Amos Wollen
@goingawoll.bsky.social
philosophy student • no opinions on anything • poasts match the views of every institution or person I’ve ever been affiliated with/looked at (including you) https://open.substack.com/pub/wollenblog
In this live debate—feat. Joe Schmid, @morallawwithin.bsky.social, Noah McKay, and yours truly—we figure out whether there are souls (there are) and whether physicalism is the last refuge of the scoundrel (it is) youtu.be/Z4_kiUge5Ac
October 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In this live debate—feat. Joe Schmid, @morallawwithin.bsky.social, Noah McKay, and yours truly—we figure out whether there are souls (there are) and whether physicalism is the last refuge of the scoundrel (it is) youtu.be/Z4_kiUge5Ac
A new wave of philosophers has joined Substack — here are some of their names (link in bio)
June 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A new wave of philosophers has joined Substack — here are some of their names (link in bio)
Today, I review Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever by @lamornaash.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
June 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Today, I review Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever by @lamornaash.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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I am delighted to share that I've signed a contract with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for my fourth book, 'Our Many Lives in the Multiverse'
In the book I'll be examining the Many-Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and exploring what it means for selves, society, and God. Watch this space!
In the book I'll be examining the Many-Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and exploring what it means for selves, society, and God. Watch this space!
May 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I am delighted to share that I've signed a contract with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for my fourth book, 'Our Many Lives in the Multiverse'
In the book I'll be examining the Many-Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and exploring what it means for selves, society, and God. Watch this space!
In the book I'll be examining the Many-Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and exploring what it means for selves, society, and God. Watch this space!
My impression of analytic theology (link in bio)
May 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
My impression of analytic theology (link in bio)
An extremely dapper soul-body composite (me), plus a middle-sized, middle-aged organism made up of “the fundamental building blochks of reality, each with their own very primitive form of awerrrness” (@philipgoff.bsky.social)
April 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
An extremely dapper soul-body composite (me), plus a middle-sized, middle-aged organism made up of “the fundamental building blochks of reality, each with their own very primitive form of awerrrness” (@philipgoff.bsky.social)
My impression of Curtis Yarvin open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
every Curtis Yarvin essay
"the error of being a lib"
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March 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
My impression of Curtis Yarvin open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
Want to read about Hell? I’ve got you covered open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
The Doctrine of Hell: A Philosophical Reading List
these papers are totally fire
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March 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Want to read about Hell? I’ve got you covered open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
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Paradox looms
March 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Paradox looms
New blog post open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
In defence of having villainous Nazi friends who kill puppies and read Jordan Peterson
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March 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
New blog post open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
Devastating interaction at the Indian corner shop. Shopkeeper glances at my ingredients—my cumin seeds, my lentils, my lime—and casually asks me if I mistook parsley for coriander. Aching with shame, I confessed that I had, and he told me where the coriander was
March 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Devastating interaction at the Indian corner shop. Shopkeeper glances at my ingredients—my cumin seeds, my lentils, my lime—and casually asks me if I mistook parsley for coriander. Aching with shame, I confessed that I had, and he told me where the coriander was
every anti-Substack Substack open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
every anti-Substack Substack
why i am leaving
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March 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
every anti-Substack Substack open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
How a New York Times columnist forced me to go to Church open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
How a New York Times columnist forced me to go to Church
Book Review: *Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious* by Ross Douthat
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March 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How a New York Times columnist forced me to go to Church open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
I just debated Catholic philosopher Brian Besong on sexual ethics — as it turns out, it’s pretty unclear whether it would be wrong to nibble on a plastic straw (even if that were the only way to stop the world from ending) m.youtube.com/watch?v=oltL...
Sexual Ethics & Natural Law: A Philosophical Debate
YouTube video by Philosophy for the People
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March 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I just debated Catholic philosopher Brian Besong on sexual ethics — as it turns out, it’s pretty unclear whether it would be wrong to nibble on a plastic straw (even if that were the only way to stop the world from ending) m.youtube.com/watch?v=oltL...
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I wrote a blog post about Samuel Alito as a case study in the ethics of suspicion and psychologizing
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
Samuel Alito and the Ethics of Suspicion
Exploring the changing nature of public debate
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk
March 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I wrote a blog post about Samuel Alito as a case study in the ethics of suspicion and psychologizing
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/openfordebat...
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Who would like to be the 700th subscriber to my newsletter? I don't post often enough for it to be spammy wellreadherring.substack.com?utm_source=s...
Well-Read Herring | Emily Herring | Substack
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People – is out now! Click to read Well-Read Herring, by Emily Herring, a Substack publication w...
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March 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Who would like to be the 700th subscriber to my newsletter? I don't post often enough for it to be spammy wellreadherring.substack.com?utm_source=s...
Eggs should be more expensive open.substack.com/pub/statesof...
Eggs Should Be More Expensive
The market liberal case for animal rights.
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March 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Eggs should be more expensive open.substack.com/pub/statesof...
Here I discuss the “deeply inappropriate man-crush” that many Catholics and Evangelicals have on Thomas Aquinas open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
Thomas Aquinas Englazement Syndrome
a spiritual admonition
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February 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Here I discuss the “deeply inappropriate man-crush” that many Catholics and Evangelicals have on Thomas Aquinas open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
My response to Lyman Stone on shrimp welfare open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
Lyman Stone's intellectually molested critique of shrimp welfare
*study shows that sky is blue*
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February 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My response to Lyman Stone on shrimp welfare open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
on my practical ethics grind
February 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
on my practical ethics grind
Are pro-lifers driven by a subconscious desire to control women’s bodies and reproduction? open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
Are pro-lifers driven by a subconscious desire to control women's bodies and reproduction?
a reply to Defending Feminism
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February 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Are pro-lifers driven by a subconscious desire to control women’s bodies and reproduction? open.substack.com/pub/wollenbl...
Major shrimp welfare victory!
February 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Major shrimp welfare victory!