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Amos Wollen

@goingawoll.bsky.social
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philosophy student • no opinions on anything • poasts match the views of every institution or person I’ve ever been affiliated with/looked at (including you) open.substack.com/pub/wollenblog

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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In this live debate—feat. Joe Schmid, @morallawwithin.bsky.social, Noah McKay, and yours truly—we figure out whether there are souls (there are) and whether physicalism is the last refuge of the scoundrel (it is) youtu.be/Z4_kiUge5Ac
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
pawlineepistles.substack.com/p/book-givea... @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social
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Book Giveaway & Introduction to Jesus and the Genome
Here begins a series of posts about a book I co-authored, entitled Jesus and the Genome. I’ve got a few extra copies of the book that I will give away on this Substack in the coming weeks, starting no...
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A new wave of philosophers has joined Substack — here are some of their names (link in bio)
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Today, I review Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever by @lamornaash.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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Emily Qureshi-Hurst @emilyqureshihurst.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I am delighted to share that I've signed a contract with ‪‪@reaktionbooks.bsky.social‬ for my fourth book, 'Our Many Lives in the Multiverse' In the book I'll be examining the Many-Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and exploring what it means for selves, society, and God. Watch this space!
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
My impression of analytic theology (link in bio)
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
An extremely dapper soul-body composite (me), plus a middle-sized, middle-aged organism made up of “the fundamental building blochks of reality, each with their own very primitive form of awerrrness” (@philipgoff.bsky.social)
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
My impression of Curtis Yarvin open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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every Curtis Yarvin essay
"the error of being a lib"
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Want to read about Hell? I’ve got you covered open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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The Doctrine of Hell: A Philosophical Reading List
these papers are totally fire
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Paradox looms
Image from an advert for breeze, it reads "The dating app for everyone who's tired of dating apps".
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
New blog post open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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In defence of having villainous Nazi friends who kill puppies and read Jordan Peterson
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Devastating interaction at the Indian corner shop. Shopkeeper glances at my ingredients—my cumin seeds, my lentils, my lime—and casually asks me if I mistook parsley for coriander. Aching with shame, I confessed that I had, and he told me where the coriander was
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
every anti-Substack Substack open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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every anti-Substack Substack
why i am leaving
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
How a New York Times columnist forced me to go to Church open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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How a New York Times columnist forced me to go to Church
Book Review: *Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious* by Ross Douthat
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
😇🎉🍾🥳🎊
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I just debated Catholic philosopher Brian Besong on sexual ethics — as it turns out, it’s pretty unclear whether it would be wrong to nibble on a plastic straw (even if that were the only way to stop the world from ending) m.youtube.com/watch?v=oltL...
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Sexual Ethics & Natural Law: A Philosophical Debate
YouTube video by Philosophy for the People
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Alex Worsnip @aworsnip.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I wrote a blog post about Samuel Alito as a case study in the ethics of suspicion and psychologizing blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
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Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Who would like to be the 700th subscriber to my newsletter? I don't post often enough for it to be spammy wellreadherring.substack.com?utm_source=s...
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Well-Read Herring | Emily Herring | Substack
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People – is out now! Click to read Well-Read Herring, by Emily Herring, a Substack publication w...
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Eggs should be more expensive open.substack.com/pub/statesof...
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Eggs Should Be More Expensive
The market liberal case for animal rights.
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Diet Coke, Contraception, and Natural Law Theory
a glitch in the perverted faculty argument
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Here I discuss the “deeply inappropriate man-crush” that many Catholics and Evangelicals have on Thomas Aquinas open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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Thomas Aquinas Englazement Syndrome
a spiritual admonition
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My response to Lyman Stone on shrimp welfare open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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Lyman Stone's intellectually molested critique of shrimp welfare
*study shows that sky is blue*
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
on my practical ethics grind
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Are pro-lifers driven by a subconscious desire to control women’s bodies and reproduction? open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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Are pro-lifers driven by a subconscious desire to control women's bodies and reproduction?
a reply to Defending Feminism
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Major shrimp welfare victory!
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy Valentines! open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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In defence of being monogamous
a Valentine's day philosophy special
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
every anti-Trump Substack post @jacobtlevy.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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every anti-Trump Substack post
satire as a means of resistance
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
How To Think About Votes At 16 open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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How To Think About Votes At 16
let's all be grown-ups about this
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
every conservative catholic thinkpiece open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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every conservative catholic thinkpiece
satire as a modernist notion
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Philip Goff @philipgoff.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Where better to debate a God of limited powers than Wetherspoons pub??? Check out my recent chat with @goingawoll.bsky.social and @benthamsbulldog.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLzX...
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In Person Chat With Amos Wollen and Philip Goff
YouTube video by Deliberation Under Ideal Conditions
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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is the first Christmas since our initial Santa article was published (doi.org/10.1037/dev0...), so @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social and I have had some opportunities this season to talk with reporters or see the project discussed in newsletters, articles, and blogs. This is a fun one!
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Why it’s OK to lie about Santa Claus. 🧵 1/
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Amos Wollen @goingawoll.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I have obtained a copy of Luigi Mangione’s college admission essay, which the media has refused to publish. open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Law Professor here: Luigi Mangione’s written confession will hurt his legal case.
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WRONG or METAPHYSICAL IN NATURE @jsthrill.modphi.com · 06/12/2024
Just because teaching Hume helped with this in the past is no reason to think teaching Hume would have any impact now
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