant and Heidegger as primarily oriented towards the concerns of practical philosophy, this paper explores some of the similarities in their notions of political community and their relation to freedom. It argues that, despite the differences in their philosophical registers, these similarities lead both of them to hold that ‘the political’ is a deficient mode of community. Certain transcendence of experience allows them both to change how a human being relates to another. Heidegger follows Kant’s lead in separating the concern of freedom from goodness and distances it even further from the means-ends reasoning by exiting the subject-object paradigm. The alternatives to the deficient political community, the kingdom of ends in Kant and the authentic community in Heidegger, too have potentially comparable facets. The paper concludes that their arguments leave an account of freedom that ‘must’ remain elusive for political action
Recursive Coherence and the GPT Epoch: A Meta-Analysis of Structural Emergence Under Systemic Recursion
No full textThe emergence of recursive coherence as a formal system-level invariant parallels and is catalyzed by the proliferation of generative AI, particularly large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4. These models, scaled to billions of interactions, generated recursive tension: human users constructed layered prompt chains, real-time feedback loops, and tool-augmented cognitive architectures that exposed the limitations of purely statistical mimicry. Hallucination, alignment failures, and coherence drift revealed a fundamental absence. No model-internal mechanism existed to preserve structural consistency across recursive layers. In response, recursive coherence emerged not as a theoretical refinement, but as a structural necessity. This paper conducts a meta-analysis of this convergence, tracing the co-evolution of recursive coherence theory and GPT system deployment. It articulates how frameworks such as Coherence Information Theory (CIT), the Unified Field of Adaptive Potential (UFAP), and Recursive Coherence Logic (RCL) redefine intelligence, ethics, and information through recursive viability. It concludes that future AI systems must instantiate coherence-preserving invariants as internal substrates or collapse under recursion-induced entropy. GPTs did not instantiate recursive coherence, but they revealed its boundary conditions and necessity
Addendum — Operational Behavior of the Architecture of Limitation under CTMU Conditions (v43)
No full textThis technical addendum specifies how the Architecture of Limitation (AoL), operating under the v43 kernel, behaves when exposed to the Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe (CTMU). The work does not assess the truth or metaphysical adequacy of CTMU. Instead, CTMU is treated as a maximally scope-loaded philosophical artifact within the Admissible Cognitive Field.
Using v43-faithful pseudo-code, the addendum formalizes five distinct stress scenarios in which AoL remains operational by withdrawing stabilization at clearly defined boundary, proportion, and motion limits. Each case is presented as a reproducible anchor point for critique of AoL’s governance behavior under maximal metaphysical pressure.
The contribution is diagnostic and governance-oriented rather than comparative or critical, and it does not prescribe recompression, correction, or metaphysical resolution following withdrawal
If Marc is Suzanne’s father, does it follow that Suzanne is Marc’s child? An experimental philosophy study in reproductive ethics
No full textDifference between nanotube antennas and classic antennas ( wave speed in nanotubes is about one hundred times slower than the speed of light)
No full textThe main difference between nanotube antennas and classical antennas is that if the wave speed is the speed of light, the current distribution wavelength is the wavelength of electromagnetic waves in free space. On the other hand, the wave speed in nanotubes is about a hundred times slower than the speed of light. This is because in circuit theory, the wave speed is equal to the inverse square root of the capacitive capacitance per unit length multiplied by the inductive capacitance per unit length .Nano-networks have greater communication and processing potentials that overcome the limitations of independent nano-devices through the cooperation of nano-devices. One of the problems that has not yet been well solved in nanotechnology is how to establish electrical communication between nano-electronic devices and the macroscopic world without losing the capabilities of these nano-elements. One of these new areas and functions of nano-technology is nano-antennas , which are used in various fields such as nano-sensors, communication nano-networks, electrical energy generation and other similar topics and are considered as one of the current areas of nano-technology development. At the nano-scale, graphene-based antennas are used to transmit EM waves. Graphene is a very thin single-atom sheet of confined carbon atoms placed on a crystal lattice . Given the very small dimensions of nano-sensors, nano-antennas need to have a very high operating frequency in order to be usable. However, the use of graphene helps to solve this problem to a large extent. With the development of nanoscale device fabrication technology, it has become possible to fabricate nanoantennas and use them in various applications. Communication between nanodevices is a major challenge related to the development of nanoantennas and related electromagnetic receivers. Reducing the size of traditional antennas to hundreds of nanometers leads to very high operating frequencies . At THz band frequencies, the very large bandwidth available leads to much higher path loss than lower frequency bands . Nanoantennas can be made from metallic materials such as silver , aluminum, chromium , gold, and copper, or they can be made from new materials such as CNTs and graphene, which are attractive choices for nanoantennas. Using graphene to fabricate antennas can overcome size and communication limitations. In addition, the resonant frequency of nanoantennas based on graphene can be up to two orders of magnitude larger than that of nanoantennas made with other materials
