Bryan Kam
@bryankam.com
Thinking about origins of truth, selfhood, suffering, philosophy of science, literature, film. Interintellect fellow. @bryankam@writing.exchange
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I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
July 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
Reposted by Bryan Kam
My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza.
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#Philosophy #Buddhism
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#Philosophy #Buddhism
Samsara Is Nirvana, with Brook Ziporyn
Daoism, Buddhism, Spinozism, and Mystical Atheism
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October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza.
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
Reposted by Bryan Kam
My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza.
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
Samsara Is Nirvana, with Brook Ziporyn
Daoism, Buddhism, Spinozism, and Mystical Atheism
www.bryankam.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
My new podcast with Brook Ziporyn: How making values explicit undermines them, why samsara is nirvana, and what happens when you follow anti-realism all the way through. On the value paradox from Daoism to Spinoza.
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
www.bryankam.com/p/samsara-is...
#Philosophy #Buddhism
I became a father in the past week and I am tired www.bryankam.com/p/fatherhood...
Fatherhood and philosophy
A sleepless week
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August 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I became a father in the past week and I am tired www.bryankam.com/p/fatherhood...
I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
July 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I gave a talk on what brought me to #philosophy and #history of #science for Philosophy for All in London. You can watch it here www.bryankam.com/p/philosophy...
I wrote more about rationalism, empiricism, and foundationalism www.bryankam.com/p/rationalis...
Rationalism and Empiricism
Three short stories
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July 12, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I wrote more about rationalism, empiricism, and foundationalism www.bryankam.com/p/rationalis...
🧠 How can ancient wisdom guide us through modern uncertainty? Join me and Stephen Batchelor (author of the new Buddha, Socrates, and Us) for a conversation on philosophical approaches to ethics, doubt, and the good life. Sep 4: interintellect.com/salons/buddh...
Buddha, Socrates, and Us: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Uncertainties
Stephen Batchelor, author of Buddhism Without Beliefs and the forthcoming book Buddha, Socrates, and Us, brings decades of practice and scholarship to examining how two of history's most transformativ...
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July 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🧠 How can ancient wisdom guide us through modern uncertainty? Join me and Stephen Batchelor (author of the new Buddha, Socrates, and Us) for a conversation on philosophical approaches to ethics, doubt, and the good life. Sep 4: interintellect.com/salons/buddh...
Wrote a bit about rationalism and empiricism www.bryankam.com/p/when-philo...
When Philosophers Panic
Two extreme responses to crisis
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July 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wrote a bit about rationalism and empiricism www.bryankam.com/p/when-philo...
In this podcast I discuss the #philosophy and #psychology of Neither/Nor, the project I've been working on for the past years, with my coauthor, @isabelagranic.bsky.social www.bryankam.com/p/neithernor...
Neither/Nor Paper Discussion 🎧
With Isabela Granic
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June 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
In this podcast I discuss the #philosophy and #psychology of Neither/Nor, the project I've been working on for the past years, with my coauthor, @isabelagranic.bsky.social www.bryankam.com/p/neithernor...
I wrote about #gratitude and its opposites, fear (according to #Nietzsche) and envy (according to Melanie #Klein) www.bryankam.com/p/gratitude-...
Gratitude and its opposites
Fear and envy
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June 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I wrote about #gratitude and its opposites, fear (according to #Nietzsche) and envy (according to Melanie #Klein) www.bryankam.com/p/gratitude-...
Why Aristotle doesn't solve the problems caused by Plato www.bryankam.com/p/the-immane...
The Immanent Turn
Bringing it all back home
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April 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Why Aristotle doesn't solve the problems caused by Plato www.bryankam.com/p/the-immane...
Morning Devotion: On my morning routine
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Morning devotion
On my morning routine
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March 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Morning Devotion: On my morning routine
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I wrote on particulars, universals, and alternating between the two www.bryankam.com/p/from-will-...
From will to representation and back
On switching between sensing and thinking
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March 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM
I wrote on particulars, universals, and alternating between the two www.bryankam.com/p/from-will-...
