Amos Wollen on analytic philosophy, digital culture, and the art of going awol.
These past few days there has been a lot of hullabaloo over the fact that one of OpenAI’s advanced, unreleased models hacked an AI startup to mine information from its servers, without being told to do so, and without telling anyone what it was doing.
If you read Going Awol, first of all, Hi!
In a recent YouTube video, Joe Schmid and I spend two hours CALMLY RANKING theodicies from F tier to S tier (F is worst, and F tier theodicies get DESTROYED; S is best, and S tier theodicies get COMPLEMENTED).
"there he fell headlong, his body burst open and all his intestines spilled out"
The title is an exaggeration and an overstatement and a titillating piece of tomfoolery; my argument today will not apply to every right-wing libertarian, and talk of ‘doom’ is wanton fearmongering.
A while back, Joseph Folley locked swords with Philip Goff on Substack over something called the Awesome Evidence Argument.
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The internet has a useful bit of of verbiage that I think more philosophers of religion—and philosophers in general—should use more often.
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in defence of the gratitude theory
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a somewhat half-baked objection to Eric Sampson's argument that hell should be a longtermist priority
You only ever hear people talk about their religious investigations in the past tense.
count 'em, two!
contra the conative case for Christ
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2025 was a good year for analytic philosophy, the art of writing, and the reading crisis—specifically as it pertains to my newsletter.
the ideological turing test comes to life!
For my sins, I recently argued that fine-tuning is evidence that immaterial souls are metaphysically impossible (and thereby evidence against theism, if God is an immaterial soul).
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[cw: contains spoilers]
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three powerful objections
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a guest-post by Stephen Kershnar and Nathan Bray
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Sixty Wollen Widgets,
…on Earth, only if you are confident that God exists, and unless God has instructed you to punish someone.