Where philosophy stops being rhetoric
Ontological Atlas
A six-dimensional map of how worldviews actually differ. Every school, persona, work, film, and contemporary dilemma on this site is located on one shared grid — Time, Space, Matter, Observer, Energy, Information — so that positions usually separated by centuries and vocabularies can be compared on the same axes. Take the quiz to find your nearest philosophical neighbors, or browse any layer below.
"Posidonius calculated the circumference of the earth at 240,000 stadia." (Strabo, Geography II.2.2)
Today’s picks
Experiment
The Violinist
You wake up surgically attached to an unconscious violinist who will die unless you remain plugged in for nine months. Must you stay?
Debate
Putnam vs Rorty on Truth
Two of the leading American philosophers of the late 20th century, both heirs of pragmatism, on whether truth is a substantive philosophical notion.
Film
The Truman Show
A man's entire life — adoption, town, friends, marriage — has been a 24/7 broadcast television show, watched by millions. He doesn't know.