Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 14/01/2026Nice to see you too! You were on my mind as I track recommendations and I was looking through them, you were the person who recommended me films I liked the most! Just hoping to hear what you'd liked lately. Also happy to chat on a different platform, and would love to know how you have been! 💛 020
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 08/01/2026@kymberlie.bsky.social Hi Kymberlie, you still on here? Wanted to ask you for film recommendations! 110
Reposted by Bryan KamBryan Kam @bryankam.com · 19/07/2025I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy... 052
Reposted by Bryan KamBryan Kam @bryankam.com · 07/10/2025My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza. www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is... #Philosophy #Buddhismbryankam.comSamsara Is Nirvana, with Brook ZiporynDaoism, Buddhism, Spinozism, and Mystical Atheism 031
Reposted by Bryan KamBryan Kam @bryankam.com · 28/09/2025www.bryankam.com/p/not-the-te...bryankam.comThe Math is Not the TerritoryMathematics, anti-realism, and Buddhism 021
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 07/10/2025My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza. www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is... #Philosophy #Buddhismbryankam.comSamsara Is Nirvana, with Brook ZiporynDaoism, Buddhism, Spinozism, and Mystical Atheism 031
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 28/09/2025www.bryankam.com/p/not-the-te...bryankam.comThe Math is Not the TerritoryMathematics, anti-realism, and Buddhism 021
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 18/08/2025I became a father in the past week and I am tired www.bryankam.com/p/fatherhood...bryankam.comFatherhood and philosophyA sleepless week 140
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 19/07/2025I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy... 052
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 12/07/2025I wrote more about rationalism, empiricism, and foundationalism www.bryankam.com/p/rationalis...bryankam.comRationalism and EmpiricismThree short stories 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 10/07/2025🧠 How can ancient wisdom guide us through modern uncertainty? Join me and Stephen Batchelor (author of the new Buddha, Socrates, and Us) for a conversation on philosophical approaches to ethics, doubt, and the good life. Sep 4: interintellect.com/salons/buddh...interintellect.comBuddha, Socrates, and Us: Ancient Wisdom for Modern UncertaintiesStephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs and the forthcoming book Buddha, Socrates, and Us, brings decades of practice and scholarship to examining how two of history's most transformativ... 030
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 05/07/2025Wrote a bit about rationalism and empiricism www.bryankam.com/p/when-philo...bryankam.comWhen Philosophers PanicTwo extreme responses to crisis 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 25/06/2025In this podcast I discuss the #philosophy and #psychology of Neither/Nor, the project I've been working on for the past years, with my coauthor, @isabelagranic.bsky.social www.bryankam.com/p/neithernor...bryankam.comNeither/Nor Paper Discussion 🎧With Isabela Granic 021
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 05/06/2025This is an interesting book which compares and contrasts the world's religions from the perspective of Tibetan Buddhism www.amazon.com/Ocean-Divers...amazon.comOcean of Diversity: An unbiased summary of views and practices, gradually emerging from the teachings of the world's wisdom traditions.Amazon.com: Ocean of Diversity: An unbiased summary of views and practices, gradually emerging from the teachings of the world's wisdom traditions.: 9780994445308: Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö, Flumerfelt, Joe: Books 110
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 02/06/2025I wrote about #gratitude and its opposites, fear (according to #Nietzsche) and envy (according to Melanie #Klein) www.bryankam.com/p/gratitude-...bryankam.comGratitude and its oppositesFear and envy 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 29/04/2025Why Aristotle doesn't solve the problems caused by Plato www.bryankam.com/p/the-immane...bryankam.comThe Immanent TurnBringing it all back home 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 28/03/2025Morning Devotion: On my morning routine open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...open.substack.comMorning devotionOn my morning routine 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 24/03/2025I wrote on particulars, universals, and alternating between the two www.bryankam.com/p/from-will-...bryankam.comFrom will to representation and backOn switching between sensing and thinking 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 07/03/2025A word game: #Zhuangzi #schopenhauer #Nietzsche #Wittgenstein open.substack.com/pub/bryankam... #philosophyopen.substack.comA word gameAn eastern and a western perspective on the limits of language 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 20/02/2025Do we learn to categorize? open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...open.substack.comDo we learn how to categorize?Perspectives from sociology and psychology 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 13/02/2025From Zhuangzi’s Outer Chapters, written sometime in the 4th to 2nd century BC China, making a very similar argument to what I’m saying about love in Plato's Phaedrus: www.bryankam.com/p/love-abstr... 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 09/02/2025I wrote on how the Socratic method changed from Socrates, to Plato, to Aristotle. tl;dr: It started anti-social and became asocial www.bryankam.com/p/some-dange...bryankam.comSome Dangerous MethodsSocial, individual, and "innate" use of categories 020
