reactive attitudes

2025

  1. What "I" Means, Technically

    In my last post I argued that the first-person pronoun in AI chatbots isn’t innocent.

2016

  1. Self-Esteem and the Death of the Subject

    I have written here repeatedly about the problems with person-oriented reactive attitudes and character skepticism. But recently I came across the work of the psychologist Albert Ellis , whose work is at the intersection of therapeutic psychology and philosophy. His work on self-esteem and person-oriented assessment suggests an interesting new direction for the general insight…