The Structural-Systematic Philosophy: Recent Episodes
Alan White
The Structural-Systematic Philosophy (SSP) is a systematic philosophy in progress. Books developing it so far are (in English) STRUCTURE AND BEING (2008), BEING AND GOD (2011), and TOWARD A PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY OF EVERYTHING (TAPTOE; 2014). Podcasts describe the project and present details.
8.3.3 Neglectfulness of being
8.3.3.1 Recent examples of neglectfulness of being
8.3.3.1.1 Paired philosophical examples: van Inwagen and Lowe 1996
8.3.3.1.2 An additional philosophical example: van Inwagen 2008b, 2009
8.3.3.1.3 An example from physics: Krauss 2012
8.3.4 Being and existing
8.3.5 Dimensions of being
8.3.6 Being and God
8.3.6.1 The relation between the contingent dimension of
being and the absolutely necessary dimension of being
8.3.6.2 God
8.3.6.3The principle of rank within being and evolution
8.3.6.4 The SSP and Christianity
8.1 Articulating being
8.1.1 Refinements of vocabulary
8.1.2 A refinement of semantically significant sentence-structures
8.2 Theories of being and theories of be-ers
8.3 Central aspects of the SSP's theory of being
8.3.1 The ubiquity, intelligibility, and uniqueness of being
8.3.2 Being and whatness
7.1 Callological delight
7.2 Complex callological delight
7.3 Callological delight and beauty
7.4 Callological delight and callological evaluation
7.5 All factings are beautiful
7.6 Degrees of beauty
7.7 Ugliness
7.8 Callological disagreement
6.1 Terminological clarifications
6.2 Adding a theory of freedom to the SSP
6.3 A theory of freedom for the SSP
6.4 Human freedom and systematic philosophy
5.1 Modes of engagement
5.2 Theoretical, practical, and aesthetic values
5.3 Sentences and operators
4.1 The inadequacy of the definition of knowledge as justified true belief
4.2 The SSP's definition of knowledge
4.3 False knowledge
3.1 The taks
3.2 Substantialism and deflationism
3.3 The basic error behind all deflationary theories of truth
3.4 The truth term
3.5 It is true that ... if an only if
2.5 The SSP's abstract theoretical framework
2.6 Concretizing the SSP's theoretical framework
2.1 "Theoretical framework"
2.2 The SSP (structural-systematic philosophy) as a network
2.3 Seven central theses concerning theoretical frameworks
2.4 A family of theoretical frameworks rejected by the SSRPP (structural-systematic research program in philosophy)
1.3 Preliiminary remarks on methodology
1.4 A philosophically consequent stylistic peculiarity
1.5 The structure of this book
1.1 An initial clarification of this book's subtitle
1.2 An initial clarification of this book's title
This episode argues that those who work on the history of philosophy should be in Departments of History or Literature, not Philosophy.
This episode considers the history of the word "philosophy" and considers how the word is best used at present to name an academic discipline
An explanation of why I've been making podcasts, and why I think the structural-systematic philosophy has received so little attention to dte.