Essays (and other material) concerning genius and myths of genius and lack of it too (by me, unless specified)
Summaries of secondary literature on genius (from others)
The ignoring of Raymond Tallis and Bourdieu (video essay)
How did the arts originate? Four accounts (full dialogue, text document)
On the origins of the arts (a redraft and into dialogue, not a proper video essay)
Women in analytic philosophy: on Helen Beebee (video essay)
Why pastice? Someone else has already figured out the style that attracts your readers?
Self-awarded??? The first academic qualifications... (paradox)
On the popular appeal of George Orwell (video essay)
Claude Levi-Strauss and English essayists (video essay)
Socratic midwives: can they get pregnant? (video essay)
On George Orwell as a rare species (video essay)
On temperament and Eazy E's Real Muthaf------- G's (video essay)
On the University of Manchester's Nazir Afzal reviewing the University of Cambridge's Jason Arday case
The no distempered and the neurodiverse paradigm and spotting madmen (from my list)
Why study popular culture? A hint-reward reason (from my list)
The careers adviser, the neurodiverse paradigm, and C.D. Broad again (video essay)
Kakonomia and underrepresentation in universities (video essay)
Butterfly collecting and a social structure at Massachusetts colleges and beyond (video essay)
Horror and the origins of shared identity (video essay)
On sharing ideas in brief form (video essay)
Gloria Steinem, obscure academic writing, and l'art brut (video essay)
Levi-Strauss, music is the highest art, and minority experience (video essay)
The careers adviser, the neurodiverse paradigm, and C.D. Broad again (video essay)
For PhilPapers: You want to see a list of my essay ideas?": an information flow assumption of analytic philosophy
For PhilPapers (not accepted): How to react to the critical talk of philosophers
For PhilPapers: Specialization, Robert Nozick, and the bad gateway problem
Response to Anna Lembke's Dopamine Nation (refers to Derrida)
What to do about mad art? (a) Do similar without madness. (b) Strategically define art to exclude it. (Flowchart)
American literature. The mad fears: is this mad enough or can the sane do it? The sane fear: is this strong and stable enough or can the mad do it?
Psychiatry joke. What do you call a psychiatrist who can work stuff out about why you are doing what you are doing, and shares that in conversation, beyond your average asshole? An illusion! A hallucination!
Dilemma for Christian List
Why are there so many faulty premise-by-premise reconstructions in political philosophy? (video remark)
Editorial practices and video game robustness
Platonic dialogue on the immortality of Socrates (comedy)
A philosopher of social science does statistics? The invisible hand, timelessness, and Mario video game imitations (part video essay)
On giving career advice to the psychologically abnormal (video essay)
What is the big deal? Just a bunch of dots? A response to this Yayoi Kusama paradox (video essay)
Milo Yiannopolous at University of Manchester
Gabrielle Taylor (1927-2026) and the integrity meta-paradox (video essay, discusses child genius)
Andre the Giant and Saul Kripke as freak show attraction (video essay)
On the level of Thomas Nagel (video essay)
A joke. Someone says, "You're mere fashion. You may be read as fashion today, but you are not anything enduring, except for 1 or 2 historians." I ask, "How do I get beyond being mere fashion?" The response: "You can't. You are the marker of mere fashion. If you moved up a level, everyone at that level would be mere fashion." (Influenced by Saul Kripke on the meter stick)
***The biologists and medics' question again:
increasing population but not great philosophers (video essay)
Will artificial intelligence take over? (And Nigerian literature)
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as a book of aphorisms. (Not a paper.)
A problem with representing the common man in philosophy (video essay)
Artefacts as illustrations of a worldview and road names (video essay)
Joke. A psychiatrist said to me: "I have clever patients than you. I just don't understand them.
Micropoem: The flashy stories/ In a flash fiction journal / A tax?
Micropoem: In a possible world/ I followed the rules/ And entered the next level of "Desolee"
Misattributed words: "I don't do anything unusual in my public life", C.D. Broad. And paradox reply: that in itself seems unusual.
