Atlas
A trail is a short, ordered route through the atlas. Each stop says why it comes next, so a journey reads as an argument rather than a list. Start one, leave, and come back: your place is kept in this browser, and you do not need an account for that.
A path through what this wave added: the mind-body problem, free will versus determinism, the Gettier problem and internalism versus externalism as first-class open disagreements, then the Kyoto School and the Frankfurt...
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The philosophy atlas's second depth wave in one path: three branches nobody had mapped yet (education, technology, biology) and three schools everybody assumes they already know (Pyrrhonism, Logical Positivism...
6 stops
Twenty-four years of Emerson's own published thought, in order: from the anonymous 1836 essay that founded Transcendentalism, through the controversy of 1838, to the chastened last major collection of 1860.
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Ten stops across the seven traditions this wave minted: who actually founded a school, and who only, however brilliantly, built out what someone else began. Badarayana authored the one text Vedanta's rival schools are...
10 stops
A path through thirteen philosophers this wave added to the atlas, chosen not for chronology but for the live arguments running between them: Hume and Kant on causation, Plato and Aristotle on the reality of Forms...
8 stops
Twelve philosophers and twelve works landed in one wave, and they do not share a single tradition: a founder of Rationalism, four centuries of social-contract theorists arguing with each other about where legitimate...
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