Philosophics

Language philosopher and other things

Philosophics Blog: https://philosophics.blog
Ridley Park (Fiction) Blog: https://ridleypark.blog
Anti-Enlightenment Project: https://zenodo.org/communities/antienlightenment

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2026-03-08 05:39:58 UTC

Capitalism’s defenders like to boast that it rewards talent. What capitalism actually rewards is saleability, compliance, stamina, inheritance, and the ability to endure long periods of spiritual self-betrayal without becoming visibly troublesome.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/08/capitalism-doesnt-merely-exploit-labour/?utm_source=masto
#philosophy #capitalism #labour #art #employment #artists #culture #Kafka #modernity, #exploitation #creativity #patronage #work #society #politics #enlightenment #civilisation #potential #opportunitycosts #parasites
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2025-10-06 02:02:37 UTC

The Anti-Enlightenment Project
Not a return to the Dark Ages—just a long-overdue audit of the Enlightenment’s books.
The light we worship wasn’t neutral; it was engineered.
The project gathers essays, fragments, and provocations tracing how “reason” became infrastructure—and how to live after its collapse.
🌐 https://philosophics.blog/%f0%9f%9c%8f-the-anti-enlightenment-project/?utm_campaign=anti&utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#AntiEnlightenment #Philosophy #Enlightenment #CriticalTheory #Foucault #Nietzsche #Psychology #Epistemology #Politics #Joke #HumanCondition #Change #Fake
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2025-10-01 06:32:12 UTC

We scold AI for “hallucinations” – invented books, fake citations, Socrates debating Quidditch. But humans are the real hallucination machines. We carved race and selfhood out of fog, baptised them in violence, and called them truth. Censuses, laws, diaries, courts – these stabilised fictions until they felt natural. They don’t need metaphysics; they’re real because people kill for them
https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/01/machines-hallucinate-humans-call-it-civilisation/?utm_source=mast&utm_medium=social
#AI #Hallucinations #Philosophy #Race #Identity #Self #Enlightenment #CriticalTheory
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2025-09-28 03:06:42 UTC

ChatGPT 5 wrote me a grant proposal for my philosophy paper. I didn't ask for it.
https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/27/thats-never-happened-before/
#philosophy #research #gofundme #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #Shocking #whathappend #surprised #researchgrants #grants #grantwriting #GenAi
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2025-09-25 05:41:11 UTC

My new essay Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning is now archived with a DOI.
I argue that what passes as “objectivity” is consensus disguised as granite. Truth is rhetorical, morality prescriptive, and our real obligation is care: tending the scaffolding we walk on.
Read the full essay (open access):
👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17195641
#Philosophy #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #Pragmatism #PhilosophyOfScience #Truth #Morality #pschology #society #social
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2025-09-19 17:44:29 UTC

Charlie Kirk’s defenders insist he’s a loving Christian saint. The rest of us hear a hate-monger with a mailing list. Perspective is everything—or is it just wilful deafness?
https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/19/perspective-is-everything/
#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Politics #CultureWars #HateSpeech #Christian #CharlieKirk
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2025-09-08 18:33:42 UTC

🚇“You’re a doomed people. You kill everything you touch.” — An alien in Octavia Butler’s Dawn
What if our cherished idea of agency is less a universal truth than a convenient myth?
https://philosophics.blog/2025/09/08/keeping-ourselves-in-the-dark-depressive-realism-and-the-fiction-of-agency/
In this essay, I explore the limits of Depressive Realism. What if instead of clinging to the idea of sovereign agency, we leaned into the possibility that we are less unified and less in control than we’d like to believe?
#Philosophy #Books #CriticalThinking #MentalHealth #Motivation #blog
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