#ontologicalgrammar — Public Fediverse posts

I share my core philosophical positions on Substack.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/a-provisional-map-of-my-philosophical?r=pvxh5

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#philosophy #metaphilosophy #ontology #objectivity #selfhood #ontologicalgrammar #language #languageinsufficiency #minds #ai #artificialintelligence #ethics #agency #substack #blog #podcast #video #subjectivity #institutions #law #map #history #politics #governance

I explain my path through metaphors of ontological grammar with examples.

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/ontological-grammar-and-metaphor?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #substack #blog #podcast #optics #lenses #water #refraction #software #firmware #ontology #judgment #metaphor #grammar #ontologicalgrammar #perspective #physics

Accountability is under the microscope. 🔬

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-disambiguation-cost-of-accountability?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I have long been suspicious of the grammar of accountability, so I am considering publishing an essay on the topic. Much has already been written about this weasel word, a favoured spirit animal by corporations and now adopted by the AI Ethics cohorts.

#philosophy #language #accountability #governance #ethics #aiethics #institutions #authority #substack #blog #essay #ontologicalgrammar #languageinsufficiency #lih

On Philosophics Blog, I consider how ontological grammar commitments confound English translations of Hegel.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/04/titrating-hegel/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#philosophy #language #hegel #geist #ontologicalgrammar #metaphysics #spirit #mind #languageinsufficiency #translation #blog #podcast #video #ontology

The problem with the AI-authorship complaint is the complainers, who think everyone thinks as they do.
👉https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-author-did-not-write-this-and
#philosophy #writing #authorship #ai #critique #grammar #artificialintelligence #art #creativity #ontologicalgrammar #blog #podcast #substack

Language is not the bridge. I respond to another Substack post – one I agree with 85 % – but the missing portion is key.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/language-is-not-the-bridge?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #language #bridges #communication #ontology #systems #ontologicalgrammar #languageinsufficiency #artificialintelligence #knowledgegraphs #metadata #infrastructucture #systems #semantics #substack #blog #podcast #essay #writing #metaphor #model #schema #protocol

I'm not sure the gender debate is all that these days with the distraction factory in DC; nonetheless, I've been reading Judith Butler's Gender Trouble.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-striated-woman-no-one-owns-the?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

I like Butler's ideas a lot, so I wanted to engage her material directly. Beauvoir is another favourite.

#philosophy #language #writing #blog #podcast #identity #women #feminism #judithbutler #beauvoir #socialontology #legibility #substack #ontologicalgrammar #gendertheory #criticaltheory #politics

James Ladyman and I agree that language is a fundamental impediment to understanding – and this includes notions of reality.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/everything-must-go?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

So, of course, I wrote about it. There is no spoon. A link to his interview is in the article, where I compare and contrast his Everything Must Go and my own The Architecture of Encounter.

#philosophy #blog #podcast #language #science #reality #perception #metaphysics #physics #ontology #ontologicalgrammar #realism #epistemology #books

An outline of my approach to critique Parfit's moral maths
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/beyond-parfit-moral-maths-and-the?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #morality #mathematics #parfit #ontologicalgrammar #writing #essay #academic #reading #books

After another 'AI Detected' flag, I resorted to Gemini to lay it out.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/31/this-post-is-almost-entirely-ai-read-it-anyway/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Gemini produced an entire blog post. It did offer me tips to dumb down my writing, but I declined. I also had NotebookLM create a podcast, cuz that's how I roll.

#philosophy #writing #ai #aidetectors #statistics #falsepositives #aipolice #bollox #blog #podcast #academicessays #lexicaldensity #LLMs #ontologicalgrammar #Parfit #perception #syntacticregularity #critique #Gemini #Kant #language #pooh

People seem to love philosophical trolley problems, but they expose more about ontological grammar than a morality profile.

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/28/how-trolley-problems-launder-metaphysics-into-intuition/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

The first of a 2-part series on the trolley problem. Part 2 will extend the issue out of the lab and into reality with autonomous devices.

#philosophy #psychology #morality #ontologicalgrammar #harm #trolleyproblem #choice #legibility #acculturation #society #ethics #deontology #virtue #consequences #utility #value #stoicism #blog #podcast

In some parts of the Western world, we're taught that jury-by-peer is a bastion of fairness, but what is a peer?

https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/27/ive-been-thinking-peers/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

I suggest that this propaganda isn't all it's cracked up to be. I offer Nuremberg and Man in a High Castle as exhibits A and B.

#philosophy #psychology #enlightenment #germany #ontology #fairness #history #ontologicalgrammar #power #law #juries #peers #perception #morality #indoctonation #propaganda #justice #domination #blog #podcast

I don't publish much on Substack. I reserve it for medium-length philosophical posts like this one on quietism, igtheism, and non-cognitivism.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/quiet-igtheism?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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