Welcome to 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, an ever-growing set of essays on philosophical questions, theories, figures, and arguments.
History of philosophy
The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation, but some theorists also include myth, religious traditions, and proverbial lore.
MAiD, ableism, cognitive accessibility, and more
This one took a bit to write. The first piece is long (1,600+ words), and intense. But it needed to be said. I'll be interested to hear what you think. You...
Rotating the Space: On LLMs as a Medium for Thought
An essay on LLMs as a cognitive medium
Philosophy Experiments — Interactive Thought Experiments
Explore 27 interactive philosophy experiments that challenge your moral intuitions, test your logical reasoning, and probe the boundaries of belief.
Literature fans should welcome AI as a fellow wordsmith | Aeon Essays
Strong resistance to AI among writers is understandable. But it obscures what we share with the machines: language itself
Structural Monism — Canon v1.0.0 | SUBIT-Theory | Nautilus Docs
This repository contains the official release of the Canon of Structural Monism (version 1.0.0). Structural Monism is an ontological doctrine that describes consciousness as a single field and all forms of existence as configurations of that field. The doctrine includes the SUBIT‑64 spectral model, the principle of vertical coherence, the mathematical framework, ethical implications, and canonical definitions.
The Depths of Wikipedians—Asterisk
A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…
Esotericism in One Piece: Navigating Magic, Symbolism and Spirituality
Introduction Idea Presentation
Pluralistic: Model collapse (12 Aug 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things together (showing that two different, seemingly unrelated ideas are aspects of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving a paradox by demonstrating that what appears to be one, contradictory thing is actually two different things that have been lumped together).
1,000 most common Dutch words – Understanding Dutch
The 1000 most common words in the Dutch language, with English translations
Linguistic aporia - The Cynefin Co
My post of the day before yesterday expressed concern about the general dumbing down of discourse and I explicitly linked the desire for simple recipes and undemanding explanations in the sphere of management to the growth of unthinking populism in the political sphere. I ended it with three simple things to do if you don’t […]
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss was a twentieth-century German Jewish émigréto the United States whose intellectual corpus spans ancient, medievaland modern political philosophy and includes, among others, studies ofPlato, Maimonides, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, and Nietzsche.Strauss wrote mainly as a historian of philosophy and most of hiswritings take the form of commentaries on important thinkers and theirwritings. Yet as he put it: “There is no inquiry into thehistory of philosophy that is not at the same time aphilosophical inquiry” (PL, p. 41). While much of hisphilosophical project involved an attempt to rethink pre-modernphilosophy, the impetus for this reconsideration and the philosophicalproblems that vexed Strauss most were decidedly modern. Straussespecially worried about the modern philosophical grounds forpolitical and moral normativity as well as about the philosophical,theological, and political consequences of what he took to be modernphilosophy’s overinflated claims for the self-sufficiency ofreason.