Below are links to essays on various philosophical issues. The ones in English (except for ‘An Article about the Meaning of Life’) were written and submitted at Uppsala University in 2017-2020.
Несколько очевидностей, которые, к сожалению, становятся очевидными не сразу.
An article about the meaning of life
A few obvious points about the meaning of life which unfortunately take their precious time to become obvious.
Статья о свободе воли.
The Big Question is whether fiction can help us learn anything about the real world that we didn’t already know.
Колонка ко Дню философии. О том, что мы не замечаем достижений философии, потому что не желаем ими пользоваться.
The Big Question is whether there are truths about the world that are forever beyond our cognitive grasp.
One foggy window on a beautiful world
The admittedly Not-So-Big Question is how, according to Plato, knowledge can unify the soul.
The Big Question is whether insincerity always involves lying.
Parfit’s Division: On split brains and personal identity
The Big Question is whether Parfit’s thought experiments do show that personal identity is not what matters in survival.
First-person perspective in human and non-human animals
The Big Question is whether we need to have first-person thoughts in order to act, and what it means to have a ‘first-person thought’ in the first place.
The Big Question is whether a distinction between fuzzy and crisp claims can help diffuse the problem of disagreement between epistemic peers.
A naïve defence of metaphysical realism against Putnam
Why Putnam’s model-theoretic argument against metaphysical realism is unlikely to impress an actual metaphysical realist.
To know the self as a matrix of maybe: An account of the specialness of self-knowledge
If you truly are into philosophy in a big way, click here to access my 30,000-word MA thesis on the nature of the self and the specialness of self-knowledge.
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