How to lie with the facts

Needle’s Edge as case study

First post in the new Fiction section

Another LLM reading recommendation

Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes

In reaction to the visual meme: I’m no fan of colonialism, empire, or hegemony, but the distinction between colonisation and ordinary acculturation may be rather thinner than we like to admit. Heideg...

Whitehead, instrumental reading, and the package before it reaches the post office

10 books I suggest, but not necessarily my favourites nor exhaustive

Philosophics — Philosophical and Political Ramblings · Episode

Some stray thoughts about eternal objects, colour, dimensionality, and what happens when the apparatus doing the encountering is itself the limitation

These are additional assets related to this Substack post on Alfred North Whitehead’s Science and the Modern World, the chapter on Quantum Theory. It starts like this… I’ve just finished Whit…

Disclaimer: I'm a passenger travelling in Maine, composing this with some difficulties given the state of connectivity.

I engaged with Mañana ayer – iykyk – on the topic of Popper’s falsifiability, being directed to Kuhn, Feyerabend, and Lakatos.

An Example of Popper’s Falsifiability

An inquiry of Carlo Rovelli by Claude Opus

Maquet, Ghostwriting, and the Myth of the Solitary Author

I was chatting with a French woman, but I only know bits of French history. I’ve read French, English, American, and European history books – and a few others on World History – but what I re…

Philosophics — Philosophical and Political Ramblings · Episode

An extension to The Architecture of Encounter, in which the eye is asked to produce its credentials

On the dimension the wheel leaves out

And The problem he was solving

This piece is about the nature of time, but I spent hours pondering the nature of maths, and whether the acceptance of maths as a fundamental, per Plato et al., rather than a derived one, is the root ...

On mistaking the scoreboard for the swing

Culture, moral tribes, and the suspiciously sovereign introspector

On Parfit, Benatar, and what has to be granted before the non-identity problem can be a problem

A side of fries with my weasels, please

Kristen Lindquist dissolves the emotion-thing, then quietly lets it back in through the kitchen

Why I don’t support democracy as a viable political construct

YouTube video by Philosophics

Flooding the workshop since 150 CE

Cioran, Plato, and democracy’s fondest fantasy: a ruler who would rule exactly as I would

As I express almost daily by now, I need to quarantine myself from all forms of social media.

Psychology lends neuroscience its nouns. Neuroscience hands them back with a postcode.

Fairclough, critical discourse analysis, and what the corpus can and cannot borrow

On Delaflor, Leong, and what the word truth is actually doing

How the Language of Evolution Manufactures Agency

AI, the Enlightenment, and a floor that biology never drew

AI companies are hiring ethicists. This is apparently meant to make us feel better.

I discovered a WordPress widget and decided to share my reading progress, but it appears to show the last few books I’ve finished rather than my active list. Click on My Bookshelf to view mor…

Job, Finland, and the Invention of the Good Life

Language as a Pragmatic Alias

When is a shortage not a shortage? A perspective viewed through the lens of philosophy and labour economics, with a critique of capitalism on the side.

Salience, attention, valence and the construction of disposition Today I live about 90 minutes out of Boston by car on a good day – and 2 hours on a return trip because I live in Cape Cod, a touris…

An ontological grammar adjacency

I have been developing my French, so I rely on several primary resources. Myself This includes grammar books, novels and the rest of the traditional fare, some of which I have listed below. Books r…

A follow-up to an IAI interview article about turtles all the way down.

Who Cares Who Wrote It, and Why?

Exteriority Effects: A Dis-Integration of the Colonial Family Background. A mate sent me a note complaining about refugees in Piddington, and it put me in a mood that got me thinking about the differ...