Ade Webb
@adewebb.bsky.social
Philosophy PhD Student (fictionalism, hermeneutics, narrative & interpretation theory) & PTA @Exeter University, UK. Tech chairman. Former FTSE 250 board director. Jazz guitarist, cyclist, dad, husband, animal lover. Trying hard to live off-grid.
A brief sojourn into post-phenomenology to propose an addition to Don Ihde’s categories of human-technology relations that reflect deep body feedback medical devices #philsky open.substack.com/pub/adewebb/...
In the Loop. My CLID has a contract out on me...
A post-phenomenological rethink inspried by life with a closed loop insulin pump.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A brief sojourn into post-phenomenology to propose an addition to Don Ihde’s categories of human-technology relations that reflect deep body feedback medical devices #philsky open.substack.com/pub/adewebb/...
Hallowbe’en and gone
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Hallowbe’en and gone
AI is doing to the world what Trump is doing to the East Wing.
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
AI is doing to the world what Trump is doing to the East Wing.
Lyla looking a bit like an Escher staircase amid regal nonchalance moments #russianblue
October 5, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Lyla looking a bit like an Escher staircase amid regal nonchalance moments #russianblue
Of all the AIs, when I need a laugh, Claude rises to the occasion.
September 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Of all the AIs, when I need a laugh, Claude rises to the occasion.
Wide angle shots of ponies can be disconcerting
September 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wide angle shots of ponies can be disconcerting
High quality Bladerunner trolling in the Topsham Brewery gents.
September 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM
High quality Bladerunner trolling in the Topsham Brewery gents.
I have been responding to a few more cat posts recently. Having never lived with a cat until the age of 60 when my son left his beautiful girl with us to go travelling, I have become a late life besotted convert. Here’s Lyla helping me work #russianblue
September 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I have been responding to a few more cat posts recently. Having never lived with a cat until the age of 60 when my son left his beautiful girl with us to go travelling, I have become a late life besotted convert. Here’s Lyla helping me work #russianblue
Epistemologically-apt pets: goldfish, parakeets, budgies and (speak no evil) monkeys. Affectively-apt pets: poodles, killifish and Persian cats. Philosophical questions abound on the back cover of this pet care series from the 70s #philsky
September 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Epistemologically-apt pets: goldfish, parakeets, budgies and (speak no evil) monkeys. Affectively-apt pets: poodles, killifish and Persian cats. Philosophical questions abound on the back cover of this pet care series from the 70s #philsky
I gave in + wrote my first substack. A longish philosophy of technology piece re my relationship with a closed-loop insulin pump... and why (I think) it needs a new category beyond those from Ihde, Verbeek and De Preester. In short, it has a contract out on me. adewebb.substack.com/p/in-the-loo...
In the Loop. My CLID has a contract out on me...
A post-phenomenological rethink inspried by life with a closed loop insulin pump.
adewebb.substack.com
September 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I gave in + wrote my first substack. A longish philosophy of technology piece re my relationship with a closed-loop insulin pump... and why (I think) it needs a new category beyond those from Ihde, Verbeek and De Preester. In short, it has a contract out on me. adewebb.substack.com/p/in-the-loo...
The day 2 + 3 line ups at Woodstock always leave me stunned when I look at my poster. Every act elevated to the stratosphere by history and nostalgia, maybe, but… wow.
#woodstock
#woodstock
September 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The day 2 + 3 line ups at Woodstock always leave me stunned when I look at my poster. Every act elevated to the stratosphere by history and nostalgia, maybe, but… wow.
#woodstock
#woodstock
I find it extraordinary that for one of the most watched and important tennis matches of the US Open that #skysports don’t have anyone listening to the sound mix of what’s going out live. Commentators mixed so low it’s impossible to hear them over crowd noise #usopen
September 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I find it extraordinary that for one of the most watched and important tennis matches of the US Open that #skysports don’t have anyone listening to the sound mix of what’s going out live. Commentators mixed so low it’s impossible to hear them over crowd noise #usopen
There’s a degree of irony in the syntactic mangling in the first sentence of Section 2 of the Cambridge Elements ‘The Philosophy of Linguistics’ 🧐
September 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
There’s a degree of irony in the syntactic mangling in the first sentence of Section 2 of the Cambridge Elements ‘The Philosophy of Linguistics’ 🧐
Some lovely #cloudporn above Devon this evening
August 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Some lovely #cloudporn above Devon this evening
Perfect music and cat #russianblue #thebluenile
August 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Perfect music and cat #russianblue #thebluenile
@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social Ah, the irony… 😂
August 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
@aidanmcglynn.bsky.social Ah, the irony… 😂
Sometimes Paul Ricoeur writes sentences so good that they warrant all 4 of my marks: a post-it tag, three ticks, a key and messy underlining. #philsky
August 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Sometimes Paul Ricoeur writes sentences so good that they warrant all 4 of my marks: a post-it tag, three ticks, a key and messy underlining. #philsky
Holidaying at Killarney on the west coast of Ireland. Don’t think I’ve ever taken a more wholesome photo.
August 9, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Holidaying at Killarney on the west coast of Ireland. Don’t think I’ve ever taken a more wholesome photo.
The use of the quotation marks on signs and menus has always fascinated me philosophically. The sort of thing Davidson would have enjoyed. Are the “ … “ conveying a proxy for the staff or is the menu itself speaking to me? Why did the author choose them? 👀 #philsky
August 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
The use of the quotation marks on signs and menus has always fascinated me philosophically. The sort of thing Davidson would have enjoyed. Are the “ … “ conveying a proxy for the staff or is the menu itself speaking to me? Why did the author choose them? 👀 #philsky
From the excellent Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway this makes my day: "I am Mr Titwhistle," the thin gentlemen says. "And this is Mr Cummerbund. Those are our actual names, I'm afraid. Life is capricious. If you should feel the urge at any time to chuckle, we're both quite big enough to share the joke."
July 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
From the excellent Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway this makes my day: "I am Mr Titwhistle," the thin gentlemen says. "And this is Mr Cummerbund. Those are our actual names, I'm afraid. Life is capricious. If you should feel the urge at any time to chuckle, we're both quite big enough to share the joke."
Thomas Kuhn, Kevin Spacey… separated at birth?
July 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Thomas Kuhn, Kevin Spacey… separated at birth?
Lyla’s resting place choices confuse and intrigue top mathematicians #russianblue
July 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Lyla’s resting place choices confuse and intrigue top mathematicians #russianblue
Full Alice-in-Wonderland down a rabbit hole yesterday. Today I’m suspecting my foot shouldn’t look like this…
July 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Full Alice-in-Wonderland down a rabbit hole yesterday. Today I’m suspecting my foot shouldn’t look like this…
Gary Larson illustrating how we naturally treat the contents of a frame (book, cartoon, film) as a fictional world with its own rules. The aesthetician Edward Bullough argued we must insert appropriate psychical distance to put the contents out of gear with everyday life + appreciate aesthetically
July 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Gary Larson illustrating how we naturally treat the contents of a frame (book, cartoon, film) as a fictional world with its own rules. The aesthetician Edward Bullough argued we must insert appropriate psychical distance to put the contents out of gear with everyday life + appreciate aesthetically