HeyJaredApplying Real Philosophy to Real Life
I am a philosopher by trade and temperament motivated by an earnest desire to bring philosophy out of its insular ivory tower and into everyday life where it can be put to good uses. I won't talk down to you I won't dumb down philosophy.
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On Consciousness and Human Action — Part 1 of 2 (opens the original)
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Free Ten-Week Online Seminar: Foundations of the Philosophy of Orientation I (opens the original)
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AI Enters Late-Scam Capitalism* (opens the original)
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AI is, and has never been anything but, a scam. If you don’t believe that yet, you will. The con is heading toward fruition.The “con” in “con artist” is short for “confidence.” A con artist tries to win someone’s confidence, and if that’s achieved, the con artist closes the trap and steals from the person targeted.A successful con job unfolds in stages as the con artist builds a false sense of credibility. But if that carefully constructed sense of credibility starts to break down, the con artis
The Obligation of Scholars to Speak Out (opens the original)
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I’d Rather Not Have to Write About This Garbage (opens the original)
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I love philosophy, history, and ideas. Years ago, I dedicated myself to teaching philosophy to university students (I did not love my earlier jobs in technical writing, a career that paid the bills but sapped my soul). I had long dabbled in writing online, and during the pandemic, I began to devote myself seriously to writing online, including on this platform.More than any other subject, philosophy is what I love to write about. That’s fun. I enjoy putting the ideas of the philosophers into eve
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