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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I also argue for the need of recognizing psydiversity on par with other forms of diversity, and against the dominant forms of the philosophy of mind, which looks for a model of the mind that would be shared by all human beings.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My recent open access paper on the biopolitics of psydiversity develops the insights of Thomas Fuchs and Sanneke de Haan and combines them with a fully processual ontology of the mind and a nominalist approach to mental disorders.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is so. But there are Western/Asian debates, concepts and issues, because of the integrated spaces where ideas circulated. There was a dialogue of Greeks and Christianity, and one of Buddhism with Ru and LaoZhuang, but almost none between the two cultural spaces.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I haven’t seen the film yet, and I intend to (and hope to like it), but this is so very much to the point about so many US adaptations of non-US stuff. Read the whole thread please.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Honoured to deliver a guest lecture today at the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. Many thanks to Markus Gabriel for the invitation! I will try to show how ontological issues can influence our ethical and political choices. Looking forward to an interesting discussion!

Honoured to deliver a guest lecture today at the International Centre for Philosophy at the University of Bonn, one of the flagships of continental thought in today’s world. Many thanks to Markus Gabriel for the invitation! I will start with certain ontological issues and then show how they can influence our ethical and political choices. Looking forward to an interesting discussion!

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The film by Truffaut based on this book is absolutely amazing.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

What the "anti-escalationists" of all stripes don't realize (or pretend they don't) is that if the Russo-Ukrainian war is ended on Russia's terms, then ALL disputed territories anywhere are immediately up for grabs. Because military force will once again be an acceptable way to change state borders.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

…and can also be found you know where ;)

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

A collection of essays about the relationship of philosophy and language, arguing (with lots of evidence) that the structures of languages can both limit and enable certain ways of thinking philosophically.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

"The Linguistic Carnival of Thought" is out now!

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

For those who enjoy a good laugh: Hugleikur Dagsson has joined this platform, because of censorship in the Meta. Irreverent and witty as usual, a bit like what George Carlin would have looked like if his jokes were drawn.

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

👍🏾➕➖➗✖️👇🏾

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Think of the influence African art and music have had on avant-garde painting and sculpture in the early twentieth century or the emergence of jazz as a musical language. There is no reason why philosophy should not go through a similar development.” 4/x, end.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

which actually exist and are used in certain natural languages, can become a powerful tool for our own philosophizing because it allows us to free ourselves from the constraints, which the language(s) we grew up with normally pose to our thinking. 3/x

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

of the Georgian language would most probably never be asked. With good reason, the reader might grunt at this point, but please bear with me: one of the things that I intend to show in this book is precisely that the knowledge of the grammatical possibilities, 2/x

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“While it would perhaps still be understandable how Jacques Derrida’s views on life and death relate to the understanding of what Buddhist praxis means for Dōgen, the question of how both of these might be affected by the discussion of specific grammatical structures 1/x

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Coming out this spring! Stay tuned! Cover art © Peeter Laurits

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Garret Graff has been reporting on US events as if they were "happening overseas in a foreign country, where we’re used to foreign correspondents writing with more incisive authority" - although a US publication would hardly dedicate so much space to anything happening in a foreign country.

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White Nationalist Forces Consolidate Power Alongside Musk’s Junta

A second update on Elon Musk's coup from our intrepid imaginary foreign correspondent

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Freue mich sehr! Auch eine deutsche Übersetzung wird aber ganz bald erscheinen, hoffentlich noch in diesem Jahr.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Kas seni ei tähendanud saluut siiski ilutulestikku?

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In Russia, corrupt oligarchs get what they want if they loyally support the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. In Russia, the parliament votes for whatever bullshit is proposed by the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. 2/2

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

One of the things Putin has been constantly claiming is that the US, despite all its talk about "democracy" and "human rights" is fundamentally just like Russia. Trump does not have to do Putin's bidding directly. His greatest service to Putin is making his words come true. 1/2

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In Russia, corrupt oligarchs get what they want if they loyally support the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. In Russia, the parliament votes whatever bullshit is proposed by the Führer. Apparently, the same is happening in the US. 2/2

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Just discovered the online philosophy journal Klesis, via @philalethe1.bsky.social - seems very interesting, mostly in French, but with some pieces in English, incl by David Chalmers, @keithfrankish.bsky.social, @lukeroelofs.bsky.social and others. Certainly seems worth following!

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I have this problem all the time. And now the deadlines are so short, too. You virtually have to drop everything and start reading them as soon as they arrive.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

There is a profound contradiction at the heart of the "conservative" (=radical extreme right) worldview: on the one hand, they want women to bear as many children as possible, on the other, they do what they can to make the planet uninhabitable by the time these children might come of age.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Now that the birthday of #Deleuze is over, I hope nobody minds my saying that I have a problem with him. The reason? He gets too much credit as the inventor of things that had been invented long before him by people he had no respect for. Who? Asian philosophers. The list is too long.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A metaphysician is a physician who cures other physicians. And metastable? A building where metahorses live.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Anyone interested in process ontology might want to look at Dynamic Realism - Uncovering the Reality of Becoming through Phenomenology and Process Philosophy, by Tina Röck (Edinburgh UP 2022). We share a lot, but there are interesting differences - she relies a lot on Husserl, quite surprisingly!

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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A common myth used by many pundits is that Russia is somehow invincible. It is not. Losses in Russo-Japanese war, World War I and Soviet-Afghan war led also to regime change. Ukraine must be supported so that imperialist Russia collapses. euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/08/i...

Description how Russia lost Crimean war (1853-1856), Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), World War I (1914-1918) and Soviet Union Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989).

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

There's no fuzz on the lesson we must take from the ascension of Donald Trump and Elon Musk in U.S. politics: when you fail to equitably apply the rule of law to all persons regardless of their wealth or connections, you create a class of criminal as shameless and pathological as they are dangerous.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I almost managed to get through this year without publishing anything. Almost. Just a moment ago, I got the notice that my "Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought" is now out (open access). A nice present! A happy turn of the year to you too! www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

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Selfhood and Individuality in Dōgen’s Thought

The article addresses one of the central issues of Buddhist thought, the status of selfhood and individuality, as they are discussed in the work of the Japanese Zen thinker Dōgen (1200–1253). It discu...

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

…unlike, you know, the other bearded old man?

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The whole thread about neural AI networks is interesting, but this is something exceptional (also what I have suspected for quite some time).

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Thank you! This is precisely what I need.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

My focus will be on mental health, not illness; I will be looking for theories challenging the view that "health" means conforming to standards. Philosophically inclined discussions of ADHD, aphantasia and other forms of neurodiversity will be most welcome.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I will have Freud, Jaspers, Foucault, Deleuze&Guattari, Thomas Szasz, Judy Singer, Fernando Vidal, Thomas Fuchs, some articles from the fabulous recent collection edited by @ipazia76.bsky.social, some names from various traditions of the philosophy of mind (notably the problem of other minds.

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Rein Raud @reinraud.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Asking for advice: I hope to be teaching a seminar on the philosophy of mental health this spring term and I already have a rather nice list of texts for my syllabus (in the first comment), but I am likely to be missing some imporant names. Please point them out to me.

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