User:Thor Andersen
My name is Thor Andersen. I hold a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy with a minor in electronic music from the University of California, Santa Cruz. I was awarded honors in the major.
I play guitar in a surf rock group based out of San Diego, CA called Monsters From Mars.
Articles of Interest
- Adolf Eichmann - "Transportation Administrator" for the Final Solution, a bureaucrat who was held morally accountable for obeying orders—acquiescences to hegemoic ideology, which is arguably the moral situation of complacent first world beneficiaries of the global marketplace.
- Anarcho-primitivism - an anarchist critique of the origins and progress of civilization.
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cosmopolitanism - [reminder to self: this article is pretty weak. edit it, especially the critique section]
- Cultural genocide
- Diogenes of Sinope - who was so consistently a philosophical skeptic that when asked, 'if there is no truth, what should the philosopher do?' replied only with a wiggle his finger.
- Eleatics - arrived at the fundamental truth that the All is One.
- Existentialism, criticisms of
- Folk psychology
- Four humours - special fluids associated with the four basic elements of nature, that were thought to permeate the body and influence its health and a person's personality.
- Globalization - the upshots of which include cultural genocide, slave and sweatshop labor, environmental destruction, animal exploitation, and—perhaps most devestating—the revaluation of "human" life to marketplace terms.
- Halldór Laxness - writer of Independent People and other novels, poems, etc.
- Harmonices Mundi
- Hegel - according to whom the ultimate goal of history was to reach a state approximating that of 1830s Prussia (which happens to be the time he was writing his philosophy).
- Heraclitus
- Herman Melville
- Hippasus - sentenced to death by the Pythagoreans for revealing the secret of irrational numbers.
- Instrumentalism
- Lemuria
- Logical fallacies (a list)
- Marketplace
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Nihilism - human existence is without meaning, purpose, comprehensible truth, or essential value.
- Phlogiston theory - an obsolete scientific theory of combustion.
- Phrenology - is a discredited theory that claims to be able to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (reading "bumps").
- Situationist
- Synaesthesia
- Telepresence
- Terror_management_theory - the implicit emotional reactions of people when confronted with the psychological terror of knowing we will eventually die.
- Ultimate fate of the universe
- Weltanschauung - Worldview