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A philosophy journal just published an article written mostly by Claude. The philosopher who "supervised" Claude, and who is listed as the article's author, explains how he did it. The journal's editor thinks of the decision to publish the piece as an "experiment."
Philosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose (guest post) - Daily Nous
Philosophy & Public Affairs recently---and knowingly---published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic's LLM. The article's thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of phil...
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August 13, 2026 at 12:14 PM
A philosophy journal just published an article written mostly by Claude. The philosopher who "supervised" Claude, and who is listed as the article's author, explains how he did it. The journal's editor thinks of the decision to publish the piece as an "experiment."
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In an era of algorithmic dogmatism and cynical relativism, this ambitious genealogy argues that reason can survive the death of God and the death of the subject - but only if it learns to define itself through its own limits.
#PhilSky
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#PhilSky
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The Courage of Fragility: A Review of T.A. Schulz „Die vernünftige Freiheit in der postsäkularen Konstellation“
In an era of algorithmic dogmatism and cynical relativism, this ambitious genealogy argues that reason can survive the death of God and the death of the subject - but only if it learns to define itsel...
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April 21, 2026 at 6:00 AM
In an era of algorithmic dogmatism and cynical relativism, this ambitious genealogy argues that reason can survive the death of God and the death of the subject - but only if it learns to define itself through its own limits.
#PhilSky
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
#PhilSky
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The tension between autonomy and responsibility - between the work’s claim to its own formal integrity and its indebtedness to the material conditions that produced it - must be held rather than resolved. #PhilSky
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Ästhetik der Materie: Toward a Neo-Materialist Theory of Aesthetic Experience
On Perception, Agency, and the Problem of Form in the Anthropocene
open.substack.com
February 23, 2026 at 10:53 AM
The tension between autonomy and responsibility - between the work’s claim to its own formal integrity and its indebtedness to the material conditions that produced it - must be held rather than resolved. #PhilSky
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open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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Metaphysics is not a theory of being, but a practice of world-sustaining. It is to recognize the profound in the profane, the extraordinary upkeep required for the ordinary. #PhilSky
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open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
The Metaphysics of the Everyday Life: On the Unbypassable in the Ordinary
We live in a world of self-evidence.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Metaphysics is not a theory of being, but a practice of world-sustaining. It is to recognize the profound in the profane, the extraordinary upkeep required for the ordinary. #PhilSky
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The next form of critique will not be negation but a kind of precise affirmation analysis. For whoever understands how assent functions has already taken the first step toward interrupting it. #PhilSky
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erwinott.substack.com/p/affirmatio...
Affirmation and Critique in Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy Is Never Neutral
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January 8, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The next form of critique will not be negation but a kind of precise affirmation analysis. For whoever understands how assent functions has already taken the first step toward interrupting it. #PhilSky
erwinott.substack.com/p/affirmatio...
erwinott.substack.com/p/affirmatio...
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1/10 "Affirmation and Critique" dissects contemporary philosophy as a tension between legitimation and disruption. A diagnosis of our time, where critique becomes performative, and affirmation the invisible norm.
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🔗 erwin-ott.web.app/ott-affirmat... #philosophy #criticaltheory #philsky
Affirmation und Kritik
Zeitgenössische Philosophien zwischen Legitimation und Unterbrechung
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January 8, 2026 at 11:13 AM
1/10 "Affirmation and Critique" dissects contemporary philosophy as a tension between legitimation and disruption. A diagnosis of our time, where critique becomes performative, and affirmation the invisible norm.
🔗 erwin-ott.web.app/ott-affirmat... #philosophy #criticaltheory #philsky
🔗 erwin-ott.web.app/ott-affirmat... #philosophy #criticaltheory #philsky
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The task is therefore to develop a philosophy of nature for the anthropocene that is neither nostalgic nor reductionist, and that embraces both Romantic sensitivity and materialistic rigour.
#PhilSky #LitSky #Schelling #Goethe
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#PhilSky #LitSky #Schelling #Goethe
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Nature in Flux: Romantic Nature Philosophy and the Challenges of New Materialism
Goethe, Schelling, Ritter, and the Search for a New Language of Nature
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December 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The task is therefore to develop a philosophy of nature for the anthropocene that is neither nostalgic nor reductionist, and that embraces both Romantic sensitivity and materialistic rigour.
#PhilSky #LitSky #Schelling #Goethe
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#PhilSky #LitSky #Schelling #Goethe
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1/10 How can Romanticism’s nature philosophy resonate with 21st-century New Materialism? This essay explores Goethe, Schelling, & Ritter as “resonance figures” for today’s ecological & ontological crises.
(erwin-ott.web.app/ott-romantis...) #PhilSky #Naturphilosophie #NewMaterialism #LitSky
(erwin-ott.web.app/ott-romantis...) #PhilSky #Naturphilosophie #NewMaterialism #LitSky
Natur im Fluss
Romantische Resonanzen im Materialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts
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December 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
1/10 How can Romanticism’s nature philosophy resonate with 21st-century New Materialism? This essay explores Goethe, Schelling, & Ritter as “resonance figures” for today’s ecological & ontological crises.
