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Philosophy for math & decisions

A reading series · various traditions

A slow series on the traditions I lean on — read both for living well and for thinking clearly under uncertainty, tying contemplative practice to how we actually decide. A planned read-and-teach series.

0 of 6 chapters written · a chapter a day.

  1. 1Stoicism — what is in our controlthe dichotomy of control as a decision disciplineplanned
  2. 2Taoism — wu wei and the supple over the rigidacting with the grain; the bending treeplanned
  3. 3Zen — direct seeing, beginner's mindattention before analysisplanned
  4. 4Buddhism — impermanence and non-clingingholding beliefs loosely; the Dharmaplanned
  5. 5Analytic idealism — consciousness as the groundKastrup's reading, and what it asks of modelsplanned
  6. 6Bolzano's grounding (Abfolge)why some truths explain others — proof and decision as groundingplanned