Archive - The Base Camp

Dissertation Defense Video + Digital Essay

I’m sharing two quick things today:

Jun 4 • Adam Robbert

41:57

May 2026

Askēsis & Perception

Notes from my dissertation defense

May 30 • Adam Robbert

April 2026

Humanities Guy Tries Claude Design

I set the new tools to work on the tyranny of awful Word files

Apr 30 • Adam Robbert

Links Miscellanea

A few recent talks, videos, write-ups, and response pieces

Apr 11 • Adam Robbert

March 2026

Perceptual Learning and the Necessity of Form

A certain reading of Plato inflected on the idea of affordances.

Mar 27 • Adam Robbert

January 2026

Practice in Still Life 9: The Shape of Thought to Come

An essay on immanence, transcendence, practice, and the problem of nihilism

Jan 9 • Adam Robbert

December 2025

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 • Adam Robbert

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 • Adam Robbert

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…

Dec 9, 2025 • Adam Robbert

November 2025

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 • Adam Robbert, Matthew David Segall, and Jacob Given

2:02:14

On the Good as "Beyond Being"

A brief exegesis on a much commented upon passage in Plato's Republic

Nov 9, 2025 • Adam Robbert

October 2025

Full transcript and video below of my talk for the Toronto Society, September 24, 2026.

Oct 6, 2025 • Adam Robbert