Philosophy & Theory Roundup - October 10, 2025

Hi Frens! 👋 The roundup is getting longer now, so I have two options: (1) Curate more narrowly so as to produce a digestible list that will still be useful; or (2) create categories as I’ve done below. I’m not sure I’m into the categories, it creates… problems. If I narrowed the focus, it would include fewer political commentary and fewer personal essays, even when those have a philosophical bent. Of course, I could also just (3) keep the original, all-in-one randomized list. Below I’m trying out categories, but I’d love your feedback on which way to go:

ROUNDUP

Philosophy & Ethics

1. Arbitrating absolutism (3 likes): Charlie Kirk, free speech in the US, intention, accountability and conflict. By in Truth is a Woman.

2. 142. Natality with Jennifer Banks (extended) (3 likes). By in Overthink Podcast.

3. “Moral Agency without Consciousness” - Jen Semler (Cornell Tech) (11 likes): Canadian Journal of Philosophy, First View (2025). By in New Work In Philosophy.

4. Who’s responsible for the rules? (3 likes): A sibling spat stirs up big questions. By in Humaning is Hard, but Philosophy Can Help.

5. Eric Schwitzgebel (17 likes): In living life thoughtfully, we are always already practicing philosophy. By in Why Philosophy?.

6. The Postmodern Subject (3 likes). By in Last_Futurist.

7. Something for Someone, Someplace. (3 likes): I could add a subtitle but I don’t want to, because this is sooo ironic. By in The Existential Pulse.

8. What is Beyond Language? (14 likes): Fritjof Capra, “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism” (1975) #5. By in Philosophy and Beyond.

9. On The Death of Loved Ones (4 likes): and Chinese wisdom on the true process of grief. By in Philosophy As Therapy.

10. What, Like It’s Hard? (3 likes): On Being Based and Adornopilled. By in No Future.

11. why you must write like AI and... (4 likes): how to do it (part 2). By in Theory Gang.

12. Robert Solomon on virtue and erotic love: Lecture 4, Intimate Relationships (8 likes): If erotic love is irrational, does that mean it doesn’t make us better people? By in Intimate Reltionships.

Social & Political Commentary

1. Thinking of AI as a Social Problem (159 likes): No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough. By in How Things Work.

2. Rachel Shabi on Gaza, antisemitism and

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