This page contains links to writings that I have produced across different phases of thinking throughout my existence as an embodied mind.
General
An assortment of philosophical musings on whatever happens to capture my interest across time and space.
Dialogues
Inspired by dialogic philosophical traditions of antiquity, I have recently been experimenting with non-ordinary modes of conveying philosophy. These posts contain my attempts at processing recorded conversations into written dialogue.
- Qualia Formalism, Non-materialist Physicalism, and the Limits of Analysis: A Philosophical Dialogue with David Pearce and Kristian Rönn
- From Conceptualization to Cessation: A Philosophical Dialogue with Roger Thisdell
Guides
Here are some (hopefully) useful guides that I have written about doing things efficiently.
Reviews
I consume a lot of content and have an evaluative disposition; here are some reviews that I have written.
Poetry
Here are some poems that I have written over the years! Unfortunately the majority of poems I write are personal (e.g., for birthdays), so I can only share a few publicly. Some of there poems were produced in conjunction with LLMs, which means that I use their output as a linguistic scaffold to revise with more personalized details (rather than simply copy-pasting the output as is).
Academic Essays
This section contains essays written by different versions of myself during various stages of my philosophy education. I (gently) ask that you refrain from judging present Arataki based on past Arataki’s writings, given that his mind has changed a lot over the years. One of the main reasons that I decided to dredge up some of my older content is that I think there’s value in seeing how a person develops over time, especially with regard to their writing and thinking style. I hope you find them interesting!
PhD
(coming soon)
MA
- Establishing the Moral Significance of Wild Animal Welfare and Considering Practical Methods of Intervention (MA thesis) (2018)
- Can we infer mental time travel in nonhuman animals? (2018)
- Can animals suffer? Defending the animal suffering hypothesis on functionalist grounds. (2017)
BSc
- Is there an evolutionary explanation for humans’ fascination with stories about nonexistent people and events? (2017)
- Do contemporary biotechnologies suggest a return (or continuation) of eugenics? (2016)
- Is the doomsday argument convincing? If not, why not? (2016)
- Where does morality come from — God or evolution? (2016)
- Are the political views and actions of the Unabomber justified? (2016)
- Can the slaughter of pigs in blood spatter research be justified as a necessary evil? (2015)