Do we learn to categorize? open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
Do we learn how to categorize?
Perspectives from sociology and psychology
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February 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Do we learn to categorize? open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
From Zhuangzi’s Outer Chapters, written sometime in the 4th to 2nd century BC China, making a very similar argument to what I’m saying about love in Plato's Phaedrus: www.bryankam.com/p/love-abstr...
February 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
From Zhuangzi’s Outer Chapters, written sometime in the 4th to 2nd century BC China, making a very similar argument to what I’m saying about love in Plato's Phaedrus: www.bryankam.com/p/love-abstr...
I wrote on how the Socratic method changed from Socrates, to Plato, to Aristotle. tl;dr: It started anti-social and became asocial www.bryankam.com/p/some-dange...
Some Dangerous Methods
Social, individual, and "innate" use of categories
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February 9, 2025 at 9:52 AM
I wrote on how the Socratic method changed from Socrates, to Plato, to Aristotle. tl;dr: It started anti-social and became asocial www.bryankam.com/p/some-dange...
I wrote a piece over the weekend on the birth of logic open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
The Birth of Logic
Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Durkheim
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January 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I wrote a piece over the weekend on the birth of logic open.substack.com/pub/bryankam...
No particular plans today...
![38 (8) Volition (1)
At S›vatthı. “Bhikkhus, what one intends, and what one plans,
and whatever one has a tendency towards: this becomes a basis
for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis there
is a support for the establishing of consciousness. When con-
sciousness is established and has come to growth, there is the
production of future renewed existence. When there is the pro-
duction of future renewed existence, future birth, aging-and-
death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair come
to be. Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.112
“If, bhikkhus, one does not intend, and one does not plan, but
one still has a tendency towards something, this becomes a basis
for the maintenance of consciousness. When there is a basis, there
is a support for the establishing of consciousness…. Such is the
origin of this whole mass of suffering.113
“But, bhikkhus, when one does not intend, and one does not
plan, and one does not have a tendency towards anything, no
basis exists for the maintenance of consciousness. [66] When
there is no basis, there is no support for the establishing of con-
sciousness. When consciousness is unestablished and does not
come to growth, there is no production of future renewed exis-
tence. When there is no production of future renewed existence,
future birth, aging-and-death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, dis-
pleasure, and despair cease. Such is the cessation of this whole
mass of suffering.”114](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hlw2mvvx7myag4c5vypmr37s/bafkreib7cuj5l25ll337oxozad447wxkiiyzmf7pgm3dinbzi373ofzlfe@jpeg)
January 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
No particular plans today...
I'm looking for sources for ancient/medieval/early modern/modern thinkers (from anywhere) who have disputed 1) the law of the excluded middle, 2) the law of non-contradiction, and 3) the law of identity. Anyone I should be reading?
January 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I'm looking for sources for ancient/medieval/early modern/modern thinkers (from anywhere) who have disputed 1) the law of the excluded middle, 2) the law of non-contradiction, and 3) the law of identity. Anyone I should be reading?
Doing a series on the correspondence theory of #truth in #philosophy over on tiktok vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/
TikTok - Make Your Day
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December 15, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Doing a series on the correspondence theory of #truth in #philosophy over on tiktok vm.tiktok.com/ZGdrQPxaD/
Wu-wei: effortless action www.bryankam.com/p/wu-wei
Wu-wei
Effortless action
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August 12, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Wu-wei: effortless action www.bryankam.com/p/wu-wei
I released a podcast: Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters. We talk about Plotinus, Chinese philosophy, and more! pod.fo/e/2393d5
Clerestory (Bryan Kam): Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters
I spoke to Kit Tempest-Walters about his new book: Plotinus on Eternity and Time, which includes a translation and commentary of Ennead III.7.We discuss the challenges of translating, philosophical...
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May 7, 2024 at 8:14 PM
I released a podcast: Eternity and Time with Kit Tempest-Walters. We talk about Plotinus, Chinese philosophy, and more! pod.fo/e/2393d5