Edward P. Butler, PhD
@epbutler.bsky.social
Polytheist, Ph.D. in Philosophy. Justice to all beings, reverence to all Gods.
The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-white-...
The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.
Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.
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Polytheistic Platonism: Collected Essays (Order here for all countries other than the U.S.) prometheustrust.co.uk/product/poly...
Polytheistic Platonism – collected essays – The Prometheus Trust
A collection of Edward Butler's essays exploring the polytheistic foundations of Platonism: 16 essays, with a preface from Michael Griffin and an introduction from Antonio Vargas.
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Thank you so much, Toni. The pleasure, truly, is to have such readers as yourself.
Toni Blanco@tonibg.bsky.social · 3d agoOn another note, it is such a pleasure to (re)read in paper @epbutler.bsky.social essays with such a gorgeous cover under the warm seal of the Prometheus Trust and keen introduction of @philoantonio.bsky.social. I am saving the new essay for last, as it has been placed (but I am impatient!)
"This article proposes a critical analysis of the fragment 31 DK B103 from Empedocles' Poem, which states that 'all [beings] think', that is, that all natural beings possess some capacity for thinking…" www.academia.edu/171043467/O_...
O Poema de Empédocles e os estudos humano-animais
Este artigo propõe uma análise crítica do fragmento 31 DK B103 do Poema de Empédocles, no qual se afirma que “todos [os seres] pensam (pephróneken hápanta)”, isto é, que todos os seres naturais possue...
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"Exaggerated anthropomorphs almost never appear in hunting scenes … Exaggerated anthropomorphs and animals are depicted as participants in the same space, often facing in the same direction, as if moving through the landscape together…" scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news...
Ancient Egyptian rock art reveals two very different relationships between humans and animals
For thousands of years, prehistoric artists in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis carved humans and animals into desert rocks — but they did not always tell the same story. Some images show people and wildlife exi...
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"Manifestations of Thoth took the form of … the ibis and the baboon, but the reasons for this zoomorphism were uncertain. Researchers using spectroscopy … discovered that both the ibis and baboon have spectral profiles indistinguishable from moonlight." phys.org/news/2026-07...
Moon baboon: New insight into the mind of ancient Egyptians
New research from the University of St Andrews has shed light on baboons, moonlight and their link to an ancient Egyptian deity.
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Discover our Igbo Language Focus, bringing together research, interviews, and the Igbo Philosophy Colloquium to explore how philosophical thought takes shape through Igbo language. The new focus page now offers an overview of the project and its activities: www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/...
"Piaganism is a new Brazilian religious movement that falls under the category of contemporary Paganism, combining elements of polytheism, nature spirituality, local cultural traditions and magic…" Piaganism www.academia.edu/170688959/Pi...
Piaganism
Piaganism is a new Brazilian religious movement that falls under the category of contemporary Paganism, combining elements of polytheism, nature spirituality, local cultural traditions and magic. It p...
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CfA: Individuality: Phenomenological and Transcendental-Critical Investigations (NB: "Presentations in English will be allowed, but all participants must have at least a passive competence in oral German.") listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...
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“Hekate, or Hecate, remains a subject of reverence, attracting a global following of devotees, some of whom travel to the sanctuary dedicated to her to leave offerings.” www.cnn.com/travel/lagin...
Why modern witches are making pilgrimages to an ancient temple in Turkey | CNN
The ruins of Lagina in southwestern Turkey are home to what is believed to be the largest shrine to Hekate, an ancient goddess associated with magic who still attracts worshipers from around the world...
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India celebrates the annual Rath Yatra chariot festival, in photos apnews.com/photo-galler...
India celebrates the annual Rath Yatra chariot festival, in photos
Devotees across India celebrate the annual Rath Yatra, one of the world’s oldest and largest religious processions.
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The Ethical Conditions of Dialogue-Play and Understanding | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/phil...
The Ethical Conditions of Dialogue-Play and Understanding
The process of genuine dialogue and understanding can only function if certain ethical conditions are met.
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The Divine Has No Other: Polycentric Polytheism and the Resolution of Exclusive Otherness [Oblivion] open.substack.com/pub/oblivion...
The Divine Has No Other
Polycentric Polytheism and the Resolution of Exclusive Otherness
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Sanskrit prayers and dosas: Inside one of the oldest Hindu temples in the US religionnews.com/2026/07/07/n...
Sanskrit prayers and dosas: Inside one of the oldest Hindu temples in the US
(RNS) — Šri Mahã Vallabha Ganapati Devasthãnam, the second-oldest traditional Hindu temple built by Indian immigrants, marked the anniversary of its consecration on July 4.
