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A philosophical gallery of beauty, taste, and art — across three centuries of careful argument and an even longer tradition of looking.
All men by nature desire to know.
The Way that can be told is not the eternal Way.
The philosophy of technology is the philosophical investigation of artefacts, systems, and the practices they sustain. It is younger than most of philosophy and older than most of computing — its modern form took shape in the mid-20th century, when Heidegger, Ellul, and Mumford each independently concluded that the technological systems of industrial modernity had begun to reshape the humans inside them.
Four families of moral theory, the famous arguments that ground them, and the famous counter-examples that haunt them. Plus the trolley.
Existentialism is not a doctrine. It is a family of related insistences. Existence (the lived, particular, situated) precedes essence (the abstract, general, defined). The human being is not a thing with a fixed nature; it is a project that has to be made up as it goes. Freedom comes with anguish. Authenticity is rare and difficult. Death is not the end of life so much as life's organising fact.
Two and a half thousand years of trying to write down what it means for one thing to follow from another.
The Philosophy of Experience and Appearance
The philosophy of art is the philosophical investigation of what art is, what makes something beautiful, what aesthetic experience consists in, and why any of it matters. The discipline is as old as Plato's Republic and as current as last week's debate about whether AI-generated images are art.
The philosophy of language is the philosophical investigation of meaning, reference, truth, and the relation of language to thought and world. As an organised research programme, it is the central achievement of analytic philosophy — the discipline that, in the early 20th century, redirected philosophical attention from the structure of consciousness to the structure of language.
What is consciousness? Is the mind the brain? Could a machine think? Five centuries of arguments, with new urgency in the age of large neural networks.
A second-order discipline. Philosophy of science does not do science; it studies what scientists do, what they should do, and why we are entitled to believe them.
Why obey? Why this government, and not another? Who owns the world? Six answers across four centuries — and the standing arguments, still in print, against each.
Notes on the most American of philosophical traditions — from a metaphysical club in Cambridge, Mass., 1872, through John Dewey's classroom, to the ironist liberalism of Richard Rorty.
Liber IX · Stoicismus
What makes a thing beautiful?
Athens — Aegean — Ionia Greek Philosophy from Thales to the Stoics
Eastern Philosophy the long traditions
Of the Age of Lights — A Discourse in XIII Plates
From Plato's Theaetetus to the replication crisis — a brief survey of the theory of knowledge: its objects, its sources, and the limits of what we may justifiably claim to know.
Five frameworks. One trolley. A persistent question. The brief atlas of moral philosophy.
Not “what is the world?”
From the syllogism to incompleteness: twenty-three centuries of trying to mechanize reasoning, and the discovery that reason itself has limits.
What is consciousness, why does it feel like anything, and could a machine ever have it? A short tour through the puzzles, positions, and thought experiments that won't sit still.
Being a brief inquiry into the foundations of authority, the just distribution of goods, and the legitimate use of force among free persons.