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 27/01/2025I wrote a piece over the weekend on the birth of logic open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...open.substack.comThe Birth of LogicKant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Durkheim 020
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 06/01/2025I'm looking for sources for ancient/medieval/early modern/modern thinkers (from anywhere) who have disputed 1) the law of the excluded middle, 2) the law of non-contradiction, and 3) the law of identity. Anyone I should be reading? 024
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 15/12/2024Doing a series on the correspondence theory of #truth in #philosophy over on tiktok vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/vm.tiktok.comTikTok - Make Your Day 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 12/08/2024Wu-wei: effortless action www.bryankam.com/p/wu-weibryankam.comWu-weiEffortless action 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 07/05/2024I released a podcast: Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters. We talk about Plotinus, Chinese philosophy, and more! pod.fo/e/2393d5pod.foClerestory (Bryan Kam): Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-WaltersI spoke to Kit Tempest-Walters about his new book: Plotinus on Eternity and Time, which includes a translation and commentary of Ennead III.7.We discuss the challenges of translating, philosophical... 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 10/02/2024They seem to have removed this list of Western philosophers who put processes over objects on wikipedia but I appreciated the list while it lasted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process... 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 26/01/2024I released the final installment of the Meaningful Living podcast series today. Thanks for all those who participated pod.fo/e/2167b0pod.foClerestory (Bryan Kam): Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 6)How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?Here are the final four responses I received. Thanks to Peter, Olga Yakimenko, Rainbow, and ... 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 15/12/2023You might enjoy this series @iammilliam.bsky.social :) bryankam.substack.com/p/dichotomie... 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 15/12/2023Dichotomies II: Then We Take Berlin, on Isaiah Berlin's "The Hedgehog and the Fox" open.substack.com/pub/bryankam... 100
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 19/07/2023How do you balance making a living with living a meaningful life? Here's the fifth set of responses I received to that question: pod.fo/e/18db48 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 18/07/2023I've posted some philosophy from my handwritten morning pages for patrons today. www.patreon.com/posts/four-morning-…patreon.comJust a moment... 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 31/05/2023Really enjoyed speaking to @joachim.bsky.social about beauty 😍 This is the second of our "epistolary" experiments, seeing how voicenote monologues over time compare to live conversations pod.fo/e/1800dc 020
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 29/05/2023Is this right? Anyone know of uses of the term "Buddha" before ~100 CE? 001
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 23/05/2023I'm doing an event live in London, plus taking responses to the question of how you balance making a living with living a meaningful life! bryankam.substack.com/p/conversatio… 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 22/05/2023How do you balance making a living with living a meaningful life? I've released the next 5 responses: pod.fo/e/17df79 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 22/05/2023Monday Monday Can't trust that day Monday Monday Sometimes it just turns out that way www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY 010
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 19/05/2023Today learned how easy it is to make a telegram bot and now thinking about doing that for future epistolary experiments... 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 19/05/2023I'm still taking recordings on how you balance meaningful living versus making a living. Third episode should be out quite soon. clerestory.netlify.app/record/creat… 100
Reposted by Bryan KamCorn Woman 🌽 @womancorn.bsky.social · 13/05/2023Now I have to link to everynoise.com, which does this for real human musical genres. 021
Reposted by Bryan KamBryan Kam @bryankam.com · 08/05/2023I've now released the next four responses to the question I recently asked: "How do you balance making a living with living a meaningful life?" pod.fo/e/17a81cpod.fo 021
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 08/05/2023Have you seen The Day Today? Reminds me of that. And Look Around You a bit. You'd probably love both if you don't already know them 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 08/05/2023I've now released the next four responses to the question I recently asked: "How do you balance making a living with living a meaningful life?" pod.fo/e/17a81cpod.fo 021
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 02/05/2023Destruction of a system violates the first precept? Curious to hear more. I would have thought that the destruction of a non-living entity (say through widespread non-participation) this is more like destroying a house by not maintaining it than it is like taking life/taking something not given. 000
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 01/05/2023Pretty sure he advocates for destroying the current system with no expectations about what will arise in its wake, then he talks about whether destroying the system requires violence and says it's a tough question and each group will have to decide for itself what to do. I read it like 5y ago though 110
Bryan Kam @bryankam.com · 30/04/2023Brilliant piece of writing. And it does not advocate violence as far as I can recall, it's fairly levelheaded 110