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Explore a collection of philosophical writings on a wide variety of topics, contributed by writers from within and beyond Philosium. Non-English essays are available through local Philosium channels.
Continental philosophy
Existentialism
Phenomenology
Philosophy of Culture
Philosophy of Language
Self, Culture, and Language: a reading of Merleau-Ponty
Can we ever know ourselves without borrowing words and norms from others? Reading Merleau-Ponty's 1948 Talks, this essay asks how a self shaped by culture and language can still be free, and what remains of the "pure self."
Ethics & Moral philosophy
Phenomenology
Social philosophy
Between Self and Space: Dignity, Alterity, and the Modern Condition of Freedom and Reason in our Society
Pascal locates dignity in thought, but society invented the very concept of dignity. Drawing on Levinas's "face of the Other," this essay shows how digital life dissolves the ethical encounter, and why identity and alterity must be held together.
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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