Without Why

Machine Consciousness and Human Enfeeblement

New research and upcoming talks

Mar 27 • B. Scot Rousse

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Join me in San Francisco on Monday, March 16 for my talk: "Why Not Brain Rot: AI & Contemporary Nihilism"

The salon takes place at Frontier Tower on the Human Flourishing Floor

Mar 13 • B. Scot Rousse

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Waking Up in the Age of AI

A conversation with Polly Young-Eisendrath

Mar 7 • B. Scot Rousse

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February 2026

Why Work Matters in the Age of Automation

A new piece of public philosophy for the Institute of Art and Ideas (iai.tv)

Feb 25 • B. Scot Rousse

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Two Lectures on Phenomenology

And a trip to Paris for Safe and Ethical AI

Feb 21 • B. Scot Rousse

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Clarifications of Care

A Response to a Reader Comment

Feb 13 • B. Scot Rousse

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Notes on Care (with David Spivak) - A Repost

A promissory fragment

Feb 6 • B. Scot Rousse

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January 2026

Why Not Brain Rot: AI & Contemporary Nihilism

My talk at the American Society for Existential Phenomenology 2026 (which I will repeat in SF on March 16)

Jan 30 • B. Scot Rousse

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Intelligence, Consciousness, and Care

A roundup of recent conversations worth listening to

Jan 24 • B. Scot Rousse

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Why Care Matters for AI: New Conceptual Foundations for AI Alignment

A recent talk to the Computational Minds and Machines Lab at the University of Washington

Jan 16 • B. Scot Rousse

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Uncanny and Phenomenological Beginnings to 2026

This weekend, existential philosophers gather in an isolated desert town on the shores of an evaporating inland sea.

Jan 3 • B. Scot Rousse

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December 2025

Punk as a Response to Nihilism: Technology, Nihilism, and Giving a Damn, Part IV

Ways of Making Meaning, Loudly

Dec 27, 2025 • B. Scot Rousse

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