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 2017-2019.
Статья о смысле жизни
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 that unfortunately tend not to become obvious right away.
Колонка ко Дню философии. О том, что мы не замечаем достижений философии, потому что не желаем ими пользоваться.
Can We Learn from Fiction?
The Big Question is whether fiction can help us learn anything about the real world that we didn’t already know.
Can We Eff the Ineffable?
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.
Truthful Insincerity
The Big Question is whether insincerity always means 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.
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 self and the specialness of self-knowledge.
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