Collections
Series and Collections of essays on Model Philosophy. Easy place to get started.
Some of our essays are written as part of a series. To keep these easy to find we have added them to pages below.
Our latest ongoing series is Atlas of Unfulfilled Warnings - why do we keep build the systems of Science Fiction?
Atlas of Unfulfilled Warnings
Why do we consume science fiction and yet allow these systems to be built up around us? Surveillance in 1984, Soma in Brave New World, Skynet in Terminator - they have all told us warnings about the reach of science fiction... and yet we sit by while these systems are
James Rickard
Festive Philosophy
This is not a series about discarding technology. In a festive season increasingly planned by machines and powered by stretched people, what remains human? What is ours to protect, to refuse, or to remake?
James Rickard
The Four Cognitive Horsemen of the AI Apocalypse
An Essay Series on the Terminal Paths of Thought in the Age of Artificial Intelligence AI is not simply a tool. It is a mirror. It reflects our brilliance and our blind spots, accelerating our strengths, our biases, and our forgetting. While many essays celebrate what artificial intelligence can offer,
James Rickard
Core Elemental Philosophical Truths
Philosophy does not begin with answers. It begins with unease. With the suspicion that the obvious may be an illusion, that suffering may have no reason, that the self may not hold, that truth itself may already be framed before we touch it. This series gathers six essays, each circling
James Rickard