@kymberlie.bsky.social Hi Kymberlie, you still on here? Wanted to ask you for film recommendations!
Bryan Kam
@bryankam.com
Thinking about origins of truth, selfhood, suffering, philosophy of science, literature, film. Interintellect fellow. @bryankam@writing.exchange
I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza. www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is... #Philosophy #Buddhism
Samsara Is Nirvana, with Brook Ziporyn
Daoism, Buddhism, Spinozism, and Mystical Atheism
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My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza. www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is... #Philosophy #Buddhism
Samsara Is Nirvana, with Brook Ziporyn
Daoism, Buddhism, Spinozism, and Mystical Atheism
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I became a father in the past week and I am tired www.bryankam.com/p/fatherhood...
Fatherhood and philosophy
A sleepless week
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I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
I wrote more about rationalism, empiricism, and foundationalism www.bryankam.com/p/rationalis...
Rationalism and Empiricism
Three short stories
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🧠 How can ancient wisdom guide us through modern uncertainty? Join me and Stephen Batchelor (author of the new Buddha, Socrates, and Us) for a conversation on philosophical approaches to ethics, doubt, and the good life. Sep 4: interintellect.com/salons/buddh...
Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Uncertainties
Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs and the forthcoming book Buddha, Socrates, and Us, brings decades of practice and scholarship to examining how two of history's most transformativ...
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Wrote a bit about rationalism and empiricism www.bryankam.com/p/when-philo...
When Philosophers Panic
Two extreme responses to crisis
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In this podcast I discuss the #philosophy and #psychology of Neither/Nor, the project I've been working on for the past years, with my coauthor, @isabelagranic.bsky.social www.bryankam.com/p/neithernor...
Neither/Nor Paper Discussion 🎧
With Isabela Granic
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I wrote about #gratitude and its opposites, fear (according to #Nietzsche) and envy (according to Melanie #Klein) www.bryankam.com/p/gratitude-...
Gratitude and its opposites
Fear and envy
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Why Aristotle doesn't solve the problems caused by Plato www.bryankam.com/p/the-immane...
The Immanent Turn
Bringing it all back home
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Morning Devotion: On my morning routine open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
Morning devotion
On my morning routine
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I wrote on particulars, universals, and alternating between the two www.bryankam.com/p/from-will-...
From will to representation and back
On switching between sensing and thinking
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From Zhuangzi’s Outer Chapters, written sometime in the 4th to 2nd century BC China, making a very similar argument to what I’m saying about love in Plato's Phaedrus: www.bryankam.com/p/love-abstr...
I wrote on how the Socratic method changed from Socrates, to Plato, to Aristotle. tl;dr: It started anti-social and became asocial www.bryankam.com/p/some-dange...
Some Dangerous Methods
Social, individual, and "innate" use of categories
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I wrote a piece over the weekend on the birth of logic open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
The Birth of Logic
Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Durkheim
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![38 (8) Volition (1)
At S›vatthı. “Bhikkhus, what one intends, and what one plans,
and whatever one has a tendency towards: this becomes a basis
for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis there
is a support for the establishing of consciousness. When con-
sciousness is established and has come to growth, there is the
production of future renewed existence. When there is the pro-
duction of future renewed existence, future birth, aging-and-
death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair come
to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.112
“If, bhikkhus, one does not intend, and one does not plan, but
one still has a tendency towards something, this becomes a basis
for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis, there
is a support for the establishing of consciousness…. Such is the
origin of this whole mass of suffering.113
“But, bhikkhus, when one does not intend, and one does not
plan, and one does not have a tendency towards anything, no
basis exists for the maintenance of consciousness. [66] When
there is no basis, there is no support for the establishing of con-
sciousness. When consciousness is unestablished and does not
come to growth, there is no production of future renewed exis-
tence. When there is no production of future renewed existence,
future birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, dis-
pleasure, and despair cease. Such is the cessation of this whole
mass of suffering.”114](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlw2mvvx7myag4c5vypmr37s/bafkreib7cuj5l25ll337oxozad447wxkiiyzmf7pgm3dinbzi373ofzlfe)
I'm looking for sources for ancient/medieval/early modern/modern thinkers (from anywhere) who have disputed 1) the law of the excluded middle, 2) the law of non-contradiction, and 3) the law of identity. Anyone I should be reading?
Doing a series on the correspondence theory of #truth in #philosophy over on tiktok vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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I released a podcast: Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters. We talk about Plotinus, Chinese philosophy, and more! pod.fo/e/2393d5
Clerestory (Bryan Kam): Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters
I spoke to Kit Tempest-Walters about his new book: Plotinus on Eternity and Time, which includes a translation and commentary of Ennead III.7.We discuss the challenges of translating, philosophical...
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They seem to have removed this list of Western philosophers who put processes over objects on wikipedia but I appreciated the list while it lasted en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process...
I released the final installment of the Meaningful Living podcast series today. Thanks for all those who participated pod.fo/e/2167b0
Clerestory (Bryan Kam): Epistolary: Meaningful Living vs Making a Living (Part 6)
How do you balance your life’s purpose, your creative impulse, or your art, with the realities of life?Here are the final four responses I received. Thanks to Peter, Olga Yakimenko, Rainbow, and ...
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Dichotomies II: Then We Take Berlin, on Isaiah Berlin's "The Hedgehog and the Fox" open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
How do you balance making a living with living a meaningful life? Here's the fifth set of responses I received to that question: https://pod.fo/e/18db48