Philosophy Apps — Vibes DIY

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Beyond Propositions

Ryle's regress shows that skills can't be fully reduced to rules — applying any rule requires knowing how to apply it, all the way down.

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The Knowing Body

Cognition isn't housed in the brain and borrowed by the body — it's constituted by the body's engagement with the world.

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Who Knows What

The knower's position isn't bias to subtract — it's epistemically constitutive. Objectivity requires locating yourself, not erasing yourself.

How it works

Each app is a thought experiment, not a lecture.

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Pick a topic — choose one of the seven philosophical threads below.
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Engage the argument — the app walks you through the key positions and challenges your assumptions.
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Work through it — write, respond, try to defeat the argument. Your reasoning is saved so you can return to it.
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Build your own view — every app ends with the AI implication: how does this bear on what AI can and can't know?

Each draws directly from a Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry.

Knowing How vs. Knowing That

Try to reduce a skill to a list of propositions — Ryle's regress argument shows why it always fails.

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Embodied Cognition Explorer

Four thought experiments where you can't separate cognition from the body — the cane, the dancer, the native speaker, the phantom limb.

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Phenomenology: First-Person

A guided phenomenological exercise — Husserl's intentionality, Heidegger's tool-being, Merleau-Ponty's body schema.

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Situated Knowledges

Haraway's view from nowhere, Harding's standpoint epistemology, Fricker's epistemic injustice — the knower's position as epistemically constitutive.

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Virtue Epistemology

Four vignettes — evaluate the reasoner's intellectual character, not just their conclusion. Sosa's reliabilism vs. Zagzebski's responsibilism.

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The AI Consciousness Boundary

Chalmers' hard problem, Nagel's bat, Searle's Chinese Room, philosophical zombies — why language production isn't proof of interiority.

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The Extended Mind

Clark & Chalmers: Otto's notebook is part of his memory. Four escalating cases — does AI extend your mind or shrink it?

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