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The new collection of Orphic fragments, edited by Alberto Bernabé and translated by Michael Chase, is now available from @harvardpress.bsky.social for 25% off with code EPICS, through July 31 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Orphic Collection — Harvard University Press
Cult classics.Orpheus is familiar from Greek mythology as a peerless bard, the Thracian son of a Muse with superhuman musical abilities that enabled him to win the release of his young wife Eurydice f...
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Igbo Philosophy Colloquium: Reclaiming Indigenous Wisdom www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/...
Igbo Philosophy Colloquium: Reclaiming Indigenous Wisdom (International Workshop) – GloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World
This colloquium explores how the Igbo people have developed their own unique way of doing philosophy highlighting the indigenous resources through which the Igbo people articulate questions of existen...
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“The I Ching exemplifies an intellectual orientation that has persisted in various forms across Chinese thought: an attention to flux, interdependence and the direction of change rather than fixed categories and static representations.” asiatimes.com/2026/07/comp...
Compasses, not maps: China is building a different type of AI - Asia Times
Every few months, another Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) breakthrough makes global headlines. A Chinese AI model closes in on American rivals, a
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“One of humanity’s oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions feel distinctly made for each other.” dailynous.com/2026/07/05/n...
NYT: “The Revenge of the Philosophy Major” - Daily Nous
"One of humanity’s oldest disciplines and one of its newest inventions feel distinctly made for each other." That's a line from an article published in the New York Times today about the demand for ph...
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Beyond Negation: Henadic Co-Presence and the Generation of Intellect substack.com/@oblivion945...
Beyond Negation: Henadic Co-Presence and the Generation of Intellect
A Meditative Ascent to Limit, the Unlimited, and Identity through Excess in Polytheistic Metaphysics
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"When I look back now, it’s clear I was in an echo chamber. And a constitutive feature of being in an echo chamber is that you don’t know you’re in an echo chamber." Rebecca Tuvel on "the benefits of almost getting canceled." dailynous.com/2026/06/29/i...
“I’m much less concerned about how people react to me” - Daily Nous
That was part of Rebecca Tuvel's answer to a question from journalist Evan Goldstein about "the benefits of almost getting canceled." Professor Tuvel (Rhodes College) was interviewed recently by Golds...
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Platonic Polytheism Persisting: Surveying the Living Platonisms of Contemporary Pagan Thought, by Gus Kraus www.academia.edu/169346553/Pl...
Platonic Polytheism Persisting: Surveying the Living Platonisms of Contemporary Pagan Thought
These are the slides from a presentation I gave at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies hosted by KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium.
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Recovering a 'Thealogy': A Śākta Exploration of Plotinus on Aphrodite and the Soul (SACP 2026 Presentation by Gus Kraus) www.academia.edu/169346487/Re...
Recovering a 'Thealogy': A Śākta Exploration of Plotinus on Aphrodite and the Soul (SACP 2026 Presentation)
These are the slides from a presentation I gave at Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, hosted in 2026 at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Manipal, Karnatak...
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Can bacteria make decisions? Exploring cognition in nonneural organisms open.spotify.com/episode/2moX...
Can bacteria make decisions? Exploring cognition in nonneural organisms, with Dr Matthew Sims
In the CAVE: An Ethics Podcast · Episode
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A atualidade da crítica à escrita de Platão para a compreensão da IA generativa www.academia.edu/169283673/A_...
A atualidade da crítica à escrita de Platão para a compreensão da IA generativa
Quais lições poderíamos destilar do repositório de textos da tradição clássica para refletir sobre os desafios que nos assolam hoje, especialmente com o advento em larga escala da Inteligência Artific...
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Philosophical Insights from New Religious Movements & Alternative Spiritualities Conference, July 24-5, in-person and online listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A...
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"In our paper … we discuss the moral permissibility of sharing academic research illegally. While the practice appears to be highly endorsed (at least informally) by academics, we provide a more systematic case for its justification." open.substack.com/pub/newworki...
"In the Shadows: Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action" - Lucas Miotto (University of Surrey) & Himani Bhakuni (University of York)
Free and Equal, 2026
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"Platforms as Law: A speculative theory of coded, interfacial and environmental norms," by José Antonio Magalhães www.academia.edu/168688847/Pl...
Platforms as Law: A speculative theory of coded, interfacial and environmental norms
This paper aims to offer a nomic (legal-spatial-political) concept of platform at the interface between modern legal theory and contemporary speculative philosophy. I argue that the 'code as law&#...
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