From ‘Aha!’ to ‘Haha!’: Humor as a Case Study in the Parsimony of Predictive Processing
Abstract: What constitutes a powerful theory in the cognitive sciences? Amid a fragmented landscape of domain-specific explanations, the theoretical...
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From Communicative Reason to Communicative Physics: Trevor’s Axiom and the Logic of Outrage
Abstract: The contemporary public sphere is widely perceived to be in a state of crisis. From Twitter pile-ons to political flame wars, public...
Goodbye to Good and Evil
For centuries, we’ve fought over what is right and what is wrong. What if the real problem is that both concepts are a harmful illusion we’d be...
From Moral Error to Rational Progress: A Defense of Moral Abolitionism
Abstract: This paper argues that a commitment to moral anti-realism, specifically in the form of J.L. Mackie’s Error Theory, should lead not to...
The Semantic Vacuity of ‘God’: An Argument for Nulltheism
Abstract: The perennial debate concerning the existence of God has traditionally focused on metaphysical, epistemological, and moral arguments. This...
The Anesthetic Function of Morality: A Necessitarian Account of Ethics
This paper argues that traditional ethical systems, predicated on the illusion of free will, are fundamentally incoherent. It first establishes a...
On Necessity and Horror
I. On the Self We mistake the complexity of our thoughts for freedom, like a river believing it has chosen its path to the sea. Deliberation is the...
The Rot is Decoration
Pushed onto the stage. A script, a light. The beginning is unrecorded. The performance is mandatory. The applause is silence. The silence is...
On the Recognition of Epemic Limitation: A Philosophical Analysis of Humility as an Intellectual Virtue
This essay presents a philosophical examination of epistemic humility, proposing it not merely as a psychological disposition but as a normative...
On the Deployment of the Absurd: A Diagnostic Critique of Performative Incoherence
This paper identifies and analyzes a contemporary modality of the absurd that diverges fundamentally from its classical existentialist conception....