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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."
Philosophy of Language
Political philosophy
Social philosophy
A Tale of a Prisoner
A prisoner confined in body may still feel free in mind. Through Foucault's account of power, language, and discourse, this essay locates freedom in the act of resisting the limits within which reality is conceived.
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.
Analytic philosophy
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Technology
Fluent Algorithmic Language and the Language Game: Challenges to Wittgenstein’s Framework
Can a fluent language model take part in Wittgenstein's language game? This essay argues that LLMs meet his criteria of linguistic competence yet lack physical responsibility and practical consequence. Revising ordinary language philosophy to accommodate them either severs language from action or narrows the game's scope, and both options weaken Wittgenstein's core principle that meaning is use.

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