(erwin-ott.web.app/ott-romantis...) #PhilSky #Naturphilosophie #NewMaterialism #LitSky
(erwin-ott.web.app/ott-romantis...) #PhilSky #Naturphilosophie #NewMaterialism #LitSky
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1/10 Money isn’t just a tool—it’s a living system shaped by code, cables, bodies & power. If we don’t understand its agency, we can’t understand the world we live in.
erwin-ott.web.app/ott-geld.html
#philsky #Money #Philosophy
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#philsky #Money #Philosophy
Die lebendige Materie des Geldes
Eine new-materialistische Philosophie der Finanzen
erwin-ott.web.app
December 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
1/10 Money isn’t just a tool—it’s a living system shaped by code, cables, bodies & power. If we don’t understand its agency, we can’t understand the world we live in.
erwin-ott.web.app/ott-geld.html
#philsky #Money #Philosophy
erwin-ott.web.app/ott-geld.html
#philsky #Money #Philosophy
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The challenge before us is not to resurrect the illusion of human mastery but to develop new forms of understanding, responsibility, and governance that take seriously the material agency of money. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
The Living Matter of Money: A New-Materialist Philosophy of Finance
I.
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December 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The challenge before us is not to resurrect the illusion of human mastery but to develop new forms of understanding, responsibility, and governance that take seriously the material agency of money. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The Essay rethinks van Dyck’s portrait of the Stuart brothers as a site where matter and meaning refuse separation. It isn’t just pigment or symbol - it’s a relational field where social order and materiality co-constitute each other.
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#PhilSky #ArtTheory
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#PhilSky #ArtTheory
Materialität und Repräsentation im Porträt
Jenseits der Dichotomien
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November 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Essay rethinks van Dyck’s portrait of the Stuart brothers as a site where matter and meaning refuse separation. It isn’t just pigment or symbol - it’s a relational field where social order and materiality co-constitute each other.
erwin-ott.web.app/ott-dyck.html)
#PhilSky #ArtTheory
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#PhilSky #ArtTheory
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It is the eventfulness that makes the portrait not just a masterpiece of Baroque art but a philosophical provocation, one that continues to resonate long after the paint has dried and the brothers have faded into history.
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The Flesh of Paint: Van Dyck’s Stuart Brothers and the Ontology of the Portrait
I.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It is the eventfulness that makes the portrait not just a masterpiece of Baroque art but a philosophical provocation, one that continues to resonate long after the paint has dried and the brothers have faded into history.
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open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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1/10 How can philosophy think a reality independent of human consciousness? The essay looks at Meillassoux' critique of modern philosophy’s “correlationism” and offers a radical alternative via post-structuralism.
#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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Vom kritischen Subjekt zum spekulativen Absoluten
Die wahre kopernikanische Wende als Weg zur neuen Metaphysik
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November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
1/10 How can philosophy think a reality independent of human consciousness? The essay looks at Meillassoux' critique of modern philosophy’s “correlationism” and offers a radical alternative via post-structuralism.
#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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The true Copernican revolution is the dissolution of the subject and the embrace of the immanent absolute: the endless, dynamic, decentered becoming of the real.
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The True Copernican Revolution: From Correlationism to Immanent Absolutes
I.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The true Copernican revolution is the dissolution of the subject and the embrace of the immanent absolute: the endless, dynamic, decentered becoming of the real.
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The beat is a philosophical event - an illusion that reveals, a stability that dissolves, a unity that disappears. It is not just sound; it is ontology in motion. #PhilSky
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Beat and Flux: The Club as a Laboratory of Ontological Experience
I.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The beat is a philosophical event - an illusion that reveals, a stability that dissolves, a unity that disappears. It is not just sound; it is ontology in motion. #PhilSky
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To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
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From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound: Christoph Cox’s "Sonic Flux" and the Via Negativa
The Problem of the Ephemeral
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October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
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How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
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How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
das.ubernerden.com/ott-cox.html #PhilSky #SoundPhilosophy #Apophatics
Von der Philosophie des Klangs zur Philosophie im Klang
Christoph Cox’ <em>Sonic Flux</em> und die via negativa
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October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
das.ubernerden.com/ott-cox.html #PhilSky #SoundPhilosophy #Apophatics
How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal.
das.ubernerden.com/ott-cox.html #PhilSky #SoundPhilosophy #Apophatics
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
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September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
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Geuss' texts refuse the consolation that comes from the idea that one has now found the "right" system. Instead, they invite us to understand thinking as a continued diagnostic practice - a practice that needs no heroes. #PhilSky
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Against Self-Assurance: Raymond Geuss as an Anti-Heroic Philosopher in the Post-Metaphysical Age
Thinking in an Age of Disillusionment
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Geuss' texts refuse the consolation that comes from the idea that one has now found the "right" system. Instead, they invite us to understand thinking as a continued diagnostic practice - a practice that needs no heroes. #PhilSky
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
das.ubernerden.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties.
#Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html
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The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
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The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/haferkrug-st...
Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken
Eine historisch-systematische Analyse
das.ubernerden.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/haferkrug-st...
The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality.
#Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky
das.ubernerden.com/haferkrug-st...
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The preoccupation with unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality is not a universal feature of human thought but a historically contingent development that has shaped (and distorted) the path of Western philosophy, science, and culture. #Philsky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
The Static and the Fluid: A Review of Giorgina Haferkrug’s „Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken“
The Weight of Tradition
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September 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The preoccupation with unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality is not a universal feature of human thought but a historically contingent development that has shaped (and distorted) the path of Western philosophy, science, and culture. #Philsky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
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#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
das.ubernerden.com/schulz-schat...
#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma
Fragen der Gegenwartsphilosophie
das.ubernerden.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
das.ubernerden.com/schulz-schat...
#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
das.ubernerden.com/schulz-schat...
#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky