[TPF Essay] Meet the Authors

Moliere

First I want to say that I'm really happy with all the work our authors put into the essays. There were more submissions than I expected, and they were all of a higher quality than I expected. It's been really awesome to read and come up with responses.

As promised before the authors are revealed Here is a list of the participants, in no particular order, so that the guessing game of whose who may begin! Tomorrow I will reveal who authored which essay.

↪Amity

provided a list of the essay titles, which I've recopied here for convenience:

[TPF Essay] Wittgenstein's Hinges and Gödel's Unprovable Statements
[TPF Essay] Bubbles and Styx In: Pondering the Past
[TPF Essay] Dante and the Deflation of Reason
[TPF Essay] What Does It Mean to Be Human?
[TPF Essay] Cognitive Experiences are a Part of Material Reality
[TPF Essay] The Frame Before the Question
[TPF Essay] Part 1 & Part 2
[TPF Essay] Technoethics: Freedom, Precarity, and Enzymatic Knowledge Machines
[TPF Essay] The Authoritarian Liberty Paradox
[TPF Essay] An Exploration Between the Balance Between State and Individual Interests
[TPF Essay] My Soul is like the Dead Sea
[TPF Essay] The Insides and Outsides of 'Reality': Exploring Possibilities
[TPF Essay] The importance of the Philosophical Essay within philosophy

The participants in this years challenge are:

@hypericin
@Jack Cummins
@Count Timothy von Icarus
@Vera Mont
@ucarr
@Baden
@Sam26
@James Dean Conroy
@Benkei
@PoeticUniverse
@RussellA
@I like sushi
@Bob Ross

Happy Guessing!

Bob Ross

↪Moliere

I don't think mine in the list lol. There's 13 and 13, so maybe there's another person that participated?

Moliere

↪Bob Ross

Responded by PM to keep hints minimal

Amity

My guesses, so far:

[TPF Essay] Wittgenstein's Hinges and Gödel's Unprovable Statements - Sam 26
[TPF Essay] Bubbles and Styx In: Pondering the Past - Baden
[TPF Essay] Dante and the Deflation of Reason - Count Timothy von Icarus
[TPF Essay] What Does It Mean to Be Human? - Vera Mont
[TPF Essay] Cognitive Experiences are a Part of Material Reality
[TPF Essay] The Frame Before the Question - James Dean Conroy
[TPF Essay] Part 1 & Part 2 - Poetic Universe
[TPF Essay] Technoethics: Freedom, Precarity, and Enzymatic Knowledge Machines -Benkei
[TPF Essay] The Authoritarian Liberty Paradox - hypericin
[TPF Essay] An Exploration Between the Balance Between State and Individual Interests
[TPF Essay] My Soul is like the Dead Sea -
[TPF Essay] The Insides and Outsides of 'Reality': Exploring Possibilities - Jack Cummins
[TPF Essay] The importance of the Philosophical Essay within philosophy - RusselA — Moliere

Who's left? Bob Ross, I like sushi, ucarr. Hmmm...
Essays left - Cognitive Experiences, Exploration Between the Balance, My Soul is like the Dead Sea.

Am I close? I usually get 2 or 3 correct :wink:

Amity

Cognitive Experiences are a Part of Material Reality - ucarr

Amity

I don't think mine in the list lol. — Bob Ross

What? Are you sure?

Moliere

↪Amity

It's there. I PM'ed him to point out which one so that I didn't give hints.

Amity

↪Moliere

OK. Strange that he didn't recognise his own essay...hmmm....

Amity

Am I the only one that is gonna make wild guesses?

Bob Ross

↪Amity

Yeah, it is strange haha. I submitted it a long time ago, forgot about it, and thought the title was something else. That's all I'll say for now: keep guessing.

Amity

↪Bob Ross

Well, I've only got 2 left and you are one of them!!! :chin:
I'm veering towards My Soul...

Amity

I hope I haven't offended anyone by my crazy guessing. Trust me, I'm hopeless at this!

Amity

First I want to say that I'm really happy with all the work our authors put into the essays. There were more submissions than I expected, and they were all of a higher quality than I expected. It's been really awesome to read and come up with responses. — Moliere

Me too. But I expected the high quality and we got it! TPF is full of talent and intelligence :100:
This has been brilliant. Enjoyed near enough every minute of it!
Looking forward to your responses...

Baden

@hypericin: Bubbles and Styx (I noted some particularly adept descriptive language that I think is characteristic of his work.)

@Sam26 : The Wittgenstein one, surely.

I know which one @Count Timothy von Icarus did via mod forum, so I won't give that away.

Baden

@Benkei: The Authoritarian Liberty Paradox

Amity

hypericin: Bubbles and Styx (I noted some particularly adept descriptive language that I think is characteristic of his work.) — Baden

Oh no, it looks like I've gone and caused offence. So very different to the The Authoritarian Liberty Paradox. Damn it all! But then, he is such a creatively versatile writer with many styles...

Amity

So @Baden - you are Technoethics!

Baden

Oh no, it looks like I've gone and caused offence — Amity

Not with me. Bubbles and Styx is great.

So Baden - you are Technoethics! — Amity

Correct! (Why not be the first reveal? At least I can go comment on the thing now. :strong: )

Amity

Not with me. Bubbles and Styx is great. — Baden

No, I meant @hypericin. I'm annoyed with myself. It happens every time. Apologies to hypericin.
Will you ever forgive me? I should have recognised the brilliance but you blinded me with ice-cream.

Amity

Correct! (Why not be the first reveal? At least I can go comment on the thing now. :strong: ) — Baden

Yay! :starstruck:

Baden

↪Amity

It would be funny if it wasn't hypericin and you had to do this all over again.

Amity

↪Baden

OMG :scream:
It could not be anyone else. So there!

Baden

↪Amity

Oh, @hypericin ...

Vera Mont

And this is why I don't guess authors. I could maybe take a stab at one or two, but I just don't know the participants well enough to make intelligent guesses.

Jack Cummins

Poetic Universe definitely wrote Part 1 and 2
Sam 26 the Wittgenstein one
I did wonder if Baden wrote 'Styx and Bubbles', but it could be hypericin. However, I think it could be I like sushi
Vera Mont, the Dante essay
The others I am not sure about... alt

Amity

↪Jack Cummins

I think you got 2 right! Poetic Universe and Sam26.
Baden graciously conceded that he wrote Technoethics. And having been outed, is now free to give feedback to his essay. https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/15987/tpf-essay-technoethics-freedom-precarity-and-enzymatic-knowledge-machines
Vera and Dante? I think not a good pairing. What makes you think so?

Sam26

Me, write the Wittgenstein essay, that's crazy, I hate Wittgenstein!

Amity

↪Sam26

:lol:

Sam26

↪Amity

Exactly

Moliere

↪Sam26

Now that you've been revealed -- I'll say yours is one of the ones I'm struggling with to come up with a relevant reply. Excellent stuff.

Sam26

↪Moliere

I tried to do something no one has done before with Wittgenstein's hinges; whether I accomplished it or not is another question. I can understand why it might be difficult to respond, especially considering no one, as far as I know, has made this connection.

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