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Askēsis & Perception
Notes from my dissertation defense
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Attention is First Philosophy
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The Practice of Bergson’s Intuition
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Thinking is Creating
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Perceptual Learning and the Necessity of Form
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Humanities Guy Tries Claude Design
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A few recent talks, videos, write-ups, and response pieces
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Perceptual Learning and the Necessity of Form
A certain reading of Plato inflected on the idea of affordances.
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Practice in Still Life 9: The Shape of Thought to Come
An essay on immanence, transcendence, practice, and the problem of nihilism
Jan 9
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What I Read This Year
A list of books and essays in the world of scholarship that changed my thinking and writing in 2025
Dec 31, 2025
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From Teleology to Procedure
On John Rawls’s claim that pluralism requires procedural justice absent metaphysical claims, and my rejoinder that procedure may be a civic form of a…
Dec 16, 2025
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Found to Constructed Orders
On How, in Charles Taylor’s Reading, the Practices of Participation in Plato and Augustine Are Transformed in Descartes into the Construction and…
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Practice in Still Life 9: The Shape of Thought to Come
An essay on immanence, transcendence, practice, and the problem of nihilism
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Adam Robbert
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Practice in Still Life 8: The Desert Philosopher
An introduction to Evagrius Ponticus (c. 345–399 AD), and his teachings on afflictive and virtuous thinking, put into the service of contemplation…
Sep 12, 2025
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Practice in Still Life 7: The Craft of Contemplation
An investigation into philosophy and contemplative prayer through the works of Dionysius the Areopagite and the anonymous fourteenth-century English…
Aug 21, 2025
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Practice in Still Life 6: Thinking as Gathering
The Art and Asceticism of Thought in St. Augustine and St. Gregory of Nyssa, with commentary from Martin Laird
Jul 25, 2025
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Disputations 3: Contemporary Natural Philosophy Needs a New Theory of Forms
This is the third in our new disputations series on Substack Live, featuring Matthew David Segall, Jacob Given, and yours truly
Nov 21, 2025
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Toronto Talk
Full transcript and video below of my talk for the Toronto Society, September 24, 2026.
Oct 6, 2025
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Speaking in Toronto
I’ll be in Toronto giving a talk on September 24 as part of the Toronto Society's Viaduct speakers series for this fall. Details and tickets below.
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Perceptual Learning and the Necessity of Form
A certain reading of Plato inflected on the idea of affordances.
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On the Good as "Beyond Being"
A brief exegesis on a much commented upon passage in Plato's Republic
Nov 9, 2025
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Adam Robbert
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The Practice of Bergson’s Intuition
Henri Bergson makes clear that philosophy is upheld by transformations in perception, but we could do more to make those practices explicit. The…
Aug 11, 2025
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Thinking is Creating
A description of thinking, via negativa, using Henri Bergson’s account of memory and perception—a thinking enabled by ekstasis, theōria, and poēsis.
Aug 1, 2025
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Adam Robbert
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The Practice of Synthesis
A look at Kant's transcendental philosophy as a contemplative discipline, showing how a priori structures and faculties can enable the cultivation of…
Jul 11, 2025
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The Grammar of Being
An afterthought to last week's essay: On the ways in which being can be said to be, with recourse to Heidegger and Eckhart.
Jun 13, 2025
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Theōria and the Disappearance of Form
What happens to the contemplative intellect when the reality of its objects is denied? A reflection on perception, practice, and the intelligibility of…
Jun 6, 2025
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Attention is First Philosophy
The positive case, with illustrations from Aristotle, Descartes, and Merleau-Ponty, as well as five objections answered.
May 15, 2025
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