Philosophy

Thought soup poisoned with metaphysics

Re-seeing to get the Ancient Greeks out of our cultural cognitive grammar

May 2 • David Chapman

Meaning: lost, or muddled by metaphysics?

Andrew Conner and I explore similarities and differences between John Vervaeke’s work and mine

Apr 28 • David Chapman and Andrew Conner

1:02:07

Sacredness without metaphysics

Unconstrained access to sacred perception and action, compatible with skeptical naturalism.

Nov 11, 2025 • David Chapman

Maps of Meaningness

Jake Orthwein and I compare Jordan Peterson's Maps of Meaning with Meaningness

Nov 4, 2025 • David Chapman and Jake Orthwein

1:51:48

Metaphysics misused in everyday life

Understanding how so much reasoning goes wrong, by analogy with mathematics

Sep 13, 2025 • David Chapman

Watch now | We can live in the actual world, instead of trying to escape to some fantasy land.

Apr 14, 2025 • David Chapman

7:10

Does this chapter explain even itself?

Does “I don't do philosophy” negate itself by counting as philosophy? And: an apology.

Mar 16, 2025 • David Chapman

What isn’t philosophy: a meta-rational explanation

Philosophy is a nebulous, poorly-defined category. Meta-rationality can help with that!

Mar 6, 2025 • David Chapman

Four kinds of philosophy I don’t do

If my work resembles philosophy, specifically which? It’s not any of those.

Mar 3, 2025 • David Chapman

Philosophy isn't...

... about how to think, act, or live well — however much we wish it were so 😢

Dec 19, 2024 • David Chapman

Philosophy doesn't work

Its methods yield mainly wrong or nonsensical conclusions. We can and should do better.

Nov 20, 2024 • David Chapman

Undoing philosophy, Chapter 0

It's bad. We can do better without it. In fact, we usually already do.

Nov 18, 2024 • David Chapman

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