Getting better jobs for next generations (video)
Anthony Kenny and analytic philosophers as masters of the college (video essay)
On Anthony Kenny (1931-2026) and Derrida (video essay)
Micropoem: Enjoying Parisian cuisine / Like a midtable manager / With the world's greatest players in reserve
The main suspects for who devised the leaf-toilet paper example (picture)
The biologist's/medic's question: why are most of the great philosophers in low population times? (video essay)
Lorry A-minus (poetry name speculation, video)
Poetry, the Srinivasan family, and Amia Srinivasan's comedy (vide0)
Micropoem: For your delicate wit/ We employ a stupid man of fair heart / And clever man without!
C.D. Broad, Mercury's men, and the problem of the medium
From Clifford Geertz to football (video essay, getting anthology place)
More on Jacques-Louis David and Saul Kripke (video essay)
Jacques-Louis David and Saul Kripke (video)
Flashy writers and conservative readers (video essay)
Why not include the inference in the premise? (Competition)
Descriptivism about how names refer (competition)
Why many intellectuals oppose capitalism (Competition)
A use for rock'n'roll, rap music, stand-up comedy, etc. (video essay)
The meaning of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize (picture, my interpretation)
A new question?! Doesn't all the credit go to the master strategist? (video essay)
(Slightly refined text version of craftsperson-credit essay)
Who invented the restaurant name "Indian Streat Food"? (video essay)
Exercising creativity in life
Zinedine Zidane and French feelings about the national team
On a postcard: is this art?
So which French theorist would you most like to chat to?
On the French landscape
Derrida and the birth of an English gentleman's club
A collective blind spots paradox (video essay)
Penelope Keith and status in the good life (video essay, loosely related)
From Hume and Nietzsche to Wittgenstein and outsider art(video essay)
From Aristotle on genius to Quine on translation(video essay)
Wittgenstein and the common man, conversation (picture, words by me)
Zinedine Zidane and French feelings about the national team (video essay)
On teaching us there are unmad geniuses (picture)
Football (soccer) and the myth of mad genius (video essay)
"I don't want micro-inspirations" T-shirt (Picture)
David Hume and the professors (Picture)
Our genius (Picture)
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, classics plan? (Picture, loosely related to topic)
How many unfamous solid novels are there? (Picture, loosely related to topic)
Aphorisms on genius from me, then and now (Picture)
Alex Ferguson, utilitarianism, and the integrity objection (Video essay)
Further notes on Ann Jefferson's question (notes)
A No-Bell prize for Ann Jefferson (video essay)
Is British anthropology mere fashion? (Video essay)
Can others do faux Hume? Not here (Video essay)
What would the Ancient Greeks have thought of John Rawls? Part II (Video essay)
What would the Ancient Greeks have thought of John Rawls?
Does the individual matter? High school stories (Video essay)
On genius and madness (with Pope, David Hume, A.J. Ayer) [Video essay. Note: it's Dryden, not Pope]
How much of a genius is Rawls? A dialogue referring to my no-nagging model
"The present relations of science and religion" versus "We are not going back to that!"
For Instagram: Are roads always named after important people?
(Also Tessonsohn Road video)
Self-interest and the lack of English minor masters
An Edgar Allan Poe-like essay: sports perception and "abstract perception"
An interpretation of Jose Mourinho on Messi using QuiteBASIC code
"Lionel Messi is to soccer as you are to _____"?
Victorian social science and Elizabeth Gaskell's literary strategy, versus the Bronte sisters
Capitalism and the myth of genius
The major omissions of travellers: the host society's fault?
Diverse worldviews in an English city and maybe Venezuela too (fragment)
What is class brains, Joan Didion? And game coding homework done (Hysterkey)
"If it cannot predict, it is not science": I argue social anthropology can (opening sentences, after abstract)
Rock'n'roll as a direct art! Focusing Echobelly's Great Things lyrics and Laura Riding's poem Dimensions
Strawson III? On a paradox concerning an anthology of literary theory (imitation of P.F. Strawson)
Strawson III? On writing for gratification of outsiders in philosophy" (imitation of P.F. Strawson, contains Carl Schmitt reference)
Is specialization a barrier to the development of the essay?
Structural trouble with curing the genius illusion (concerns Salvador Dali)
Salvador Dali: a tactical advantage of less specialization
On the equality of different professions, with Salvador Dali
Mathematicians against the myth of genius: beyond the envy interpretation (concerns Derrida)
"La proximite de cet homme": a case of Victorian deconstruction?
Coming of age in the Ivy League: on the social construction of myths of genius