Satirical Criticism
This section contains serious criticism combined with satirical elements. The texts address philosophical theories, arguments, and books, presenting their weaknesses in a deliberately exaggerated and entertaining form.
The style is partly inspired by Douglas Adams. The humorous presentation is intended to illustrate the arguments and make them more accessible. The underlying philosophical criticism remains serious.
This section contains serious criticism combined with satirical elements. The texts address philosophical theories, arguments, and books, presenting their weaknesses in a deliberately exaggerated and entertaining form.
The style is partly inspired by Douglas Adams. The humorous presentation is intended to illustrate the arguments and make them more accessible. The underlying philosophical criticism remains serious.
Why Kant needs acausal free will, why synthetic a priori judgments are impossible, and why the supposed champion of Enlightenment had to suspend knowledge to make room for faith.
Why human dignity is truly inviolable, the categorical imperative is categorically correct, and neither says anything about reality.
The Ostrich Strategy of Ethics Why Expressivism Fails – A Critique from the Perspective of Critical Rationalism
In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams describes the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal – a creature of such …
Derek Parfit and the Normative Parallel World Or: How to Build an Entire Floor and Claim It Isn’t a Storey
1. The Invisible Elevator Imagine a building. A perfectly normal building. Ground floor, first floor, second floor. Everything …
Thick Rules and Fat Concepts: A User’s Guide to Philosophical Fog Or: How to turn “it’s complicated” into an academic paper and get cited for it
There is a venerable tradition in philosophy of not solving problems but reformulating them …
The Gospel According to Speech Act Theory — Or: How Searle Tries to Pull Himself Out of the Ontological Swamp by His Own Speech Acts (and Fails) A Critical Rationalist Intervention Against John Searle’s Speech Act Theory “In the beginning …