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Microglyphics
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Language philosopher and dribs and drabs. http://philosophics.blog
I write speculative fiction under the name Ridley Park and dabble in generative AI with tools like ChatGPT, Claude, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney.
I've long considered the connexion of Law and Morality to be weak and tenuous. After listening to this survival-cannibalism-on-the-high-seas story by Judge Coleridge in 1870.
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#philosophy #psychology #law #morality #blog #video #society #justice #politics #history
Why So Serious?
Yes, I am still focusing on writing my ontology papers, but I still come up for air. Over lunch, I found this: Jonny Thomson showcasing Judge Coleridge: The Duty. Watch it. Video: Philosophy Minis:…
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January 31, 2026 at 5:29 AM
Accidental ontologist. 🧐 I am madly working on a couple of new ontology books.
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As a follow-up to A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, I noticed that the challenge is deeper than language.
#writing #philosophy #psychology #hiatus #focus #blog #podcast
Ontological Blindness in Modern Moral Science
Announcement: I’ll be taking a break from posting long-form articles for a while to focus on a project I’m developing. Instead, I’ll share progress summary updates. Ontological Bl…
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January 30, 2026 at 6:13 AM
To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool.
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#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism
Truth After Deflation: Why ‘Truth’ Refuses to Behave
I’ve long had a problem with Truth – or at least the notion of it. It gets way too much credit for doing niot much at all. For a long time now, philosophers have agreed on something uncomfort…
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January 29, 2026 at 5:50 AM
I recently shared a post calling out mystics, trying to fill spaces I deflate, but I am self-aware enough that I can be guilty, too.
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#philosophy #language #refusal #metaphysics #ritual #performance #blog #podcast #deflation #maslow #critique #problemssolving
When Deflation Becomes Ritual
I recently shared a post calling out mystics, trying to fill spaces I deflate, but I am self-aware enough that I can be guilty, too. I worry about Maslow’s Law of the Instrument. Deflationary…
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January 28, 2026 at 8:38 AM
I use AI for early peer review. I use it extensively for research and recommendations. I also use it for alpha and beta reads. I wrote about it.
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#philosophy #writing #quality #qa #process #workflow #review #peerreview #blog #podcast #advice #tips #howto #tricks
Using Generative AI as Early Peer Review
Cheap Adversaries, Outsourced Ego, and Engineered Critique ← ChatGPT is obsessed with subtitles. There is a peculiar anxiety around admitting that one uses generative AI in serious intellectual wor…
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January 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
What sorcery is this? 🪄 I often catch myself typing 'anough' for 'enough'.
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/26/enough-anough-and-the-archaeology-of-small-mistakes/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
#language #linquistics #phonetics #cognition #writing #english #neurodiversity #blog #podcast
January 26, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times. The polysemy of 'facts' introduces category errors. Not all facts are created equal.
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#philosophy #language #ontology #facts #objectivity #cognition #perception #memory #law #evidence #truth #podcast #blog
Reality Happens Once. Facts Happen Many Times.
I want to clarify my recent The Trouble with Facts post. I realise that I was speaking to one non-trivial form of facts, but there is more than one class of facts. We argue about facts as if the wo…
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January 23, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Humans Are Not Rational Moral Agents #philosophyoflanguage
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January 21, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Modernity likes to paint Nietzsche as a nutjob responsible for the rise of the Nazis, but he's always just been the messenger.
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#politics #power #philosophy #psychology #wef #economics #fiction #perspective #law #language #truth #education #video #blog #podcast
January 21, 2026 at 7:20 PM
I critique top moral psychology and adjacent books. These books do an excellent job of explaining that humans are inherently irrational…
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…then they advise: Be rational. 🧐
#philosophy #philosophy #rationality #morality #politics #blog #podcast #essay #video #books
January 21, 2026 at 5:14 AM
I had NotebookLM create a podcast summary of a video on moral psychology interventions. Blog post to follow.
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#philosophy #psychology #podcast #morality #communication #language #cognition #reasoning #enlightenment #books #reading #critique #bookreview
January 21, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I discuss Chapter 4 of 'A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis' in this video, where language fails in law, politics, science, and digital culture.
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#philosophy #language #politics #law #science #semantics #meaning #society #culture #video #blog #communication
Language Insufficiency Hypothesis: Presumption and Horizon
I discuss Chapter 4 of ‘A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis’ in this video clip. Video: Presumption and Horizon In short, I discuss where language fails in law, politics, science, and d…
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January 20, 2026 at 6:40 AM
We don't think in words or numbers. 🧐
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#Language#philosophy#cognitivescience#fmri#science#research#words#cognition#chess#fedorenko#blog#podcast#soduko#perception
Thinking Without Words (and Other Heresies)
Evelina Fedorenko has been committing a quiet but persistent act of vandalism against one of modernity’s favourite assumptions: that thought and language are basically the same thing, or at least i…
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January 19, 2026 at 5:25 AM
The modern study of consciousness has all the hallmarks of a well-funded expedition that forgot to ask whether the terrain supports arrival.
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#Philosophy #Consciousness #CognitiveScience #Epistemology #Metaphysics #blog #podcast
Wandering Elephants in the Desert of Consciousness
The modern search for the truth of consciousness has the unmistakable smell of a desert expedition gone wrong. Everyone agrees the elephant is real. Everyone insists it’s important. No one agrees w…
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January 19, 2026 at 5:10 AM
I've long had an issue with the English 'why'. Dan Dennett had similar misgivings. The term in English carries a lot of metaphysical baggage – more than necessary.
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#language #semantics #metaphysics #philosophy #perception #weaselwords #intent #causation #meaning
The Metaphysics of “Why”: A Scavenger’s Guide to the Accident
The Broken Map You wake up in the middle of a collapsing building. Someone hands you a map and says, find your way home. You look down. The map is for a different building entirely. One that was ne…
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