Adrian Piper

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  6 / 10
• SSSovereign Self

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Erasmus of RotterdamCARTOGRAPHER

  Praise of Folly — Christian humanism, free will against Luther.

• Maruyama MasaoCARTOGRAPHER

  From feudal to modern — Japanese political thought's genealogy.

• Peter AbelardCARTOGRAPHER

  Conceptualism — universals as concepts in the mind, neither things nor names.

• P.F. StrawsonCARTOGRAPHER

  Individuals — descriptive metaphysics of persons and bodies.

• Hilary GreavesFORGE

  Longtermism — present obligations to vast possible futures.

• Mary AstellCARTOGRAPHER

  Reason is not gendered. Education for women. Friendship as the truest love.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Adrian Piper's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.