Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

N.B.: I will resume my series on “Kurt Gödel and the Leibniz Conspiracy” in my next post. Building on my previous blog posts on this subject (see here, here, here, and here), I have just posted this short paper to … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on “The Leibniz Conspiracy” in the next day or two; in the meantime, here is some melancholic music by North American country artist Morgan Wallen from his 2021 studio album, Dangerous: The Double Album: Fun fact: … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my previous two posts (see here and here), it was Kurt Gödel who posited the existence of a centuries-long conspiracy to conceal Leibniz’s efforts to develop a universal symbolic language (characteristica universalis) and universal thinking machine … Continue reading →

That is one of the chapter headings of Michael Kempe’s intellectual biography of G. W. Leibniz: The Best of all Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days (see p. 96 of Kempe’s book). To the point, as … Continue reading →

I just finished reading Michael Kempe’s beautiful intellectual biography of G. W. Leibniz: The Best of all Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days. Among other things, Kempe explores one of the many ways that the great … Continue reading →

Earlier this month (1-6 July), I blogged about James Buchanan and Warren Samuels’s disagreement over Miller et al. v. Schoene (the infamous red cedar rust case), a landmark legal precedent that dramatically expanded the power of State and local governments … Continue reading →

I have been highly critical of the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century. (See here, here, here, and here.) Today, however, I was going to conclude my review of his … Continue reading →

To my colleagues and friends in France, Bonne Fete Nationale! I will conclude my recap of the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century in my next post. In the meantime, here … Continue reading →

I will begin wrapping up my review of the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century with three closing thoughts. To begin, my first observation is that the natural law approach … Continue reading →

This week, we have been revisiting the late Alasdair MacIntyre’s 2023 essay On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century. To recap, although I agree with MacIntyre’s diagnosis of philosophy (see here), his proposed remedy or scholarly … Continue reading →