Mountainman Games presenterar stolt sitt senaste rollspel, De hjältar vi förtjänar, som nu släpps i öppen beta. I De hjältar vi förtjänar spelar du en vanlig, lätt missanpassad människa med ekonomiska bekymmer som dras in i en strömvirvel av ockulta konspirationer och hårresande utomjordiska hemsökelser. Läs spelet här.

I’m happy to report that my paper Incoherence, referential and Fregean has been accepted for publication in Synthese. You can download a preprint here. Structural irrationality, also known as incoherence, consists in the obtaining or failure to obtain of certain relations among the propositional contents of a subject’s attitudes. For instance, it is structurally irrational to believe in a proposition P and also believe its negation not-P.

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

I'm pleased to announce that my paper Are proper functions normative? has been accepted for publication in THEORIA. You can download a preprint here. Are proper functions normative? In this paper, I try to answer this question. Acknowledging that the notion of normativity is too ill-defined to afford a categorical yes/no answer, I proceed by attempting to identify arguments for an affirmative answer and trying to articulate what conception of normativity they rely on: what "normativity" has to be, in order for these arguments to work.

This essay was originally published in Svensk Filosofi as Ruth Millikan: Språk och tänkande som biologiska kategorier, as part of their series Filosofiska husgudar ("Philosophical idols"). It is republished here, in translation, with the permission of Svensk Filosofi. I first came into contact with Ruth Millikan's philosophy as a PhD student. First I read an article - "Biosemantics" from 1989 - and found it interesting enough, but was not convinced.

En gyllene nyckel som låser upp många nya vägar framåt. Så beskriver Karl Bergman det filosofiska system som filosofen Ruth Millikans tänkande utgör.

I'm spreading the Millikanian gospel to a Swedish audience with my latest essay in Svensk filosofi:

Thursday next week, March 26, I organize the Thought Sharing in Action colloquium with Victor Verdejo, featuring speakers David Barack and Manolo Martínez. More info here:

Mountainman Games has released its first digital game, Billy's Quest, in beta.

This essay was originally published in Filosofisk tidskrift, no. 3, 2025, as Om två filosofiska attityder. It is reproduced here, in translation, with the permission of Filosofisk tidskrift. There are two kinds of philosophers. One says: “It’s obvious that free will is incompatible with determinism. That much lies in the very concept of ‘free will’. But the world is deterministic.

Mountainman Games has a new website. It can now be found at karlbergman.com/games.

Grundbok i Logik ("Introduction to Logic"), written by Andreas Stokke and translated to Swedish by yours truly, has now been published by Thales förlag:

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According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

According to Ruth Millikan, some representations are hybrid: they have both descriptive and directive content, both mind-to-world and world-to-mind direction of fit. Millikan calls them “pushmi-pullyu...

Below, you can find role-playing games and scenarios written by me, Karl Bergman. I am a Swedish hobbyist game designer, moonlighting as an academic philosopher.