Cosmicism as philosophy
A defence of cosmicism as more than literary gloom: an account of reality in which human values are local achievements rather than furniture built into the universe.
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philosophy beneath an indifferent sky
The philosophy archive is being assembled: essays on cosmicism, religion, metaphysics, evidence, morality, consciousness, and the small but persistent human mistake of assuming that reality has been arranged for our comfort.
Future entries will gather the longer philosophical essays of City of Dis into one place. Expect cosmicism without sentimentality, scepticism without cheerleading, and the occasional necessary act of violence against an argument that really should have known better.
Against Consolation Metaphysics
The universe is not improved by being made emotionally useful. This piece examines the temptation to confuse existential comfort with metaphysical evidence.
Read argumentThe Cosmological Argument as a Comfort Blanket with Footnotes
A cosmicist critique of the urge to turn metaphysical unease into a divine guarantor with excellent stationery and suspiciously familiar priorities.
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