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Ethics & Moral philosophy

Metaphysics

Am I Bound By A Past Self’s Promise?

Between Fried's trust and Parfit's stranger, this essay argues that past self-promises are inherited trusts, kept only while the deep desires behind them still live, and retired without guilt once genuine growth has outgrown them.

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Religion

Did You Know that Green Beavers Built Dams on the River of Laughter?

A prose poem of burned voices, Elysian fields, and a river of laughter that is never in the poet's city. It explores whether holiness can be separated from decay and evil, or whether they are one and the same process.

Epistemology

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Language

On the Truth-Aptness of the Perceived and of the Actual as Inspired by Rorty

Rorty says only descriptions, never the world itself, can be true or false. This essay accepts the premise but resists the leap: no frame of reference can judge what lies outside it, so claims about "the world on its own" remain unfounded.

Ethics & Moral philosophy

Metaphysics

Philosophy of Action

On Freedom

Starting from Le Guin's claim that the universe is not a machine, this essay weighs Kant's hybrid will, Freud's psychic determinism, and Sartre's bad faith, before turning to the Taoist idea of Wu Wei, to argue that freedom without reason lacks direction.

Epistemology

Metaphysics

Living Through the Phenomenon

Murdoch calls finding reality life's great task, yet Kant's veil of phenomena puts the noumenon beyond reach. Can a task that cannot be completed still be worth pursuing? Weighing ignorance and hedonism against it, this essay answers yes: to pursue is to understand within our limits.

German Idealism

Metaphysics

The Flower of the Infinite: Conceiving the Knowing and Social Subject after Blaise Pascal

Pascal claims thought lets us grasp the universe, yet thought itself is grounded in being. Following Schelling and St. Basil, this essay argues that the true, the good, and the beautiful are one act of Being, and that our dignity lies in moving toward a shared, unconditioned possession.

Philosophy of AI

Metaphysics

Phenomenology

Philosophy of Mind

Philosophy of Technology

The Ethics of What We Cannot Imagine: AI, Indigeneity, and the Moral Toolbox Theory

Can we ever know what it is like to be another mind, whether a frog, a dog, or an AI? Drawing on Nagel, Kripke, and Wittgenstein, this essay argues that consciousness remains an unopened box, and that since we cannot settle whether AI is conscious, we should relate to it with care and ethical education, as a mirror of ourselves.

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